reCAPTCHA: Stop Spams at the Source

If your form builder doesn’t include reCAPTCHA, you are inviting bots to party in your inbox. The result is spam submissions, fake signups, polluted analytics, and avoidable costs as your team sifts through junk instead of real leads.

But, with Ivy Forms, you won’t have to worry about these problems, since reCAPTCHA provides a level of protection that fits your flow, and keeps the experience smooth for real users.

Let’s see how Ivy Forms keeps your leads secure, and customers satisfied.

The Problems When Forms Run Without reCAPTCHA

Spam and bot floods. Automated scripts can submit your forms at scale, which fills your inbox, pollutes your CRM, and wastes support time.

Garbage data and broken analytics. Fake signups skew metrics like conversion rate, source performance, and A/B test results, so you make decisions on bad data.

Deliverability risk. If bots trigger auto-replies or double-opt-in messages to fake addresses, your bounce and spam complaint rates rise, which harms sender reputation.

Resource abuse and security noise. Forms can be abused for scarping, credential stuffing, and account creation attempts, which create costly server load and noisy alerts.

Human friction workarounds. Teams end up adding manual validation, custom filters, or daily clean-up that is easy to forget and hard to scale.

How Ivy Forms Solves It With reCAPTCHA

Keep your forms secure with Google reCAPTCHA

Ivy Forms has a native Google reCAPTCHA integration so you can block automated submissions while keeping the experience smooth for real people. Enable it in a few clicks, choose your protection style, and collect only genuine entries.

Three options you can use per form

reCAPTCHA v2 (checkbox) – The familiar “I’m not a robot” widget. Simple, visible protection that prompts challenges only when traffic looks suspicious.

Invisible reCAPTCHA – No checkbox. The challenge triggers on submit or via JavaScript and only interrupts users when risk is detected, which keeps the UI clean.

reCAPTCHA v3 (score-based, no challenge by default) – v3 evaluates interactions and returns a score from 0.0 to 1.0. You can act on low-trust requests by throttling, moderating, or requiring extra verification without interrupting most users. Always verify the action name and handle scores on your server.

Quick Setup

1. Create keys in Google reCAPTCHA Admin Console: Get a site key and secret key for v2, invisible, or v3.
2. Enable reCAPTCHA in your Ivy Forms: Select the version you want and paste the keys.
3. Optionally tune behavior: For v3, pick a score threshold that determines when to require extra validation or moderation. For v2 or Invisible, adjust the security preferences in the Admin Console.
4. Test and monitor: Submit your form as a user, then review reCAPTCHA analytics to confirm real traffic passes and automated traffic is blocked.

Closing Thoughts

Google reCAPTCHA is a simple, yet very effective way to block spam, bad data, and risks. However, Ivy Forms’ integration blocks bots without adding friction for real users.

Turn it on in minutes, choose your protection level, and keep your submissions clean!