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Lead Magnet Download · React
Email-gated download form for ebooks, PDFs, checklists, and templates. Free for 500 submissions total — no backend, no SDK, no plugin.

Copy-paste code
Replace YOUR_ACCESS_KEY with your splitforms key, paste into a React page, and ship. No build-time integration required.
'use client';
import { useEffect, useState, type FormEvent } from 'react';
export default function LeadMagnetForm() {
const [status, setStatus] = useState<'idle' | 'sending' | 'sent' | 'error'>('idle');
// splitforms tracker (drop-off analytics + partial leads), loaded once. It
// finds the form by data-sf-key and adds a hidden sf_sid field to it.
useEffect(() => {
const src = 'https://splitforms.com/embed.js';
if (document.querySelector(`script[src="${src}"]`)) return;
const script = document.createElement('script');
script.src = src;
script.async = true;
document.body.appendChild(script);
}, []);
async function onSubmit(e: FormEvent<HTMLFormElement>) {
e.preventDefault();
setStatus('sending');
// Capture the form now: React clears e.currentTarget once the handler
// yields at the first await, so calling e.currentTarget.reset() later throws.
const form = e.currentTarget;
const data = new FormData(form);
data.set('access_key', 'YOUR_ACCESS_KEY');
data.set('subject', 'New lead magnet download');
const res = await fetch('https://splitforms.com/api/submit', {
method: 'POST',
body: data,
headers: { Accept: 'application/json' },
});
const json = await res.json();
if (json.success && json.payment_url) {
// Payment form: finish the payment on the secure Stripe page.
window.location.href = json.payment_url;
return;
}
setStatus(json.success ? 'sent' : 'error');
if (json.success) form.reset();
}
if (status === 'sent') return <p>Thanks — we’ll be in touch.</p>;
return (
<form data-sf-key="YOUR_ACCESS_KEY" onSubmit={onSubmit}>
<label htmlFor="name">First name *</label>
<input id="name" type="text" name="name" placeholder="Jane" required />
<label htmlFor="email">Work email *</label>
<input id="email" type="email" name="email" placeholder="[email protected]" required />
<label htmlFor="company">Company</label>
<input id="company" type="text" name="company" placeholder="Acme Inc" />
<label htmlFor="role">What's your role?</label>
<select id="role" name="role">
<option value="">Choose…</option>
<option>Founder / CEO</option>
<option>Engineer</option>
<option>Designer</option>
<option>Marketer</option>
<option>Product manager</option>
<option>Other</option>
</select>
<button type="submit" disabled={status === 'sending'}>
{status === 'sending' ? 'Sending…' : 'Send'}
</button>
{status === 'error' && <p>Something went wrong. Try again.</p>}
</form>
);
}React + Lead Magnet Download
React ships nothing for form delivery — it's a view layer. The historical options are an Express server you stand up just for POST /api/contact, a Vercel serverless function with SMTP wiring, or a third-party library like Formik that still leaves the backend problem unsolved. The lead magnet download on this page uses useState for submit state and a plain fetch POST to splitforms — no form library, no context provider, no wrapper component. It works in Create React App, Vite, Remix, and every React bundler because it's just standard FormData and the Fetch API.

Lead Magnet Download fields
The posted payload contains first name, work email, company, what's your role?. Required fields are first name and work email. Rename, remove, or add your own — splitforms accepts any name you POST.

Template playbook
Lead magnets — ebooks, checklists, templates, swipe files, mini-courses — are the workhorse of B2B content marketing. Gated downloads convert at 25-50% of landing-page visitors (vs 1-2% for newsletter signups), but only when the magnet is truly valuable. The form captures email plus 1-2 qualifying questions ('what's your role?', 'what's your team size?') so the nurture sequence segments by intent. Multi-step boosts completion vs a single form. After submit, the user is redirected to the PDF or it's emailed via webhook + auto-responder. Push the email to your ESP segmented by lead-magnet topic — that's how content marketers build audience taxonomies that actually convert downstream.

Setup
Three actions stand between you and your first lead magnet download submission — no backend, no database, no CAPTCHA library.
Sign in at splitforms.com — your access key is created instantly. No credit card, no setup wizard, no SDK to install.
Drop the form snippet into a React page, component, or layout. Replace YOUR_ACCESS_KEY with the key from your dashboard. The form action is a hard-coded URL — no env vars or build-time wiring needed.
Dashboard updates live on Free. Free includes owner email delivery; paid plans add signed webhooks, CSV export, Slack/Discord forwarding, and BCC to your team.
How SplitForms works
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Point your form to your unique SplitForms endpoint. That's it.

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Connect & automate
On paid plans, submissions can also go to Slack, Discord, Google Sheets, Notion, Airtable, Zapier or any signed webhook — and splitforms works on the platforms you build on, from WordPress and Shopify to Next.js. With Stripe connected, your forms can take payments too.

Common questions
Yes. The form is plain HTML with a single POST endpoint, so it runs on any React site without server-side code, plugins, or SDKs. Drop the snippet into a React page or component and submissions land in your splitforms dashboard.
Free for 500 submissions — no credit card, no time limit. Pro is $5/mo for 5,000 submissions a month, and Annual is $49/year for 15,000 submissions a month. The same pricing applies regardless of which framework hosts the form.
Yes. The template ships with sensible defaults (first name, work email, company, what's your role?…) — add, remove, or rename any of them. Splitforms accepts whatever fields you POST.
A hidden honeypot field catches dumb bots, and a rule-based filter scores the rest; anything that looks like spam goes to a separate Spam tab instead of your inbox. No CAPTCHA, no friction for human users — and it works the same on React as on any other framework.
Yes. Webhooks are available on paid plans, with auto-formatted payloads for Slack, Discord, and WhatsApp (via CallMeBot). Or send raw signed JSON to any URL — Zapier, n8n, your own server. Configure in the splitforms dashboard.
Yes — the form posts directly to splitforms from the browser, so no server is involved. Works on Vercel, Netlify, GitHub Pages, Cloudflare Pages, S3, or any plain Apache host.
Email it. Redirects to a Drive / S3 link mean the user gets the PDF without confirming the email — and the email might be a typo or a temporary address. Email delivery confirms the address by requiring an open. Add a 'didn't get it?' resend button on the thank-you page for the rare typo case.
Yes — webhook the JSON into the ESP. ConvertKit's 'tags' map naturally to lead-magnet topics; HubSpot's 'lists' do the same. The nurture sequence triggers on tag-add and the topic-specific drip starts immediately. Most B2B teams use this exact pattern.
If you have EU visitors, the consent for marketing email needs to be explicit and unbundled — meaning a separate checkbox 'I want to receive emails about [topic]' that's not pre-checked and not bundled with 'I accept the download'. Bundled consent has been challenged in EU rulings; unbundled is the safe play.
Simple pricing
Free gives you 500 submissions for $0 — no card, no time limit. Pro is $5/month for 5,000 submissions a month, and Annual is $49/year for 15,000 a month with every Pro feature.
For side projects and indie devs.
Every paid feature, for agencies and growing products.
Every Pro feature with triple the volume — $0.27 per 1,000 at full use.
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