What is Payload Contact?
Payload Contact (@navanem/payload-contact) is an MIT-licensed plugin that adds a contact form to a Payload CMS 3 site. Submissions are stored in a contact-messages collection with a new/read/replied status, and a runtime settings global lets an admin enable or disable the form, adjust message-length limits and customize the success message without redeploying.
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Spam is mitigated with a honeypot field and per-IP rate limiting. The Payload admin UI gets a dedicated /admin/contact-inbox view with submission KPIs, and the frontend gets a themeable <ContactForm /> React component. Optional SMTP email alerts for new messages are disabled by default. It can be installed via npm or vendored directly into a project.
Sources checked 27 September 2026: GitHub README.
Key capabilities
- Contact form and inbox: A
contact-messagescollection with new/read/replied status tracking. - Runtime settings: Enable/disable the form and adjust limits and success messaging without a redeploy.
- Spam control: Honeypot field and per-IP rate limiting.
- Frontend and notifications: A themeable React form component, plus optional SMTP email alerts.
Contact-form capture, an admin inbox and basic spam protection are the plugin's scope; it does not include multi-step forms, file attachments or CRM integrations.
Shortlist Payload Contact if you already run Payload CMS 3 and want a self-hosted contact form and inbox instead of a third-party form service or a hand-rolled endpoint. Compare it with dedicated form builders if you need multi-step forms, file uploads or CRM integrations, which this plugin does not provide.
Self-hosting the contact form keeps submissions inside your own Payload database. Verify the plugin version against your Payload 3.x release and confirm the rate-limit and honeypot defaults suit your traffic before relying on them against spam.
Technical details
- Access
- Self-hosted
- Source model
- Open source
- Founded
- 2026
- Headquarters
- Geneva, Switzerland
- Pricing model
- Open source
- API
- Available
- Published release
- Payload Contact Plugin v0.2.2 ↗ (checked )
- Website
- www.navanem.com ↗
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