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Connect an existing front end to a live Wix site using client-only REST and its public WIX_CLIENT_ID, without an SDK or backend. Covers Stores/cart/checkout, Bookings and Rentals, Blog, Events and tickets, Portfolio, Restaurants, Donations, Forms, CMS, Pricing Plans, and Members with login, social/SSO and gated content. Use when wiring Wix business data and buyer flows into a vibe-coded app, HTML/JSX/Vite project or design export: shopping, appointments, donations, form submissions, memberships, restaurant orders/reservations and member accounts. Ships dependency-free helpers and wiring guides; never provisions or changes owner content and never mocks data. Use wix-headless instead for SDK integration, Wix CLI builds, hosting or new-site creation.
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Wix Vibe Headless provides a set of dependency-free REST helpers and integration guides to connect existing frontend projects to live Wix sites. It enables developers to display Wix business data—such as store products, blog posts, bookings, and events—directly in their own applications without using the Wix SDK, backend infrastructure, or complex build steps. The skill is designed for read-only access to owner content, ensuring that data remains synchronized with the Wix dashboard.

What it does

  • Connects frontends to Wix sites using a public WIX_CLIENT_ID.
  • Provides REST helpers for Stores, Bookings, Blog, Events, and other Wix business solutions.
  • Supports member login and gated content without redirecting to Wix-hosted pages.
  • Maintains visitor sessions using tokens persisted in local storage.
  • Offers structured guidance for wiring data into HTML, JSX, or Vite projects.
  • Ensures consistent data rendering by using formatted values from Wix API objects.

When to use it

  • When you need to display live Wix site data in a custom frontend application.
  • When you want to add shopping, booking, or membership flows to an existing project.
  • When you prefer a client-only, dependency-free integration over the Wix SDK.
  • When you are working with a vibe-coded app, HTML/JSX, or a design-tool export.

Advantages

  • No backend or build step required for integration.
  • Dependency-free implementation using standard REST calls.
  • Maintains a single source of truth for business data in the Wix dashboard.
  • Supports custom UI design while leveraging Wix's business logic.

Usage examples

“Connect my React app to my Wix store products.”
The agent identifies the storefront vertical, copies the necessary REST helpers to the src directory, and provides instructions to wire the product grid component.
“How do I add a blog feed to my Vite project using my Wix site?”
The agent verifies the blog vertical, sets up the taxonomy context, and guides the integration of the shipped post-grid and post-detail components.

Install

  1. Download the skill as a ZIP:

    https://mp-staging.autogineer.com/agent-skills/wix/wix-vibe-headless/download

  2. Unzip it into the cross-client skills folder of your project:

    mkdir -p .agents/skills && unzip wix-vibe-headless.zip -d .agents/skills

Documentation by Wix

Wix Vibe Headless — client-only REST connectors

Wire an existing front end to a live Wix site from the browser, over the site's public WIX_CLIENT_ID, using hand-rolled REST — no @wix/sdk, no backend, no build step, no dependencies. One skill, one shared transport, and a copy-as-is REST layer per Wix business solution. Everything is read-only over the owner's content: render live Wix data or an honest empty state — never mock, never provision, never invent products, posts, events, menus, plans, reviews, or counts.

When to use this skill

  • The user has (or is building) a front end — a vibe-coded app, plain HTML/JSX, a Vite/React project, a design-tool export — and wants it to show live data from their existing Wix site and complete real purchases/bookings, all from the client.

  • They hand you a public WIX_CLIENT_ID and ask to "connect this to my Wix store / blog / bookings / events / …".

  • They want to replace placeholder/mock data with real Wix content, or add a cart, checkout, booking, RSVP, ticketing, reservation, form, or subscribe flow over an app they already have.

When NOT to use this skill

ScenarioUse instead
Build a new Wix site end-to-end from one prompt (discovery → design → build → host)wix-headless
The project should use the Wix SDK (@wix/sdk) and/or the Wix CLI, or be hosted on Wixwix-headless
Manage/configure the site via REST (install apps, seed catalogs, set up business solutions)wix-manage
Build a Wix app extension (dashboard page, widget, backend, plugin)wix-app

This skill is the deliberately client-only, REST-only path. It is independent from wix-headless (which is SDK + CLI + hosting) — do not mix the two in one project.

The shared model (applies to every vertical)

  • Auth = one public client id. WIX_CLIENT_ID is a buyer/visitor-facing credential — it only mints anonymous visitor tokens. It is not a secret; hardcoding and committing it is fine. The user provides it (their vibe/host platform surfaces a copyable prompt with the id filled in). Paste it into wix-config.js in place of the <YOUR-CLIENT-ID> placeholder.

  • Money/price fields are objects, never scalars. Every price/amount a Wix API returns — Stores price.actualPrice, Bookings service payment.fixed.price, Events ticket registration.tickets.lowestPrice, and the rest — has the shape { value, currency, formattedValue }. Render formattedValue (it already includes the currency symbol), or fall back to building from value + currency. Never drop the object straight into the UI or treat it as a number/string — that renders [object Object] or a bare unformatted number. Donations exception: campaign prices use { amount, formattedAmount }, with a decimal-string amount; donation cart options.amount must instead be a JSON number. Follow the Donations recipe.

  • Visitor token = identity. wix-client.js mints an anonymous visitor token, persists the refresh token to localStorage, and refreshes on expiry. That token IS the identity of the cart / reservation / member session — never re-mint anonymously per load or the cart silently empties.

  • Member login swaps the token set on the same client. The members vertical is custom login — the front owns its login UI; the member is never redirected to a Wix-hosted login page. On success it writes the member's tokens into the same store the visitor token used (setSessionTokens), so every subsequent wixApiRequest runs as the member and the cart/session carries over. "My …" surfaces (plans, orders, bookings, registrations) light up only once logged in.

  • ⚠️ Once you're building on Wix, keep it on Wix — auth, member data, and other business features too. If you're wiring a Wix storefront/blog/etc. over WIX_CLIENT_ID, prefer Wix for the rest of the app as well, rather than reaching for a host platform's own backend or login. Especially for auth: when the user wants members, log them in as a Wix member (members vertical) — don't bolt on the host platform's auth. Likewise, member-generated content (likes, reviews, submissions, "my …" lists) goes in a Wix CMS collection (cms vertical), not a host database.

    • The split-brain trap: the most common failure is mixing the two — e.g. storing "likes" in the host's DB while identifying the member from the Wix session (or logging in with Wix members but keying data on a host user id). The two identities never match, ownership filters silently return nothing (a like vanishes on refresh), and the data never sits with the rest of the Wix content.

    • Rule of thumb: one store and one identity per feature. For a Wix-backed feature that's the Wix member + the Wix collection, with ownership on Wix's server-stamped _owner (never a hand-stored or host-supplied member id). Using a host backend for genuinely host-only data is fine — just never straddle a single feature across both.

  • Never mock, never provision. These scaffolds are read-only over the owner's content. The owner adds products/posts/services/events/menus/plans in the Wix dashboard. If a collection is empty, show the empty state — never fabricate data, reviews, ratings, or counts.

  • Purchases go through Wix. Checkout/ticketing/plan purchase always complete via the Wix redirect-session / Wix-hosted form — never hand-build a /checkout or purchase URL.

  • Fail loudly. The helpers throw on out-of-stock, empty carts, unbookable slots, expired holds, and payment-still-owed. A green path means it really worked — don't swallow the error.

  • Copy the shipped helpers as-is — don't rewrite their internals. Wire your UI to the exported functions; don't "refactor" or reimplement the helper bodies. Several Wix request shapes are exact and easy to break (the members createRedirectSession body is the classic trap — a rewritten version returns 400 and login dies). Extend by calling the exports or adding a new wixApiRequest call for a genuine gap — never by editing the shipped ones.

  • Beyond the snippets, look it up — never guess. The templates and the shipped references/<vertical>/ helpers are the implementation — build from them first. When you hit a genuine gap (a field, an endpoint, or an error the snippets don't cover), extend the client with wixApiRequest — confirming the exact endpoint, method, and body first. For that iteration and troubleshooting — finding the right endpoint, reading a method's request/response schema, or diagnosing an API error — consult the official Wix API documentation using the documentation skill available in your environment to search methods, read pages, and inspect API schemas. Reference index: https://dev.wix.com/docs/api-reference.md

  • Provide the user with deep links to the Wix dashboard: In many cases, the user will need to modify the default vertical data in the Wix dashboard. Always provide the user with these links. The relevant information for each vertical's links is in its INSTRUCTIONS.md file.

How this skill is structured

<SKILL_ROOT> is this file's directory (strip /SKILL.md). Each vertical supplies integration code under references/<vertical>/app/: REST helpers in app/rest/, and, depending on the vertical, utilities, hooks, context, components, or pages. All use the shared transport in references/shared/app/ (app/rest/wix-client.js + wix-config.js, identical for every vertical). Set WIX_CLIENT_ID (and WIX_METASITE_ID) in wix-config.js. Deploying references/<vertical>/app/ and references/shared/app/ into the app's src/ puts every file in place — the REST helpers land in src/rest/, so their relative imports resolve.

Where these files live in the app, and how they get there (pre-installed at setup, or copied in) is your platform's call — follow your platform instructions for that.

Each vertical's INSTRUCTIONS.md specifies its prerequisites, supplied pieces, exported interfaces, and the presentation you must build. Read it before implementation: reuse the supplied pieces and build the missing presentation without reimplementing shipped logic. Follow the platform's and vertical's completion guidance where provided.

Routing — pick the vertical(s) from the request

Load the vertical(s) the user's app needs; a project may combine several (e.g. a restaurant with a blog, or a store with pricing plans).

Each vertical's integration files ship in references/<vertical>/app/; copy that dir plus references/shared/app/ into the app's src/ (base44 does this at install via deploy.cjs).

The user wants…VerticalRead
Online store: products, categories, cart, checkoutstorefrontreferences/storefront/INSTRUCTIONS.md
Donations: fundraising campaigns, one-time or recurring giving, hosted checkoutdonationsreferences/donations/INSTRUCTIONS.md
Appointments: services, time slots, booking, checkout — and the form attached to a bookable servicebookingsreferences/bookings/INSTRUCTIONS.md
Rentals: an item hired for a length the customer picks (by the hour or by the day) — Wix Rentals runs on the Bookings APIs, so it is the same verticalbookingsreferences/bookings/INSTRUCTIONS.md ("Rentals")
Blog/news: post feed, post pages, categories, tagsblogreferences/blog/INSTRUCTIONS.md
Events: browse, event page, RSVP, ticketing — an RSVP is here, not forms, even for one occasion with no ticketseventsreferences/events/INSTRUCTIONS.md
Portfolio/showcase: collections, projects, media galleriesportfolioreferences/portfolio/INSTRUCTIONS.md
Restaurant: menu, online ordering, table reservationsrestaurantsreferences/restaurants/INSTRUCTIONS.md
Any visitor-fillable form: contact/enquiry, lead, signup, waitlist, application, feedback/survey, quote request, intake or registration. Not an event RSVP (events), per-service booking form (bookings) or donation contribution (donations)formsreferences/forms/INSTRUCTIONS.md
CMS content: list/detail, filter/search, data CRUD. A visitor-fillable form is forms — cms only when the app must read the entries backcmsreferences/cms/INSTRUCTIONS.md
Plans & pricing: memberships/subscriptions, subscribe, my planspricing-plansreferences/pricing-plans/INSTRUCTIONS.md
Member accounts: custom login/sign-up (email+password, Google/Facebook, SSO), account area, gated contentmembersreferences/members/INSTRUCTIONS.md

⚠️ Anything a visitor fills in and submits is forms — with four exceptions:

  1. The app must read the entries back → cms. A public gallery, a listing, a member's "my submissions". A visitor cannot read Forms submissions, so those need a collection. Submit-only is always forms: a form wired to insertDataItem works, but gives up the dashboard form builder, spam protection, submission notifications and CRM contact mapping, and needs the owner to set collection permissions by hand before anyone can submit at all.

  2. Confirming attendance to an event or occasion → events. A wedding, party or gathering — events ships a built-in RSVP registration form. Route there even for a single occasion with no tickets.

  3. A form attached to a bookable service → bookings.

  4. A contribution to a donation campaign → donations. Recurring giving is not a Pricing Plans purchase; the donation form must preserve the campaign's amount/frequency rules and use its catalog reference.

When the request doesn't name a Wix Business Solution — ask, or check the site

Don't infer which Wix Business Solution to build (stores, bookings, blog, events, portfolio, restaurants, CMS, pricing plans, members, etc..) from a vague brief. Ask the user one short question — what do they offer (products? appointments? posts? events?) — or check what the site actually has: call a cheap read from each likely solution's helper (queryProducts, queryServices, queryPosts, queryEvents, …) — authenticated with a visitor token minted from the WIX_CLIENT_ID, or with an admin token if you have one — and build for the solutions that return real content. A 428 "app not installed" (blog: 401) means that solution isn't on the site; sample-looking content ("Sample product 3") proves the app is installed, not what the business is about. Never default to store/bookings on silence.

The run

  1. Get WIX_CLIENT_ID. It comes from the user (the handoff prompt from their Wix/vibe platform carries it). If it's missing, ask for it before wiring — nothing works without it.

  2. Pick the vertical(s) from the routing table — and when the request doesn't name any, ask or check the site (see above) instead of guessing. Open each picked vertical's INSTRUCTIONS.md.

  3. Ensure the vertical's files are in place — copy references/<vertical>/app/ and references/shared/app/ into the app's src/, and set WIX_CLIENT_ID in wix-config.js. (Where and how they get there is your platform's call — see its instructions. On base44 the install step writes and verifies wix-config.js for you, so there's nothing to set by hand.)

  4. Build the presentation and wire the integration following the vertical's INSTRUCTIONS.md. Reuse its supplied pieces through their documented interfaces, build the presentation it leaves to you, and connect routes/providers as specified. Do not reimplement shipped logic. Style new presentation using the existing platform theme.

  5. Complete the applicable platform and vertical guidance, including any required checks and handoff instructions they provide.

Some flows need Wix-side setup the user completes later (payments connected, the deployed domain allow-listed on the OAuth client for hosted-checkout return, collection permissions). Those are out of scope here — if a call fails for that reason, flag it and continue; don't fall back to mock data.

Files

references/forms/seed/SEED.md

Forms — seeding (Form Schemas v4 REST)

Two actions live in this doc — decide which one you're doing before reading on. Both are admin/build-time work over an elevated credential, and both run through the same six steps:

actionwhenthe steps it uses
CREATE a form — POSTthere's no form yet: the app needs a contact / quote / application form and nothing has been created for itall six, in order
REVISE a form — PATCHthe form already exists and a request changes what it collects: "add a dropdown for job industry", "make the phone optional", "add a file upload", "drop the budget question"1 (auth) → 3 (author just the new field) → 4b · Revising a form later → 5 (re-verify) → 6 (rewrite the config, then wire the control)

A field the visitor can fill that isn't in the schema is silent data loss — no submission, no inbox, no contact, and the submit still resolves true. So never local component state, and never delete-and-recreate a live form: PATCH it, keeping the formId the UI already imports.

The six steps, each with a section below:

  1. Authenticate — get an elevated credential; the public client ID cannot write.

  2. Install the Wix Forms app — idempotent, and nothing works until it's there. (create only.)

  3. Author the form body — adapt the every-field payload to what the request asks for.

  4. Create the form — POST each body; a 200 here means almost nothing. (revising: 4b.)

  5. Verify it works — read the form back, and submit to it once for real.

  6. Hand off — the verified formId + field targets are written to a file the UI imports.

API reference

Wix Forms is a CRM API, not Business Solutions. Read the page before writing a call you don't find here — never guess a shape. For anything these pages don't settle — a response shape you didn't expect, or an operation this doc doesn't cover — use the documentation skill available in your environment to search + read the live Wix API reference.

steptitlepagewhat it settles
3About Form Fieldshttps://dev.wix.com/docs/api-reference/crm/forms/form-schemas/about-form-fields.mdevery field-level rule: the identifier/inputType/componentType table, validation, choice fields, contact mapping, layout
3Create Formhttps://dev.wix.com/docs/api-reference/crm/forms/form-schemas/create-form.mdthe create call, plus 10 complete request examples — the source of the payload below
3Form objecthttps://dev.wix.com/docs/api-reference/crm/forms/form-schemas/form-object.mdeach property individually, incl. form-level settings this doc doesn't cover
4Form Schemas APIhttps://dev.wix.com/docs/api-reference/crm/forms/form-schemas.mdevery schema method (get, list, delete, enable/disable)
4bUpdate Formhttps://dev.wix.com/docs/api-reference/crm/forms/form-schemas/update-form.mdthe PATCH: revising a form without losing its formId, and the whole-array replace semantics
4List Forms Providers Configshttps://dev.wix.com/docs/api-reference/crm/forms/form-schemas/list-forms-providers-configs.mdthe Forms app's ceiling on fields and forms — not the site's plan cap, which this call cannot tell you (see step 4)
5Create Submissionhttps://dev.wix.com/docs/api-reference/crm/forms/form-submissions/create-submission.mdthe submission call used to prove the form accepts data
5About Submission Valueshttps://dev.wix.com/docs/api-reference/crm/forms/form-submissions/about-submission-values.mdthe value shape each inputType submits — string, array, address object, …
5Validation errorshttps://dev.wix.com/docs/api-reference/crm/forms/form-submissions/introduction.md#validation-errorswhat a rejected submission is telling you
—Form Submissions APIhttps://dev.wix.com/docs/api-reference/crm/forms/form-submissions.mdevery submission method, incl. delete (used to clean up the test submission)

⛔ Additive only — never delete, reset, or overwrite existing forms, even ones that look like the install's own sample.

⚠️ Seed BEFORE the form's UI. Forms is the one vertical that does not run in parallel with the client: its inputs bind to the schema's field targets, so nothing may be built against a form that hasn't been created and verified.

1 · Authenticate

Every call in this doc needs an elevated credential — a connector/OAuth access token, or a Wix API key. The public WIX_CLIENT_ID cannot write; see the platform doc's seed-auth step. There is no helper module — you make each call yourself with the shapes below.

Never inline the raw token/API key into a command — it would end up in the transcript, exec logs, and shell history. Keep it in a variable and reference it. On Base44 (and any exec-tool platform), take it from the connector and call with fetch() rather than shelling out to curl:

const { accessToken } = await base44.asServiceRole.connectors.getConnection("wix"); // stays in memory

On any other platform, load it into an env var from your secret manager and don't echo it. Either way, every call below sends the same three standard headers — referred to as such from here on:

Authorization: Bearer <token>     // a Wix API key goes in RAW, with no "Bearer"
wix-site-id:   <METASITE_ID>
Content-Type:  application/json

2 · Install the Wix Forms app

POST https://www.wixapis.com/apps-installer-service/v1/app-instance/install
{
  "tenant":      { "tenantType": "SITE", "id": "<METASITE_ID>" },
  "appInstance": { "appDefId": "225dd912-7dea-4738-8688-4b8c6955ffc2", "enabled": true }
}

225dd912-7dea-4738-8688-4b8c6955ffc2 is the Wix Forms app. Until it is installed every Form Schemas call fails with UNSUPPORTED_FORM_NAMESPACE, so run this before step 4. The call is idempotent — re-installing returns 200 — and Base44 sites often don't have the app, so re-running costs nothing.

3 · Author the form body — every field type

There is one create call: POST https://www.wixapis.com/form-schema-service/v4/forms with { "form": { "namespace": "wix.form_app.form", … } } — that namespace is the Wix Forms app's, and the only one the owner's dashboard shows. You author that body, starting from the payload below and adapting it to the request.

The payload is one form holding every field type Wix Forms supports. Each field block is copied verbatim from the official Create Form examples, so the identifier / inputType / componentType triple, the options objects and the validation shapes are the ones Wix actually accepts. (Two exceptions: Donation comes from About Form Fields, and Custom price is the one field with no shipped example — it is composed from the property reference.)

(Authoring side: which JSON creates each field. The rendering side — which control each one wants and what its value looks like — is the matching table in INSTRUCTIONS.md; they join on identifier.)

fieldidentifierinputTypecomponentTypesubmitsrequires
Text & number
Short answerTEXT_INPUTSTRINGTEXT_INPUTstring
Long answerTEXT_AREASTRINGTEXT_INPUTstring
NumberNUMBER_INPUTNUMBERNUMBER_INPUTnumber
RatingRATING_INPUTNUMBERRATING_INPUTnumber
LinkURL_INPUTSTRINGTEXT_INPUTstring
Choice
DropdownDROPDOWNSTRINGDROPDOWNstring
Single choiceRADIO_GROUPSTRINGRADIO_GROUPstring
Multi choiceCHECKBOX_GROUPARRAYCHECKBOX_GROUParray
Tag pickerTAGSARRAYTAGSarray
Image choiceIMAGE_CHOICEARRAYCHECKBOX_GROUParray
CheckboxCHECKBOXBOOLEANCHECKBOXboolean
Date & time
DateDATE_INPUTSTRINGDATE_INPUTstring
Date pickerDATE_PICKERSTRINGDATE_PICKERstring
Date and timeDATE_TIME_INPUTSTRINGDATE_TIMEstring
TimeTIME_INPUTSTRINGTIME_INPUTstring
Contact-mapped
First nameCONTACTS_FIRST_NAMESTRINGTEXT_INPUTstring
Last nameCONTACTS_LAST_NAMESTRINGTEXT_INPUTstring
EmailCONTACTS_EMAILSTRINGTEXT_INPUTstring
PhoneCONTACTS_PHONESTRINGPHONE_INPUTstring
CompanyCONTACTS_COMPANYSTRINGTEXT_INPUTstring
PositionCONTACTS_POSITIONSTRINGTEXT_INPUTstring
Tax ID → contact VAT_IDCONTACTS_TAX_IDSTRINGTEXT_INPUTstring
BirthdateCONTACTS_BIRTHDATESTRINGDATE_INPUTstring
Subscribe checkboxCONTACTS_SUBSCRIBEBOOLEANCHECKBOXboolean
Address (single line)CONTACTS_ADDRESSSTRINGTEXT_INPUTstring
Address (multi-line)MULTILINE_ADDRESSADDRESSMULTILINE_ADDRESSobject
File (premium)
File uploadFILE_UPLOADWIX_FILEFILE_UPLOADfilePremium
SignatureSIGNATUREWIX_FILESIGNATUREfilePremium
Payment (premium + eCommerce)
ProductPRODUCT_LISTPAYMENTCHECKBOX_GROUPpaymentPremium + eCommerce
Fixed priceFIXED_PAYMENTPAYMENTFIXED_PAYMENTpaymentPremium + eCommerce
Custom pricePAYMENT_INPUTPAYMENTPAYMENT_INPUTpaymentPremium + eCommerce
DonationDONATIONPAYMENTDONATION_INPUTpaymentPremium + eCommerce
Scheduling (other Wix apps)
AppointmentAPPOINTMENTSCHEDULINGAPPOINTMENTbookingWix Meetings
Service pickerSERVICES_DROPDOWNSTRINGSERVICES_DROPDOWNstringWix Services
Multi-service pickerSERVICES_MULTI_CHOICEARRAYSERVICES_CHECKBOX_GROUParrayWix Services
Display (collects nothing)
Rich contentRICH_TEXT—RICH_CONTENT *—
Submit buttonSUBMIT_BUTTON—PAGE_NAVIGATION *—

* A display field sets fieldType: "DISPLAY" and has neither an input type nor a component type — the value shown is its displayOptions.displayFieldType.

Non-negotiable rules for adapting the payload

Change the fields, labels, options and targets freely — these seven rules must still hold in whatever you send. Break one and the create still returns 200; the damage shows up in the owner's dashboard, or on the first real submission.

  • Every id is a lowercase UUID v4, unique within the form — generate it for each field and every choice option. Then use those UUIDs where reference to a field or an option is required.

  • Use only form.formFields for fields, never form.fields - that's legacy API

  • steps must reference every field, including the SUBMIT_BUTTON. Field that is not referenced in any step will not be visible in the business manager.

  • required lives at inputOptions.required, never inside a validation block.

  • validation is always present, even as {}, and nests under the inputType options object — not the componentType one.

  • A choice field's identifier IS its kind — DROPDOWN, RADIO_GROUP, CHECKBOX_GROUP, TAGS — matching the componentType, never TEXT_INPUT: the identifier routes the field to its renderer, so TEXT_INPUT + componentType: DROPDOWN is accepted and stored as a text input. (A long answer is TEXT_AREA for the same reason.)

  • A choice field declares its options twice — the component's options[] and the validation enum (STRING) or items.stringOptions.enum + itemType (ARRAY) — and the two must agree. Get it wrong and the create still returns 200: the field is created as a plain text box, losing its choices. Only the 5a component check catches it.

  • A choice field that came back as a text box: read which options block came home. textInputOptions where you sent dropdownOptions is that fallback — and with a well-formed block and enum, the cause is the identifier. Re-sending it, or delete-and-re-add with the same identifier, reproduces it.

  • target is the immutable submission key: starts with an ASCII letter, letters/digits/_ only, no __, unique within the form. Use field's label converted to snake_case with _ and 6 random alphanumeric
    characters as the field target, e.g. "First name" -> first_name_a689be.

{
  "form": {
    "name": "Every field type",
    "namespace": "wix.form_app.form",
    "formFields": [
      {
        "id": "4add0e51-a168-4ab6-76ff-834d782fb4d9",
        "identifier": "TEXT_INPUT",
        "fieldType": "INPUT",
        "inputOptions": {
          "target": "improve_e62b",
          "inputType": "STRING",
          "stringOptions": {
            "validation": {},
            "componentType": "TEXT_INPUT",
            "textInputOptions": {
              "label": "What is one thing we could improve?",
              "showLabel": true
            }
          }
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "bbecbd37-ca52-4fa6-a92c-90e70aa4ec2a",
        "identifier": "TEXT_AREA",
        "fieldType": "INPUT",
        "inputOptions": {
          "target": "message_7634",
          "inputType": "STRING",
          "stringOptions": {
            "validation": {},
            "componentType": "TEXT_INPUT",
            "textInputOptions": {
              "label": "Your message",
              "showLabel": true
            }
          }
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "7e2a15c8-0b34-49df-86a1-c40f9d73e526",
        "identifier": "NUMBER_INPUT",
        "fieldType": "INPUT",
        "inputOptions": {
          "target": "team_size_9b47",
          "inputType": "NUMBER",
          "numberOptions": {
            "componentType": "NUMBER_INPUT",
            "numberInputOptions": {
              "label": "Team size",
              "showLabel": true
            },
            "validation": {}
          }
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "a5f82c31-7d09-4e6b-b384-0c15fe739a2d",
        "identifier": "RATING_INPUT",
        "fieldType": "INPUT",
        "inputOptions": {
          "target": "overall_rating_8c46",
          "inputType": "NUMBER",
          "numberOptions": {
            "componentType": "RATING_INPUT",
            "ratingInputOptions": {
              "label": "How would you rate your overall experience?",
              "showLabel": true,
              "defaultValue": 3
            },
            "validation": {}
          }
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "4913d7ab-352a-481b-831f-ee8beb895b64",
        "identifier": "URL_INPUT",
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          "inputType": "SCHEDULING",
          "schedulingOptions": {
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            "appointmentOptions": {
              "label": "Pick a time for your consultation",
              "showLabel": true,
              "name": "Consultation",
              "durationInMinutes": 30,
              "staffIds": [
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              ],
              "manualApprovalRequired": false,
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              "phoneOptions": {
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              }
            }
          }
        }
      },
      {
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        "identifier": "SERVICES_DROPDOWN",
        "fieldType": "INPUT",
        "inputOptions": {
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          "inputType": "STRING",
          "stringOptions": {
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            },
            "componentType": "SERVICES_DROPDOWN",
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              "showLabel": true,
              "placeholder": "Select a service",
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                }
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            }
          }
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "02ecf77a-018c-4bb5-202c-58c9e2bb87b2",
        "identifier": "SERVICES_MULTI_CHOICE",
        "fieldType": "INPUT",
        "inputOptions": {
          "target": "add_ons_406f",
          "inputType": "ARRAY",
          "arrayOptions": {
            "validation": {
              "items": {
                "itemType": "STRING",
                "stringOptions": {
                  "enum": [
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                  ]
                }
              }
            },
            "componentType": "SERVICES_CHECKBOX_GROUP",
            "servicesCheckboxGroupOptions": {
              "label": "Add-on services",
              "showLabel": true,
              "numberOfColumns": "ONE",
              "options": [
                {
                  "id": "7d19f3a5-4c82-4e06-b573-91a0dc2e685f",
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                  "value": "7d19f3a5-4c82-4e06-b573-91a0dc2e685f"
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          }
        }
      },
      {
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        "identifier": "RICH_TEXT",
        "fieldType": "DISPLAY",
        "displayOptions": {
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          "richContentOptions": {
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                  "id": "wvr3b41",
                  "nodes": [
                    {
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                      "id": "",
                      "nodes": [],
                      "textData": {
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                        "decorations": []
                      }
                    }
                  ],
                  "paragraphData": {
                    "textStyle": {
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                  }
                }
              ]
            }
          }
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "2e56791e-926e-48fd-37d0-0ad60a27736d",
        "identifier": "SUBMIT_BUTTON",
        "fieldType": "DISPLAY",
        "displayOptions": {
          "displayFieldType": "PAGE_NAVIGATION",
          "pageNavigationOptions": {
            "submitText": "Pay"
          }
        }
      }
    ],
    "steps": [
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        "name": "Page 1",
        "layout": {
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                "row": 0,
                "column": 0,
                "width": 12,
                "height": 1
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    ]
  }
}

4 · Create the form

One POST per form body, to the Form Schemas v4 endpoint — a CRM API, not Business Solutions, always on the public host, never /_api/:

POST https://www.wixapis.com/form-schema-service/v4/forms
{ "form": { "namespace": "wix.form_app.form", … the rest of the body from step 3 … } }

Read form.id from the response — that's the formId the rest of the run carries. Record it the moment it comes back, before anything else: it is the only way a later attempt can tell a form this run created from one the owner already had. Forms are independent (no shared revision), so create them in any order.

Three things to check before you POST. The API accepts the first two and loses the field; the third leaves you with a second form:

  • the body has at least one INPUT field — a form of nothing but a submit button collects nothing;

  • no two fields share a target. The server keeps one; every other field with that key silently stores nothing.

  • no form of this name exists yet — GET https://www.wixapis.com/form-schema-service/v4/forms?namespace=wix.form_app.form, comparing name exactly. Wix does not reject a duplicate name; it silently appends a counter ("Contact" → "Contact 1"), so create is not idempotent and nothing tells you a retry duplicated a form. A name matching a form this run created (per the id you recorded above) → reuse that formId rather than creating again. A name you have no record of creating is the owner's: additive only, so leave it alone and pick a different name or ask.

An orphan you created in this run is yours to clear — DELETE .../v4/forms/<formId> is a soft delete to the trash bin, so it is recoverable. Anything you did not create stays untouched.

A 200 here proves almost nothing. Most mistakes in a form body are accepted at create and surface only in the owner's dashboard or on the first real submission — step 5 is what actually proves the form works. Two failures worth recognizing before you retry:

  • A transient 5xx, an identity/propagation error right after install, or a timeout leaves you not knowing whether the create landed. Re-list by name before retrying — never blind-retry the POST, because the duplicate it may create is silent. One retry once the list comes back empty; never a loop.

  • Plan gates are a hard block, not a note-and-continue. FIELDS_COUNT_RESTRICTIONS_ERROR (per-form field cap), FILE_UPLOAD_RESTRICTIONS_ERROR (upload/signature/payment below Core) and FORMS_COUNT_RESTRICTIONS_ERROR (site form cap) each mean reduce or upgrade — put the choice to the user with their dashboard link and wait for an answer. Never split a form across schemas to dodge the field cap, never inline a file as base64, and never create throwaway forms to probe the shape.

    The field cap cannot be read in advance. listFormsProvidersConfigs reports the Forms app's ceiling, not the site's plan cap — on a free site it returns maxFields: 150 while the create is rejected with "Field count reached its limit of 10". The cap is per plan, not per app. Treat the create as the only authority on the number: budget conservatively while authoring step 3 rather than discovering the limit after a full authoring pass, and count every entry in formFields, the SUBMIT_BUTTON included.

4b · Revising a form later

Add a field, relabel one, tighten a rule, retire one — a PATCH, never a second create. Everything above still applies; this is the delta.

Read the form back first — you need its revision. The formId comes from src/rest/wix-forms.config.js (WIX_FORMS.<key>.formId), never typed by hand:

GET https://www.wixapis.com/form-schema-service/v4/forms?namespace=wix.form_app.form&formIds=<formId>
PATCH https://www.wixapis.com/form-schema-service/v4/forms/<formId>
{ "form": { …the whole object you just read, with your change…, "revision": "<its current revision>" } }

  • namespace is a required query parameter on the read, hence the ?namespace= above. Without it the read 400s with namespace has size 0, expected 10 or more — a violation naming a field, so it reads like a body problem. Fix the call, not the payload.

  • The read-back is the PATCH body. Apply the change to what the GET returned and send that. namespace is immutable and travels along; there is no fieldMask, and no revision outside form. Inventing either is a silent partial write.

  • formFields replaces wholesale. Wix: "Any field that's missing from the array you send is moved to deletedFormFields, so resend every field you want to keep." steps behaves the same way. Drops are recoverable from deletedFormFields — if you notice, which is step 5's job.

  • A stale revision is rejected — re-GET and re-apply; never guess or increment it.

  • A new field needs three things generated: a fresh UUID id, a target unique in the form (job_industry_7f2b), and — for a choice field — an options block whose enum and options[] agree. Step 3 is the shape, and its warnings still hold.

Add the layout item too — append to steps[<n>].layout.large.items, mirroring into medium / small if the form has them:

{ "fieldId": "<the new field's id>", "row": <next row>, "column": 0, "width": 12, "height": 1 }

A field missing from the layout isn't dropped, but it sorts last and has no defined position in the owner's builder. To place it mid-form, insert at that row and bump every item at or after it — row restarts at 0 per step.

Changing a field's component type in place — a text input that should have been a dropdown — means the choice identifier and only the new options block; don't leave textInputOptions beside dropdownOptions. A read-back still showing textInputOptions is the identifier, not the block.

The other revisions:

  • label, placeholder, options, validation, order — patch and stop. The client reads all of those live from the schema, so no config rewrite and no code change follows.

  • retiring a field the form has submissions for — set hidden: true ("hidden from submitters": the field stops being rendered, and the submissions already collected under it keep their meaning) rather than dropping it from the array. Drop only a field added by mistake in this same run.

  • never rename a target — it's the storage key, so a rename orphans every submission already collected under the old one. Change the label instead.

Then re-run step 5 in full — a PATCH regresses a form exactly as a create does, and §5a is where a dropdown that silently became a text input gets caught. Then step 6, revising: add the read-back target to src/rest/wix-forms.config.js (the one sanctioned edit to that file outside a seed run, and only after step 5 passes) and wire the control per INSTRUCTIONS.md. The field is live for new submissions; past ones don't carry it. Step 4's plan gates apply to an added field too.

5 · Verify it works

All four calls are yours to make, and the last one needs a submission you compose from this form's schema. All four use the standard headers from step 1.

A 200 on create means the body parsed — nothing more. Every mistake below returns 200 and surfaces only in the owner's dashboard or on the first real submission.

5a · Read the form back
GET https://www.wixapis.com/form-schema-service/v4/forms?namespace=wix.form_app.form&formIds=<formId>

formIds narrows the listing to exactly what you created, so you assert against it directly. Then, against the returned form.formFields:

  • Every target you sent is there. One that isn't means the field didn't persist — usually an identifier Wix doesn't recognize, which is dropped without an error.

  • Every inputOptions.required reads back as you sent it. A required key placed inside a validation block is accepted and then discarded, so the form ships with nothing mandatory. This diff is the only signal you will ever get.

  • Every choice field is still a choice field. For each DROPDOWN / RADIO_GROUP / CHECKBOX_GROUP / TAGS you sent, assert the read-back still carries that componentType, that its options[] is non-empty, and that it agrees with the validation enum. A malformed options block is accepted at create and comes back as a plain text input — target intact, required intact — so every other check in step 5 passes and the field silently loses its choices.

  • Keep the read-back targets. These, not the ones you authored, are what goes into step 6.

5b · Check the dashboard view
GET https://www.wixapis.com/form-schema-service/v4/forms/<formId>/summary

(The summary and the single-form GET take the id in the path, so neither needs the namespace query parameter — every listing read does.)

Assert formSummary.fields is non-empty, with one entry per input field you sent (everything in formFields except the SUBMIT_BUTTON). The summary is exactly what the Wix dashboard renders, so a short or empty count means the form is blank — or partly blank — for the owner, even while the public site submits fine. Non-contact fields count too; don't expect only the contact-mapped ones.

5c · Submit to it once, for real

This is the check the other two can't stand in for. An ARRAY field whose validation.items is missing itemType passes 5a and 5b and then 400s form-wide — every field, every visitor. Submitting once is the only proof the form can receive data at all.

What it does not catch: a STRING choice field does not enforce its validation.enum on submit. A dropdown whose enum and options both read back correctly still accepts "Not an option" with a 200. So the probe proves the form receives data; it will not tell you a choice field's two declarations have drifted apart. Get those right in step 3 — nothing downstream will catch it for you.

POST https://www.wixapis.com/form-submission-service/v4/submissions
{ "submission": { "formId": "<formId>", "submissions": { "<target>": <value> } } }

Rules for composing submissions — get one wrong and the whole submission fails, not just that value:

  • Keys are field targets from the 5a read-back. Never a label, never a field id. A key that isn't a target in the schema fails the entire submission.

  • Include every required field — the server rejects the submission without them — plus every ARRAY field whether required or not, since the ARRAY shape is the thing you're testing.

  • The value's shape follows the field's inputType, not its component:

    inputTypevalueexample
    STRINGa string, formatted per validation.format"[email protected]", "2030-01-01", "10:00:00"
    NUMBERa number1
    BOOLEANa booleantrue
    ARRAYan array of option values["Option 1"]
    ADDRESSan object, only the subfields the form shows{"country":"US","subdivision":"US-NY","city":"New York","postalCode":"10011","addressLine":"235 West 23rd Street"}
    PAYMENTan array of {productId, price, quantity}[{"productId":"<from validation.products>","price":"25","quantity":1}]
    SCHEDULING{startDate, endDate, timeZone}{"startDate":"2030-07-02T14:00:00","endDate":"2030-07-02T14:30:00","timeZone":"America/New_York"}

  • Use one of the field's own option values — copy it from the schema rather than retyping the label. The server won't reject a value outside the enum (see above), so a typo here quietly proves nothing.

  • country and subdivision are validated against each other, so send a matching pair or omit subdivision.

  • A WIX_FILE field can't be faked. If a file upload or signature is required, this check can't run — say so and have the user submit once through the published site instead of recording a pass that never happened.

Assert 200. A 400 SUBMISSION_VALIDATION is a schema bug, not a submission bug — fix the form body and re-create it; never bend the value to get through. The error names the field and the reason under details.validationError.fieldViolations[].data.errors[], each with an errorPath (the target) and an errorType — UNKNOWN_VALUE_ERROR means the key isn't a target in this form.

5d · Delete the test submission
DELETE https://www.wixapis.com/form-submission-service/v4/submissions/<id>

The id comes from the 5c response as submission.id: REST returns id, not the _id the reference schema shows (that's the SDK's shape). Do this every time — the owner's inbox is a real business inbox, and a probe left in it looks like a real enquiry. If a probe ever escapes, find it with POST /form-submission-service/v4/submissions/namespace/query, filtered by formId and "namespace": "wix.form_app.form".

6 · Hand off

Only once step 5 has passed for every form, write src/rest/wix-forms.config.js — one entry per form, keyed by the form's name lowercased with each run of non-alphanumerics collapsed to a single _ ("Quote request" → quote_request):

// Written by the seed run once step 5 passed. Do not create it early: its existence is what proves
// the form schemas were created AND verified. Its only later edit is a verified schema change —
// see step 4b; never a hand-typed field.
export const WIX_FORMS = {
  contact: { formId: "…", name: "Contact", targets: { email: true, message: true } },
};

That file is the handoff, and the gate. The UI imports WIX_FORMS from it; no file means the seed did not succeed, so nothing may be built against the form yet. So never write it before step 5 passes, and never invent a formId. If the app's src/ layout puts its REST layer elsewhere, write it there instead — the path matters less than the file existing before the UI step.

targets is the read-back map of immutable submission keys — the one from 5a, not the one you authored in step 3. Everything else — labels, order, options, validation — the client reads live from the schema, so an owner's dashboard edit shows on the site with no code change.

Requirements and compatibility

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Needs: Needs Node.js

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Published by
Wix
Publisher
Wix (Official)
Source
wix/skills · skills/wix-vibe-headless · commit d168bc2
Licence
MIT License (redistribution allowed)
  • LICENSE (added by AutoGineer from LICENSE)
  • ATTRIBUTION.md (written by AutoGineer)
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