# Smart Idea to delete form submits with native functions?

**URL:** <https://forum.mautic.org/t/smart-idea-to-delete-form-submits-with-native-functions/35488>\
**Category:** Mautic 5 Install/Upgrade Support\
**Created:** [April 10, 2025, 6:49am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/smart-idea-to-delete-form-submits-with-native-functions/35488 "2025-04-10T06:49:02Z")\
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A client is using a form bot to continuously monitor the functionality of the mautic instance.  
That creates a lot of form submits, that are of no further use.

Do you have an idea, how to get rid of them at the same time?

Not working:

- there is no campaign action, that deleted submits,
- there is no API call that can delete submits,

So far I only see a mysql action via script (tricky in a chrooted environment) or a db procedure (bad for updates of mautic).

Did I miss any other easy option (except manual cleanup)?