Create a signup form

Modified on Fri, 6 Sep at 9:15 AM

In Audience Republic, you can create a signup form to collect subscribers.

How to create a signup form

Navigate to the Messaging menu
Click on the Signup Forms tab
Click Create

Step 1: Setup your signup form

On the Setup your signup form page:
- Add your heading
- Add an optional description (copy to appear under the heading)
- Update the URL if desired (optional as the URL will automatically generate based on the heading)
- From the drop down menu labelled Subscribe to list, choose which list this form will subscribe contacts to
- Tick to enable the Channels (Email and/or SMS) for the list.
- If you're collecting mobile numbers, the SMS channel must be selected

Customise the color of the subscribe button (optional)
Upload an image to sit at the top of the signup form (optional)
Click Next

If you need to follow GDPR, CCPA, TCPA guidelines you can toggle the on/off switch
To add your own privacy policy, toggle the on/off switch and add the company name and link to the policy

Step 2: Form Fields

Select the fields to display on your signup form
Choose which fields fans must enter when subscribing to the list (click See all to reveal the full list of available fields).
You can choose to make fields optional by ticking the Optional check box(es)
Please note: if collecting mobile numbers the SMS channel must be selected and cannot be "optional"

Custom Fields

To create a form that resembles a survey, consider creating a signup form that includes Custom Fields.

Click Add Custom Field
Enter the Field Name and Field Type

Scroll to "Dropdown options" and apply tags to each option - these tags will automatically be applied to contacts who select this option.
Click Save
*For best practice to enable segmentation, we recommend applying tags to each of those custom fields*

Privacy:

If you need to follow GDPR, CCPA, TCPA guidelines you can toggle the on/off switch
To add your own privacy policy, toggle the on/off switch and add the company name and link to the policy

Advanced Settings

In the top right corner, click Advanced Settings
In General, you can add a tag

Click on Settings to add a Call To Action Button

Select Pixels to add a pixel/HTML code
Then click Save

Click Finish
To distribute the signup form link, or add it to your website, copy the URL by clicking Copy Link
You can view the live form by clicking on View Signup Form
Otherwise click Done
Optional: you can also Add a signup form to your website

Please note:

All non-embedded forms (ie, ones which open in a new modal) are not customisable. Our signup forms do not explicitly support this. Please ask your developer to do some custom dev work.

How to add a custom background color to your signup form

Click Advanced Settings
Click 'Pixels' tab
Enable 'Custom' to ON

Edit the Custom HTML by adding the below CSS code in the header:

<style> .blurred-background { background-image:none!important; background-color: #FFFFFF!important; }
</style>

Replace #FFFFFF with the desired colour
Click Next & Exit the form to Save your changes

Example:

After saving the changes, the Signup form background was changed to purple:

Best practices for lists connected to signup forms

When collecting mobile numbers through your signup form, ensure that SMS is enabled for the corresponding list. Without SMS enabled, the data won't be imported into the list and will not appear when exporting.

For optimal results, we recommend enabling both email and SMS on all lists.

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