Create a signup form

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
  • 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)

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:

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Still need help?

Contact us at support@audiencerepublic.com