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Postscript popups are a compliant and powerful way to convert site visitors to SMS subscribers so you can nurture them with a personalized SMS program throughout the customer lifecycle. By employing a Postscript popup, you can:
- Increase your Acquisition Rate, which in turn, improves your overall Subscriber Lifetime Value and total value of your SMS program.
- Optimize your popup conversions by finding the best combination of popup creatives, timing, images, message copy, and incentives for your brand all through A/B testing.
- Recapture potentially lost revenue by incentivizing subscribers to finish their buying journey with exit-intent popups.
- Power a more personalized SMS experience for all susbcribers by capturing subscriber data in Postscript popups.
In this article, we guide you through how to create different types of popups, then walk you through how to collect custom properties with Postscript popups.
Create a Desktop Popup
To begin crafting your desktop popup, select Acquisition on the left-side navigation panel. Next, select Create in the upper-right corner of the page, then select Desktop from the drop-down options.
- Name. Choose a name that allows you to easily identify this popup from the list of available popups on your main Popups page.
- Phone Collection Step. In the phone collection step and the custom step cards, you can adjust the copy for your pre-headline, headline, post-headline, button, and close button.
- + Add Step/Custom Step. When you select + Add Step, you are able to add an additional step for subscribers to enter their email address. You can also use this second step to collect custom properties.
- When collecting emails, you can toggle the Forward to email app option ON and select which list you'd like to forward the collected emails and custom properties to.
- Form. This section is where you will configure your custom property collection for all steps. We discuss this in more depth below.
- Popup settings. In the Popup settings card, you are able to adjust the style and behavior of your popup for all steps. We'll discuss both in the tab system below:
Style Behavior
- Popup type: Select if you'd like to display a modal window, full screen, or banner popup.
- Logo image. Upload a logo image by selecting a file from your device. You can also drag and drop the image file into the upload field.
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Background style. Choose to have your popup background be a solid color or an image.
- Background color. If you select a solid color background, you can enter a specific hex code for your desired color.
- Background image. If you select a background image, you can upload the image or GIF from your device or drag and drop the file into the upload field.
- Font. Select your preferred font. This font applies to all text on your desktop popup.
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Style. Choose whether your desktop popup will have square or rounded corners.
- Corner roundness. If you selected rounded corners, then use this field to set how round the corners should appear.
- Primary text color. Set your primary text color by entering a hex color code. This color applies to all text on your desktop popup except button text.
- Button color. Set the color of your subscribe button by entering a hex color code.
- Button text color. Set the color of your subscribe button text by entering a hex color code.
- Button style. Choose whether your CTA button will have square or rounded corners.
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Side image. Add an image that will be featured on the left side of the popup.
- Recommended file size is: 400px wide, 600px tall, and less than 500 KB for optimal sizing and resolution.
- Step order. Choose if you'd like to collect site visitors' phone number first or last.
- Countries. Choose which countries should see the popup.
- Popup trigger. Choose a time delay, exit intent, or custom trigger (note: when Custom Trigger is selected, you can copy and embed the provided code into your website's source code).
- Popup delay. Define how long a popup should wait before appearing on your homepage. We recommend a 3-second delay. The longer the delay, the lower the conversion rate.
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Close action. Choose what happens when a customer exits out of your popup.
- Exit closes the popup entirely.
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Bubble minimizes the popup to a small image in the bottom-left corner of the page. Visitors can access the popup later if they change their minds about subscribing. You can preview this by selecting the Collapse/Expand button below the preview.
- Close action text. Edit the text that appears on the minimized bubble popup.
- Include pages. If you wish for the popup to display on specific sub-pages (aside from your main webpage), you can select those pages from the drop-down.
- Exclude pages. If you want to ensure the popup doesn't display on specific pages, you can select those pages from the drop-down.
- Subscriber status. Configure subscriber status to show your onsite popup to unknown site visitors only, known subscribers only, or both.
- New subscriber success message. If a brand new subscriber completes the sign up form, they will see this message.
- Existing subscriber success message. If an existing subscriber completes the sign up form, they will see this message.
Collect Custom Properties
Under the Form card within the popup editor, you can customize the questions for your popup. Subscriber responses will be saved as custom properties within a subscriber profile.
- Under Phone question, you can change the placeholder text.
- Under Welcome message, you can craft the message your subscribers will receive once they opt into your SMS program via desktop popup. You can customize this message with photos, gifs, merge tags, coupons, discount links, product links, or a contact card.
- Select Add Question to add a question to your popup. Choose if you'd like subscribers to answer this question via freeform text or multiple choice. Their response will be added to their subscriber profile under Custom Properties.
- Within the Text question or Multiple choice question field, craft your question copy (for example: what's your main skin concern?).
- If adding a multiple choice option, be sure to add the choices. You can add up to four.
- Under Subscriber property, add the property name you are collecting by either creating a new property or selecting an existing property. You can think of the subscriber property as the main subject of the question (for example: if you ask subscribers what their main skin concern is, the subscriber property would be "skin_concern").
- Select the Switch Order button to change the order of questions. For compliance reasons, you cannot change the order of your question and phone input field on the Phone collection step. The phone input will always be the second question listed. On the Custom step, you can switch the order of the questions.
Activate Your Desktop Popup
Once you have designed your desktop popup, it's time to activate it. You can do so from the main popup page or from the specific popup page.
To activate your desktop popup, click the toggle bar under the Enabled column on your popups main page. Alternatively, within the individual popup editor, you can click the toggle bar in the upper-right corner so it is green and reads Active to the left of the toggle bar.
Additional Resources
- Just getting started with designing your desktop popup? Check out this tutorial for how to customize your popup font, text size, text color, and more.
- Interested in doing a deep dive of our desktop popup functionality? We've got you covered with this guide!
- Need some inspiration for A/B testing your desktop popups? We've got you covered with this guide.
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