How to Create Sendy Opt-in Forms to Capture Leads
Sendy is a self hosted email newsletter application that lets you send trackable emails via Amazon Simple Email Service (SES). This makes it possible for you to send authenticated bulk emails at an insanely low price without sacrificing deliverability.
In this tutorial, we will learn how to integrate MailOptin with Sendy so you can start capturing and saving leads with email sign up form to your Sendy account.
Firstly, ensure you’ve connected Sendy by saving your account API key to it’s connection settings. Do this by following this guide. When you are done, return to this page.
Then go to the Optin Campaign page and click the Add New button at the top to create an optin form.
Enter a title for the campaign, select the optin type (for this tutorial, we’ll select lightbox) and click the optin form design you want.
You will then be redirected to the form builder where you have options and the flexibility to customize the optin form to your heart content.
See: Adding Extra Fields to Your Optin Form
Having finished customizing the form, open the Integration panel, Select Sendy in Email Provider dropdown and the Sendy Campaign to subscribe users to. You can also toggle double optin as well as welcome email.
To actually get the opt-in to display on your site, toggle the activate switch ON at the top (close to “Save Changes” button).
Navigate to the “Display Rules” panel.
If you want the opt-in form to be displayed everywhere (all pages) of your WordPress site, also check “Globally load optin” otherwise use the page level targeting and triggers to determine how and where in your site the opt-in will be shown.
Finally, save the changes. Preview your website and you should see the optin displayed. If it doesn’t show up, be sure to clear your website and browser cache.
Follow the guide below to learn how to create other popular types of email opt-in form. And don’t forget to select Sendy at Integration panel.
