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A form is like a digital questionnaire or a way for people to share their information with you. It’s typically a box or a page where someone can fill in details like their name, email address, or other important information. Nowadays, Businesses use forms to collect email addresses or gather specific details from their customers who are interested in their products, services, or newsletters.

To know more about MailBluster Forms, please refer to this blog.

A signup form is used to join or register for something, like a service, a website, or a newsletter. It typically collects various details such as name, email, and password for creating an account or gaining access to something.

On the other hand, a subscribe form is specifically for joining a mailing list or receiving updates. It usually collects an email address and sometimes additional information, focusing on adding someone to a list to receive periodic information, newsletters, promotions, or updates.

MailBluster only supports subscribe forms, allowing you to create, design, and customize your subscribe form.

Please note: MailBluster does not support signup forms. You cannot create any signup forms using MailBluster.

In email marketing, a Popup form might refer to a type of form that pops up on a webpage to collect information from visitors. These forms usually appear suddenly (or “pop up”) and can prompt users to subscribe to a newsletter, receive updates, or provide their email address for various purposes. They’re a way to capture attention and encourage interaction or subscription within a website or landing page.

An Inline form is a type of web form that is embedded directly within the content of a webpage, rather than appearing as a separate popup or on a different page. Inline forms are often used for collecting user information, such as email addresses, names, or other details, without disrupting the user experience. They are designed to be part of the natural flow of the webpage, making it easy for users to fill them out without leaving the current page or being interrupted by a separate window. Inline forms are valued for their seamless integration into webpages, which can help improve user engagement and conversion rates by making it easy and convenient for users to provide their information.

MailBluster provides both Popup Form and Inline Form. The following are the configuration settings for both forms.

Configuration of Pop-up Form:

Configuration of Inline Form:

To create Pop-up Form, first you need to go to Forms. Then Click on Create new.

Select Pop-up form

State the name of the form and then click on Edit.

Either select a Blank template or a predefined template

And then Compose form. After composing the form, click on Done editing

Now setup these configurations

When a visitor responses: You can either set a success message or redirect to a specific URL after the user clicks subscribe button.

Success message: Set your success message so that a message pops up when user subscribes

Double opt-in: You can enable Double opt-in from this Form

Tags: You can set single or multiple tags for each subscriber. This will be saved in Tags for each lead information.

Allowed domains: Here you need to mention your domain name only without http or https. For example: mailbluster.com. If your website starts with www then you have to mention it like this: www.mailbluster.com.

Google reCAPTCHA protection: You can enable or disable Google reCaptcha for added security from Bots and Spams.

Popup Position: You can set the placement of your popup message according to your desired position.

Popup overlay: A background overlay will appear behind the popup message making form more noticeable.

Popup frequency: How often the popup will appear on screen

Trigger the popup when: You can set the condition of the popup when time has elapsed, visitor scrolls or when visitor about to leave

Elapsed time: Time duration set by the user in seconds

Then Click Save changes and then click Add to website

After clicking Add to website, click on Copy code and paste it in your website’s HTML page

Paste the code inside the HTML file where you want to display the Popup Form

Please Note: Pop-up forms should go just before the closing body tag

The Popup Form will be visible on the website like this

To create Inline Form, first you need to go to Forms. Then Click on Create new

Select Inline form

State the name of the form and then click on Edit

Either select a Blank template or a predefined template

And then Compose form. After composing the form, click on Done editing

Now set up these configurations

When a visitor responses: You can either set a success message or redirect to a specific URL after the user clicks subscribe button.

Success message: Set your success message so that a message pops up when user subscribes

Double opt-in: You can enable Double opt-in from this Form

Tags: You can set single or multiple tags for each subscriber. This will be saved in Tags for each lead information.

Allowed domains: Here you need to mention your domain name only without http or https. For example: mailbluster.com. If your website starts with www then you have to mention it like this: www.mailbluster.com.

Google reCAPTCHA protection: You can enable or disable Google reCaptcha for added security from Bots and Spams.

Then Click Save changes and then click Add to website

After clicking Add to website, click on Copy code and paste it in your website’s HTML page

Paste the code inside the HTML file where you want to display the Form

Please Note: Inline forms should go inside the body tag wherever you want to display the form.

The Inline Form will be visible on the website like this

Before you want to add Custom Field to your Forms, you need to insert new custom field by clicking Add new as shown below.

Then type the name of the custom field and click Add this field

After adding any new Custom Fields, for example Age here, they will appear after clicking Add New Field in Forms editor. First, you need to select a sample template for your Form, you need to click on the selected area as shown below

A content section will appear showing FORM section

Click on Add New Field and a list of defined and custom fields will appear

From here you will be able to select your previously defined fields like First name, Last name, or the custom fields like Country, Age etc

After selecting the custom fields, it will appear in Forms as shown below:

This is how you can add multiple custom fields in Forms.

MailBluster Forms uses Google reCaptcha V3, which does not display a checkbox to confirm human interaction. Instead, it uses an advanced risk analysis engine and adaptive challenges to keep malicious software from engaging in abusive activities on your website. So, it will never display a checkbox, but won’t compromise either.

You can enable Google Recaptcha protection from the Forms > Edit form page.

Learn more about Google Recaptcha V3 from here: https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/docs/v3

If you are getting this error message:

Or this one:

Then you should not place your entire Website URL in the Allowed domains field under Forms. Just place your website domain without http or https, as shown below and you are good to go.

Currently, MailBluster doesn’t support creating landing pages directly. However, you can easily connect MailBluster to a subscribe form using MailBluster’s Developer API from MailBluster API Documentation or by using Forms within the MailBluster app. For instance, when a user subscribes for the first time, they will receive a welcome message and be added as a Lead in MailBluster Leads section.

There is no such side by side Adding Fields option in Forms right now.

Apologies for the limitations of MailBluster.

First you need to enter the name of the website in the forms where you want the form to be visible.

Then generate the HTML shortcode and click Copy code.

Finally, you need to navigate to the Edit page using any page builder, then paste your script into the Custom HTML code block where you want the embedded form to go.

You can not add Segment to a Form. But you can add Tag in a Form so the leads coming from that form will be assigned to that single Tag or multiple Tags:

And, then later create a  Standard segment using those Tags:

First you need to go to Fields. Then create a custom field for example “Category”. Click Add this field.

Here custom field “Category” has been created as shown below.

Now go to Forms and click Create new to create an Inline form.

Select Inline form.

Now click on Edit to edit the form.

Select template of your choice or you can select a Blank template. Here we selected Minimal template.

The template form is generated as shown below.

Click over Edit on Consent.

Update Field dialogue box opens. Click on Delete.

Now click on the drop-down Select box and the select the field Category.

Click over Edit on Category.

Update Field dialogue box opens. Click on the drop-down Field Type.

Select “Checkbox” under Field Type and write the text of your choice under Options (One per line). Then click Update Field.

You will now notice two new checkboxes appeared under “Category” as shown below.

Click on Done editing.

Now scroll downwards as shown below. You can rename the form as we did.

Click on Save changes.

Write your domain name without https here in Allowed domains as shown below. Then click on Add to website.

Add to website popup window opens. Click on Copy code.

Now copy and paste the generated code to your website as shown below. This will generate your form in the website.

Now enter email address, click the first checkbox and hit Subscribe.

Then enter another email address, click the second checkbox and hit Subscribe.

Then enter another email address, click on both checkboxes and hit Subscribe.

You will see success message for all the three options in your website.

Now go to your Brand in MailBluster and click View all.

You will see three different email addresses has been added to Leads in MailBluster. Now click on each of the email address to check whether they are in respective category.

First email id stored is under its own category.

Second email id stored is under its own category.

Third email id is stored under its own category.

Now go to Segments and click on Create new.

Create standard segment for first category using the following conditions.

The standard segment is created using the first category. We named the segment same as the first category for understanding purpose.

Create standard segment for second category using the following conditions.

The standard segment is created using the second category. We named the segment same as the second category for understanding purpose.

Create standard segment for third category using the following conditions.

The standard segment is created using the third category. We named the segment same as the third category for understanding purpose.

Now if we click on each of the above segment, we will see the lead (email id) under that segment in its respective category.

This is the lead (email id) under the second standard segment.

This is the lead (email id) under the third standard segment.

When an already subscribed lead enters their email address again it will shows a success message based on the preferences set in Forms > Advanced but the informations associated with that lead will be updated in MailBluster as it does not support any duplicate leads.

You can not change the borders of Focused Field in the editors of MailBluster. However, if you wish to do that, you can use Custom CSS from the Forms you have implemented.

Please note: technical knowledge is required to do so.