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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, password, etc., 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 typically collects an email address and sometimes additional information but focuses primarily on adding someone to a list to receive periodic information, newsletters, promotions, or updates.

MailBluster only supports subscribe forms from Forms where you can create, design and customize your subscribe form.

Please Note: MailBluster doesn’t support signup form. So you can’t create any signup form 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 in email marketing is a form that’s directly embedded within the email content itself. Rather than popping up or being an external link, it’s a form that’s seamlessly integrated into the body of the email that is why it is “in-line” inside the email body. This type of form allows recipients to enter information, such as their email address or other details, without leaving the email. It’s a convenient way to gather information or encourage engagement directly within the email message.

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.

Right now, it’s not possible to create a landing page using MailBluster. If you want to connect MailBluster to a subscribe form, you can use MailBluster’s Developer API from https://app.mailbluster.com/api-doc or Forms from MailBluster app. For example, if a user subscribes for the first time, then they will get a welcome message, and that user will be added as a Lead in MailBluster’s Leads section.

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

Apologies for the limitations of MailBluster.

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:

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.