Long-term projects require careful planning of time and resources. Building promotional holiday signup forms or running time-sensitive sales or events can benefit significantly from the well-planned scheduling of your signup forms.
Before You Begin
Scheduling allows you to make your signup form live starting from a specific date, during particular timeframes, or ending at a specific date;
You can schedule landing pages, flyouts, and popup signup forms in Omnisend;
To make the form live, you need more than just to schedule it; you need to turn it on, and only then will the scheduling act as set up in Form Builder. Read more in the FAQ section.
Scheduled forms are enabled at 12 AM based on the timezone set in your Contact information (My profile icon in the bottom right corner → Store Settings → Contact information and scroll down to the end of the page)
Setup Process
Step 1. From the Forms tab, create a new signup form (landing page, flyout, or popup), use the one you already have, and click edit.
Step 2. Design your form how you'd like it to look to make it perfect. You can make changes to the title, description, or image with little effort. In addition, collecting additional information from your customers, such as their phone number, birthday, or even a custom field, is easy.
Step 3. On the right-hand side, go to → Behaviour settings → Scheduling.
You can choose when to start showing the form and when to turn it off. The options include always showing the form, selecting a start date, selecting an end date, and selecting start and end days.
Here, you can choose a start date. In case you are preparing a form for a campaign that has not started yet, your form will start working automatically on this day only.
If you are running a sale with a strict end date, choose an end date for your form, which will be turned off automatically.
If you already know when your marketing campaign starts and ends, just choose the start and end dates. The form will be available only between those dates.
Please note that the start date-time is 00:00:00 in the store's timezone, and the end date is 23:59:59 in the store's timezone. You can set the timezone in Store settings → Contact Information.
If you're facing difficulties selecting start or end dates for your form, please follow these steps:
Set the End Date First: Begin by selecting your desired end date. This action will then extend the available timeframe for determining the start date.
Adjust Start Date: Once the end date is set, go back to the start date selection. You should now find that the system allows you to choose any start date.
Step 4. Once you're happy with everything, including the design and the scheduling, you can turn it on by clicking Enable.
Not Available Message
Since Landing pages are accessed by clicking the link, we developed a feature that would display a message stating that the page could not be accessed if a user clicked the link before your promotion was scheduled.
By clicking Not Available at the bottom menu, you can edit the not available message so that your customers know if the offer has expired or not started yet when you set up the scheduling.
FAQ
Will it still work if I only schedule the form and save it but forget to turn it on?
No, the form won't work if it's only saved but not enabled. Even if scheduling is set, you must enable the form since scheduling starts working only after the form is enabled. Once enabled, you will see the form live in the Forms tab; however, it will only work according to its scheduling rules. It will not be live if it is scheduled for the future. The same applies to expired forms. The form will no longer be shown after clicking on the link because the scheduling date has ended, but the form will be shown as active in the Forms tab because it's enabled.
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