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MailUp provides all the tools so that a user can you need to let a visitor to your Web site or blog subscribe to a specific list using a subscription form. Such form forms can be placed on the MailUp console website or on the customer’s websitehosted by MailUp or placed directly on your Web pages.
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Integrating an existing form with MailUp
A subscription form on the customer’s website can transfer the inserted data to the MailUp account through calls to aspx pages. There are aspx pages that allow to insert, modify, search, and remove contacts in your MailUp account.
The available procedures allow to:
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Standard forms and buttons are available at the page by selecting Settings > Subscription Form in the MailUp admin console. It is possible to You can copy and paste them, and then freely customize them, as calls have an absolute path to the form handler. This way, it is very simple to create new forms for special occasions scenarios such as events or meetings, without any particular programming skills. All the variables to be passed (name=list, group, field1, field2…) can be of any type (type=checkbox, text, radio, button) and can assume any value. Two procedures can be used to develop these forms:
- Standard APIs (subscribe.aspx. xmlsubscribe.aspx);
- Web Service (WS_MailupImport).
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Using MailUp's subscription forms
- You may modify these forms with any HTML editor and place them on his own your website, with the freedom to modify the number of fields and the format (dropdown, plain text, checkbox, radiobutton).
- The calling code of a standard MailUp form has form action uses an absolute path to the form handler hosted by MailUp, so it will work after being copied and pasted to another website.location
- The Your MailUp admin console allows to create subscription forms that can be inserted on any website regardless of the OS (Linux, Windows..) and of the language. A check Simple JavaScript validation on the validity of the provided email address is included.
- Several subscription forms are available in the MailUp admin console, and they can be freely used and published. To activate or disable them, go to the page Settings > Edit lists in the console. In order to have a standard form to subscribe a user to a list and to a group by providing the email address only, with integrated check on Javascript, please see Settings > Subscription Form in the MailUp console.
- It is You can also possible to use the MailUp APIs API to create subscription forms using Flash.
- Once the form has been filled out, the messages page - freely customizable at Settings > Messages Page - will open. As an alternative it is possible to , you can specify a different URL on the customer’s website for each case your website that your customers will be redirected to in different cases (subscription completed, duplicate email address, and so on).
- The Note that the domain that hosts the messages page (and any other page hosted by MailUp) can be hidden using a third level domain linked to the customer’s website (CNAME: e.g. mailingnews.mywebsiteyourCompany.com).
- Once the form has been filled out, an option in the MailUp console allows to send an email to the user asking to confirm his subscription by clicking into a link. The content and the sender of this email can be customized at the page Settings > Confirmation request.
- Users who confirm their subscription then receive a confirmation email, which can be personalized as well.
- It is possible to You can subscribe a user to more than a list at the same time, sending just one confirmation request.