MailUp provides all the tools so that a user can subscribe to a specific list using a subscription form. Such form can be placed on the MailUp console website or on the customer’s website.
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 page that allow to insert, modify, search, remove contacts in MailUp.
The available procedures allow to:
- Subscribe a user to different lists and groups, using the “Codes table” as a reference (path: Settings > Codes table)
- Unsubscribe a user from a list;
- Check user status;
- Update user’s personal data.
Please read on to find technical details on how to perform these operations.
Creating a new subscription form
Customers who do not have a subscription form available can create a new one, or use one of the forms provided inside the MailUp console.
Ready-to-use buttons and forms
Subscription buttons and links to predefined forms are available in the MailUp console at the page Settings > Subscription Form. The form’s HTML code can also be copied and pasted on any website (asp, php, etc..): it will work perfectly, as its path is absolute.
Personalized forms
Standard forms and buttons are available at the page Settings > Subscription Form. It is possible to copy and paste them, and then freely customize them, as calls have an absolute path. This way, it is very simple to create new forms for special occasions 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.asp, subscribe.aspx. xmlsubscribe.aspx);
- Web Service (WS_MailupImport).
NOTES
- The customer can modify these forms with any HTML editor and insert them on his own 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 an absolute path, so it will work even after being copied and pasted to another website.
- The MailUp 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 on the validity of the email address provided is included.
- Several subscription forms are available in the MailUp console, and they can be freely used and published. To activate or disable them, go to the page Settings > Edit lists of 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 also possible to use MailUp APIs to create subscription forms in 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 specify a different URL on the customer’s website for each case (subscription completed, duplicate email address, and so on).
- The domain that hosts the messages page can be hidden using a third level domain linked to the customer’s website (e.g. mailing.mywebsite.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 subscribe a user to more than a list at the same time, sending him just one confirmation request.