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How to Integrate Signup Forms with FunnelKit Automations to Nurture Leads

Falguni Thareja
July 13, 2021
How to Integrate Signup Forms with FunnelKit Automations to Nurture Leads

Do you use WordPress signup forms to capture leads?

In this post, we will show you how to integrate your sign-up forms built using a popular WordPress form builder plugin with FunnelKit Automations.

You'll discover how to map fields to store contacts information and send lead notification emails.

So without any more delay, let’s just dive right in!

How to Integrate Signup Forms with FunnelKit Automations to Nurture Leads

What is a Signup Form and Why Do You Need It?

“A simple and affordable way to increase leads and create more conversions through your website.”

A signup form allows you to collect useful information about your site visitors. It is also a medium for your visitors to get in touch with you to send information, place an order, ask a query, and more.

Signup form Example

Forms are vital for lead conversions. They help in converting an interested site visitor into paying customers over a period of time.

There are multiple ways you can collect lead information on your online store.

Just like we discussed above, you can ask for the users’ details in exchange for a freebie they desire using a signup form.

These free products are called Lead Magnets and are used to generate leads for a business.

Signup Form example

These signup forms can be added to the sales page of another product or have a dedicated page talking about the lead magnet.

Data collected from these forms can be viewed in the Contacts tab in FunnelKit Automations.

Building a Sign up Form

Before getting started and integrating your form with FunnelKit Automations, you’ll first need to create a signup form in WordPress.

FunnelKit Automations integrates with many form builders like -

  • Elementor Forms
  • WP Forms
  • Gravity Forms
  • Fluent Forms
  • FunnelKit (formerly WooFunnels) Optin

Today we will be creating and integrating a signup form in WP Forms. To do the same, replicate the following steps.

But first, ensure that the WP Forms plugin is installed and activated on your WordPress account.

Step 1: Add a New Form in WP Forms

Go to WP Forms in the WordPress menu. Click on Add New to add a form.

Go to WP Forms in the WordPress menu. Click on Add New to add a form

In the Setup section, enter the name of the signup form in the Form Name field. From below that, select a template of the form you wish to choose.

Here we will import the Blank Form.

Step 2: Add the Required Fields

In the editor, add the needed fields by dragging and dropping them into the form preview area.

In the editor, add the needed fields by dragging and dropping them into the form preview area.

Customize the field options of your signup form by clicking on the individual field and making changes on the left.

Customize the field options of your signup form by clicking on the individual field and making changes on the left

When you’re happy with your form, click on the Save button.

Step 3: Embed the Form

Once you’ve got your signup form designed, you need to add it to add a page that can then be published for the world to see.

Click on the Embed button on the form editor window to open the page options.

Click on the Embed button on the form editor window to open the page options

You can create a new page or add this form to a page previously created in Guttenberg, Oxygen, Elementor, or any other editor.

Add a Custom Field

In case FunnelKit Automations doesn’t already have a specific field that you’re looking to map, you can always create new custom fields to bridge that gap.

Go to Contacts > Fields in FunnelKit Automations, and click on Add New Field.

Go to Contacts > Fields in FunnelKit Automations, and click on Add New Field

Enter the field details like - field name, type, group, and placeholder - before clicking Add.

Enter the field details like - field name, type, group, and placeholder - before clicking Add

In order to map the fields of our form correctly in FunnelKit Automations, we also created custom fields for gender and occupation.

In order to map the fields of our form correctly in FunnelKit Automations, we also created custom fields for gender and occupation

And just like that, you have your custom field ready to map to your signup form.

Note: If you wish to group multiple fields in one group, for example, in the case of address, you can add those by clicking on Add Field Group and then adding custom fields to this group.

Integrating the Signup Form With FunnelKit Automations

You can integrate the forms you’ve designed with any CRM of your choice to create and send automations related to them.

FunnelKit Automations allows you to not only send email but SMS broadcast campaigns to your contacts too.

To add and integrate a form in FunnelKit Automations, follow these steps:

Step 1: Add a New Form

Go to Tools > Forms. You can view all the already integrated forms here.

Go to Tools > Forms. You can view all the already integrated forms here

To add a new form, click on Add New Form and name the form.

To add a new form, click on Add New and name the form

Step 2: Select the Signup Form you created

From the form plugin options shown, choose WP Forms. Then, from the dropdown menu select the name of the form you want to integrate, then click on Next.

From the form plugin options shown, choose WP Forms. Then, from the dropdown menu select the name of the form you want to integrate, then click on Next

Step 3: Map the Fields

Mapping the fields correctly is very vital. It is so that the information filled in the form is stored right and the form integrates well with FunnelKit Automations.

For example, map Email with the Email field, First Name with the First Name field, and so on.

Map Email with the Email field, First Name with the First Name field, and so on.

In case, a field you wish to map from your signup form does not exist in FunnelKit Automations, you can always create custom fields in Contacts.

FunnelKit Automations also allows you to add tags to the contacts that submit the form and/or subscribe to specific lists. This lets you sort the contacts and send emails/SMSs.

Add tags to your subscribers from signup form

Map the fields carefully, and when you’re done, click on Next.

Step 4: Lead Notification

Lead notification steps allow you to accomplish the following:

  • Send a Double Opt-in Email: It is a confirmation email that when clicked on confirms the user's subscription.
  • Send Direct URL to Lead Magnets: Send links to access the lead magnet like PDF Guides, and more that you want to offer using your signup forms.
  • Combination of the Two: Insert text 'get your freebie' but have a confirmation link, which when clicked confirms subscription and re-directs them to the lead magnet.

In this step, you’re provided with the options to send an Email Notification to your users and Auto-Confirm Contacts.

Send an Email Notification to your users and Auto-Confirm Contacts

Let's look at these steps in a bit more detail:

Send a Double Opt-in Email

Email notification enables double opt-in email on your website.

What that means is that under GDPR Guidelines, if you want the leads to confirm their subscription before they hear from you again, send them a first handshake email along with a subscription confirmation link.

When you click on the Enable Email Notification toggle, you’re shown the tools to design an email.

Send a Double Opt-in Email

Being subscribed would allow you to reach out to them via broadcasts, emails, and other marketing at any given time.

In the email copy area, design your message and then add the confirmation link using merge tags.

Click on Merge Tags and copy the confirmation link merge tag from there.

Click on Merge Tags and copy the confirmation link tag.

Then paste it over the desired text.

Paste the merge tag when sending email

When a lead clicks on this link, their contact status would change to Subscribed.

Send Direct URL to Lead Magnets

If you want, you can not have your contacts choose if they want to subscribe to your emails or not.

For your first automated email, just design a simple welcome message, offering the opt-in product in the email body.

For your first automated email, just design a simple welcome message, offering the optin product in the email body

Provide the users with a link to download their freebie in the email, and don’t talk about subscribing.

Instead, enable the Auto-Confirm Contacts option.

Enable the Auto-Confirm Contacts option

This would automatically mark the new contacts added through this form as Subscribed

Offer Freebie When a User Confirms Their Subscription

FunnelKit Automations has a smart and never-seen-before method to confirm subscribers and send them their opted freebie at the same time.

First, add the confirmation link to the text that urges the user to click on it, like "Download the Free Guide". This eliminates the possibility of users skipping the email or not subscribing to your email list.

Copy the confirmation link from merge tags as mentioned before and paste it over the desired text.

Offer Freebie When a User Confirms Their Subscription

Then to deliver on the promise of a free guide and redirect the users once they’ve clicked on the confirmation link, by adding the free guide's URL or File in the Redirect After Confirmation field.

This means that you can redirect a user to the free product they signed up for in the first place and confirm their subscription - all in one click.

Redirect after confirmation

You even have the option to add tags to the contacts who click on the link.

When the form integration is all done and you’re happy with it, click on the Activate button to make the integration go live.

Step 5: Review the Form

After activating the form, you’ll be shown an overview of the form. Confirm the mapping selected, and change it by clicking on Edit Mapping if needed.

Review the signup form integration

And that’s it!

The leads coming through the signup form will be captured in Contacts and you'll be able to view their information in detail when you click on their name.

The leads coming through the signup form will be captured in Contacts and you'll be able to view their information in detail when you click on their name

Now you can send well-timed, relevant automated messages to your contacts that are added through the form.

Not only that, FunnelKit Automations lets you reach out to them via broadcast emails and SMSs as well.

Setting Up an Automation Using Data From the Integrated Signup Form

Now that you have customer information stored in the database, use them to send targeted automated emails and SMSs.

Welcome emails are one of the best examples of automated email. 

After a user submits their details to subscribe to a newsletter or after they have purchased a product, send them an email that welcomes them to your store and gives them a little information about what they can expect in the future.

These emails set the tone for your store among the leads and customers, so make sure to keep it short and crisp.

Let’s see how you can design and send an automated email after a user fills out a particular form.

Step 1: Add a New Automation

Go to Campaigns > Automations from the WordPress menu and click on the Add New Automation button.

Add new automation

Then, click on the Start from Scratch and name your automation.

Name your automation

Step 2: Select an Event

For the automation to run, you’ll have to specify the trigger event. Click on Select Trigger to open the list of events available.

Select Trigger

For this automaton, the said event will be Forms > Form Submits under WP Forms.

For this automaton, the said event will be Forms > Form Submits under WP Forms

From the drop-down menu that shows up next, select the signup form and email field you wish to map for this automation.

From the drop-down menu that shows up next, select the signup form and email field you wish to map for this automation

Step 3: Add an Action

Next, click on the + icon to add a condition to the trigger event.

Add condition to signup form automation

The conditions set are:

  • IF the occupation of a user is Solopreneur, THEN send them a particular welcome email X.
  • IF the chosen occupation is Agency Owner, THEN send them another email Y.
  • And IF they are Employed, THEN add them to an existing automation.
Condition specified for the signup form automation

And when you’re happy with the designed automation, click on the toggle to make the automation live and watch these conditional actions come to life.

This is how FunnelKit Automations allows you to set diverse conditions to enable you to take precise actions towards targeted audiences.

Design Your Signup Form Automation Today!

Signup forms are versatile and can help you understand your contacts and their behavior much better. 

Use the data collected from the forms to approach your leads and customers with relevant offers and in turn skyrocket your conversions.

Design automation to take custom actions based on consumer behavior and information.

There is so much more that can be done with FunnelKit Automations’s CRM features. Capture your contacts and build automations based on the database - with no coding knowledge needed.

Now without waiting any longer, get your hands on FunnelKit Automations today!

Author: Falguni Thareja
Falguni writes about designing sales funnels, marketing automation, WordPress plugins, and more. Her how-to posts are in-depth and well-researched. When she's not writing about funnels or bringing more sales for WooCommerce stores, she's writing about her life experiences on Medium.
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