Given an opportunity, many customers will provide their email address before purchasing. Whether it's to learn more about your brand, to be notified of new products, or to request a discount, it's essential to provide interested customers with an opportunity to submit this information. The subsequent email campaigns that this information allows will help drive retention and increase customer engagement.

This guide will walk you through creating your first collection modal with some assistance from the prebuilt Email Modal Collection campaign.

Find your collection campaign

You can customize the default Email Modal Collection campaign to start identifying your customers. To locate and edit this campaign:

• In your Zaius account, navigate to Campaigns.
• Use the search bar to locate and click the Email Modal Collection campaign.
• Select the Edit icon on the Email Collection touchpoint.

When, where, and who settings

Targets

In the Targets accordion, select where you want this content to appear.

1. The targeted location can be based on a page URL, UTM parameter, or custom query parameter. 
2. The targeted location can contain, equal, not contain, or not be equal to the provided location.
3. In addition to the original target, more pages or parameters can be targeted via an OR operator. 
4. In addition to the original target, more pages or parameters can be targeted via an AND operator. 
5. To remove a previous selection, select the Remove icon when hovering over the row.

Triggers

In the Triggers accordion, choose when you want this content to appear.

• Limit to X displays per X (time range) per customer: Limit customers from seeing too much content in a single time period (e.g., once per week).
• Limit to X displays total per customer: Limit customers from seeing the content more than X number of times in total (e.g., 3 times in total).
• Show on mobile (not recommended): Determine the content's availability on mobile devices.

Note: The Show on mobile setting is disabled by default and is not recommended due to a Google policy. While Google considers this content appropriate in some instances (e.g., Cookie acknowledgments), it's generally discouraged. For this reason, your company's SEO may be negatively impacted if you enable this setting. Learn more here. 

Design the modal

The default modal is set up to collect the first name, last name, and email as required fields. To edit these fields, click them to reveal the Details tab. This tab allows you to modify the format, spacing, links, and other element-specific settings. Learn more about modal design in this guide. 

The default modal directly subscribes customers to the Newsletter list unless otherwise updated.

Main vs. Confirmation design

When your content contains a form, and the form doesn't redirect to another page via the Submit Button's success action, you will have the ability to toggle between Main and Confirmation designs. The main design is what your customers will see when the content is first displayed. The confirmation design is what they will see once they successfully submit the form.

Preview Content

In addition to the Desktop and Mobile views available within the editor, you can preview the pop-up or form on one of your website pages. All triggers will be active during the preview, while all constraints will be ignored. To preview the content before going live:

• In the upper right of the editor, click Preview.
• Enter a page URL to use for the preview. Zaius will check the page you've selected against the rules you've set up in the Pages accordion, so please ensure it is a valid page. 
• Select Generate Preview.

You can also share the link that is generated if you want to send it to someone else or to try it on another browser. This link will work for 24 hours.

Go live

To make the modal available to your website visitors:

• In the upper-right, click Save.
• In the upper-left, select the campaign's name from the breadcrumb menu.
• In the upper-right, click Go Live.