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Optimized database footprint The plugin creates less than 50 database tables
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About MailOptin - Lite
Description
Popup, Form, Email Newsletter WordPress Plugin MailOptin is a form, lead generation, autoresponder and email newsletter plugin that will grow and engage your email list. It displays targeted messages and “calls to action” across your website with popups (a.k.a lightbox or modal), before/after post subscription form, notification bar, slide in (or scroll box), sidebar / widget optin forms as well....
Popup, Form, Email Newsletter WordPress Plugin
MailOptin is a form, lead generation, autoresponder and email newsletter plugin that will grow and engage your email list.
It displays targeted messages and “calls to action” across your website with popups (a.k.a lightbox or modal), before/after post subscription form, notification bar, slide in (or scroll box), sidebar / widget optin forms as well as send automated / event-triggered newsletters such as automatic new post notification.
MailOptin comes with an easy to use template and form builder that allows you to create beautiful optin forms and email newsletters that are optimized for the highest of conversions.
Most opt-in / list-building / email subscription / newsletter software and plugins are typically very expensive, buggy, hard to use and customize to one’s heart content. With MailOptin, none of this is the case.
All our forms are GDPR compliant.
MailOptin Premium
This is the lite version of the MailOptin Premium plugin that comes with all the conversion features you will ever need including optin form types such as bottom/top bars( a.k.a notification or floating bar) and slide-ins; optin triggers such as exit intent, time on site, pageviews, scroll trigger; periodic email digests, advance targeting and analytics, ton of templates and more. Click here to purchase the best WordPress subscribe form & email newsletter plugin.
Take Test Drive
See Demos and see completely how MailOptin works.
Create a demo sandbox to see how MailOptin works first hand as well as the admin backend.
Easy Integration with All Email Marketing Services
MailOptin works out of the box with all popular email marketing service providers including:
MailOptin premium allows you to build hyper segmented list and increase email automation possibilities with its deep integration with Mailchimp groups & interests and lead tagging available in AWeber, Drip, ConvertKit, ActiveCampaign.
Intuitive Form & Template Builder
You don’t have to be a designer or hire one to build high converting lead optin forms. Our powerful drag & drop builder allows you to create pretty and conversion optimized forms and email newsletter templates.
Elementor Form Integration
With MailOptin, you can create lead capture or email optin forms with Elementor’s form by simply connecting the it with your email marketing service provider via MailOptin integration. It’s that easy.
Features of MailOptin Lite
Lead Generation
Lightbox/Popup optin forms – Overlays above your content to grab your visitors attention. See Demo
Before & After Post optin forms – Optimal for converting your blog readers and website page viewers. See Demo
Sidebar/Widget optin forms – Arguably the most popular method of building email list. See Demo
Calls to Action – Display targeted messages to your website visitors with a call-to-action button included urging them to perform an action.
Spam Protection – MailOptin utilizes smart Honeypot method to stop spam contact form submissions. Additionally, there is reCAPTCHA protection available in the premium version.
After Conversion Actions – such as immediately close opt-in form after converstion, close form and reload page or redirect to a custom URL. Additionally, premium version allows you to trigger a JavaScript code as well as pass lead data to redirect URL.
Page Level Targeting – lets you to display optin or email signup forms in specific posts and pages of your WordPress site.
Email Newsletters
New Post Notification: It allows you to create automated email newsletters of new blog posts (can be restricted to specific post categories and tags) to all registered users or users of specific roles immediately after they are published. This make the process of keeping in touch with your subscribers or users very easy.
Email Digest of Published Posts: It allows you to create automated daily, weekly and monthly email newsletters of published posts.
Newsletters: It allows you to send one-off emails to your registered users. Pro version can send to your list subscribers on Mailchimp, AWeber etc.
Scheduling: It allows you to set when the newsletter will be sent. Could be immediately after a post is publish or few minutes, hours and days after publication.
Beautiful and Responsive Email template ready to send out newsletters.
Features of MailOptin Premium
Automated/Event-triggered Newsletters
MailOptin integrates WordPress with all major email marketing providers to send automatic newsletter and event triggered emails. This can be very useful if your email marketing service provider lack such.
For example; Sendy is a newsletter application without an integration with WordPress to send new publish post notifications to email list. MailOptin bridges this gap and deliver your post content immediately they are published.
Use MailOptin today to deliver new post notification and email digest newsletters to your email list at Mailchimp, Constant Contact, Campaign Monitor, Klaviyo, ActiveCampaign and more.
A/B Testing: Take the guesswork out of your lead generation strategy
Marketers are constantly using trial and error to guess what will be most effective — but they shouldn’t have to. A/B content testing lets you see what optin camapign will be most effective before you share it with your larger audience. No more guesswork.
MailOptin ships with an easy built-in A/B testing feature that enables you make data-driven decisions that will improve your conversions and revenue for any optin campaign. Learn more
More highly converting optin types
There are cases where you would find popups, sidebar and in-post optin forms an inappropriate solution. That is why we offer different optin form types such as notification bars and slide-ins so you don’t have to rely on one way of collecting leads and install multiple softwares and platforms to achieve them.
Timing is everything. This is why MailOptin continually track visitors interaction on your website and display the right message or optin form at the right time they are likely to convert.
Our Exit Intent and slide-ins trigger convert abandoning visitors into subscribers by your optin campaign at the precise moment they are about leaving your website.
If your opt-in form display too early, your reader might not yet be willing to subscribe and waiting too long will make you lose out on new lead. Our Pageviews and Time on Site triggers give you fine-grained control over the display of your optin campaigns.
The Scroll Trigger display optin forms or messages only after the a visitor scrolls a down a specific percentage of your page.
The Click Launch Trigger display optin forms when a link, button or image on your site is clicked. Useful for implementing content upgrades.
AdBlock Detection helps you detect users using AdBlocking software such as AdBlock Plus, uBlock Origin so you can display another content to them.
The Referrer Detection can automatically track sources of web traffic and create optin forms, call to actions and custom messages targeted from a specific traffic source.
The Device Targeting allows you to target your optins to desktop, mobile and tablet users for a better user experience and increased conversion.
Other great features include but not limited to:
Custom Fields Add extra fields to your optin form to capture additional data from subscribers.
Optin Campaign Schedule: Allows you to specify a start and end date when an optin campaign is scheduled for display.
Advance Analytics: Get important metrics to improve your lead-generation strategy and make data-driven decisions to increase your revenue.
Branding Removal: Option to remove the MailOptin branding present on every optin form and email templates.
Custom CSS: An advance customization feature that allows you to customize your optin campaigns with your own CSS styles.
Display Effect: 30+ built-in CSS3 animation effects to capture your visitor’s attention and bring awareness to your optin forms.
Lead Bank: It stores your leads within MailOptin as well as important data about your subscribers that normally can’t be passed to your ESP such as the referrer, time of conversion and where it occurred.
Shortcode & Template Tag Embed: Display optin forms anywhere on your website page and posts with shortcodes and anywhere on your theme with template tags.
Autoresponder: Immediately send an email to leads or subscribers that sign up to your email list.
Email Notification after Conversion: let’s you get immediate notification emails whenever a new subscriber is added.
And lots more to come.
What’s Next
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