Podia gives you the option to redirect subscribers to different pages (inside or outside your Podia site) after they successfully submit their emails through an email form.
This feature lets you build sales funnels or guide subscribers to a personalized thank you page.
Introduction
Podia allows you to control the success behavior of email form signups that happen on your site or through embedded email forms.
You'll have 3 options when it comes to defining the success behavior of email forms on your site pages:
Show a message
Redirect to a page
Redirect to a URL
Show a message
This option will display a success message for a brief moment at the top of the page and keep subscribers on the same site page.
Redirect to a page
You can select a page of your Podia site to send subscribers to after a successful email form submission.
Redirect to a URL
You can select any URL to send subscribers to after a successful email form submission.
Setting up a redirect for site email forms
You'll be able to set up a redirect behavior for the following page section types:
Product Banner sections (for waitlist/email delivery products)
Products > Featured design template (for waitlist/email delivery products)
Here's how to configure a success behavior for site email forms:
From your Podia dashboard, click on Website in the sidebar menu.
Select Edit site.
Navigate to the section you want to set up a redirect behavior for and click on it to open its editing options.
Under the Success area, select if you'd like to display a Success message, redirect to another page, or redirect to a URL and finish setting up its details - such as selecting the page and URL of your choice.
If you select Redirect to a URL option make sure you include the full URL, including https://
Click on Publish at the top right to have your changes successfully published to your public site!
If you don't have any of the supported page sections added to your page, simply add a new section by clicking on "+" and picking one of the supported sections from the left-hand menu.
The Banner section would only support redirects if your product is in Waitlist mode or is a Free Email deliverly digital download.
And that's it! You've just set a new success behavior for subscribers who submit an email through this specific email form.
You can set different success behaviors for different email forms of your site, including on the same page.
Setting up a redirect for embedded email forms
You can define the success behavior of embedded email forms you might have on external sites.
Here's how to set up a redirect behavior for embedded email forms:
From your Podia dashboard, click on Settings in the sidebar menu.
From the Settings page, navigate to the Email group options.
Click on Edit next to Embedded email form.
Under Success, define the success behavior for your embedded email forms.
Changing the success behavior will impact ALL of your embedded email forms, including existing ones.
Click Save to save your changes.
Setting up a redirect for embedded waitlist forms
You can define the success behavior of embedded waitlist forms you might have on external sites.
Here's how to set up a redirect behavior for embedded waitlist forms:
From your Podia dashboard, click on Settings in the sidebar menu.
From the Settings page, navigate to the Email group options.
Click on Edit next to Embedded waitlist form.
Under Success, define the success behavior for your embedded waitlist forms.
Changing the success behavior will impact ALL of your embedded waitlist forms, including existing ones.
Click Save to save your changes.
FAQs & Troubleshooting
Can I set up a different behavior for different embedded email/waitlist forms?
Can I set up a different behavior for different embedded email/waitlist forms?
No. The success behavior setting affects all of your existing embedded email/waitlist forms.
Currently, you can't assign different behaviors for each individual embedded form.
Can I set up a success behavior for sticky banner email forms?
Can I set up a success behavior for sticky banner email forms?
No. At this time a success behavior cannot be set for sticky banner email forms.
In this case, you can consider completely hiding sticky banners from your site.
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