Email signup widget
A box that asks for an email address, and keeps the answers.
What it is for
Collecting addresses without adding a form to your page or paying a service to host one. The widget asks, the answers arrive in your dashboard under the widget that collected them, and you download the lot as a CSV when you want it.
When to show it
Not on arrival. A box that asks before your page has said anything is a box that gets closed, and the person closing it is the one who might have signed up. This preset waits for exit intent — the moment the pointer heads for the tab bar — so it asks the people who read something first. A scroll trigger works for the same reason.
When not to use one
If you have nowhere to put the addresses yet. Kestero stores what people type and exports it; it does not connect to Mailchimp or anything like it, so moving the list somewhere useful is a thing you do rather than a thing that happens. If you need addresses to arrive in a mailing tool by themselves, this does not do that.
Questions
- Where do the addresses go?
- Into your dashboard, under the widget that collected them. You can read them there and download them all as a CSV.
- Does it connect to my mailing list?
- No. There is no integration with a mailing tool today. What there is, is an export.
- Do I need a consent banner for it?
- Not for the widget itself. It sets no cookies at all, so there is nothing to consent to. What is stored is what somebody chose to type into it.
- Can I ask for more than an email address?
- Yes. A widget can carry several fields — text, numbers, dates, a dropdown — and every one of them needs a label before it can be saved at all.