Collect emails with a popup - Plain Jane Interactive docs

Popup: Email signup asks visitors for their email address in a card over the page. Each visitor sees it once. After they sign up, it thanks them and closes by itself.

For a form that stays on the page, use the Email signup section or block (below). All of them send signups to the same place.

Set it up

Find the popup. Your store starts with Popup: Email signup in the Overlays group of the editor's sidebar, with the cart and the menu.
Select it. The popup opens in the preview and stays open while you work on it.
Write your words. Open the Sign-up part and change the Heading ("Get notified of the next drop"), the Description and the Small print, which links to your privacy policy. In the Email signup block, change Placeholder and Button label ("Join").
Add a picture, if you like. Open Side image and choose one. It fills one side of the popup on computers and is hidden on phones. Without one, the popup is a single column.
Write the thank-you. Open Thank you and change its heading ("Thank you!") and message. Selecting anything in it switches the preview to the thank-you.
Choose when it shows. Select the popup and set Show after (seconds), from 0 to 30.
Save.

When it shows, and how often

Once per visitor. The popup opens once a page has finished loading and your Show after (seconds) has passed. Once a visitor closes it or signs up, it does not come back in that browser.
Not on top of something else. If the visitor has the cart, search or menu open when it is due, it waits for the next page.
Closing. Visitors close it with the ×, the Escape key, or a click outside it.
After a sign-up the page reloads and the popup opens on your thank-you. A ring around the × counts down and the popup closes by itself after about six seconds. The ring pauses while the pointer is over the popup. If you leave Thank you empty, the form stays with a short thank-you line under it.

Settings

Setting	What it changes	Options
Popup width	How wide the card is.	Small, Medium (default), Large
Corners	How round the card's corners are.	None, Slight (default), Round
Position on desktop	Where the card opens on computers. Phones always show it in the middle.	Center, Top left, Top center, Top right, Bottom left, Bottom center (in your store to start), Bottom right
Let shoppers keep scrolling	The page stays usable with the popup open, and visitors close it when they like. Works best in a corner. Phones always hold the page still.	Off
Color scheme	The card's colors. See shared settings.	Any scheme
Blur the page behind	How much the page blurs and dims behind the card. Hidden while visitors can keep scrolling.	None, Subtle (default), Strong
Show after (seconds)	The wait before it opens.	0 to 30. Starts at 0.
Hide on the password page	See "Good to know".	On

Sign-up and Thank you each have Alignment, Space between items and Padding, which apply to everything in them.

Where signups go

Every signup, from the popup or any other email form in Plain Jane, goes to your Customers list in the Shopify admin. Shopify records the person as agreeing to email marketing and tags them newsletter, so you can filter for them and email them with Shopify's email tools or a connected email app. If Shopify suspects a bot, it may ask the visitor to complete a quick check on its own page first.

Test it

In the editor, the popup never opens by itself. Select it to see the form, or select a block in Thank you to see the thank-you.
On your store, open it in a private browser window so it counts you as a new visitor. Wait for your delay and check the popup opens where you set it.
Sign up with an email address you can check. The page reloads onto the thank-you, which closes by itself.
In the Shopify admin, open Customers and find that address with the newsletter tag.
To see it again, close the private window and open a new one.

Other places to collect emails

Email signup section: a band on any page, with a heading, a description, the form and small print. Add it from "Add section", in Forms. Set Content alignment, Content width (Narrow, Medium, Wide, Page width), Color scheme, and Space above and Space below.
Email signup block: the form alone, for the footer, Menu: Overlay and other sections. Your footer's newsletter uses it. Its Success message is the line shown after a sign-up; empty, it reads "Thank you for subscribing!". Width is Compact or Full width.

Good to know

The popup never shows on the password page, whichever way Hide on the password page is set. That page has its own sign-up, in Drops: Full screen.
Visitors who block site data in their browser may see the popup on every page, because their browser cannot remember that they closed it.