"Keep up with our latest promotions"

[Agalassi1792]

Hello,

I see this in every APWT site - "Keep up-to-date with the latest events and promotions; Sign me up for exclusive special offers only available to subscribers"

I am wondering what this does exactly - I have never really known. What happens when someone checks that box? what does it do?

This is at the bottom of the 'Create Buyers' template. I'm attaching a screenshot as well.

[JohnB]

That is the opt-in that says the customer wants to receive emails from you.

If the customer unchecks this box, this effectively "unsubscribes" the customer, and they will not receive scheduled newsletters through the Email Marketing webtool. You can still send transactional emails directly to the customer through their CRM record, though!

[Agalassi1792]

Hi John,

So what happens if I completely remove that checkox from the process? Will the customer still receive emails, or does that mean that they automatically are not signed up to accept emails? And is this an acceptable thing to do?

[Dave]

Instead of removing this field completly. It may be better to change it to a "hidden" HTML element and then set the value to whatever you wish. Here is an example:

<input type="hidden" id="subscribeall" name="promos" value="1" checked="">

[Agalassi1792]

Hi Dave,

If I want that 'Checked' field to have them automatically be checked, what value would I add into that? Also, is the value= field referring to a sign up box?

[JohnB]

You do not need to worry about the "checked" attribute, and the value should be set to 1. This will automatically subscribe any new customers to receive newsletters and Email Marketing emails. The code you should use is this:

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<input type="hidden" id="subscribeall" name="promos" value="1">

[Agalassi1792]

Okay sounds good, thanks!