How to Trigger a Deadline Funnel Countdown

There are four ways to trigger a deadline for your customers in your campaigns.

Using a webhook is the best and most reliable way of triggering a deadline. You can trigger a deadline at any point in your automation, or when the lead opts in using an opt-in form on your website.

The webhook is, essentially, an email being sent from your email platform to Deadline Funnel saying, "This lead should be added to this campaign and receive a deadline".

Any time a lead goes through the webhook, they will be automatically added to your Deadline Funnel campaign and receive a deadline.

You can find the webhook in the Emails tab on the left side of your campaign editor.

Here are a few example guides on how you can integrate the webhook:

This trigger is ideal for quick deadlines (like a 15-minute upsell) that do not include sending email reminders about the deadline. For example after someone opts in, you could present a 15-minute special offer and use a page trigger for the 15-minute countdown.

Whenever someone lands on a page with a timer on it, the lead will receive a deadline, and they will be tracked via IP address and browser cookie. This is a Page-visit trigger.

You can add subscribers to a Deadline Funnel campaign using a Deadline Funnel email link.

An email link trigger is based on when someone clicks an email link, not based on when they open the email. Since you cannot control when somebody opens an email, this trigger will be more difficult to integrate with timed emails in a sequence.

When someone clicks on a Deadline Funnel email link, they will be automatically added to your campaign and receive a deadline.

You can find out more in our guide on how to use email links.

To use the manual trigger, you will import your leads into your Deadline Funnel campaign on the Analytics page.

Your subscribers must then click a Deadline Funnel email link before they reach your page with the countdown. This is necessary in order to make sure each subscriber is assigned the correct deadline.

How to Trigger a Deadline Manually

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