How to Integrate AWeber with Deadline Funnel

Using our API Integration with AWeber, you can trigger your countdown based on when someone subscribes to a specific list in your AWeber account.

Navigate to the Emails tab in the left-hand menu of your campaign and integrate your Deadline Funnel account with your AWeber account:

You'll be taken to another page where you’ll need to log in to your AWeber account:

Once you’ve successfully connected your accounts, you're ready to complete the following two steps:

Select the list in AWeber that you want to integrate with:
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You can find the name of your list in AWeber here:
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Select the custom field that you want to use to store each lead's deadline. If you don't have a custom field for this campaign yet, follow this guide to create the custom field in AWeber:
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When you've completed those two fields, click Next, and now you should be ready to test it out!

Deadline Funnel email links are very important to use in your emails wherever you are linking to your special offer (i.e. sales page or checkout page) that subscribers will only be able to access before the deadline.

Deadline Funnel email links pass the subscriber's email address through the link so Deadline Funnel can look up the subscriber's deadline based on their email address and redirect them to your special offer page (or to the expired page if their deadline is expired).
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When you add a new page to your Deadline Funnel campaign, an email link is automatically generated for that specific page.
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You can find your email links by going to the Emails tab on the left side of your campaign editor:

Our Email Links are not compatible with AWeber's link tracking feature, so what we recommend doing as work-around for this is using a third-party link tracking solution such as short.io or bitly.com. Both have free plans.

Let's say we want to add example.com/special-offer to our DF campaign. In short.io or bitly.com, create a short link for example.com/special-offer.

As an example, let's say this is the link it generates:
​short.io/abc

In your Deadline Funnel campaign, add two "Pages":

Then, in your AWeber emails, use the DF link (https://dfl1.us/abc/123?em={!email}), which will redirect to your short link (short.io/abc), which will redirect to your page (example.com/special-offer).

Once you've set up your integration, make sure to do a quick test to make sure all the pieces are connecting properly.

Open your campaign, go to the testing tab, and click on Clear My Tracking:

Enter the email address that you want to use for this test:

You should now add your test user to the automation in AWeber, so that the contact triggers the webhook. Ideally, you should opt in to the funnel like a real user would.

Once you have opted in to your automation, you should be able to see the user in your campaign (it might take a few minutes, so make sure to wait and refresh the page):

Lastly, in Steps 4 and 5, you should click on your email link. You will now be taken to your offer page, where you should see the timer:

That's it!

If you can see that the event was received, and the timer shows up on your page, it means that your integration is working!

If you have any questions please chat with us through the messenger in your account, send an email to help [at] deadlinefunnel [dot] com, or schedule a quick call with our team. We'd love to hear from you and we're happy to help!