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Note: In order for the email to work in your emails, Deadline Funnel needs to be tracking your subscriber's email address first. This is done through the webhook/tag system found in the Emails tab on the left side of your campaign editor.
Adding the Email Timer to Your Emails
To get your email timer code, open the Emails tab on the left side of the campaign editor.
You will find two different codes, but you'll only need one of them. In most cases, you should use the HTML code:
Important: If you are adding the email timer to multiple emails in your campaign, it's essential that you copy a fresh code for each email that you're adding it to.
Each time you copy the code, Deadline Funnel automatically generates a new, slightly different code. I.e, you should copy and paste one code for Email 1, and then go back to Deadline Funnel and copy a new code for Email 2, etc.
This is to prevent the email timer image from being cached in the customer's email platform.
You can read more about Apple Privacy Protection here.
The HTML Code
The HTML code is the best option when your email platform allows you to add custom HTML code to your emails.
To add the timer using the HTML Code, it is important to copy the HTML code for every email. This is to ensure that the email timer is not cached in some email clients like Apple Mail.
This means you would go to the Emails section of your campaign, copy the HTML code, and paste that into the first email.
For the second email, go back to the Emails section of your Deadline Funnel campaign again, copy the HTML code, and then paste that into the second email.
Continue doing this for each email in your sequence.
You'll notice that every time you copy the HTML email timer code, the last piece of code changes:
This is what will help prevent the email timer from being cached in some email clients.
The Image URL
The Image URL is only recommended when adding the HTML email timer code to your emails is not an option.
Typically, there will be a place to add an Image to your emails, so select that option and then input the Image URL where it asks for a URL, using the method below.
To add the timer using the Image URL, it is important to copy the Image URL for every email. This is to ensure that the email timer is not cached in some email clients like Apple Mail.
This means you would go to the Emails section of your campaign, copy the Image URL, and paste that into the image in the first email.
For the second email, go back to the Emails section of your Deadline Funnel campaign again, copy the Image URL and then paste that into the image in the second email.
Continue doing this for each email in your sequence.
You'll notice that every time you copy the Image URL, the last piece of code changes:
This is what will help prevent the email timer from being cached in some email clients.
Note About Email Timers on Mobile
Due to Apple's updates to its Mail Privacy Protection, Email timers are cached based on a subscriber's first time opening and viewing an email.
This means that if someone opens the email to see a countdown with 3 days, then re-opens that same email the next day, instead of seeing an updated timer with 2 days left, it will continue to show the cached version of the timer with 3 days on it.
This will not affect the length of your subscriber's actual deadline at all. The deadline will appear correctly on your page(s), and if you are sending out new emails each day with the timer in them, your subscribers will see their updated countdown in each new email.
This only applies if someone re-opens an email they viewed previously. This also does not apply to email timers on desktop, only on a mobile device.
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