What's Newsletter Widget?
SecuTix Gravity Team is thrilled to release the Newsletter Widget as one of our first widgets! The Newsletter Widget is nothing but a simple code snippet which you can easily integrate into a website. In the past, your customers can only subscribe to your newsletter via SecuTix online sales platform by either creating an account or purchasing as a guest. With this widget, your potential customers could subscribe to your newsletter from any website that has the widget embedded. This flexible, highly customizable and easy to integrate widget could help you increase your newsletter's online exposure to a great extent.
How does it work?
To use a newsletter widget, first you would need to integrate a code snippet into your target website. You may either contact your web agency to embed the snippet into your website's HTML code or integrate it via Google Tag Manager. The code snippet will first call SecuTix back-end service to fetch the necessary configurations (e.g. theme and labels) and then render the user interface of the widget based on the configuration. You can put the widget anywhere in your website, e.g. inside a popup, inside the footer or on the secondary column of your website. The user interface of this widget contains a simple form with various fields (e.g. email address, civility, first name and last name) and a submit button. Its default style and theme are the same as the ones from the corresponding online sales platform (passed as an initialization parameter). (You may also override the styles via custom CSS.) Once your online customers fill in the necessary information inside the widget and click the submit button, the newsletter widget will call SecuTix back-end service to check whether an account already exists with the given email address. If not, a new account will be created inside SecuTix with the provided user information and future newsletters will be sent to the given email address. If the email is already in use, the newsletter widget will display an error message and a link which points to the login page of the corresponding online sales platform.
Example
Below is an example of the newsletter widget integrated as a popup inside the demo site.
Sample code snippet
<div id="stx-newsletter"></div>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/pub.tnwi.p16-s3.secutix.com/stx-widgets/Newsletter/v1/Newsletter.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
STX.config({apiKey:"8bafa660-8bc1-4982-83da-f15fce01f4ec",hostname:"hostname of your online sales platform"});
STX.widgets.Newsletter.render({props:{activeFields: ['civility', 'firstName', 'lastName'], locale: "fr", root:"#stx-newsletter"});
Parameters
- hostname - the hostname of the point of sales URL for your online sales platform.
- activeFields - (Optional) an array where you can specify which fields you want to display in your newsletter widget. Supported fields are "civility", "firstName" and "lastName". Please note that an email field is always displayed.
- locale - (Optional) the language code which defines the language of the newsletter widget. When not set, the widget will use the main institution language by default.
Legal mention
If you would like to display legal mention inside the newsletter widget, you can do so by using the label overriding mechanism from the light customization screen of the corresponding online sales platform's point of sales.
