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BETA RELEASE: LIMITED TIME ONLY


We’ve already solved the issue of being able to put external lightboxes on your landing page without using any code, but today we want to take it one step further and release an enhanced and completely new experience for building lightboxes in Unbounce. With this new feature release, you’ll be able to design, customize and publish all of your landing pages’ lightboxes right from within the page itself. This means no more publishing separate ‘lightbox’ pages, and no more juggling URL’s.



There’s a few other gems to look out for, too. If you’ve ever wanted to put a form in a pop-up, you’ve likely had to employ a workaround that involved a couple different pages linking to one another. Well, I’m happy to report that you’ll finally be able to open a lightbox with a form in itand be able to attribute those leads to your original page! Boo-yeah!


Not only that, but the traffic that hits your lightboxes won’t be double-counted against your traffic quota (like it currently is if you’re linking to another Unbounce page). Finally, lightboxes are also mobile-responsive so you don’t need to worry about which device your viewers are coming from.



This is a huge release, and I’m happy to announce that this feature will be available to the public by January, 2016. However, If you want to get early access to this feature right now, just be one of the first 50 people to leave a comment below and we’ll enable it on your account.


Happy Lightboxing!


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UPDATE - January 4, 2016:


We’re opening the Lightbox beta up to even more users starting today!


We’ve enabled our newly expanded Lightbox feature up to 50 early adopters, and so far we’ve experienced no major issues. In fact, feedback has been super positive! 


Due to the success of the launch, we’re going to be letting more customers into the beta starting now. All you have to do is leave a comment in this thread and we’ll enable it on your account within 24 hours.


UPDATE - January 7, 2016: 

Thanks to one of our all-star beta testers (looking at you, John Ndege!) we’ve uncovered a little bug that prevents the form from communicating with integrations properly if the form is placed in a lightbox. The leads are still collected, but they’re not pushing back out to any integrations at this time.


Our teams are working hard to correct this, but we don’t have a solid ETA on a fix just yet. In the meantime, if you have integrations we suggest leaving the form on the main page instead of in the lightbox for now. 


We’ll also keep this thread updated with the progress on this bug.


UPDATE - February 2, 2016:

We’ve hit our limit for beta testers for this feature so we’re going to shut the signup process down. A huge thanks goes out to everyone who volunteered! Stay tuned to the Community for more feature announcements, and keep an eye out for the official launch of Lightboxes in Unbounce.


UPDATE - March 4, 2016:

_ _We’ve officially released this as a full feature in Unbounce. Start adding lightboxes to your landing page today!

You’re very welcome! Hang tight. 


Please include me!


Thanks Justin! So I understand that it is in the plan to include multi-step forms in the lightbox feature, right?


If so, here is what is important for me in a multi-step form:


I have a 2-step form: first step requires email address, second step requires phone number.


Scenario A) If the visitor fills in both steps of the form, I want to receive  ONLY 1 notification by email, and push it to the webhook and connected apps.


Today, my multi-step forms create duplicate entries…


Scenario 😎 If the visitor fills in only the first step of the form, I still want to receive a notification by email and push it to the webhook and connected apps (even though he did not fill in his phone number).


I guess you would need to delay the notification, and wait to see the visitor fills in the second step before sending it. You would probably need a time limit, of maybe 15 min, so that if he fills in the first step, but not second one, you still send the notification with only the first step information.


I hope that makes sense. Thanks a lot.


Etienne


Hi everyone,


Justin has pointed out to me that it’s been a while since we last updated everyone with the status of the beta. We’ve had a few bumps in the road (cough, integrations, cough) and are almost at the finish line. 


Some of you may have noticed that we’ve limited the number of lightboxes you can add to 4. We’ve found that the application becomes slow in some places when you try to add more lightboxes with content. This can lead to the browser timing out, leaving you in a locked state - a bad experience all the way round. We need to fix this before we go live to everyone in a general release. 


I want to thank all of you for signing up for the beta and giving it a trial run. Your feedback and the data we’ve collected ensures that we release new features that are ready for real world. 


Please sign me up


Sign me up pls!


We would like this as well please!!!


Hi Unbounce, Please add this feature to my account. I can’t wait to test it…


Yes, sign me up please 🙂


Still room for a small one?  Sign me up svp.


Any word when this will be released to the public? Is there any room left in the beta?


We’re still working on some final polishes, but we’ll get you added to the beta shortly. Hang tight!


Will do, David!


Will do, Jasper. :) 


Okay Rajesh, we’ll get this enabled on your account by end of day. Hang tight!


Happy to enable this for you! Hang tight. :) 


We’re on it!


Please sign us up! Much appreciated!


Please sign me up.


Hi,


Please add our account to the Beta.


Thanks,


Dez


I would absolutely love to be a beta tester! Please count me in!!! I’ve been waiting for this for a long time! 


Please sign me up too.  Thx.


Please sign me up. Thanks!


Yes Please! 


Ummm…did I miss the boat?


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