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Deadline Funnel + ActiveCampaign

How to use Deadline Funnel and ActiveCampaign together.

Integrations / ActiveCampaign

Why add countdown timers in ActiveCampaign?

If you’re not using deadlines and countdowns, you’re leaving money on the table! 

Deadlines are a powerful way to turn “maybes” into “yeses” by adding urgency to your email campaigns.

ActiveCampaign does offer a countdown timer, however, this feature is quite limited. ActiveCampaign countdown timers can only be integrated into your email.

If you want to also display your countdown timer on your landing page, ActiveCampaign’s timer won’t be enough. That’s where Deadline Funnel comes into play.

Deadline Funnel integrates with ActiveCampaign to add countdown timers to your emails and increase conversions for your launches, flash sales, and evergreen campaigns (including welcome series, upsells, abandoned cart reminders, and winback campaigns).

Each subscriber in your sequence will be automatically assigned their own custom deadline – whether you’re doing a webinar… an email sequence… an abandoned cart automation… or really ANY type of campaign.

You can then display this custom deadline with a countdown time and embed it wherever it suits you most:

  • In your ActiveCampaign email
  • On your landing page
  • In a popup

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Here’s a quick guide on how to get started with Deadline Funnel + ActiveCampaign, so you can build your evergreen funnel.

How to integrate Deadline Funnel with ActiveCampaign?

1. Create your Deadline Funnel campaign

First things first – you need to create an Evergreen campaign in Deadline Funnel before you can set up the integration with ActiveCampaign:

Then, set the deadline length and add your special offer pages (sales page and checkout page).

Now, you can follow the steps below to integrate with ActiveCampaign.

2. Set up the ActiveCampaign integration for countdown timers

Copy your ActiveCampaign webhook from Deadline Funnel:

Add the Deadline Funnel webhook to your ActiveCampaign automation:

This integration determines where you start each subscriber’s Deadline Funnel tracking as they go through your automation.

View the Integration Guide Here!

3 Add Deadline Funnel Email links to Your Automation

Once the integration is up and running, any subscriber who goes through your automation will start their Deadline Funnel tracking as soon as they reach the “webhook” in your automation.

That’s the first key part for Deadline Funnel tracking – tracking the email address of each subscriber as they go through your automation.

The second key part of Deadline Funnel tracking is adding Deadline Funnel email links to your automation emails—anywhere you’re linking to a page with a Deadline Funnel timer or redirect.

Normally, this would be your special offer page, which would typically get redirected to a different page after the deadline expires.

Here’s Our Guide on Adding the Deadline Funnel Email Links to Your Emails

Please note that you cannot integrate Deadline Funnel + ActiveCampaign correctly unless you add the DF links to your emails!

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4. (Optional) Email timers and dnamic Deadline Text

You can customize your ActiveCampaign emails with an animated timer or add a dynamic date and time. Step-by-step instructions for adding those can be found in the following articles:

5. Test your ActiveCampaign integration