Support Center
All answers on how to build, customize and use fancify's basic & advanced features are explained in detail in this Support Center. Should you have complex issues or special requirements, please contact us.
Types of showcases
Widget showcase
What is it for?
The widget showcase stays in fixed position in the bottom corner of your website, above the content of the page.
Modal showcase
What is it for?
The modal showcase (modals are also known as overlays and dialogs) sits on top of your website with a layer of transparency behind. It appears on page load.
Inline showcase
What is it for?
The inline showcase is used to embed a fancify widget directly into a website's page. The inline showcase will fit the parent element in which its inserted in.
Custom showcase
What is it for?
The custom showcase is very powerful because it allows you to make any HTML element of your website engageable with fancify on hover/touch.
In the example below, we use it in our own sign-up form. Other common use cases are:
- Social icons in a footer
- Newsletter invitation in a checkout page
- Yes/No newsletter options in a dashboard
- Newsletter CTA section in a website
UI/UX recommendations
The custom fancify showcase poses an interesting UI/UX challenge to designers and marketers: how do users understand that there's something here to interact with?Apple and Microsoft propose the use of the ellipsis ...
You can also use regular link attributes like adding an underline and changing the color.
What's more, you can use symbols like Unicode ⇱ (21F1) or Unicode ↥ (21A5) or even emojis 🎉
For example, on fancify's own website, we use a combination of many of those elements to imply there's something to take a look at:
Color scheme of the showcase
Changing the color
HEX value
You can change the color of your showcase using the color wheel or by applying an HEX value.
Where is it applied?
Automatic adaption
The custom color will be applied to the background of the widget and fancify will automatically adapt other design elements of the showcase to suit this main color.
Icons
Static icons
4 different native static icons
You can choose between 4 different native static icons. We believe the like and star are perfect for social showcases and the email and @ are perfect for email showcases.
Animated icons
4 different native animated icons
You can choose between 4 different native animated icons. We believe the like and star are perfect for social showcases and the email and @ are perfect for email showcases.
Custom icon
Upload in SVG format
You can upload your own icon in SVG format and even change it's color in the dashboard.
Call To Action
Main Call To Action
Time for copywriters to shine
The first field is for the main Call To Action that will appear in your showcase. This is where you tell users about the value you provide in your newsletters or social channels.
Button Call To Action
Use best practices
The second field is for the button Call To Action that will appear next to the email field or before the social media name.
Logo
Your own logo
512px by 512px
Upload your own logo in a square format of 512px by 512px.
- Accepted formats are PNG, JPG and SVG.
- Ideally add a background to your logo, either the same color as your showcase or a different color for a bolder look.
- You can also play with outlines directly inside your logo to create special looks:
Language
Ready for Internationalization
Choose one language per showcase
Fancify is available in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Greek, Arabic, Hindi, Japanese and Korean.
Only one language per showcase is possible. That means that if you want to add a specific showcase in both English and Spanish versions of your website, you will need to create two separate versions.
The translation will not apply to your main Call To Action or your button Call To Action. You need to write those in the language you're targeting.
One showcase per language also allows you to connect the relevant social media channel or newsletter in the correct language you're addressing.
Embedding fancify into your website
Embedding a widget type or modal type
Copy-paste before </body>
To embed the widget type or the modal type into your website, simply copy-paste the provided code before the </body> tag of every page where you want the showcase to appear.
Embedding an inline type
2-step process
To embed the inline type into a page of your website:
- copy-paste the provided code before the </body> tag;
- add the ID in data-elementID to the relevant HTML element (the ID will always be the name of your showcase).
This would be the HTML code of the element associated with this particular fancify:
Embedding a custom type
2-step process
To embed the inline type into a page of your website:
- copy-paste the provided code before the </body> tag;
- add the ID in data-elementID to the relevant HTML element (the ID will always be the name of your showcase).
This would be the HTML code of the element associated with this particular fancify:
Embedding for many social icons
3-step process
To embed the many social channels into a footer:
- copy-paste the provided code before the </body> tag
- add the element ID
- add to your footer one icon at a time
Embedding many fancify showcases
As easy as copy, paste
You can embed as many fancify showcases in a specific web page as you want. They will not counter-act on each other. Our own website uses many showcases on every page.
You only need to add the link tag <link> and the <script> tag once. Then, simply add each showcases' div code.
Email subscribers
View and download subscribers
Table and CSV format
For every fancify email showcase that has the email field turned on (it's always ON by default, and only OFF if you choose to - check #14), you can view the list of generated subscribers and also download this list in CSV format.
Anti-spam
Best-in-class protection
ON by default
Fancify entrusts Akismet for anti-spam protection. That means you don't have to worry about fake subscribers being added to your fancify email showcase (as much as Akismet is realistically capable of).
Legal mention
What is it?
Follow your legal best practices
The legal mention is a small text section that can be added underneath the email form/button area of an email showcase.
You can also link to specific URLs, like a privacy policy, an email policy or terms.
Privacy policy
Link to your own Privacy Policy
Privacy-focused
Add the URL of your own Privacy Policy for an email showcase.
Upgrading
How to upgrade?
Access all features
You can upgrade a specific showcase by clicking on the "free" tag next to the title of the showcase.
Sign-up / eCommerce version
What does it do?
Turn off the email field
The sign-up / eCommerce version is a simple feature that turns off the email field and subscribe button in an email showcase.
This is particularly appropriate for use in a sign-up form or an eCommerce checkout, because the user is already providing his or her email through that same process.
We do not wish to bother the user at providing his email information a second time.
Custom HTML email
Extra available option
No SendGrid, no Mailchimp, etc.
Instead of connecting to an email marketing platform such as SendGrid or Mailchimp, you can upload your own HTML email file.
This is particularly useful if we don't currently support your email marketing platform, or you wish to show a very specific email.
A/B testing
Use A/B testing to improve your conversions
First-class
Test different main Call To Action and button Call To Action in order to improve the conversion rate from visitor to subscriber or fan.
File download
Give away digital assets in exchange for an email
First-class
Automatically deliver any kind of file in exchange for your visitor's email. You can add PDF (ebook, ezine), ZIP (graphic assets), XLS (lists).
GDPR records
Very important record keeping feature
First-class
Records of consent keep a tracking of every email subscriber obtained directly via fancify.
Views
What are the limits of free?
First-class
A showcase on a first-class plan is granted unlimited views on your website or app.
On a free plan, the limit is set at 100,000 unique visitors on your website per month.
If your site exceeds the 100,000 limit, the showcase will stop showing.
Loading speed
This is for improved loading speed
First-class
Turning this feature on will allow a neat caching technique and give your showcase almost instantaneous content loading speed.
The content is either the social media content or email content.
Global CDN
Faster delivery with Global CDN
First-class
By turning this feature on, it will increase the delivery speed for audiences spread across different regions of the world by leveraging Google Cloud CDN.
Get in touch
For complex technical issues, enterprise sales, partnerships & press coverage.
Social media connections
Editing after creation
Re-order or turn off social channels
You can change the order in which your social media channels appear inside the fancify showcase. You can also turn on and off at will.