- So I'm going to do a quick tutorial
on how to create countdown timers for flow.
Specifically using promo features.
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So once you go to promofeatures.com
and you log into your account.
You're gonna definitely wanna click on the dashboard.
What I've learned is it's best to have
one single countdown timer for one email.
Because if you try and reuse
the same countdown timers in multiple emails,
somehow or another, it can mess with the cookies
and it can cause the countdown timer
to not show the accurate time.
Based on, for example, if you send an email
saying you have 24 hours to use this code,
when they come back to it,
you want it to be a true 24 hours.
So, create one countdown timer per email.
And how you do it is you just click on that,
create countdown timer.
And the first thing you could do is,
these are like predetermined styles you can use.
So I'm going to do science for the purpose of this video.
And typically I use this one and to match their color.
I just make it black.
And updates once you click out of there.
And then what you want to do.
So for example, if we're doing a flow
where we're telling someone, they have say 24 hours.
What you want to do is you want to use
the transaction function for this particular timer.
And you want to name it something you can recognize,
so you can always go back to it
and know like what email its for.
So for example, let's just say, I don't know,
let's say it's, I'll type in science, the client.
In this case, I have to do it because
this is one account for two different businesses,
for the same owner.
But anyway, maybe I do like exit intent.
I could just put, maybe it's going in email two.
Just so I can remember what emails each timers in.
So anyway, I want to make it 24 hours.
So I can literally, you could do either or
you could just type in one here, one day and it'll say,
it'll start like this.
You can, even, if you, for example,
if I wanted to disable the days it will compensate.
So what I mean by that is like, for example,
what if we're doing 48 hours?
Well, one thing to know is for some reason,
if you go anything over 24 hours, it won't go here.
So like, I can go 24 hours.
I can put 24 hours there, but if it's 25 or above,
it won't work.
As you'll see.
So if there's anything over 24 hours,
so for example, this is 48 hours.
What you do instead is just put two days.
Right.
So see how it says two days.
But if you'd rather just show it within hours,
what you'll see is, again,
it'll compensate if I disabled the days.
And so now it's at 48 hours.
Right.
And then,
okay.
So yeah, so we've got that in place.
And then since in this example,
I'm going to make it actually expire.
So what'll happen is when this timer runs out,
I'm going to go back to 24 hours.
But anyway,
so like once this timer runs out for an individual recipient
based on tracking their cookies.
We don't want it to just say zero or something like that.
We wanted to have a message,
and the default message is offer expired.
And you don't see it here because
by default the color is white.
So I'm going to just match it. I'm going to make it black.
And so this is what they'll see if they go back to the email
and look at this time, or anytime after the 24 hour period.
And with this transactional type of setting.
This timer won't start until
the recipient opens it for the first time.
Okay.
So offer expired and then all I'd have to do is just go to
save timer and give it a second.
And now we could do, here is you can,
this code here is what you're going to paste into Clavio.
But before you do that,
you want to make sure the settings are right,
because this code will change based on the settings
you choose here.
I used to use responsive, but honestly,
in terms of how it looks on desktop and mobile looks like
there's no difference to me.
And when using responsive for sometimes when I paste this
into the Clavio template, for some reason it messes up.
So keep it on fixed and then just click center.
And then all you got to do is just copy.
And then to add it to a, to an email template,
I'll do an example here. I'll just make a copy of this.
Okay, cool.
So I'm gonna go in here.
Okay. So you can see, we have an old one here.
So we're just going to pretend like this doesn't exist.
And how you add the timer is you
just drag a text box wherever you want it to go.
I'll just put it center here, and then you just go into
source and then just control + alt + a
and then paste over it with the code
and hit save and you'll see, it pops up right there.
Looks good on mobile too.
And then another thing to know is that let's say you put
this in place, you've got the campaign ready,
the client approves it.
And it's scheduled to go out tomorrow.
But say tomorrow something happens
and they have to delay it a day. Right.
So like,
I know I'm sort of mixing strategies here cause I was
talking about this being for flows.
But it's still important to know that if you were to use
a countdown timer for a campaign and something changes,
the cool thing is what I can do is
when I go back into the account.
Let's say I started off fresh.
I logged into the account and I'm on dashboard.
You can literally just go to timers for email
and go to list of email timers.
And I'm going to go and find the one that I used,
that I want to adjust.
If I need to adjust the timer and I'll have to do is edit.
And I dunno, lets just say,
we decided we're going to do 48 hours instead of 24 hours.
So I can just literally increase it by a day here.
And then I'll have to do is hit save.
And it updates in real time, you know, based on this,
this code is going to be the same.
So I don't have to do anything.
I don't have to copy this again and go back into the,
into the campaign and paste it again.
It's updates live.
So as you'll see here, once I refresh this,
you'll notice that the change takes place that
I just did on countdown timer.
You're going to see, it's going to say about 48 hours
and I think that's about it.
If you have any questions, let me know.
Thanks.
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