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A sign-up form on your site turns visitors into people you can email. With Hiveku, each sign-up is saved as a form submission and a contact, and when the visitor ticks the box to get your emails, Hiveku records that consent. This guide adds a “Get roast news” sign-up to Northwind’s Pearl District site and signs up once as a test visitor.

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Ask the builder AI for the form

Open the website in the builder and tell the AI what you want in the chat: where the form goes, its heading, an email field, a box for consent to your emails (unticked, so visitors choose), and a button. Ask for each sign-up to be saved in Hiveku so it becomes a contact.
The chat message: Add a newsletter sign-up to the bottom of the home page, just above the footer: a heading Get roast news, an email field, an unticked box Email me roast news and offers, and a Sign up button. Save each sign-up as a form submission in Hiveku so it becomes a contact. Outlined

The request

The AI adds the section and connects it to Hiveku’s form capture. Check it in the preview.
The section Get roast news, with the Email address field, the Sign up button and the unticked box Email me roast news and offers

The new sign-up section

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Publish, then try it

Sign-ups are saved from your published site, not from the preview inside the builder. Publish the site, or first publish it to Development to test it there: click Deploy, then Deploy on the environment you want (see Publish Your Changes).
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Sign up as a visitor

Open the published site, type an email address, tick the consent box, and click Sign up. Use your own address or a test one.
The Email address field with rosa.lindqvist@example.com, the ticked box Email me roast news and offers, and the Sign up button, each outlined

A test sign-up, with consent

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See what the visitor sees

The form thanks them in place.
Get roast news, with Thanks for signing up. Keep an eye on your inbox for notes from the roastery, outlined

The thank-you message

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See the sign-up arrive

In the builder, click your site’s name at the top left, then Forms. The sign-up is under Submissions. Click it to see what was sent: the email address and Marketing consent: yes. Who was told shows the team members who got an email about it.
The submission from rosa.lindqvist@example.com on newsletter-form, with Email rosa.lindqvist@example.com and Marketing consent yes, outlined, and Who was told, Emailed

The sign-up, with the visitor's consent

The visitor is also added to CRM, Contacts, as a lead, with the form submission in their activity. See See Who Filled In Your Forms for more on the Forms page.

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Good to know

  • Consent is recorded. When the box is ticked, Hiveku records that the person agreed to your marketing emails, so they can be included when you build an audience to email.
  • Keep the box unticked by default. The visitor should choose to get your emails.
  • Test on the published site. A sign-up in the builder’s preview is not saved.
  • Next: Create, Test and Send an Email Campaign.