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How to add your Sign-Up.to form to Facebook

In this guide I will talk you through how to add your Sign-Up.to form to your Facebook fan page. You can do this by creating a tab on your page.

This guide has been broken down into two sections:

  1. Creating a data capture form & copying the Facebook code
  2. Adding the tab to your Facebook page

Before we continue you will need to make sure you have the following accounts created:

  • Facebook fan page – You can sign up for free: http://www.facebook.com/pages/
  • A Sign-Up.to account – You can open a free demo account here: http://www.signup-onlinemarketing.co.uk/getstarted/

1. Creating the data capture form in Sign-Up.to

The first step of adding a form to Facebook is to create a data capture form within your Sign-Up.to account. A data capture form is a great way of collecting subscriber information and you can  learn more about this from our help documentation.

After the form has been created you simply need to copy the code from the ‘Get form links’ page.

  1. Go to Collect
  2. Click the arrow to the left of the list linked to your form to expand the options
  3. Click ‘Edit’ and then ‘Get form links’ from the options that appear
Simply copy the code from the box entitled ‘Facebook tab FBML’

2. Adding the tab or box to your Facebook fan page

Now you’ve edited the code you’ll need to add a tab to your Facebook page.

The following steps will explain how to add the tab to your page.

  1. Search on Facebook for “Static FBML” then click “View the application”
  2. On the application page click “Add to my page” and a pop up box will appear, so here select the page you wish to add this to.
  3. Go to your Facebook fan page. Once you get to the page click on “Edit Page” then scroll down until you see “FBML – FBML”.


  4. Next click on “Application Settings”. When the application settings box appears make sure the settings are shown as below and that you have added this as a tab but removed the option to make this a box.


  5. Once you have confirmed this application is added as a tab, then click on edit under this application.
  6. Here you can give the box a title and paste your form code that we copied earlier. Once you’ve pasted that in click ”Save Changes”.

Now you can return to your fan page and test the form. Once you submit the form it will open in a new window with the information passed to the form. If there are any errors such as an invalid email address – these will be displayed on this page for the user to amend.

Once you’ve got this working and mastered the steps you can branch out and modify the HTML form to give yourself a custom looking form like we’ve done on our Facebook page.

I hope this has been helpful. If you have any questions or feedback please leave a comment in the section below.

Mon, Mar 22, 2010 ~ Mark Taylor (7)

3 Responses to “How to add your Sign-Up.to form to Facebook”

  1. Absolutely great – just what I was looking for. However I have used Aweber email code rather than yours, just to point out to people that this is possible.

    Claire Jarrett on Tuesday, March 23, 2010
  2. Hi Claire,

    Thanks for the feedback. You’re absolutely right of course – you can embed any valid HTML in the tab, so any confirmed opt-in subscription form can be used to achieve this.

    Kind regards,

    Neil.

    Neil Mukerji on Tuesday, March 23, 2010
  3. I definitely agree with Claire. I’m a facebook addict and the information stated in this site is just what I need. Thank you for posting this one!

    Mobile Marketer on Wednesday, March 24, 2010
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