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Turn the Visitors You Already Have Into Leads

Popups, floating bars and slide-ins from one builder. Show them at the right moment, ask for the right thing, and watch every submission land in your leads inbox ready to follow up.
  • Three formats, one builder and one embed snippet
  • Exit intent, scroll depth, delay and page targeting
  • Leads flow straight into Lead Management and Email Marketing
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What Is Lead Capture Software?

You already paid for your traffic, in money or in years of work. Almost all of it leaves without a trace: no name, no email, no way to ever speak to those people again. Lead capture software is the layer that changes that. It watches for the moment a visitor shows interest or starts to leave, makes one well judged offer, and keeps whatever they give you somewhere you can act on it. Done badly it is the reason people mute websites. Done properly it is the highest return work available to a small marketing team, because the audience is already there and already curious.

  • Modal popups, floating bars and corner slide-ins from one builder
  • Timed on exit intent, scroll depth, a delay or page load
  • Targeted by page, by device and by new or returning visitor
  • Every submission tagged and delivered to your leads inbox
A popup collecting an email address on a website with a rising subscriber count

How It Works

One builder, one snippet, and nothing to install or maintain afterwards.

1

Build your campaign

Pick a popup, a floating bar or a slide-in. Write the message, choose the fields, add a coupon if you want one, and match the colours and fonts to your site.

2

Choose the moment

Exit intent, a scroll percentage, a delay or page load. Limit it to certain pages, to mobile or desktop, or to first-time visitors only.

3

Paste one snippet

Add the embed to your site once. Every campaign you create afterwards appears through it, and every lead arrives in your inbox.

Three campaign formats: a modal popup, a floating bar and a slide-in

Three Formats, One Builder

The shape of the message should match the size of the ask. A modal popup dims the page and gets a decision, which is what you want for a real offer. A floating bar pins one line to the top or bottom and never covers anything, so nobody has to close it. A slide-in appears quietly in the corner for readers who are already engaged. All three are built in the same place and published through the same snippet.

  • Modal popup for offers that deserve full attention
  • Floating bar for site wide news that should never interrupt
  • Slide-in for a gentle nudge partway through an article
  • Switch format without rebuilding the campaign

Timing Is the Whole Game

Nearly every complaint about popups is really a complaint about timing. A dialog that opens the second a stranger arrives interrupts a decision they have not begun to make. The same dialog shown as they move to leave, or once they have read most of a page, arrives when the offer is a sensible next step. You get four triggers, and frequency rules underneath them so nobody is asked twice in a week.

  • Exit intent: fires as the cursor heads for the tab bar
  • Scroll depth: waits until a visitor has read a set percentage
  • Delay: appears after a number of seconds you choose
  • On load, for announcements everyone genuinely needs
Exit intent, scroll depth and delay triggers around a browser window
Targeting rules for pages, devices and visitor type

Show It Only Where It Belongs

A discount belongs on product pages, not on your careers page. A newsletter invitation makes sense to a blog reader and not to somebody halfway through a checkout. Targeting rules keep each campaign in its place, and frequency rules keep it welcome: choose how many days before a visitor sees it again, and stop showing it entirely to anyone who has already converted.

  • Match by page address, exactly or by keyword
  • Desktop only, mobile only, or both
  • New visitors, returning visitors, or everyone
  • Cool-off period and automatic stop after conversion

Leads Land Somewhere Useful

A captured email that sits in a notification inbox is not a lead, it is a chore. Every popup submission goes straight into Lead Management, tagged with the campaign that captured it, next to the leads from your forms, bookings, business card saves and file transfers. From there they are immediately available to Email Marketing, so a welcome message, a discount code or a promised download can be sent automatically.

  • One inbox for every lead your tools capture
  • Each lead tagged with its source campaign
  • Ready for email audiences and automations with no export
  • Reuse an existing FormGuard form inside a popup

More on this: lead capture popups and opt-in forms.

A popup submission flowing into a leads inbox and an email campaign
A popup revealing a discount coupon code

Hand Over a Discount Instantly

The oldest trade in ecommerce still works: a code in exchange for an email address. The important detail is that the code appears the moment the form is submitted, rather than telling a shopper to go and check their inbox, which sends them away from your checkout at exactly the wrong second. The email can still follow as a backup.

  • Coupon revealed on the success screen, instantly
  • Email address captured in the same moment
  • Automations can send the same code as a backup
  • Pairs naturally with an exit-intent trigger on product pages

More on this: discount popups.

Numbers, Not Guesses

Every campaign records what actually happened: how many people saw it, how many converted, how many clicked its button and how many closed it. Dismissals are worth as much as conversions, because a campaign with a high close rate is telling you the timing or the offer is wrong, which is something you can fix rather than something you have to argue about.

  • Impressions, conversions, button clicks and dismissals
  • Compare campaigns and formats honestly
  • Reported alongside the rest of your BrandBits analytics
  • See which pages produce the leads worth having
A conversion funnel and performance chart for a popup campaign

Everything Popups & Bars Includes

Three Formats

Modal popups, floating bars and corner slide-ins from the same builder.

Exit Intent

Catch visitors as the cursor heads for the tab bar, before the page is gone.

Scroll and Delay Triggers

Wait for real interest, at a scroll depth or after a set number of seconds.

Page and Device Targeting

Show a campaign only where it belongs: certain pages, mobile only, new visitors only.

Coupon Reveal

Hand over a discount code the moment someone signs up.

Leads Flow Onward

Submissions land in Lead Management and are ready for Email Marketing.

Frequency Control

Set how long before someone sees it again, and stop showing it once they convert.

Real Numbers

Impressions, conversions, button clicks and dismissals for every campaign.

Popups for Every Goal

Same builder, same snippet. Pick the shape that fits what you are asking for.

Bars for Every Announcement

Same builder, same snippet. A bar is simply a popup that never interrupts.

Works With the Rest of Your Toolkit

Popups & Bars is one of more than a dozen tools in a single BrandBits subscription, and capturing a lead is only the first half of the job.

FAQ

What is lead capture software?

Lead capture software collects contact details from the people already visiting your website, usually through a popup, a bar or an inline form, and stores them somewhere you can follow up. Without it, the overwhelming majority of your traffic leaves anonymously and cannot be contacted again.

What is the difference between a popup, a bar and a slide-in?

They are the same campaign in three shapes. A popup is a centred dialog that dims the page and demands a decision. A floating bar is a slim strip pinned to the top or bottom that never covers the content. A slide-in appears quietly in a corner. Popups convert hardest, bars annoy least, and slide-ins sit in between.

When should a popup appear?

Almost never on arrival. Exit intent, when the cursor heads for the tab bar, and scroll depth, once someone has read a good part of the page, both wait until the visitor has shown interest. That single change is the difference between a popup that works and one people complain about.

Where do the leads go?

Every submission lands in Lead Management, tagged with the campaign that captured it, alongside leads from your forms, bookings, business cards and file transfers. They are immediately available to Email Marketing audiences and automations.

Do I need a plugin or a developer?

No. You paste one small embed snippet into your site once, and every campaign you build afterwards appears through it. It works on WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Shopify, Webflow and hand-built sites.

Can I stop the same person seeing it over and over?

Yes. You set how many days pass before a visitor sees a campaign again, and campaigns stop showing to anyone who has already converted.

Will popups slow my website down?

No. The runtime loads asynchronously from a cache spread across more than 100 datacentres, and each campaign is published as a static file, so nothing blocks your page from rendering.

Is it free?

You can build and publish campaigns on the free plan without a credit card. Paid plans include Popups & Bars along with every other BrandBits tool rather than charging for it separately.

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