Capture emails from potential students with this easy sign-up form.
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About This Section
The Lead Capture section provides an easy way for your site visitors to enter their email addresses, in order to be informed of future deals, course releases, or similar activity. It's a great way to capitalize on interest from prospective students, in those cases where you cannot convert them into an immediate sale — whether they are waiting for the right course to launch, or aren't able or willing to commit to the purchase for other reasons.
Once a visitor enters their email, it is automatically added to your Leads section in Thinkific. For more about how to manage those leads, and what sort of things you can do with them, read our article on Managing Leads.
Where to Use This Section
- Course landing page
- Community landing page
- Bundle landing page
- Coming soon page
- Home page
- Custom pages
The most common place to deploy a Lead Capture section is on a Coming Soon page or on your Home Page prior to launching your first courses. See our article on How to Capture Leads with a Coming Soon Page for a more detailed guide.
Add a Lead Capture Section
The Lead Capture Section is available on theme version 1.10.2 and above. If you do not see the Lead Capture Section, update your theme.
- From your Admin Dashboard, select Channels
- Select Website
- Select the page where you want to add the section
- Click the pencil icon to edit this page in Site Builder
- Click Add section and select Lead Capture from the list
Optional: Rearrange the position of the new section, if necessary - Click on Lead Capture to open the section settings
- Click on Headings to customize your messaging
- Optional: Click Checkbox if you want to adjust the wording on the confirmation checkbox, or hide the checkbox entirely
- Click Save to apply your changes
Section Customization
Settings: The Image height setting controls the overall height of the section; if your images appear to be cropped vertically, try changing this setting to Medium or Large.
Image: You can Upload or Remove image to change the image file being used, and add Image alt text to your images to improve accessibility.
Section Examples
Empire (Spark)
Vision (Focus)
Vogue (Classic)
For in-depth examples of our different Themes and Styles in action, check out our Theme Demo Site. Use the buttons along the bottom of the page to browse all the different possibilities!
The Thinkific App Store
You can also check out some of the great apps available in the Thinkific App Store, like:
Lucky Wheel
This app adds a spinable wheel to your Thinkific pages. Offer potential students discounts on courses or other prizes in exchange for their email address, name, phone number, or other information.
Outgrow
Outgrow helps you capture leads and automate the enrollment process with interactive quizzes, calculators, recommendations, and assessments.
Frequently Asked Questions
I have multiple Lead Capture settings on different pages — can I tell which email came from which page?
Yes, you can! This information is included in the Lead Export .csv. For a more detailed answer to this question, see: Manage Your Leads.
How can I add custom fields to the Lead Capture Section?
At this time, this section is designed to only capture the user's email address and we don't have an option to add custom fields.
You can use features like Funnels or Digital Downloads as Free Magnets to collect student information, such as their First and Last Name. Learn more here: How to Generate Leads and Capture Emails.
More About Site Builder Sections
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