Grow RCS subscribers with a sign-up form

Once you have the phone number of an Android device user, you'll be able to communicate with them via RCS by sending campaigns or journeys.

Sign-up forms are an easy way to collect phone numbers from people who sign up to your website.

By adding a phone number collection step to your sign-up forms, you can easily and quickly grow your subscribers.

For in-depth information on sign-up forms, visit the sign-up form section of the docs.

Sign up forms can be completely customized to match your branding and website, and you can add images too to entice your customers.

Because we're building a sign-up form to collect phone numbers so that we can send RCS campaigns and/or journeys, you'll need to make sure you add a phone number block to your sign up form as you build it.

What you'll need

An RCS Agent and RCS installed as a channel

Step 1: Create a list

The first thing you need to do is create a list. Once your sign-up form is live, every contact that submits the sign-up form will be added to this list. You can then use this list to send campaigns or trigger journeys.

The next step is to build your sign-up form.

From the Marketing section of your workspace, go to Sign-up forms > Create new sign-up form.
Name your sign-up form and choose your default language.
Under 'Which list should subscribers be added to?', select the list you created in Step 1 from the drop-down.
Choose if you want to install your sign-up form on an e-commerce store or on a website, then click Create sign-up form.
In the Overview panel on the left-hand side of your screen, click Content.
Click Add new block, and select Phone.
Under 'Contact opt-in', select your RCS channel from the drop-down.
Use the settings in the panel to design the phone number block, then click the ← button to return to the form settings.
Continue to customize and style the rest of your sign-up form.
When ready, Publish and/or embed your form.

What next?

Send a campaign

As users submit your sign-up form, they'll automatically be added to the list you selected during the set-up process. You can use this list to send a one-off RCS marketing campaign to that list.

Send a campaign