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Teaser pop-ups: the small tab that keeps your offer on screen

A small tab at the edge of the screen that opens your sign-up form when it's tapped. Easier to ignore than a pop-up. On a phone, that's often the point.

130Teaser Pop-Up
A subtle, interactive pop-up that appears partially on-screen to pique the visitor’s curiosity without being intrusive. Teaser pop-ups encourage interaction, often by hinting at an exclusive offer or piece of content, leading to higher engagement and conversion rates.
A sign-up form built by Engage Commerce, live on the Zen Maitri storefront
What it is
A small tab that opens the full sign-up form on a tap
In Klaviyo
Added to a pop-up, flyout or full page form, never an embedded one
Shows
Before the form appears, after it's closed, or both
Goes away when
The visitor completes that form's sign-up step

The second chance for a visitor who closed your pop-up

Somebody closes your pop-up to look at a product. Ten minutes later they've decided they like it, and they go looking for the offer. Without a teaser, it's gone.

That's the teaser's main job. Klaviyo will show one before the form appears, after it's closed, or both, and it stays on every page until the visitor signs up through that form. Start by showing it after the form's been closed. It adds nothing to the interruption you've already made.

A teaser instead of a pop-up, on phones and guide pages

On a phone, a pop-up covers the page someone just landed on. Google's own page on intrusive interstitials says dialogs that cover the content frustrate visitors and may lead to poor search performance, and it suggests banners instead. A teaser is a banner with a job.

It asks for a tap before it asks for an address, so it's easy to ignore. That's a fair trade on a guide page, where the reader came to learn something and a full screen offer feels like an ambush. Everyone who does tap it asked to see the form.

What a teaser should say, and which corner it gets

  • The offer in a few words, like free delivery on your first order, never just sign up
  • A corner the chat button, the cookie banner and the sticky add to cart bar haven't already claimed
  • Big enough to hit with a thumb, small enough to leave the product in view
  • Hidden from existing Klaviyo profiles, so customers aren't shown a new subscriber offer on every visit

A teaser that says sign up is a button nobody asked for. One that names the offer is a reminder. Test it like anything else: one change at a time, judged on orders, not taps.

FAQs

FAQs

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Is a teaser better than a pop-up on mobile?

Gentler, not better. A teaser keeps the offer visible without covering the page, so it suits phones and content pages. A pop-up asks directly, and some people only sign up when they're asked. Plenty of shops run both: the pop-up once, then the teaser after it's been closed.

Why is my Klaviyo teaser still showing to people who've signed up?

Usually because they signed up somewhere else, through the footer or another form, or they're customers the form hasn't been told to skip. A teaser only hides once someone completes its own form's sign-up step. Set the form to skip existing Klaviyo profiles and most of it stops.

How is a teaser different from a flyout form?

A flyout is the form itself, sliding in from a corner with its fields showing. A teaser is only the tab: a few words that open the form when somebody taps them. The flyout asks. The teaser waits to be asked.

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