Fomo Inline

Fomo Inline lets you expose social proof outside of the Fomo notification box you're used to seeing.

You can add social proof text like "35 people bought this in the last 24 hours" wherever it makes sense: to your product pages just below the "add to cart" button, below a newsletter signup button, or anywhere else!

How does it work?

For each supported integration we generate an HTML snippet. You can copy and paste this snippet directly into your HTML (e.g. into your .liquid, .php, or .html file)

You can also paste the code into a Custom HTML or Custom Liquid section directly in your theme editor, allowing you to preview how it looks immediately!

When doing this, make sure you set data-min-count-to-show to 0 so you can see the inline text on the page.

Supported integrations

If you add the Active Visitors Inline code to your site, the live Active Visitors notification will be turned off. You can turn it back on under Integrations if you want to have both versions visible.

Instructions to set up Fomo Inline

Step 1 - Choose your social proof message

Do you want to show off your visitor count, your sales count, or something else?

Fomo Inline enables you to select from the following 3 integrations:

• Active Visitors to show off the # of users on that page

  • ex. "34 people are looking at this product right now"

• Custom Roundups to show off the aggregate count of 1 specific behavior (sale, subscription, review, etc.)

  • ex. "11 people subscribed in the last 24 hours"

• Page Stream to show off the sales of 1 product over a 30 minute or 24 hour period

  • ex. "28 people purchased this in the last 24 hours"

Step 2 - Go to the Integration page

Navigate to the Page Stream, Active Visitors or Custom Roundups integration and find the "inline options" button.

Go to the Notifications tab > select the integration you chose in Step 1 > under Actions in the bottom left, select "inline options".:

Step 3 - Copy/paste your custom code to your site

Clicking on this button generates HTML code which can be copied/pasted anywhere on your site:

Paste this script directly into the HTML of your site, wherever you want the text to show up!

Step 4 - That's all!

Going forward, the selected Fomo message will show up as text on your site in the exact location where you've placed the script!

The #{{ count }} variable updates from our server each time a visitor loads the page.

Advanced Customizations & Styling

You can edit the Fomo Inline script for some custom options. Let's look at some examples with this script:

  

   
#{{ count }} people signed up in the last 24 hours
   

  

Please note that display: none is there for a reason. We will switch this property to display: block once the data is loaded fully from our server on our side.

Otherwise, there would be an empty box while the message was loading.

If you need help with additional custom styling chat with a support specialist.

FAQs

1. I want to show off aggregates sales of a product. How do I turn on Fomo Inline for this?

Page Stream needs to be enabled and set up first if you want to use it for Fomo Inline. Page Stream displays the popularity of each product separately with messages like "5 sneakerheads bought these in the last 24 hours".

Go to Notifications > Page Stream. Make sure you select the settings you want:

Then, you can continue to click "inline options" to generate your snippet:

2. I just turned on Fomo Inline and now I'm on my site - where is my message?

Wait for a few hours.

Page Stream starts counting purchases from 0 after you connect the integration. This is why it takes up to 24 hours to show the expected count in the message.

If you have waited 24 hours and still are not seeing a message, reach out to support!

3. [For Shopify stores only] Will Fomo inline work for my Shopify store's custom theme?

Setup is pretty straightforward for Shopify stores. However, it might be tricky to set up a Page Stream integration on custom themed stores if you are using customer-facing URLs vs Shopify-specific URLs.

Contact support if you need help placing the Fomo Inline snippet on your Shopify store.

4. My Page Stream Inline doesn't show anything - what's going on?

Keep in mind our script matches the URL of the visitor's current page with the URL variable for your Events. If URLs don't match, Page Stream won't work.

You can check whether your URLs match by going to your Events tab, hovering over one event, and clicking "edit". You'll see the URLs we capture for each event under "event URL". These URLs must match what the visitor sees in their browser when they are visiting your product page.

5. How are Fomo Inline impressions counted?

There is one Fomo Inline message per page load. So, each page load counts as 1 impression. You can check out total impressions on your Dashboard.

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