Distribution & Fieldwork

Adding a Pop-Up Modal Survey Overlay to Your Website

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Show your survey as a pop-up modal or slide-in widget on your website, triggered by time, scroll, or exit intent.

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Overview

Show your survey as a pop-up modal or slide-in widget on your website, triggered by time on page, scroll depth, or exit intent — capturing feedback in the moment without a separate page.

Step-by-step

  1. Open the Embed channel — in the Share tab, click Embed. Embed Type options: Inline, Popup Modal, Slide-in Widget

  2. Choose Popup Modal or Slide-in Widget — switch the Embed Type from Inline to the overlay style you want.

  3. Set a trigger — configure when it appears: After time delay, After scroll percentage, or Exit intent (when the cursor leaves toward the browser chrome).

  4. Copy and paste the snippet — drop it into your site's HTML.

Key options

Trigger Fires when
After time delay The visitor has been on the page N seconds
After scroll percentage The visitor scrolls past a set % of the page
Exit intent The cursor moves to leave the page

Tips

Tip: Exit-intent is the least disruptive trigger — you only interrupt people who were leaving anyway. Time and scroll triggers get more responses but risk annoying engaged visitors, so set generous thresholds.

Note: One overlay per page. Stacking a popup and a slide-in on the same page competes for attention and tanks completion for both.

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