Countdown Timers: Timer Settings

Created by Faye BSG, Modified on Wed, 22 Nov 2023 at 10:36 AM by Education Team

This article will cover all of the settings available to a Countdown Timer. The Countdown Timer settings include options for customizing the timer’s appearance, previewing the timer, and the necessary embed code to use the timer.

Requirements:

An active ClickFunnels 2.0 account
A Countdown Timer

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Name:
Enabled:
General:
Labels:
Background:
Expiration:
Preview:
Embed Code:
Additional Information:

Name:

The Name setting is used to identify this specific Countdown Timer. Type in a name that will help you differentiate between other timers.

Enabled?:

The “Enabled?” toggle lets you turn a timer on or off. Disabling a timer will make it unusable.

General:

The “General” section contains basic settings common to the timer’s overall styling.

Counter Font Size: Set the font size of the numbers in the timer.
Counter Font Color: Set the color of the numbers in the timer.
Keep Leading Zeros?: Decide if the timer should display leading zeros or not.

Labels:

The “Labels” section allows you to customize the appearance of the Days, Hours, Minutes, and Seconds labels.

Show …: The toggles enable or disable the visibility of their respective labels.
Label Font Size: Set the font size of the labels in the timer.
Label Color: Set the color of the labels in the timer.
Custom … Label: These fields allow you to customize the text displayed for each respective label.

Background:

The “Background” section controls the appearance of the background surrounding and behind the timer.

Background Color: Set the color for the background surrounding and behind the timer.
Matte Color: Information coming soon.
Background Image: Set an image to appear behind around and behind the timer.
Corner Radius: Round the corners of the timer by typing a number here.

Expiration:

The “Expiration” section lets you customize the behavior of an expired timer.

Expire Mode: Choose between hiding the timer completely, showing all zeros, or displaying the message set in the “Expire Message” field.
Expire Message: When using the “Show Message” expire mode, this message will be displayed.

Preview:

The “Preview” section will show you what your timer will look like. It will update whenever you save changes to your timer by adjusting a setting and clicking the “Update Countdown Timer” button.

Embed Code:

Event Emails: This embed code must be placed in the body of an email that is being sent from a Send Email step (article coming soon) in a Workflow with a Trigger Event Type of “Calendar Event - Contact Registered”.
Fixed Datetime: This embed code can be used in any email and doesn’t require a Workflow with a specific trigger or even an event. However, you must manually edit the text in the embed code to customize the timer's deadline.