You can use our email countdowns for free with no restrictions. So the embed code you paste into your email embeds an image of a countdown animation, but instead of being an image that's attached to your email, it's an image that's provided by our system when the image is viewed. If that seems confusing don't worry, the point is that the animated gif needs to be generated by our syatem at the time it's viewed in order for it to be accurate. That works but you can't attach the countdown GIF to your email as you would with a regular image, because the animation is going to go out of date.įor example, if it's 6pm, and you've created a countdown until 9pm, our system needs to generate a countdown animation starting at 3:00:00, then animating to 2:59:59, and so on.īut if we look at that countdown animation, one second later, it's wrong, it should instead start the countdown at 2:59:59. So when you customize your countdown above, our system generates an animated GIF image and provides you a snippet of HTML code to include that image in your email. The only reliable way to include animated content such as countdowns, in email is the trusty animated gif.
This is important for security, but it means that the methods that we use to embed countdowns in web pages, won't work for embedding them in emails. They typically won't support iframes or JavaScript.
#Free count down software#
You can then simply copy and paste the countdown clock out of the email you received and into the email you're composing.Īs you may know, "email clients" (the software that people use to view received email) such as Gmail, Outlook or Apple Mail, are very restrictive. Our system will then email the countdown timer to you. Once you start customizing your countdown on our website, you'll see a prompt below the countdown to email it to yourself.Įnter your email address and hit "Send". If you just want to send a countdown by email to a few friends, we have you covered. Open the test email and you'll see the countdown clock ticking away the seconds until the deadline, event or whatever it is. Either way, once you have the countdown added to your email, send a test email to yourself. For some system, such as MailChimp you'll add a "Code Block" into which you'll paste the code we provide.įor other systems you may need to switch to "HTML editing mode" temporarily, to add the embed code we provide. Just copy the embed code that we provide and paste it into your email. If you use an email service provider (ESP) like MailChimp, Constant Contact or Campaign Monitor, you can easily add a countdown to your email blast.
#Free count down how to#
How to add countdowns to broadcast emails Whether you're using MailChimp to notifying your entire marketing email list that your promotion is about to end, or telling your friends that it's almost your birthday, we have a quick and simple way to add a countdown to your emails. Embed in broadcast emails as well as personal emails
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