The Alia Signup Network helps accelerate SMS list growth by creating a seamless signup experience across all Alia merchants. When a shopper signs up for SMS on your store, and they’ve already signed up with the same email on another Alia merchant, their phone number will be prefilled automatically. This smoother experience increases opt-ins and reduces friction. Additionally, to ensure legal and compliance standards, the Signup Network strictly requires a double opt-in for SMS. This requirement ensures that all SMS communications adhere to regulations and maintain user consent.
Prerequisites
To successfully enable and use the Alia Signup Network, ensure the following requirements are met:
Double Opt-In Compliance:
All SMS campaigns must adhere to a double opt-in mechanism, ensuring users explicitly consent to receive SMS communications.
This ensures compliance with legal and regulatory standards.
Applicable to SMS Collection:
The Signup Network is exclusively tailored for merchants incorporating SMS collection in their marketing strategy. If your campaigns do not involve SMS, this feature may not be relevant to you.
Getting Started
Enable the Signup Network in Integrations
Go to the Integrations tab in Alia.
Find Alia Signup Network and click Connect.
If you’re approved, hit Continue. If not, please contact support or your CSM. Important: Ensure that your SMS campaigns are set up to comply with double opt-in requirements before proceeding further.
Enable Signup Network on a Popup
Open the popup you want to use with the network.
Click Integration Settings (top right).
Switch Alia Signup Network to Enabled.
Configure the Email Step
Add the
{{email_consent}}variable to your email step.
This ensures proper consent tracking and smooth integration with the Signup Network.
Create a New Step for auto-redirects when someone is already in the Alia network.
You can add our templated step here:
On your email step, set up a redirect rule that sends shoppers to this new step if they are part of the Alia network.
In your redirect step, make sure the “Enter a new number” button sends users back to the phone input step.
Finalizing Setup
Once these steps are complete:
The Alia Signup Network will be live in your popup.
Returning network users will have their phone number prefilled.
Shoppers can easily update their number if they choose.
All SMS campaigns enabled through the Signup Network will comply with legal regulations due to the enforced double opt-in process.
✅ That’s it—your Signup Network integration is ready to launch!