How to Pass Lead Data to the Redirect URL?

ConvertPlug allows you to give away freebies, grow email subscribers and redirect users to another page or website.

You can redirect users directly or after successful submission. In this document, we’ll be learning:

  1. How to Pass Lead data to the redirected URL?
  2. What happens when lead data is passed through the URL?
  3. How to retrieve variables from the URL?
In case you wish to use the Redirect URL setting after successful submission, you need to follow the steps mentioned below.

1. Select and design a module and open it in the Editor.
Click on Submission.

Submission tab in ConvertPlug

2. Select “Redirect User” under successful submission
Enter the URL you wish to redirect the user to.

Redirect URL

3. In case you wish to pass the lead data to the redirected URL, you simply need to enable the button seen below.

Enable to pass lead data to redirect URL

What happens when you pass lead data to the redirected URL?

Let us take a look at how different is it when we pass lead data to the URL and when we don’t.
Disable the passing of lead data to the Redirected URL

Disable passing lead data

When the user submits this form, as shown below.

first form submission

She will be redirected to the specified page. Take a look at the URL in the image.

Redirected page without lead data

But, when I enable the passing of lead data, like shown in the image below

enable passing lead data to URL

Submit the form

second form submission

I will be redirected to the following page. Take a look at the URL

lead data added to the page URL

This is how the lead data obtained through the opt-in form is passed to the redirected URL.

How to retrieve variables from the URL?

After passing lead data through the URL, you can retrieve the variables too. In order to know how you can retrieve URL variables, you can refer to the article here.