Basic AE Connect Install

AE Connect is the signup flow you add to your website. The Install AE Connect tab gives you a snippet to paste.

1. Open your AE Connect application and select the Install AE Connect tab.

   
   

   
   

   

   
   

   
   

2. Under Get Started Quickly, choose your platform: Custom HTML, WordPress or Squarespace.

3. Choose the form type (see below).

4. Copy the snippet with Copy the Custom HTML snippet.

   
   

   
   

   

   
   

   
   

5. Paste it where you want the signup to appear:

   • Custom HTML: into your page template or site HTML.
   • WordPress: add a Custom HTML block and paste the full snippet.
   • Squarespace: add a Code block on your signup page and paste the full snippet.

6. In the snippet, set data-ae-return to the page you want people to land on after they sign up.

Choose the right form

• Email + password: your customer chooses a password on your page.
• Email-only ("Email me a setup link"): your customer enters only their email. FairShare emails them a link to set their password. Start with email signups first. You can add social sign-in later.

Tell people to check their email

After someone submits the form, they go to the page set in data-ae-return. FairShare doesn't show its own message on your page, so make that page tell them to check their email. With the Email-only form, the email comes from FairShare and names your business. Suggest that they check spam.

Check that it works

Register a test member on your page. The member then appears in your dashboard, and a Privacy Center profile is created for that person.

More options

The tabs further down the page cover loading the AE Connect framework on its own, initializing AEJS, social sign-in and styling. For a full list of data tags, see the AE JS Data Tags Reference.

Next Article: Build your AE Connect Registration Flow