Feature Update: Mobile-Friendly Entry Form Improvements

Mobile-Friendly Giveaway Entry Forms

Over the last several days, we’ve pushed out an update that will make viewing and entering the Rafflecopter entry form from a mobile device much easier. And if you’ve tried to enter a giveaway over the weekend from your phone, you may have already noticed!

Here’s how it will work: the Rafflecopter entry form will always appear as the full entry form from a desktop. If you’re trying to view a webpage with the Rafflecopter entry form on a mobile device that has a device-width less than 450px (which means all iPhones and Android mobile devices), a button will appear in its place of the entry form with a call-to-action.

When the button is tapped, the entry form appears in its own browser window and will fit in the screen of the new browser window. This will make it a much better experience for the entrant participating in your giveaway. To visualize, here’s a gif of how this will work:

 

 

For blogs and sites with mobile and responsive themes, this will allow the entry form to fit in much better with the layout of your site and give your entrants a much better experience from mobile devices. Additionally, if your entry form has a customized theme, the button will inherit the theme to match your entry form.

Here are a few screenshots of the entry form matching the button theme below:

 

giveaway mobile themes

 

If there’s ever an instance where you have a page set up and you don’t want the button to appear on mobile in place of the entry form, you’re able to disable the button by adding ‘data-always-expand’ into your embed code. Here’s an example of an embed code given to us from the installation page, and then altered to include this snippet.

This update described above is now available at all subscription levels. Over the coming months we’re looking forward to introducing new features to help make the desktop and mobile experience more fluid for both entrants and moderators.

If you have any questions or feedback for us, we’d love to hear from you! Please don’t hesitate to message us at support@rafflecopter.com or comment below.

About the author

Greg Goodson

Greg Goodson is the cofounder of Rafflecopter. 25x ultramarathoner, bluegrass guitarist, & weather enthusiast. Owner of one doge.

  • Sounds like a great improvement.

  • Rob Blackburn

    I wonder if this will now work on Clickfunnel builder web pages ?
    I will try later on

  • Seth

    Awesome! Any chance the account dashboard might become more mobile-friendly? I tried using it on my phone recently and I gave up.

    • Yes – this is something we’re honing in on in the upcoming months actually. More to come!

  • Bea @ Bea’s Book Nook

    It may look better on the mobile, but forcing entrants to a) be unable to SEE the widget and all information contained on it unless you click and open a new page is NOT a good idea and is certainly not user friendly, and b) taking the user away from the original site and adding additional steps simply to read the rafflecopter, much less actually USE it, is simply idiotic.

    I haven’t tried to enter a rafflec0pter via mobile since the change so I can’t speak to those changes but as someone who often uses rafflecopter on her blog, I will now be looking at your competitors.

    • Hey Bea! First, if you’d like to, opting out of this feature is easy. If you’d like to do this, you would place a snippet of text in the entry form embed code (we describe how to in the 3rd to last paragraph above).

      That aside, I would ask you to give it a try. I’d recommend viewing an entry form on one of your recent giveaways from a mobile device and a desktop to see how it looks.

      http://beasbooknook.blogspot.com/2015/08/deborah-harkness-fan-conallsoulscon.html

      Then I would try disabling the mobile feature as described above and trying to enter again from the same mobile device. Since your blog is set up to be optimized on a mobile theme through blogspot, you’ll see the widget will be cut off and not terribly user friendly or easy to navigate.

      This is one of the primary reasons we built this feature. I believe that the experience for your readers entering your giveaway on mobile will be much better now than it was before these updates. I hope that helps!

  • LAWonder10

    Super!
    I have had “followers” who have stated they could not access my Rafflecopter from their phone. Hopefully this will eliminate the problem.
    Thanks!

  • Several of my blog followers have complained that since the updates when they try to enter giveaways using the twitter option they get this error message and trying again later doesn’t seem to help. “This request looks like it might be automated. To protect our users from spam and other malicious activity, we can’t complete this action right now. Please try again later.” Any suggestions?

    • Hey Carly – that’s the first time we’ve heard of something like that. Shoot us a message at support at rafflecopter dot com w/ some details and a link to the giveaway and we’ll be happy to investigate!

  • Adrian

    Great improvement, still room to get even better by automatically serving the version needed. Adding one extra click to the user journey can decrease conversion rates.

    • Definitely – this isn’t the be-all and end-all solution, but a good step in the right direction :)

  • AT LAST! Thank you!

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  • I still seem to have trouble using my iphone 6 to enter rafflecopter giveaways :-( not sure what I am doing wrong

  • Porter paul

    yes its improved very well after using android applications Yowhatsapp

  • Dennise Ysabelle Cruz

    Hi! used rafflecopter for my blog giveaway. I’m having a problem because the button did not appear in my mobile version. My web version is ok but my mobile version isn’t integrated. What should I do? I’ve attached photo of my mobile version. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d0183171fa3fdffad204abc8b4b48784d69743c592930da464c03a703c711a57.png

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  • Julin Patricia

    Improving the mobile-friendliness of an entry form on Android can have several benefits, including:

    Better User Experience: A mobile-friendly entry form will be easier to navigate and interact with on a smaller screen. By improving the design and layout of the form, users will be able to complete it more quickly and with less frustration.

    Increased Conversion Rates: A form that is optimized for mobile devices can lead to higher conversion rates, as users are more likely to complete the form if it is easy to use and doesn’t require too much effort.

    Improved Search Engine Rankings: Google and other search engines prioritize mobile-friendly websites in their search results. By optimizing the entry form for mobile devices, the website may see an increase in organic traffic from mobile users.

    Better Data Collection: By improving the mobile-friendliness of the entry form, businesses can collect more accurate and detailed data from users. This can help them make better business decisions and improve their overall marketing strategy.

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