The five summary cards at the top of the Lists tab give you the whole picture in one line: how many funnels are ready, how many need a list or a provider, and how many people have opted in.
Check them first whenever you open the Lists tab. If the Missing List and No Provider cards both read 0, every funnel has somewhere to send new subscribers.
Where to find it:
Free List Building, then the Lists tab. The cards sit under the Lists Overview heading, above the Funnel Connection Overview table.
What each card counts:
- Connected: funnels that have a provider and a list. These send subscribers to your autoresponder.
- Missing List: funnels with a provider but no list, form or tag, and no Default List in Settings.
- No Provider: funnels with no autoresponder of their own and no Default Autoresponder in Settings.
- Total Optins: the lifetime opt-in count for all funnels. It goes up each time a visitor reaches a funnel's download page, which is how opt-ins sent straight to AWeber or to a pasted form are counted.
- Emails Captured: how many email addresses this site received from your funnels and passed to your autoresponder. These are the rows you see under Collected Emails.
Why Total Optins and Emails Captured differ:
Total Optins counts visits to download pages. Emails Captured counts addresses stored by the plugin. They are usually close. Total Optins is a little higher when a visitor reloads the download page, or when a provider form posts straight to the provider without passing the address back to your site.
Your own visits as an administrator and visits from search engine bots are never counted, so testing your funnels does not raise these numbers.
Step by step: read the cards:
- Open the Lists tab.
- Look at Missing List and No Provider. Anything above 0 needs a list or a provider.
- Click the matching filter button on the table below to see those funnels.
- Compare Total Optins and Emails Captured to see how many addresses reached your site.
A real example:
On yoursite.com the cards read 96 Connected, 0 Missing List, 0 No Provider, 1,833 Total Optins and 1,669 Emails Captured. Sam knows every funnel is set up, and that almost every opt-in also reached the site's own backup list.
Tips:
- Hover over the Emails Captured card to see a short note on how it is counted.
- The same opt-in numbers show per funnel in the Optins column of the table below.
- For views and conversion rates, see Understanding the Dashboard and Per-Funnel Stats Cards.
- To download the captured addresses, see Export Opt-ins as CSV.