Question 1

Stripe Checkout Integration

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Hello!

This simple guide will help you connect Stripe and accept one-time and recurring payments right from your landing page 💸

Set up time: 7 min.
Difficulty: 4/10.
Requirements: Stripe business account*, HTTPS secured connection (provided by Unicorn Platform).

*Please note that Stripe is available in 34 countries. If your country is not on the list you will not be able to use Stripe and therefore connect this integration.

Step 1: Enable Stripe Checkout:

In order to use Stripe Checkout you need to activate it first.
Navigate your Stripe account Checkout settings and activate it:

Also enter your website domain;

Step 2: Copy the Stripe publishable API key:

Go to your Stripe dashboard https://dashboard.stripe.com/test/apikeys and copy the publishable API key:

Step 3: Paste the publishable API key in Unicorn Platform:

Kindly paste the Publishable key in Unicorn Platform:

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Question 2

How to connect custom domain

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This guide will help you connecting a custom domain to your Unicorn Platform website.

Buy domain (e.g. Namecheap or GoDaddy). Skip if your domain already purchased.
Enter domain in Website Settings in Unicorn Platform.
Activate custom domain in Unicorn Platform.
Go to your domain registar dashboard.
Remove CNAME DNS settings if any (for @ and www).
Remove A DNS settings if any (for @ and www).
Add 2 A DNS records and enter our IP (see in website setting) as values.
Congrats! Your domain is connected. Now we recommend to go back to Unicorn Platform and activate SSL certificate. It is free and easy. | DNS records may take up to 24-48 hours to be updated. But usually, it happens within an hour. You can always contact support via chat on the website to get help with your domain.

||| Please note that you can not connect a subpage (an inner page) from another website.

| You can also connect a subdomain as a custom domain to your website. Example: promo.domain.com

Question 3

Setting up Google Analytics

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If you want to learn more about your website visitors your can connect the Google Analytics tracking software. How to do that?

Basically, the Google Analytics is a piece of JavaScript code.
So all you need to enable Google Analytics is to paste the Google code on all your Unicorn Platform pages.
This is actually a trivial task. Once you did it, you will be able to add any widgets in the future.

Step 1. Get the GA code.

Login your Google Analytics dashboard and select your website panel.
Click 'Admin' → 'Tracking Code' to see this screen and copy the code:

Step 2. Place the code in Unicorn Platform website settings.

Login your Unicorn Platform account and go to website settings.
Click 'Custom code'.
Paste your Google Analytics code in the first field and hit the save button.

That is it! Now your website is empowered with the Google Analytics.

Question 4

Connect Cloudflare and issue a free SSL certificate (7 min)

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This article will help to connect your custom domain to Cloudflare™. The Cloudflare™ free plan covers basic DDoS protection, increases your website loading speed and grants you an eternal SSL certificate.

To set it up, sign up the Cloudflare™ free plan and log in.

Hit "Add website":

Enter your domain ${color}[#a1a1a1](e.g. mywebsite.com)
Choose the free plan and hit "Continue". Follow the steps they ask you to do to set up the domain.

Add 2 A-type DNS records: for @ and www :

Set the SSL to Flexible:

Create the "Always use HTTPS" page rule:

That is it!

Now check out your website. It should get a cute lock icon near it:

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Question 5

Guide: How To Activate Mailchimp Integration (3 min)

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Collecting emails is a crucial goal for the majority of landing pages. With Unicorn Platform you can quickly hook up your MailChimp account and start collecting emails right away. This illustrated guide will help you to set the forms up in a few minutes.

Updated on 19th of June 2019. Mailchimp has changed their interface, so I have changed the screenshots below.

Unicorn Platform offers predesigned and precoded AJAX forms (so-called Diaforms) which work out of the box:

These magical forms do this:

Engage users to subscribe to your newsletter.
Collect emails and send them to your MailChimp list via AJAX.
Show server or network errors.

All you need to activate it is to copy-paste a unique attribute from your MailChimp account. Here is a few steps guide to set the forms up:

1. Login and Go to “Audience”

Login into your MailChimp account and navigate to the Lists page.

2. Select a List and press “Signup forms”

Select a MailChimp list you want to fill in in the “Current audience” section. If you don’t have any lists – create one.

Then click “Manage audience” and press “Signup forms”:

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Question 6

Guide: connect Google Sheets integration to a form (2 min)

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This simple guide will help you connect Google Sheets to forms and collect users' data from your landing page.

Set up time: 2 min.
Difficulty: literally a few clicks.
Requirements: Google account.

| NOTE: Please make sure to disable your ad-blockers before you start the set-up.

Step 1: Add a form component to your site

Click to the button "Insert a page component":

Choose a form component:

Step 2: Add Google Sheets integration to the form:

Click to the button "Edit component":

Then in the right sidebar find "Connect new integration", click this one and in the next sidebar choose the button "Connect Google Sheets":

You will see another sidebar with "Connect Google Sheets" and additional info, click the Google-branded button, and go through the standard Google account authorization process.
Unicorn Platform will ask some permissions:

Allow needed

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