Convertful vs. Promolayer: Which Floating bar is right for you?

If you want to grab the attention of a visitor the moment they land on your website, a floating bar is the best way to do it. But which one is the best? Let's take a look at what they are, why you need it and what's the suitable one for your site.

Can you communicate your promotions and announcements without impacting your website’s user experience? Because a floating bar can! 

A floating bar is a tool that sits at the top or bottom of your website and spotlights important information. A floating bar displays text along with a CTA button or lead collection fields. 

Though a simple tool in design, a floating bar is proving very powerful for its ability to highlight important information without having to change anything else on a website. This all means the tool is a perfect fit for literally any website.

Here are some other floating bar benefits:

  • Build authority in your space by growing your newsletter subscribers:
  • Add a smart CTA in your floating bar to help web visitors quick-navigate to a certain page: 
  • Increase completed checkouts by promoting how many hours are left in the current seasonal promotion:

These are some real-world examples of what you can do with a floating bar – but only after you’ve found the right provider! In this article, we'll dive into popular online providers Convertful and Promolayer to help you decide which floating bar provider is right for you.

Both Convertful and Promolayer offer no-code floating bar creators that make building and customising floating bars easy. And the best part? Both platforms provide an easy floating bar builder that literally anyone can use to build attractive floating bars!

What is Convertful?

Convertful is an SaaS company offering an array of conversion tools such as popups, welcome ‘mats’, and floating bars. All of their tools can be built and customised using their quick, no-code builder.

One of their cooler features, Convertful offers precise targeting. Rather than showing everything to everyone, Convertful lets you filter your audience based on user behaviour, visit source, interactions, and many other conditions. 

And the leads earned through Convertful’s floating bars are conveniently sent to your CRM. You can also integrate Convertful with 1500+ apps through Zapier as well as native integrations. 

What is Promolayer? 

Promolayer is another major player in the conversion marketing space. Their main product is actually the popup but offer a strong floating bar option too. 

They have a few variations on floating bars for different use cases. You can create, for example, floating bars with a countdown to get people to look forward to events as well as promotions, highlight limited-time coupon codes, and more.

Promolayer has a lot of options when it comes to targeting. With language targeting for example, you can literally speak all your users’ languages. Just build one floating bar for each target language and Promolayer will display the correct one based on the language settings of the user browser. Smart!

 

Convertful

Promolayer

Additional features

Instant lead notifications for every new lead.

Countdown timer inside floating bars available.

Integrate with your favourite marketing tools or CRMs. 

Strong customisation.

Precise targeting based on language, geo-location, traffic source, device, and more. 

Brandable.

Very easy floating bar builder.

Free trial period

14-day free trial available.

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Free version

Free version available. 

Free version available. 

Pricing

Starting at $19 per month.

Starts at $15 per month.

Integrations

1500+ apps through Zapier along with other native integrations. 

Apps and deep integrations available to include Wix, Shopify, and WordPress. 

Reporting and analytics

Real-time analytics, A/B split testing, and periodic reports available.

Integrates with Google analytics for tracking.

Reviews and ratings

Has a 4.8 ⭐rating from 87 reviews on Capterra.


Has a 4.9 ⭐rating from 66 reviews on G2. 

Has a 5 ⭐rating from 131 reviews on Shopify.

Customer support

24/7 customer support available for paid users. No customer support available under the free package. 

Customer support available for every user.


Best suited for

Any business model with its different pricing plans and use cases.

Small to medium-sized businesses looking to improve subscription and promotional sales. 

Haven’t found what you’re looking for? 

If you feel like Convertful and Promolayer don't quite meet your needs, try Serviceform's free Floating bar! With Serviceform, building a floating bar for your website is easy and takes less than 2 minutes. Serviceform’s no-code floating bar builder is uniquely suited for all use cases (meaning any industry!) and comes with 500+ ready-set-go templates to get you going.

If you want to spotlight important announcements or promote your latest campaign, Serviceform’s free Floating bar really is the ideal solution. Flexibly place our Floating bars on the top or bottom of any webpage without disrupting page flow. Then add a colourful CTA redirecting web visitors to a target landing page – or have data collection fields inside the tool to turn every web visitor into a potential lead and have their information dynamically saved in your CRM in real time.

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More about Serviceform’s Floating bar

  • Additional features: 
    • Build and install our fully brandable Floating bars with ease.
    • Collect customer information or quickly redirect them to another page.
    • Fit the Floating bar flexibly inside your website header or footer. 
    • Anchor the Floating bar on your website to make it visible at all times, even when scrolling! 
    • Dynamically send customer details from Floating bar data fields to your CRM as a lead.
    • Benefit from insightful website analytics and powerful Floating bar lead collection.
    • Need more than our Floating bar? Also create Smart popups, Floating bars, Dynamic forms, and 5 different Chatbots types like our trending Full-page chatbot – all on one platform!
    • Take advantage of our free template library with 500+ templates.
  • Free trial period: 
    • 14-day free trial available if interested in a paid plan.
  • Free version: 
    • The free version of Serviceform Floating bars comes with customer support-strengthening features like statistics tracking.
  • Pricing: 
    • Enjoy flexible pricing with Serviceform that meets your needs depending on your promotional and website goals.
  • Integrations: 
    • Seamlessly integrate our Floating bars with 1000s of websites and ecommerce platforms. Check out our integrations library to learn more.
  • Analytics: 
    • No more third-party analytics tools because Serviceform's platform features built-in website analytics plus tool statistics. You'll never again need another tool for tracking data!
  • Who should use Serviceform:
    • We offer a versatile product suite for professionals of technical and nontechnical backgrounds. With our fully brandable and easy-to-use Floating bars, literally anyone can benefit from this timely promotional tool and quickly.  

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