Creating a popup

A popup is a place and time where supporters can come and pick up a free lawn sign. When you create one, it appears on the public Forever Canadian website, so supporters can find it, reserve a sign, and come by.

Any volunteer can create and manage a popup.

Start a popup

1. In the sidebar, open Popups.
2. Click Create a popup. You'll find this button on your My popups page and on the All popups page.

This opens the step-by-step popup wizard: Location, then Dates, then Details, then Review. A small information (i) sits beside some fields if you'd like a plain-language explanation.

Each time you start fresh from Create a popup, the form begins empty. Moving Back and forward between steps keeps what you've already entered, so you won't lose your work.

Step 1 — Location

On Where is the popup?, type the address or the name of the place in the Search for the address or place box, then pick the right one from the list. You can also drop a pin on the map. The address and city fill in for you.

Then set the Popup name — the name supporters will see, for example "Mission Community Hall".

Click Next: Dates to continue, or Cancel to leave without saving.

Step 2 — Dates

On When is the popup open?, add a row for each day the popup is open. Each row has a Date, an Opens time, and a Closes time. All dates and times are in Mountain Time (Alberta). Use Add another date for more days (a popup can have up to 60).

Set Signs available — the number of signs you're starting with. You can change this later.

Click Next: Details.

Step 3 — Details

There are two note fields here, and they go to different places:

• Public note — supporters will see this on the website. Use it for things like "Side door, ring the bell."
• Volunteer-only notes — this stays inside the team app. Supporters never see it. It sits in its own box with a small lock, so you can't mix it up with the public note.

Both are optional. Click Next: Review.

Step 4 — Review

Check everything looks right and confirm the address details under Verify location details. When you're happy, click Confirm & create popup.

After you create it

You land on the popup's page. A status banner tells you whether it reached Forever Canadian:

• Live on Forever Canadian — it's published. You'll see the public page link and a Poster code you can print.
• Publishing… — it's on its way; this usually takes under a minute.
• Couldn't publish yet — Forever Canadian couldn't be reached. It keeps trying on its own, and you can also click Retry.

Share your popup

Check your email, too. Once your popup is live, Forever Canadian sends you one email — "Your pop-up is live — share it!" — with everything you need to spread the word: a link to your popup's page, Share buttons for Facebook, X, WhatsApp, LinkedIn and email, and finished images (English and French) with captions you can copy and paste. Nothing to design — just post.

On the popup's page itself, a Share your popup box appears with everything you need to point supporters to it:

• A large Poster code — the short code printed on the poster.
• The Public page and Poster page links, which open your popup on Forever Canadian where supporters reserve a sign.
• A QR code. Show it to people at your popup — they scan it to reserve a sign on Forever Canadian, then you hand them one.

Changing a popup later

Closed the tab? Find your popup again from the sidebar: open Popups, then My popups, and click the popup you want — that opens its management page (the popup's own page is where you manage it; there's no separate "Manage" button).

On the popup's page, click Edit popup to reopen the same step-by-step wizard, already filled in. Change the name, fix a time, add or remove a date, or edit a note, then click Save changes on the Review step. Editing never breaks a link a supporter already has — the public page and the printed poster keep working. See Editing a popup for the details.

Older single-date one-off popups open the single-event form instead of the multi-date wizard, and they do not have an Add another date option.

To change the number of signs, use Adjust signs available on the popup's page instead: enter a number in Set signs available to and click Update. That's the only place that changes the count, so reservations stay safe.

To take a popup down completely, use Cancel popup.