Popup Manager — Onsite Campaigns & Social Proof

The popup extension OpenMage never had

Search the OpenMage ecosystem for a popup module and you come back empty-handed: the community index awesome-openmage lists none, and neither does FireGento. The commercial Magento 1 modules everyone remembers — Magebird, Plumrocket, Aheadworks — are in maintenance mode, and not one of them advertises OpenMage support. Imavio Popup Manager is built for OpenMage from the first line: one extension for newsletter popups, announcement bars, exit-intent offers, age checks, countdowns and social-proof notifications.

Cache-safe by construction, not by workaround

Most popup modules survive Full Page Cache by disabling it — a global cacheable="false" that quietly costs you your page speed. This one takes the opposite route. The only thing rendered into your page is a stateless block: a single deferred script tag with an endpoint URL and nothing else, so it is harmless even when cached forever. Campaigns, their HTML, the targeting result and the form key all arrive from an AJAX endpoint that sends no-store headers. That matters more than it sounds: with request-processor caches (Varnish/Turpentine, Cm Diehard) a cache hit returns before Magento even loads its modules, so anything stateful rendered inline is broken by definition. And because the form key comes from the AJAX response, you never hit the classic stale-form-key problem that plagues cached Magento 1 storefronts.

Six campaign types, one extension

• Newsletter + coupon — subscribes through the native newsletter model and hands out a unique coupon code per lead (or a fixed shared code, if you prefer zero database writes).
• Free-form HTML announcement — with CMS directives such as {{store url}} so your links survive store switches.
• Yes / No — two-step age verification and similar gates.
• Exit-intent & cart recovery — desktop pointer-leave and the mobile fast-scroll-back equivalent.
• Social proof from real orders — "Ana from Cluj just ordered X", built from your actual sales data. On Magento 2 this is sold as a separate product at $79–99; on Magento 1 it simply did not exist.
• Countdown / urgency — for campaigns with a real deadline.

Formats, triggers and targeting that behave

• Formats: centered modal, corner slide-in, sticky bar top or bottom, full screen, inline block, plus a re-open teaser.
• Triggers: on load, after N seconds, at N% scroll (via IntersectionObserver, not a scroll listener), after N pages, exit intent, inactivity, or a click on any CSS selector.
• Targeting as a condition tree built on the same rule engine as Cart Price Rules — the admin UI your team already knows. Combine page type and URL, customer group, logged-in state, existing newsletter subscription, order history, cart subtotal, item count and specific products, device, country, UTM/referrer, store view, plus calendar range, weekday and time window.
• Frequency: cookie and localStorage, maximum N impressions, re-show after N days, permanent exclusion after conversion, priority between campaigns and a strict "one popup at a time" rule.

Four things nobody else on Magento 1 gives you

• SEO safe mode. Google rewrote its Interstitials and dialogs guidance on 10 December 2025: it no longer splits mobile from desktop and explicitly recommends small banners for newsletter sign-up prompts. SEO safe mode enforces exactly that on the first page of a session arriving from a search engine — a bar or slide-in with a limited footprint. Full-screen modals remain available, with a warning next to the setting.
• Real accessibility. Native <dialog> with showModal() — top layer, cyclic focus trap, ESC to close, focus returned to the trigger, the rest of the page marked inert, close buttons of at least 30×30 px, correct role/aria-modal/aria-labelledby. The European Accessibility Act made this a legal requirement; almost no popup tool complies.
• Consent-aware, with a GDPR registry. Marketing campaigns wait for the consent decision instead of covering your cookie banner — natively with Imavio Consent Manager (CMP v2). Every lead is stored with the consent timestamp, the exact text version consented to, the campaign and the A/B variant, exportable to CSV. Opt-in checkboxes are unticked by default and link to your privacy policy.
• A/B testing built in. Multiple variants per campaign, percentage traffic split, separate metrics per variant, and a winner you declare when the data says so.

Measured, and quiet about it

Impressions, clicks, conversions, click-through and close rates — broken down by variant, device and campaign. Every event is also pushed to the dataLayer (popup_view, popup_click, popup_submit, with campaign and variant IDs) so GA4 and GTM see exactly what your admin sees.

Engineered for the storefront you actually run

• Vanilla JavaScript, zero dependencies — no jQuery, no Prototype, no conflict with your theme.
• No layout shift. Top layer and position: fixed, animations restricted to transform and opacity, stable scrollbar gutter on scroll lock — CLS stays at zero by construction.
• Mobile that works — separate mobile layout and a "hide on mobile" switch that genuinely hides, plus a documented setTimeout fallback for browsers without requestIdleCallback (Safari and iOS) so your popup actually appears on iPhone.
• Country targeting without the licensing trap — CDN headers first (Cloudflare CF-IPCountry, CloudFront), then a bundled DB-IP IP-to-Country Lite database under CC BY 4.0 (no account, no license key), and optionally your own GeoLite2 file. Country level only, no IP stored, geo off by default.
• No core table is altered, and the code you may need to touch stays open: configuration, install scripts, layout and templates ship unencrypted.

Your campaigns never depend on your license

Campaign delivery is never gated by license state. An expired license only shows admin notices and stops updates — it will never switch off your campaigns. The license unlocks updates and support, nothing more.

Technical requirements

OpenMage LTS 19.x/20.x or Magento CE 1.9.x · PHP 7.2–8.3 · ionCube Loader (free) on the server.