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How to Implement Expiring URLs in Email Sequences?

Hi everyone,

I’d like to ask for your advice on creating expiring URLs that can be used within FluentCRM automations.

I understand that this functionality is not currently available natively in FluentCRM. However, in today’s marketing landscape, it has become almost essential—especially for limited-time offers in email sequences.

What alternative solutions have you implemented to achieve this?

The functionality I’m looking for is:

  • A link included in an email sequence that is only valid for a limited time (e.g., 7 or 10 days),
  • After the expiration, the link should redirect to a specified fallback page,
  • Since each subscriber has a different start date, the expiration should be dynamic.

Is there any way to achieve this without editing PHP or writing custom code? Or is some development work unavoidable?

If a similar question has already been asked in this community, I’d greatly appreciate it if you could point me to that discussion as well.

Thanks in advance for any insights or ideas!

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Jonathan Gwyer

You could use WP Fusion (even Lite) to control access to the offer based on a tag.

Use an automation to send the offer and set the tag at the same time. Then the automation waits 7 days and removes the tag.

Not only do you get your person specific time limited offer, it would also prevent url sharing.

Yuhei Kuwahata

Jonathan Gwyer

Thanks for the suggestion!

I'll take a look at that plugin.

Blaine Moore

Jonathan Gwyer Great idea!

Jorge de los Reyes

Maybe you will like to check “thrive ultimatum”.

It has integration with FCRM. And allows you to do that kind of offers “automatically”.

And set them on evergreen, for new users and so.

It’s a bit tricky to find how to make all that work, but I remember there is a post on their blog for this

I am sure you can achieve 100% of what you mentioned without the hassle of automations and so :)

Thant being said, the thrive ecosystem is not evolving in a very nice way since they were acquired by Awesome Motive. So you may want to check, directly, for ad hoc solutions if entering into the ecosystem is not an option.

Yuhei Kuwahata

Jorge de los Reyes 

Thanks a lot for the suggestion!

Also appreciate the heads-up about their recent changes after the acquisition.

I’ll keep that in mind as I explore the options!

Gee Adriaansz

Thanks so much for starting this discussion. I’ve been looking for exactly the same functionality!

I really appreciate the suggestions shared here so far. Especially the WP Fusion + tag-based timing idea, and the mention of Thrive Ultimatum for evergreen countdowns.

While those plugins definitely add value, it would be amazing if this kind of feature could be built natively into FluentCRM. It’s already such a powerful tool and being able to set expiring, personalized links without needing to add yet another plugin would make it even better.

Yuhei Kuwahata

Gee Adriaansz 

Thank you! I'm glad to hear this discussion has been helpful for others too.

I completely agree: having this kind of functionality built into FluentCRM would be ideal.

Let’s hope the team considers it for a future update!