I didn’t work straight out of the box for me either. it looks as though the plugin is supposed to add section settings automatically but it doesn’t for some reason.
But I found the fix to be very simple. After you’ve added the popupID on the popup tab of the section, go to the Advanced tab of the section. Add the same popupID as the CSS ID. Then make the CSS Class ‘popup’ (without quotes). Save the section and the page and it works a treat.