How to identify user with Identify API?
Identifying users can provide more context around your data throughout your website. It helps you to have more comprehensive views of your target audiences.
Overview
Identify users API
This requires you or your developer to propagate the information from your service. This method is called from the browser of your visitor, therefore any information you want to associate with your visitor needs to be part of your webpage. Besides, Howuku will automatically capture basic user info such as pageview/session counts and UTM tags.
To provide user info as an object with all information as key and value. You can add any property key with the user such as plan_id, gender, age, or anything at all.
howuku.identify({
"id": 123,
"name": "John Doe",
"email": "[email protected]",
"company": "Example Company",
"custom_property_1": "Any property here",
"custom_property_2": "Any property here"
});
Notes:
- This feature is only available on the Pro plan and above. Not on those plans? Learn how to upgrade your plan.
- No setting for this feature, you can just call the identify method to record your users.
Auto-identify user
Howuku also provides an option to auto-identify users through the HTML form submission from your website. No coding is needed, you just need to enable the auto-identify user in the website setting.
Visitor profile
The visitor profile can be viewed on the features such as session recording, event tracking, feedback & survey, traffic analytics and funnel.
