Tracker makes it easy for your application or website to pass additional information to UserVoice to make it available within the UserVoice Admin Console. Tracker can be used to give support agents access to additional information about your users or to segment your UserVoice reports based on that information.

Common use cases for Tracker

To display the lifetime value of a customer in UserVoice Inspector

To display the product, plan, or service, they are using in UserVoice Inspector

To track whether a user has recently upgraded and how active they are in the system

To track free and paid users

...or any other segmentation that is valuable to your company

How Tracker works

Tracker is a programatic interface to UserVoice made with JavaScript. Through the use of simple JavaScript function calls your website can pass information to the UserVoice Admin Console about your users.

For example, to pass the user's name and email address to UserVoice call:

Or, to track a user action when it happens:

Installing UserVoice Tracker

Follow the steps outlined below to get the most out of UserVoice Tracker on your website. Steps are automatically checked off once UserVoice has detected that tracker code is installed and functioning on your website.

Add Tracker to your web page

Tracker requires that the <em>UserVoice JavaScript SDK</em> be installed on your website. To install the JavaScript SDK add the following code to your web page:

Add the current user's name and email address

Be sure to customize this snippet for each user on your website. This is just an example:

Add custom fields to a user

This is an example of using Tracker to add custom information to UserVoice about a user:

Track an action or event

Here's an example of using Tracker to track a sign-up event for a user:

Learn more about UserVoice Tracker

Here are a couple of articles from our developer site that should make it easy for you to get started with UserVoice Tracker:

Supplying the user's name and email

Already have access to your user's name and email? Pass them to the widget with a dash of JavaScript so that users don't have to type them in when contacting you through a UserVoice widget.

Associating a user with an external ID

Adding custom fields to a user

Want to add additional information to a user so that it shows up in UserVoice Inspector? Learn how to add traits to a UserVoice user with a little JavaScript.

Tracking events and user actions

Want to track user events or actions on your website to supercharge your UserVoice reports? Learn how to do this with a bit of JavaScript.