Add marketing tags using properties

Marketing analytics relies on data about customer behaviour. This can include how a customer finds you, e.g. through a campaign, and what a customer does when they interact. Kinde allows you to pass marketing tag data in tokens, and store it as properties in Kinde. From here, you can extrapolate campaign success and other metrics you wish to track.

What tracking tags are supported?

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Out of the box Kinde gives you 3 categories containing marketing properties which are available at both an organization and user level:

UTM tags category

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Contains the following properties:

• UTM source utm_source
• UTM medium utm_medium
• UTM campaign utm_campaign
• UTM content utm_content
• UTM term utm_term

Google Ads smart campaign tracking

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Contains the following properties:

• Google ID gclid
• Google click ID click_id
• HSA account hsa_acc
• HSA campaign hsa_cam
• HSA group hsa_grp
• HSA ad hsa_ad
• HSA source hsa_src
• HSA target hsa_tgt
• HSA keyword hsa_kw
• HSA match type hsa_mt
• HSA network hsa_net
• HSA version hsa_ver

Marketing category

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Contains the following properties:

• Match type match_type
• Keyword keyword
• Device device
• Ad group ad_group_id
• Campaign ID campaign_id
• Creative creative
• Network network
• Ad position ad_position
• Facebook ID fbclid
• LinkedIn ID li_fat_id
• Microsoft ID msclkid
• X ID twclid
• TikTok ID ttclid

Getting marketing tags into Kinde

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There are a few mechanisms for updating these property values in Kinde.

Pass the tracking tags via the auth flow

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This is the most common method. For example, if you want to pass in the UTM source, you just need to forward the utm_source query parameter as part of the sign up flow authentication url. Most of our SDKs allow you to pass this in via additional URL params.

For example in the React SDK:

<RegisterLink
  className="btn btn-dark
  properties={{
    utm_source: "my source",
    utm_medium: "some medium",
    utm_campaign: "awesome campaign",
    utm_content: "something else",
    utm_term: "my terms",
    click_id: "1234"
  }}
>Register</RegisterLink>

We automatically map the standard query parameters to the specific Kinde properties for you. For example utm_source URL param will be mapped to the kp_usr_utm_source Kinde parameter for a user and kp_org_utm_source for an organization. We map these automatically so that you do not need to make changes to the parameters in your code.

The property values are set during the sign up flow for new users and at the point of organization creation for new organizations.

Update the tracking tags manually

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• Via dashboard - Open a user or organization in Kinde, then select Properties from the side navigation. Update the relevant property.
• Via the Kinde Management API -
  • Update user property - make sure to add kp_usr_ as a prefix to the standard tag key.
  • Update organization property - make sure to add kp_org_ as a prefix to the standard tag key.

Accessing marketing tags data

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• Via dashboard - Open a user or organization in Kinde, then select Properties from the side navigation.
• Via the Kinde Management API -
  • View user properties
  • View organization properties

Check how specific marketing tags are performing

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Likely you will want to see which tags are converting into sign ups and are performing well. For this, you can use the User search API to return all users that match a specific property value. For example, if you wanted to see all users who signed up with a UTM source of “Hello” and a UTM campaign of “World” you could use this query:

/api/v1/search/users?query=properties[kp_usr_utm_source]=Hello&properties[kp_usr_campaign]=World

The search organizations API is coming soon.