Lead Tracking

Lead tracking in Usermaven helps you capture, manage, and analyze potential customers who interact with your website. When visitors submit forms, sign up for newsletters, or request demos, Usermaven tracks them as leads in your Contacts Hub.

What is a lead?

A lead is a potential customer who has expressed interest in your product or service by providing their contact information, typically through a form submission. In Usermaven, leads are:

Identified by email address (required)
Enriched with additional information (name, company, phone, etc.)
Tracked across their entire journey on your website
Stored in your Contacts Hub for analysis and follow-up

Why track leads?

Lead tracking provides valuable insights for marketing and sales teams:

Identify high-intent visitors: Know who's interested in your product
Track lead sources: Understand which channels drive the most leads
Monitor lead behavior: See what pages leads visit before and after converting
Qualify leads: Use behavioral data to prioritize follow-up
Measure marketing ROI: Connect marketing efforts to lead generation

How lead tracking works

Visitor interaction: A visitor interacts with your website—viewing pages, clicking buttons, and engaging with content. Usermaven tracks this activity with an anonymous ID.
Lead capture: When the visitor provides their email (via form submission or the lead() function), they become a lead. The email is the required identifier.
Identity resolution: Usermaven links the visitor's previous anonymous activity to their new lead profile, giving you a complete picture of their journey.
Contacts Hub: The lead appears in your Contacts Hub where you can view their profile, see their activity history, and segment them for analysis.

Ways to capture leads

Automatic (via Form Tracking): When form tracking is enabled and forms are mapped, submissions automatically create leads. Enable form tracking, map form fields to contact properties, and form submissions will create/update leads automatically.

Manual (via lead() function): Use the lead() function to capture leads programmatically:

JavaScript Snippet

<script>
  window.usermaven('lead', {
    email: 'lead@example.com',        // Required
    first_name: 'Alex',
    last_name: 'Johnson',
    company: 'StartupXYZ',
    phone: '+1 555 0100',

    // Custom properties (passed directly, no wrapper needed)
    lead_source: 'Google Ads',
    campaign: 'Q1 Product Launch',
    utm_source: 'google',
    utm_medium: 'cpc',
    interest: 'Enterprise Plan',
    company_size: '50-100'
  });
</script>

NPM Package


const usermaven = usermavenClient({
  key: 'YOUR_API_KEY',
  trackingHost: 'https://events.usermaven.com'
});

usermaven.lead({
  email: 'lead@example.com',        // Required
  first_name: 'Alex',
  last_name: 'Johnson',
  company: 'StartupXYZ',
  phone: '+1 555 0100',

  // Custom properties (passed directly, no wrapper needed)
  lead_source: 'Google Ads',
  campaign: 'Q1 Product Launch',
  utm_source: 'google',
  utm_medium: 'cpc',
  interest: 'Enterprise Plan',
  company_size: '50-100'
});

React / Next.js


function LeadCaptureForm() {
  const { lead } = useUsermaven();

  const handleSubmit = (e) => {
    e.preventDefault();
    const formData = new FormData(e.target);

    lead({
      email: formData.get('email'),        // Required
      first_name: formData.get('first_name'),
      last_name: formData.get('last_name'),
      company: formData.get('company'),
      phone: formData.get('phone'),

      // Custom properties (passed directly, no wrapper needed)
      lead_source: 'Website Form',
      interest: formData.get('interest')
    });
  };

  return (
    <form onSubmit={handleSubmit}>
      {/* form fields */}
    </form>
  );
}

Learn more about capturing leads →

Lead properties

When capturing a lead, you can include various properties:

Property	Description	Required
`email`	Lead's email address	Yes
`first_name`	First name	No
`last_name`	Last name	No
`company`	Company name	No
`phone`	Phone number	No
`job_title`	Job title	No
Custom properties	Any additional data	No

Leads vs Users

In Usermaven, there's a distinction between leads and users:

Leads	Users
Potential customers	Active product users
Captured via forms or `lead()`	Identified via `id()`
Pre-signup stage	Post-signup stage
Marketing focus	Product focus

A lead can become a user when they sign up for your product. Usermaven maintains continuity by linking both profiles if the same email is used.

What's next?

Capturing Leads - Learn how to use the lead() function
Leads in Contacts Hub - View and manage your leads
Form Tracking - Set up automatic lead capture

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