Introduction to User & Company Behavior

This guide assumes you are familiar with Users and Companies.

User & Company Analytics is the go to section for any analysis centered around individual customers and their behaviors (rather than API and web usage). You can look up customers based on their properties and create reports to better understand you’re user base composition. You’ll find complex user behavior reporting here also like funnel and retention analysis.

Because Moesif is a User Behavior Analytics platform, much of the analysis will also involve what a customer did (in terms of API calls and in-app user actions).

Note that events may take up to 20 minutes to show up in the user analytics screens. If your data has not shown up, please try again later once the data has had time to filter over.

Overview of User Analytics

Moesif has two types of customer entities: users and companies.

Users

A user is simply a single person accessing your API. This is tracked in Moesif using a unique ID for the user. This ID is supplied through a Moesif SDK (in the middleware configuration) or through a gateway plugin, usually by default. If your business is B2C, this may be all you need to track. If you have a B2B or partnership business, a user can be associated with a company to also allow you group metrics together and to see trends across all users in the organization.

It is important to note that for this functionality to work, you must have user tracking enabled. Most gateways will have this functionality enabled by default or can be enabled through configuration options, usually in a header. If you are using a Moesif SDK directly in your code, you’ll need to implement the identifyUser hook in your middleware configuration. Here is an example in Node.js.

Companies

A company in Moesif is a group of users that belong to the same account, possibly referred to as a tenant or organization. By making companies first class entities, Moesif gives users the ability to track users and companies completely separately. If your business is B2C, you may not need to use companies functionalities.

It is important to note that for this functionality to work, you must have company tracking enabled. Most gateways will have this functionality enabled by default or can be enabled through configuration options, usually in a header. If you are using a Moesif SDK directly in your code, you’ll need to implement the identifyCompany hook in your middleware configuration. Here is an example in Node.js.

User/Company Analysis Types

Multiple types of analysis are available for both Users and Companies. Moesif supports the following types:

  • Lookup
    • A CRM-style lookup which allows Moesif users to filter for specific users or companies based on a criteria
  • Funnel
    • Create a user funnel analysis to analyze user/company trends
  • Retention
    • Create a retention analysis to inspect details around user/company retention
  • Composition
    • Create a user composition analysis to understand your products user composition

To access each of these analysis, simply pick the desired on from the Analysis Type dropdown at the top of the Users and Companies screens.

Types available in analysis type dropdown

You can also easily create a new analysis by using the Create New button to quickly access each type.

Types available in create new menu

User/Company fields

Both user and company entities have a number of predefined and reserved fields. You can also store arbitrary data under 💾 Metadata.

Filter Description
💾 Metadata Object containing your custom user metadata.
🧭 Campaign Object containing Referrer and UTM parameters to track effectiveness of your acquisition channels. Set automatically by moesif-browser-js, but not with server side SDKs.
💡 Enrichment If User Email field is set, Moesif will auto-enrich the data for this user profile
🏢 Company If this user is a member of a company, this contains the linked company’s properties
🌎 Geo IP Object containing last known geo information using based on customer’s IP address
💻 User Agent Object containing last known user agent information
User Id The User Id assigned by Moesif which can be either an Identified User Id or Anonymous Id
Identified User Id The identified user id set by you such as by the identifyUser function. If not set, this user is anonymous.
Company Id The company that this user belongs to. A company is a group of users such as an organization or account.
User Email The email associated with this user and is a special field that can be set within user metadata. Moesif uses email for sending behavioral emails and also to automatically enrich user profiles with demographic info from Clearbit, Github, etc.
Phone The phone number associated with this user and is a special field within user metadata.
Created The time this user was created in your Moesif account.
Last Modified Last time this user’s metadata was modified by you via UI or API
First Seen Time First time this user performed an API call or user action.
Last Seen Time Last time this user performed an API call or user action.
TTFHW Time from user created to first API call or user action. Other metrics can be created under funnels.
Auth/Session Token All API Keys or Session Tokens this user has used. View identification of users

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