Identify specific visitors

When a visitor comes to your site, Sendinblue Tracker will automatically cookie them.

Matching this cookie with an email address can be done in 2 ways:

  • By passing the email address to any method. To do so you've to identify your visitors through the tracking snippet
  • By calling the sendinblue.identify() function

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The email address of a visitor is passed back automatically to Sendinblue only if this vistor have been identified as someone who has โ€œopt-inโ€. This can be either:

  • They have the ability to log in and have accepted to receive emails in some way

  • They have previously received a transactional email and are sent back to your website via a link in that email

We will go over the 2 methods outlined above.

Identify a visitor through the tracking snippet

You can easily identify specific visitors by uncommenting this line // window.sib.email_id = '[email protected]โ€™; in the tracking snippet and replace '[email protected]โ€™ by the variable by which you can identify the contact.

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Identify a visitor through the sendinblue.identify() function

The sendinblue.identify() method is used to identify the users who visited your website.

A common use case is to add all contacts identified on your website to a list on Sendinblue using an Automation workflow.

sendinblue.identify(
    email_address,/*mandatory*/
    properties /*optional*/
);
  • email_address is a variable string that should have the visitor's email as a value.
  • properties is a JSON object that describes the state of the visitor such as their email, age, gender, and location.

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Properties and Contacts attributes

There is some similarity between Contacts attributes and the information you can pass onto the properties object. Indeed:

Example

The following call will:

var email = '[email protected]'

var properties = {
  'FIRSTNAME': 'Thomas',
  'LASTNAME' : 'Bianchi',
  'id': '10001',
  'plan' : 'diamond',
  'location' : 'San Francisco'
}

sendinblue.identify(email, properties)