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Appboy is a marketing automation and customer engagement platform. Growth, Engagement, and Marketing teams use Appboy to build great long term relationships with their customers across key digital channels.
Take your company’s marketing and customer engagement to the next level by adding Appboy as a Source to Segment, via Appboy’s Currents product. We’ll automatically collect marketing and analytics events, forward them to your destinations, and load them into your data warehouse.
In your favorite BI or analytics tool, you’ll be able to analyze your mobile, email, and web marketing campaign data in SQL or through drag-and-drop reports. You’ll be able to join your Appboy data with the event data you’re already sending through Segment to analyze the impacts of your marketing and engagement programs.
Getting Started
Appboy Currents is currently in Beta; contact your Appboy Customer Success Manager to configure this destination.
Appboy Events
Below is a table of events that Appboy sends to Segment. These are the events that will appear in your warehouse or your destinations, depending on what connections you enable in Segment:
| Event Name | Description |
| Application Uninstalled | User uninstalled the App. |
| Email Delivered | An email was successfully delivered to a User’s mail server. |
| Email Opened | User opened an email. |
| Email Link Clicked | User clicked a link in an email. Email click tracking must be enabled. |
| Email Bounced | Appboy attempted to send an email, but the User’s receiving mail server did not accept it. |
| Email Marked As Spam | User marked an email as spam. |
| Unsubscribed | User clicked the unsubscribe link in an email. |
| Push Notification Tapped | User tapped on a push notification. |
| Push Notification Bounced | Appboy was not able to send a push notification to this User. |
| In-App Message Viewed | User viewed an in-app message. |
| In-App Message Clicked | User tapped or clicked a button in an in-app message. |
| News Feed Viewed | User viewed the native Appboy News Feed. |
| News Feed Card Viewed | User viewed a Card within the native Appboy News Feed. |
| News Feed Card Clicked | User tapped or clicked on a Card within the native Appboy News Feed. |
Appboy Event Properties
Below is a table of properties that are sent for the events above:
| Property Name | Type | Description |
app_id | string | The API Identifier of the App on which a user received a message or performed an action, if applicable. |
campaign_id | string | The API Identifier of the Campaign associated with the event, if applicable. |
canvas_id | string | The API Identifier of the Canvas associated with the event, if applicable. |
canvas_variation_id | string | The API Identifier of the Canvas Variation associated with the event, if applicable. |
canvas_step_id | string | The API Identifier of the Canvas Step associated with the event, if applicable. |
context.traits.email | string | For Email events, the email address that the email was sent to. |
button_id | string | For In-App Message Clicked events, the ID of the button the user clicked on. |
card_id | string | For News Feed Card Viewed and News Feed Card Clicked events, the API Identifier of the News Feed Card. |
NOTE: The Appboy Source destination is currently in Beta. The names of Apps, Campaigns, Canvases (including Canvas Variations and Canvas Steps), and News Feed Cards will be made available as event properties in an upcoming version of the destination, in addition to the API Identifiers already listed above.
User Identification
Appboy will send the Appboy external_user_id as the top level userId field. This is the same userId that Appboy originally receives from the downstream destination with Segment. Appboy will only send events associated with users who have an external_user_id set.
Send Segment Data to Appboy
The entire destination with Appboy can be even better if you also connect to it as a downstream destination within Segment. With the Segment to Appboy destination, you can send user and event data to Appboy in order to target customers with messaging campaigns.
Want to start sending website or mobile data to Appboy? Head on over to our Appboy destination docs.
If you have any questions or see anywhere we can improve our documentation, please let us know or kick off a conversation in the Segment Community!