Streamline Fintech Onboarding with Real-Time Insight to Action

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What you'll learn

You’ll learn how to:

• Track essential onboarding signals tailored for fintech use cases
  

• Use Amplitude dashboards to diagnose friction around signup and KYC
  

• Test onboarding improvements with feature flags
  

• Reactivate stalled users through real-time, personalized follow-ups

Step 1: Track your onboarding funnel 

The first step is to map out these events and start tracking new user flows in Segment.

Begin by mapping your user’s onboarding path, which for a fintech provider often includes:

• Form start 

• Identity verification/KYC step

• Account creation

• Initial deposit or funding

Once you have your funnel, it’s time to start understanding it. Your Segment events will automatically populate and sync to Amplitude’s Fintech dashboard templates—giving you instant visibility into funnel conversion by step and channel efficiency by activation rates. 

For example, you might discover that mobile users referred from paid social campaigns complete sign-up but abandon the process during identity verification.

Step 2: Experiment with sign up flows

Use your user insights to create a targeted experiment in Amplitude—such as streamlining the KYC step or testing a progress indicator for this segment. In financial services, common friction points include:

• Uploading ID documents on mobile

• Waiting for verification approvals

• Complex multi-step forms

With feature flags, you can:

• Gradually roll out simplified signup flows

• A/B test educational tooltips or "save progress" options

• Test pre-verification feature previews to keep users engaged

Track each user’s assigned variant and measure downstream impact on sign up or account funding. 

Step 3: Send cohorts back to Segment for activation

Once you've identified the best-performing onboarding flow through experimentation, take it a step further by connecting those insights across channels. 

Sync Amplitude cohorts and user traits to Segment to create a richer, real-time profile of each user — from behavioral signals (e.g., repeat visits, funnel drop-offs) to declared attributes (e.g., funding preferences, onboarding progress).

With Segment’s powerful audience and traits syncing, you can seamlessly send this data to your engagement tools (e.g., Iterable, Braze) to:

• Trigger personalized onboarding nudges — Automatically deliver messages tailored to where each user is in the flow, using traits like account type, funding stage, or last completed milestone.
  

• Reactivate users with high funding intent — Combine behavioral cohorts (e.g., users who abandoned onboarding) with traits (e.g., business size, funding goal) to run win-back campaigns that speak directly to their needs.
  

• Run compliance-friendly, behavior-based follow-ups at scale — Use real-time events and traits to ensure follow-ups are relevant, timely, and respectful of user preferences and consent.

• Improve Advertising Match Rates: Broaden your advertising audience and boost match rates by leveraging traits and identifiers to target the ideal customers.

• Enhance Personalized Messaging: Incorporate traits directly into your payloads to ensure your messages contain the most accurate and current data.

• Customize Identifier Delivery: Manage which identifiers you share with Destinations. For profiles containing multiple identifiers, select an optimal strategy to determine which identifiers are sent downstream.

By syncing both cohorts and traits back through Segment, you ensure that experimentation doesn’t just inform product design — it fuels cohesive, cross-channel experiences that adapt to each user’s context and maximize adoption, conversion, and lifetime value.

Wrapping up

Here’s what we’ve done in this growth recipe:

• Mapped and analyzed the key stages of user onboarding
  

• Diagnosed conversion issues with real-time, no-code Amplitude dashboards
  

• Experimented with onboarding flow improvements
  

• Reactivated high-potential users via Segment-powered email channels