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Event: Checkout Started

This event should be used when a customer initiates the checkout process.

Example usage:

  • User clicks on "Checkout" button in their shopping cart
  • User selects "Checkout" option after adding items to their cart
  • User manually navigates to the checkout page

Expected properties.

Tip

All properties are optional. If any property is missing it will not be processed and no error will be reported.

Name Expected type Example
coupon string "SAVE10"
value string "$100.00"
id string Checkout ID: "ch_12345"
order_id string "123abc"
currency string "USD"

Auto indexing

Auto indexing helps to make data easy to find by creating a structure that organizes the data. This structure is made by copying information from the different parts of the data and putting it into a specific format that can be used to analyze and group the data. This is particularly helpful when dealing with unstructured data that needs to be organized in order to be useful.

This table describes which event property will be copied to event traits.

Event trait Event properties
ec.checkout.id id
ec.order.id order_id
ec.checkout.status status
ec.checkout.currency currency
ec.checkout.value value
ec.checkout.coupon coupon

Copy event data to profile

Data will not be copied to profile.

JSON example of event properties

{
  "coupon": "SAVE10",
  "value": "$100.00",
  "id": "ch_12345",
  "order_id": "123abc",
  "currency": "USD"
}