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Mixpanel

You can use Segment to translate and forward data about how your audience receives and responds to your emails to Mixpanel.

How it works

You’ll set up Customer.io as a Segment Source and Mixpanel as a Segment Destination. Customer.io sends reporting webhooks for emails as track calls, helping you gather information about the messages you send, and your audience’s responses to those messages—whether they open, click, unsubscribe, etc—in Mixpanel.

Set up your integration

To set up this integration, you’ll need to:

1. Set up Customer.io as a Segment Source.
2. Add Mixpanel as a Segment Destination and map source(s) to it.

Set up Customer.io as a Segment Source

To enable Customer.io as a Segment source, you need both a Customer.io and a Segment.com account. If you need to create a new Segment account, enter “Customer.io” in the How Did You Hear About Us? field.

1. In Segment, Go to Connections, click Add Source, and select Customer.io.

2. Give your source a Name and a Label, and click Add Source. The Name helps you identify your source in Segment, and the Label helps you organize sources.

   

   

3. On the Overview page, copy your Write Key.

   

   

4. In your Customer.io workspace, go to Data & Integrations > Integrations and click the Segment Source integration. You can find it in the Data Management category.

5. Paste your Write Key in the field and click Connect Segment.

6. Enable the events you want to send from Customer.io to Segment.

   

   

7. When you’re ready, set up your Mixpanel Destination in Segment.

Set up your Mixpanel Destination

To set up a Mixpanel destination, you’ll need your Mixpanel API Secret and Token. You can find these values in your Mixpanel Project Settings. See Segment’s Mixpanel Destination page for more information about this integration and how Segment shapes data for Mixpanel.

1. In Segment, go to Destinations and click Add Destination.
2. Find and select Mixpanel in the Destinations Catalog.
3. Select the sources that you want to connect to your Mixpanel destination.
4. Copy your API Secret and Token from Mixpanel into Connection Settings in Segment.
5. (Optional) Review your integration settings. Segment provides a number of settings determining how to handle incoming data.
6. Enable the destination.

Your Customer.io source(s) can now send data into Segment.

How we map people to Segment

Our Segment Source integration maps a person’s id in Customer.io to userId in Segment.

If your Customer.io workspace supports both email and id as identifiersThe attributes you use to add, modify, and target people. Each unique identifier value represents an individual person in your workspace., people in your workspace can have an email but not an id. In this case, we use a person’s email as their anonymousId in Segment.

For more information about identifying people, see Segment’s Identify API.

analytics.track("New Lead", {
  anonymousId: "peter@example.com"
  name: "Peter Gibbons",
  email: "peter@example.com"
});

analytics.track("New Customer", {
  userId: "97980cfea0067",
  name: "Peter Gibbons",
  email: "peter@example.com",
  plan: "premium"
});

Track calls

When you enable the Customer.io Segment Source integration, we send our reporting webhooks to Segment in their track format. The following Email Delivered event, formatted as it appears in Segment, may help you understand the contents of these events and what kind of information you can gather in Mixpanel.

{
  "context": {
    "integration": {
      "name": "customer.io",
      "version": "1.0.0"
    },
    "library": {
      "name": "unknown",
      "version": "unknown"
    },
    "traits": {
      "email": "cool.person@example.com"
    }
  },
  "event": "Email Delivered",
  "integrations": {
    "Customer.io": false
  },
  "messageId": "api-1u21CJeZPJX3TdLhPNrzstyAYZa",
  "originalTimestamp": "2021-06-16T13:04:06Z",
  "properties": {
    "action_id": "n16",
    "action_name": "Test Name",
    "campaign_id": 1,
    "campaign_name": "Test Name",
    "delivery_id": "dgP6xQb6xQYDAAF6FOl-vmR0E7zoPqTRiAo=",
    "email_id": "dgP6xQb6xQYDAAF6FOl-vmR0E7zoPqTRiAo=",
    "email_subject": "Test Subject"
  },
  "receivedAt": "2021-06-16T13:05:39.605Z",
  "sentAt": "2021-06-16T13:05:39.000Z",
  "timestamp": "2021-06-16T13:04:06.605Z",
  "type": "track",
  "userId": "cool-person"
}