Conversion tracking requires a Business plan
subscription or higher.
lead
event happens when a user performs an action that indicates interest in your product or service. This could be anything from:
- Signing up for an account
- Booking a demo meeting
- Joining a mailing list

Prerequisites
First, you’ll need to enable conversion tracking for your Dub links to be able to start tracking conversions:If you’re using Dub Partners, you can skip this step
since partner links will have conversion tracking enabled by default.
Option 1: On a workspace-level
Option 1: On a workspace-level
To enable conversion tracking for all future links in a workspace, you can do the following:
To enable conversion tracking for all future links in a workspace, you can do the following:
This option will enable conversion tracking in the Dub Link Builder for all future links.
- Navigate to your workspace’s Analytics settings page.
- Toggle the Workspace-level Conversion Tracking switch to enable conversion tracking for the workspace.

Option 2: On a link-level
Option 2: On a link-level
If you don’t want to enable conversion tracking for all your links in a workspace, you can also opt to enable it on a link-level.To enable conversion tracking for a specific link, open the Dub Link Builder for a link and toggle the Conversion Tracking switch.

You can also use the
C
keyboard shortcut when inside the link builder to
quickly enable conversion tracking for a given link.Option 3: Via the API
Option 3: Via the API
Alternatively, you can also enable conversion tracking programmatically via the Dub API. All you need to do is pass
trackConversion: true
when creating or updating a link:@dub/analytics
script to your website to track conversion events.
You can install the @dub/analytics
script in several different ways:
You can verify the installation with the following tests:
- Open the browser console and type in
_dubAnalytics
– if the script is installed correctly, you should see the_dubAnalytics
object in the console. - Add the
?dub_id=test
query parameter to your website URL and make sure that thedub_id
cookie is being set in your browser.
- The analytics script was added to the
<head>
section of the page - If you’re using a content delivery network (CDN), make sure to purge any cached content
Configure NextAuth.js Options
Then, set up your NextAuth.js configuration options to track lead conversion events using thedub
TypeScript SDK.
Here’s how it works in a nutshell:
- Use NextAuth’s
signIn
event to detect when there’s a new sign up. - If the user is a new sign up, check if the
dub_id
cookie is present. - If the
dub_id
cookie is present, send a lead event to Dub usingdub.track.lead
- Delete the
dub_id
cookie.
dub_id
cookie anymore.
In NextAuth.js, the
isNewUser
flag will only be available if you’re using
next-auth
’s database
implementation
(otherwise it’ll return undefined
). In that case, you should move the logic
above to the signIn
callback
instead.Property | Required | Description |
---|---|---|
clickId | Yes | The unique ID of the click that the lead conversion event is attributed to. You can read this value from dub_id cookie. If an empty string is provided (i.e. if you’re using tracking a deferred lead event), Dub will try to find an existing customer with the provided customerExternalId and use the clickId from the customer if found. |
eventName | Yes | The name of the lead event to track. Can also be used as a unique identifier to associate a given lead event for a customer for a subsequent sale event (via the leadEventName prop in /track/sale ). |
customerExternalId | Yes | The unique ID of the customer in your system. Will be used to identify and attribute all future events to this customer. |
customerName | No | The name of the customer. If not passed, a random name will be generated (e.g. “Big Red Caribou”). |
customerEmail | No | The email address of the customer. |
customerAvatar | No | The avatar URL of the customer. |
mode | No | The mode to use for tracking the lead event. async will not block the request; wait will block the request until the lead event is fully recorded in Dub; deferred will defer the lead event creation to a subsequent request. |
metadata | No | Additional metadata to be stored with the lead event. Max 10,000 characters. |
Create a NextAuth.js Route Handler
Finally, import theauthOptions
variable you created earlier and use NextAuth
to create a handler for your NextAuth.js routes.
View your conversions
Once you’ve completed the setup, all your tracked conversions will show up in Dub Analytics. We provide 3 different views to help you understand your conversions:- Time-series: A time-series view of the number clicks, leads and sales.

- Funnel chart: A funnel chart view visualizing the conversion & dropoff rates across the different steps in the conversion funnel (clicks → leads → sales).

- Real-time events stream: A real-time events stream of every single conversion event that occurs across all your links in your workspace.
