Purchase events

Learn about purchase events and properties, their usage, segmentation, where to view relevant analytics, and more.

Purchase events are purchase actions taken by your users. These events are used to record in-app purchases and establish the Lifetime Value (LTV) for each individual user profile. These purchase events must be set up by your team. Logging purchase events gives you the option to add properties like quantity and type, helping you further target your users based on these properties.

After you have set up and begun logging purchase events, you can view this purchase data on a user’s profile, in the Overview tab.

Logging purchase events

You can log purchases by passing a Purchase Object through the /users/track endpoint.

The following lists methods across various platforms that are used to log purchases. Within these pages, you will also be able to find documentation on how to add properties and quantities to your purchase event.

• Android and FireOS
• iOS
• Web
• React Native
• Unity
• Xamarin
• Roku

Blocklisting purchase events

In the Braze dashboard, you can manage blocklisting from Data Settings > Products. Check out Custom Events and Attribute Management to learn more.

Purchase event segmentation

You can trigger any number or type of follow-up campaigns based on logged purchase events, and enable the following segmentation filters based on the recency and frequency of that event when targeting users.

Segmentation Options	Dropdown Filter	Input Options
Check if the total number of dollars spent is greater than a number	GREATER THAN	NUMBER
Check if the total number of dollars spent is less than a number	LESS THAN	NUMBER
Check if total number of dollars spent is exactly a number	EXACTLY	NUMBER
Check if the purchase last occurred after X date	AFTER	TIME
Check if the purchase last occurred before X date	BEFORE	TIME
Check if the purchase last occurred more than X days ago	MORE THAN	TIME
Check if the purchase last occurred less than X days ago	LESS THAN	TIME
Check if the purchase occurred more than X (Max = 50) number of times	MORE THAN	in the past Y Days (Y = 1,3,7,14,21,30)
Check if the purchase occurred less than X (Max = 50) number of times	LESS THAN	in the past Y Days (Y = 1,3,7,14,21,30)
Check if the purchase occurred exactly X (Max = 50) number of times	EXACTLY	in the past Y Days (Y = 1,3,7,14,21,30)

Example of Filtering based on Purchase Event:

Purchase event analytics

In addition to tracking purchase metrics for segmentation, Braze also notes the number purchases for each product and the revenue generated over time. You can view this data on the Revenue page.

Purchase event properties

With purchase event properties, you can set properties on purchases that can be used to further qualify trigger conditions, increase personalization in messaging, and generate more sophisticated analytics through raw data export. Property value types (string, numeric, boolean, date) vary per platform, and are often assigned as key-value pairs.

For example, if an eCommerce application wanted to send a message to a user after they have made a purchase, they could additionally improve their target audience and allow for increased campaign personalization by adding a purchase event property of brand_name.

Example of Triggering based on Purchase Event Properties:

Refer to Purchase Properties Object for more.

Event property segmentation

Event property segmentation allows you to target users based not just on custom events taken but the properties associated with those events. This feature adds additional filtering options when segmenting purchase and custom events.

These segmentation filters include:

• Has done custom event with property Y with value V X times in the last Y days.
• Has made any purchases with property Y with value V X times in the last Y days.
• Adds the ability to segment within 1, 3, 7, 14, 21, and 30 days.

Unlike with segment extensions, segments used are updated in real-time, support an unlimited amount of segments, offer a look back history of at most 30 days, and incur data points. Because of the additional data point charge, you must reach out to your Braze customer success manager to get event properties turned on for your custom events. Once approved, additional properties can be added in the dashboard under Manage Settings > Custom Events > Manage Properties and used in the target step of the campaign or Canvas builder.

Canvas entry properties and event properties

You can leverage canvas_entry_properties and event_properties in your Canvas user journeys. Check out Canvas entry properties and event properties for more information and examples.

• Canvas Entry Properties
• Event Properties

Log purchases at the order level

If you would like to log purchases at the order level instead of the product level, you can use order name or order category as the product_id. Refer to our purchase object specification to learn more.