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Link data between Opticks and your systems

There are some occasions where you need to link your own data with Opticks individual assessments. This is very helpful if you have some data with your own identifiers (e.g. transaction ids, conversion identifiers...) and you want to cross-reference it with Opticks analyses for an in-deep assessment of a particular transaction of yours. This is done by using the external_id macro.

This data linking is beneficial for every use case:

  • If you are an agency or advertiser who uses affiliate or ad networks and you want to keep track of every visit that comes from an external platform, so in the case of fraudulent events you are able to backtrack it and be completely informed if some disputes happen.
  • If you are an advertiser who uses Google Ads and you want to be able to open a dispute with Google because the quality of some of the clicks.
  • Or even if you just want to have complete traceability within Opticks of the interactions that happens outside Opticks reach.

How to feed external_id data​

You can report external_ids at any point you have an interaction with Opticks servers via macros in the URL. The usual way is to include the external_id macro in your campaign tracking links (i.e. adding &external_id=your_platform_unique_id at the end of the URL). By doing that, you can use your custom unique id's in several features such as Session Forensics or Reports.

Please get in touch with our customer support team at support@optickssecurity.com if you have questions regarding how to send your unique ID's to Opticks.