Identifying Users

Genesis lets you link feature requests to users in your app so you can track who requested what.

Genesis.identify()

Call this method when you know who the logged-in user is:

Genesis.identify({
  id: 'usr_12345',
  email: 'jane@example.com',
  name: 'Jane Smith'
});

All three fields are optional. You can call identify() at any time — before or after the widget loads. The identity is applied to all subsequent submissions.

In a single-page app

// After your auth flow resolves
async function onLogin(user) {
  Genesis.identify({
    id: user.id,
    email: user.email,
    name: user.displayName
  });
}

Via data attributes

For server-rendered pages where the user is known at page load:

<script
  src="https://widget.usegenesis.dev/genesis.js"
  data-key="YOUR_API_KEY"
  data-user-id="<%= current_user.id %>"
  data-user-email="<%= current_user.email %>"
  data-user-name="<%= current_user.name %>"
></script>

What gets stored

Field	Source	Stored As
id	Your system’s user ID	submitter_id on the feature request
email	User’s email	submitter_email — also pre-fills the email field
name	User’s display name	submitter_name

The submitter_id is indexed, so you can filter requests by user in the dashboard.