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Custom register fields

Custom register fields are additional fields on the paywall’s registration form. They can be used to gather all kinds of metadata from your customers. These details will help you discover, identify and describe your customers, and understand their connection and feelings about your product or service.

For each of the custom register fields, you can set up whether they are going to be required or non-required.

You will find the Custom register fields feature in the Authentication tab of the Dashboard settings.

Adding custom register fields

To add a custom field, click Add custom field.

There are several different types of custom fields.

Text field

The text input field is where your customers can type in text.

  • Database label – This is the name of the field which is stored in the database. Your customers will not see this. Make sure not to include any blank spaces or special characters, except _.
  • Paywall label – Here you can type in a short description that will tell the customers what they should enter in the field.
  • Default value – This is going to be the default text in the field. You can leave this blank.

The dropdown menu field lets you add a drop-down menu to the registration form.

  • Database label – This is the name of the field which is stored in the database. Your customers will not see this. Make sure not to include any blank spaces or special characters, except _.
  • Paywall label – Here you can type in a short description for the field.
  • Dropdown menu entries – This is where you add the drop-down menu entries.
    • Database label – This is the title of the entry that will be written in the database. Your customers will not see this. Make sure not to include any blank spaces or special characters, except _.
    • Paywall label – This is the title of the entry that will appear on the paywall, and what your customers will actually see.

Once you set up an entry, make sure to click the + button on the right of it to save it.
You can add up to 30 entries.

Radio button

The radio button field lets you add a set of multiple options from which the customer will have to select only one.

  • Database label – This is the name of the field which is stored in the database. Your customers will not see this. Make sure not to include any blank spaces or special characters, except _.
  • Paywall label – Here you can type in the description or title of the field that your customers will see.
  • Radio button entries – This is where you add the multiple options.
    • Database label – This is the title of the option that will be written in the database. Your customers will not see this. Make sure not to include any blank spaces or special characters, except _.
    • Paywall label – This is the title of the option that will appear on the paywall, and what your customers will actually see.

Once you set up an option, make sure to click the + button on the right of it to save it.

Checkbox

The checkbox field lets you add a checkbox.

  • Database label – This is the name of the field which is stored in the database. Your customers will not see this. Make sure not to include any blank spaces or special characters, except _.
  • Paywall label – Here you can type in the description or title of the field that your customers will see.
  • Default value – Set whether the field will be checked or unchecked by default.

A very useful feature of the Checkbox custom register field is that you can add a hyperlink to the Paywall label text.
To do this, select the text you want to hyperlink to and click  .

When getting an audience report, the values for a checkbox field will be one of the following:
blank – customer did not check the checkbox field on registration and has never checked it since,
on – customer currently has the checkbox field checked,
off – customer had the checkbox field checked, but they have currently unchecked it.

Country list

With the country list, your customers can select their country.

  • Paywall label – Here you can type in a short description for the field.

Date picker

This will include a date picker field.

  • Database label – This is the name of the field which is stored in the database. Your customers will not see this. Make sure not to include any blank spaces or special characters, except _.
  • Paywall label – Here you can type in the description or title of the field that your customers will see.

Modifying custom register fields

Once created, the custom fields can always be modified.
To do this, just open the field you wish to edit by clicking on the  button next to it.

Removing a custom field

To remove a custom field, just open it, and click the Delete field button.

Getting the metadata from the custom fields

The customer metadata gathered from the custom fields can be accessed and exported at any time

To do this, go to the Audience tab of your InPlayer Dashboard.

To get the customers’ metadata, click on the  button on the right, under the Edit column in the customer’s row.

In the METADATA section, you can see the metadata that was gathered from the customer upon registration.

Additionally, if you want to export the data for a report, you can always do so by clicking on Generate report in the Audience tab.

Here, in Select report columns, you can select all the fields you wish to include in your report, along with the timeframe for it.

Then click Generate.

To view the report, click on View reports.

From there you can download the report as a CSV file and use it in any way you wish.

This concludes our guide.

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact us at clients@inplayer.com.