New In LeadCapture (May-June): Lead Quality, Integrations, Data, and More!
Summary
Another big round of updates in May - June, and one of our biggest yet on the tracking, data and lead quality side.
This release leaned hard into two things: tracking and attribution, and lead qualification. On the tracking side, we shipped our first public API, a server-side Google Ads integration, a direct Everflow integration, Google Enhanced Conversions, and a big expansion of what you can push to your data layer and Google Tag Manager. On the lead quality side, we reimagined how you block bad leads, by email, domain, and IP, and launched zip code validation to keep bad geography out of your funnels. On top of that, a stack of builder and page experience upgrades that give you more control. Keep reading for the full list.
What We Shipped
Tracking, Attribution & Data
Custom Data Attributes
- Add custom data attributes to nearly any part of your form or lead capture page: form questions, funnel steps, even the form name itself.
- Push those attributes into the data layer so you can pick them up in Google Tag Manager and use them for deeper analysis and tracking.
- One of the bigger updates this round if you run serious analytics on your forms and lead capture pages.
Pass All Events to Google Tag Manager
- You can now pass all of your funnel events through to Google Tag Manager at the end of the flow.
- More complete event data flowing into your own tracking stack, with less setup on your side.
Lead Capture Data API
- Our first public API. Pull all of your lead data and full lead payloads into any ETL or data analytics system.
- Built for deeper analysis and for compliance, so your leads can live in your own warehouse right next to the rest of your business data.
- This is an Enterprise feature or add-on. Reach out to us to get access enabled.
Google Ads Server-Side Integration
- A new server-side integration for Google Ads that works much like a CAPI setup.
- Push conversion events to Google Ads server-side for more accurate tracking, and it works alongside Enhanced Conversions.
- Currently under review, but the beta is ready to use now.
Google Enhanced Conversions
- Send a hashed email address or phone number back to Google if you rely on Enhanced Conversions.
- Better match rates and more accurate conversion tracking, without exposing raw customer data.
Everflow Integration
- A direct Everflow integration built right into LeadCapture.
- Removes the friction of manual setup and lets you accurately track leads back to the Everflow platform. A big one for anyone driving traffic through affiliates.
OpenAI ChatGPT Ads Integration
- An integration and a tutorial for running ads on OpenAI's ChatGPT ads platform.
- Get set up to track and capture leads from a brand new traffic source.
Lead Qualification & Fraud Prevention
Block Leads by Email, Domain & IP
- Outright block spam leads and sophisticated fraudsters at the source. Block by email address, by domain, or by IP.
- Apply a block at a single form level or across your entire account. As bad leads come in, you can drop them straight onto your own block list.
- Flip on our universal block list with a single switch, at no additional fee.
- Pairs perfectly with our click-fraud integration.
Zip Code Validation
- Stop bad zip codes from getting through. Built for local services, mortgage, real estate, and anyone who works by geography.
- Add unwanted zip codes to a block list, or upload a data source of accepted zip codes by paste or CSV, so only those get through.
- Turn on zip code autofill from your own data source. Think Google address autocomplete, but powered by your list, to lift completion and conversion.
Partial Leads OTP
- More control when you combine partial leads with OTP.
- Set it to only activate when a phone number is entered, so you capture partial, OTP phone-verified leads exactly the way you want.
Lead Delivery, Redirects & Flow
Ping Post System Support
- Support for ping post use cases: TCPA dynamic consent, pinging a system mid-funnel to dynamically show something, or making a real-time update.
- Depending on the integration you connect to, some cases will need custom development. If you have a ping post use case, reach out and we will help you get it set up.
Enhanced Dynamic Redirects
- A set of upgrades to how dynamic redirects work. A loading spinner with a customizable message now shows while you wait on the response.
- Set your own custom timeout, so if the dynamic URL does not come back you can show a message or send the lead to another step.
- New conditional dynamic redirects: based on the response that comes back, route the lead to another step in your funnel or to another page.
Redirect to an External URL
- You can now redirect to an external URL at the end of your flow, alongside the redirect options you already had.
Builder & Page Experience
Dynamic Car Make, Model & Year Fields
- A new field system for car make, model, and year, with all the logos built in.
- Perfect for auto insurance and any funnel that needs vehicle details. This data is normally painful to source and keep current. We handle it for you and keep it updated.
Adjustable Button & Field Sizes
- Control the size of your form buttons and fields. Making them much larger used to be difficult. Now it is a simple setting.
Button Helper Text
- Add helper text inside your buttons to give more context around each option, for when a button needs a little more explanation.
Custom Icon Upload
- Upload your own custom icons and use them across your pages.
Optional Progress Indicator
- If you would rather not show a progress indicator at all, you can now turn it off completely.
Restart Form Button
- Give people the option to restart your form once they reach the end, in a single click.
Star Rating & NPS Logic
- Add star rating or NPS logic to your funnel with conditional branching.
- Great for running NPS surveys or gathering reviews, then routing people based on how they respond.
Embedding & Hosting
Embed the Full Funnel
- A new way to embed. Beyond connecting your own domain or embedding just the form, you can now embed an entire funnel, with all of its components, into another page.
- Use it when you want to drop a complete funnel experience inside a page you already have.
Custom 404 Pages
- Set your own custom 404 page inside LeadCapture when you host your pages here with your own domain. A cleaner experience for your visitors when something is not found.
What's Coming Next
- Carousel logo walls, with insurance logos built in for those of you in the insurance space.
- Calculations for mortgage and real estate forms, something we are actively exploring.
- More data enrichment capabilities.
- Embed API, the next step after the Data API. More on that soon.
- More general improvements and more updates to be shared soon.
Founder Note
This round was centered on three things I care deeply about: your data, your tracking, and your lead quality.
Sending the right conversion data back to platforms like Meta, Google, Google Tag Manager, and Everflow has always mattered, but it is becoming more important every day as advertising platforms rely more heavily on AI and algorithms to optimize campaigns.
One of my biggest learnings in lead generation is that the quality of the conversion data you send back has a direct impact on the quality of the leads you generate. Send incomplete data, delayed data, or the wrong signals, and the platforms continue optimizing toward the wrong outcomes.
That is why we have spent so much time making it easier for LeadCapture to connect with advertising platforms on both the frontend and server side, while also giving you more control over the events and information available in your data layer.
At the same time, lead data has historically been something platforms hold onto and hand back to you in bits and pieces. With the Data API and everything we shipped around the data layer, we are finding new ways to put that control back into your hands.
At the end of the day, the goal is simple: your leads, your data, in your systems, ready for whatever analysis, compliance, or lead qualification work you need to do.
On the lead quality side, blocking bad leads used to mean emailing us and waiting for a server-side fix. Now it is in your hands, whether you want to apply rules at the funnel level or across your entire account, with zip code validation layered on top. That means fewer junk leads, less wasted spend, and more of the leads you actually want.
A lot of what we focused on this round is not flashy, although some of it certainly is. These updates are the kind of infrastructure that quietly makes your entire operation run better. They are also the kinds of capabilities generic AI tools and basic form builders often do not have, do not understand, and would not even know to build.
That is because every update in this release cycle and every decision behind it came directly from all of you, from the people working in the trenches every day.
We are building in real time alongside all of you, and I could not be more excited about where we are heading. Please keep the ideas and feedback coming.
Thanks, as always, for building with me.
John