New Feature: Mirror SST visitor ID’s back into your own forms
So it's great that Simple Startup Tools tracks all this information per-visitor, and it's great that you can download it all together in a CSV format.
But how do you correlate those visitors with your own databases of form data? You have your own data stores, and you don't want to have to do a "squishy" join like "hope the email address is the same."
What you really need is to copy the Simple Startup Tools "Visitor ID" value into your own form, submitted to your own database. Then you just store it as-is, and later you can join your tables with ours with 100% accuracy. And speed, for that matter.
All you have to do is add a new hidden input field to your form, like this:
<input type="hidden" name="sst_visitor_id">
We'll detect that form field automatically (by its name) and fill it with the correct value. All you need to do is store the value when it comes back to your server.
That's it! No configuration, no additional installation, no additional code.
Enjoy.
P.S. The only time you should get a blank value is if Javascript is disabled, in which case SST doesn't work anyway.