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How to set up user onboarding in a v0 app without a developer

A complete first-session flow in a v0 app — welcome, guided first action, getting-started list — built from three Clew items that follow the user through the app instead of one long tour on page load.

Time
● 40 minutes
Price
Tours free · rest 14-day trial
Who does it
You and the v0 chat

Example: user onboarding in a v0 app

A v0 dashboard app. The welcome modal waits 2 seconds on /dashboard, the tour runs on /dashboard/sources, and owners get a checklist on the second visit.

The product tour part is free on the Free plan (up to 3 published). The Modal, Checklist and audience rules are part of Pro: every new account gets a 14-day trial with everything included, no card. When the trial ends nothing is deleted and published items keep showing.

How to set up user onboarding in a v0 app, step by step

  1. Step 01

    Copy your Clew snippet

    Create a free account (or sign in), add your site and open Admin → Overview. Click the line in the “No signal from the widget yet.” card to copy it — it carries your real site key instead of the placeholder.

    <!-- Clew: replace PASTE_YOUR_SITE_KEY with the site key from Admin > Overview -->
    <script src="https://tryclew.io/widget/PASTE_YOUR_SITE_KEY.js" async></script>
    Clew admin Overview with the embed line and a masked site key (user onboarding in a v0 app)
    Step 1 · schematic illustration
  2. Step 02

    Open the chat of your v0 project

    Open the project in v0. v0 generates Next.js with the App Router, so the right file is app/layout.tsx.

    An app builder with the AI chat panel next to the preview (user onboarding in a v0 app)
    Step 2 · schematic illustration
  3. Step 03

    Send the prompt with your key

    Replace PASTE_YOUR_SITE_KEY with your key and send the prompt. It uses next/script, which is how Next.js loads third-party scripts.

    Add the Clew onboarding widget to this app.
    
    Insert this exact tag once so it loads on every page, including after client-side route changes:
    <script src="https://tryclew.io/widget/PASTE_YOUR_SITE_KEY.js" async></script>
    
    This is a v0 project on Next.js App Router: in app/layout.tsx import Script from "next/script" and add <Script src="(the same URL)" strategy="afterInteractive" /> inside <body>.
    
    After sign-in, call Clew.identify() with non-personal properties as strings that tell a new user from an existing one — for example { signup_source: "web", onboarded: "false", role: "owner" } — and update onboarded to "true" when the user completes the key action. If the widget may not have loaded yet, first define the queue stub: window.TutorKit = window.TutorKit || { q: [], identify: function (p) { this.q.push(["identify", p]); } }; then call window.TutorKit.identify(...). Also add data-tour attributes to the main navigation and the primary create button. Never pass names or emails.
    
    Rules:
    - Use the script URL exactly as given. Do not download it, bundle it or install an npm package.
    - If the project sets a Content-Security-Policy, allow https://tryclew.io in script-src and connect-src.
    - Change nothing else and show me the diff.
    AI chat with the Clew prompt in the message box (user onboarding in a v0 app)
    Step 3 · schematic illustration
  4. Step 04

    Check layout.tsx and deploy

    Expect a <Script> element in app/layout.tsx. Then Deploy to Vercel and open the production URL.

    Code diff with a Script component added to the root layout (user onboarding in a v0 app)
    Step 4 · schematic illustration
  5. Step 05

    Create the three onboarding items

    In Clew create three items in Flows: a Modal window with one welcome sentence and a link to the key screen; a Step-by-step tooltips tour of 3–4 steps on that screen, built with Edit on your site and Pick element; and a Onboarding checklist with the remaining setup tasks.

    A welcome popup, a tour tooltip and a checklist panel shown as three stages of user onboarding (user onboarding in a v0 app)
    Step 5 · schematic illustration
  6. Step 06

    Choose where, when and for whom it shows

    In the same editor, set Where to show (page URL), When to show, Audience targeting and Frequency. These are the settings of the example above:

    SettingValue
    Welcome popup
    FormatModal window
    Where to show (page URL)Exact path /dashboard
    When to showAfter N seconds: 2 seconds
    Audience targetingNo rules — everyone who opens the page
    FrequencyOnce per visitor
    Product tour
    FormatStep-by-step tooltips
    Where to show (page URL)Section by prefix /dashboard/sources
    When to showRight on page load
    Audience targetingNo rules — everyone who opens the page
    FrequencyOnce per visitor
    Checklist
    FormatOnboarding checklist
    Where to show (page URL)Section by prefix /dashboard
    When to showOn the Nth visit: 2
    Audience targetingProperty role equals owner
    FrequencyOnce per visitor
    Clew tour editor with the format, page URL rule, trigger and audience rule fields (user onboarding in a v0 app)
    Step 6 · schematic illustration
  7. Step 07

    Publish and check it on the live site

    Set Status to Published and save. Open the page in a private window — Clew remembers who has already seen a “once” item, so your usual browser may skip it. Views, completions and drop-offs appear in the tour stats.

    Clew admin Overview with the green “Widget is live” card (user onboarding in a v0 app)
    Step 7 · schematic illustration

Pitfalls: user onboarding in a v0 app

Server components can’t call identify

Clew.identify() runs in the browser. It belongs in a client component ("use client") that has the session, not in a server component or layout.

Wait for data before pointing at charts

Dashboards render placeholders first. Anchor steps to headings and buttons, or use After N seconds of a couple of seconds so the user onboarding appears after the data.

The welcome popup must not fire for existing users

“Once per visitor” is per browser: an old customer on a new laptop is a new visitor. If your app knows the user, add a rule on a property like onboarded so long-time users skip the welcome.

Don’t start everything on one page

If the popup, the tour and the checklist all match the same URL, only one starts and the others wait. Give each item its own page or trigger, as in the table above.

Questions and answers

Does SSR cause a flash?

No. The widget renders in the browser after hydration, above the page.

Why not a plain script tag in v0?

In the App Router, next/script is the supported way to add third-party scripts; a raw tag in a component may render twice or not at all.

Which parts are free?

Tours are free on the Free plan. The welcome popup, the checklist and audience rules are in Pro; the 14-day trial includes them all, no card.

How long does it take?

About forty minutes for a first version: ten for the popup, twenty for the tour, ten for the checklist. Then improve by the funnel.

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