Optional funnel steps

[lukaszolek]

Is your feature request related to a problem?

I have a problem with excluding from my funnels the most important steps (purchases) due to some problems with collecting previous events (e.g. due to ad blocks on the browser).

Describe the solution you'd like

I'd like to mark some steps as optional - they would be shown as statistics, but lack of their presents would't exclude former events from the funnel.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Now I need to have separate funnel insights - one for statistical reasons to see how people convert before purchase, and second for the purchase to make sure no purchase event is left.

[MarconLP]

+1 https://posthog.com/questions/is-there-a-way-to-make-some-steps-optional-in-a-funnel-as-long-as-conversion-step-is-reached

[MarconLP]

+1 https://posthoghelp.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/10925

[camerondeleone]

+1 https://posthog.slack.com/archives/C0368RPHLQH/p1718823983361809

[camerondeleone]

+1 https://posthog.slack.com/archives/C07D7PW810R/p1722528045040799

[tormodfj]

This would indeed be of great value to my team. We have wizard-like workflows in our apps, where choices you make will affect the path you end up taking towards the end goal, entering or skipping optional steps along the way.

Being able to represent this in a single funnel would be a major improvement. Optional steps not visited could be marked as skipped for those users/sessions that proceed directly to later steps in the funnel.

This is one of the few things Matomo does well.