💡 track sessions manually

[bcaudan]

From @scottalguire

Our clients install our widget on their website and we want to start recording a session once opened and stop once closed.

If we init on open, and stopSession on close, a new session will start again automatically when the user interacts with the webpage further, even if they never open our widget again. We really need a way to start/stop sessions manually so the surrounding website isn't polluting our data with irrelevant interactions and errors.

[bcaudan]

We could consider a dedicated configuration (similar to trackViewsManually) to let you start and stop the session manually instead of our current behaviours of starting the session on init or re-start a session on user interaction.
We'll let you know here if we make progress on this topic.

[Bertie-Chapman]

This would be a very welcome feature, especially in the context of SPA. With the pricing model being per session it is undesirable that sessions are created automatically after init has been called. It would be fantastic if the configuration could be changed on the manual start of a new session also.