Follow these instructins to connect your Affluent data to your Supermetrics reporting.
If you need to connect this data source to one of our data warehouse or cloud storage destinations, explore our prerequisite and filling guides.
Before you begin
To connect Affluent to Supermetrics, you need:
- An API key
- An API URL
How to find your API key and API URL
Contact your Affluent administrator to get the API key. Remember to keep it safe once you have it.
To get your API URL:
- For the API URL, replace {server} in this URL with the name of your Affluent server: https://{server}-api.affluent.io/
- Find your Affluent server name in your Affluent URL.
- For example, if your Affluent URL was accountname.affluent.io/, your server name would be accountname.
- Don't forget to include / at the end of your API URL.
Query types
Supermetrics offers the Performance query type, which fetches detailed performance data for affiliate marketing campaigns.
Instructions
For Excel users
If your team uses Supermetrics for Excel, you'll see different options for managing and sharing data source connections in that destination. Learn more.
Make sure you've installed the Supermetrics add-on before you connect.
- Open a new Google Sheets file.
- Navigate to Extensions → Supermetrics → Launch sidebar to open Supermetrics.
- Click Create new query.
- Under Data source, select Affluent.
- Click Start.
- Enter your credentials, and click Log in.
- Click Allow.
- Select the accounts you'd like to use in your Affluent reporting.
Learn about advanced settings, best practices, and troubleshooting tips for Supermetrics for Google Sheets.
Make sure you've connected Supermetrics to Data Studio before following the steps below.
- Open the Supermetrics data source gallery.
- Navigate to Affluent and click Try.
- Click Authorize.
- If you're connecting Affluent for the first time, log in with the Google Account you use with Supermetrics. Click Allow.
- Click Authorize.
- Enter your credentials, and click Log in.
- Click Allow.
- Select the accounts you'd like to use in your Affluent reporting.
- Scroll down to the bottom of the page. To create a report with our template, select Use report template for new reports. To create a blank report, deselect this option.
- In the pane's top right, click Connect.
- Click Create report.
- Click Add to report.
Learn about advanced settings, best practices, and troubleshooting tips for Supermetrics for Data Studio.
Make sure you've installed the Supermetrics add-on before you connect.
- Open an Excel file.
- Click Data → Show Supermetrics.
- Under Data source, select Affluent.
- Choose to make this connection shared or private.
- Click Start.
- Enter your credentials, and click Log in.
- Click Allow.
- Select the accounts you'd like to use in your Affluent reporting.
Learn about advanced settings, best practices, and troubleshooting tips for Supermetrics for Excel.