Follow these instructions 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 data warehouse and cloud storage setup 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 the API key safe.
- To get your API URL, replace {server} in the following URL with the name of your Affluent server: https://{server}-api.affluent.io/
- Find your Affluent server name in your Affluent URL. For example, for the Affluent URL accountname.affluent.io/, the server name is accountname.
- Don't forget to include / at the end of your API URL.
Query types
- Performance: Fetches detailed performance data for affiliate marketing campaigns.
Instructions
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.
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Make sure you've connected Supermetrics to Looker Studio before following the steps below.
- Open the Supermetrics Looker Studio data source gallery.
- Navigate to Affluent and click Start free trial.
- You'll see two buttons that read Authorize. If you're using Supermetrics for the first time, click the left-hand one and log in with the Google Account you use with Supermetrics.
- Once that's done, or if you've done it before, click the right-hand Authorize button (under "Affluent requires authorization to connect to data").
- Select a team that has access to the account you want to connect.
- Choose to make this connection shared or private.
- Click Start.
- Enter your credentials, and click Log in.
- Click Allow.
- Select a query type and 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.
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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.
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