This guide contains all permissions and requirements for connecting your Affluent data to Supermetrics.
You can connect to data sources from the Data sources page on the Supermetrics Hub. On the Hub, you can also share an authentication link to connect to a data source you don't have direct access to.
After you connect to the data source on the Hub, you can use the data source connection in all available destinations.
Required permissions
To connect Affluent to Supermetrics, you need:
- An API key
- An API URL
To get 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
If prompted, you need to select a query type to pull data.
- Performance: Fetches detailed performance data for affiliate marketing campaigns.
Connection instructions
When connecting to Affluent, you need to provide your API key and API URL.
- Select the Affluent data source on the Supermetrics Hub or in the data destination.
- Enter your API key and API URL.
- Give your login a name to recognize the login later if you have multiple logins.
- If prompted, choose to make this connection shared or private.
- Click Start.
- In your data destination, select a query type, if prompted.
See detailed instructions on how to connect to a data source from the Supermetrics Hub.
You can also connect to Affluent from these destinations:
- Google Sheets: How to log in to a Supermetrics data source in Google Sheets
- Looker Studio: How to connect data sources to Looker Studio
- Excel: How to connect data sources to Excel with Supermetrics
- Power BI: How to create your first Supermetrics query for Power BI
- The Supermetrics API: How to use the Query Manager
- Data warehouse and cloud storage (Hub): How to create a transfer
- BigQuery (marketplace): How to create a BigQuery (marketplace) transfer