This guide will walk you through how to authenticate or reauthenticate Mailchimp with Google Sheets, Google Data Studio, and Microsoft Excel, as well as data warehouse destinations like Google Cloud Storage, BigQuery, and the Supermetrics API.
Before you begin
To connect Supermetrics to Mailchimp, you need:
- A Mailchimp user account with an Owner or Admin user role level. See Mailchimp’s documentation for instructions on how to grant access for a user account.
Here’s an example of sufficient user permissions:
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Instructions
- Open a new Google Sheets file.
- Click Add-ons → Supermetrics → Launch to open the sidebar.
- Under Data source, select the data source.
- Click Start.
- Select an account.
- Click Allow.
- Under Select campaigns/lists, select your campaign/lists.
Reauthenticate
Learn how to reauthenticate the data source with Supermetrics in Google Sheets.
Next steps
Learn how to create your first Supermetrics query with Mailchimp.- Open the Supermetrics data source gallery.
- Navigate to the data source and click Try.
- Click Authorize to authorize Supermetrics in Data Studio.
If you're authenticating the data source for the first time, log in with the Google account you use with Supermetrics. Click Allow. - Click Authorize to log in to your data source.
- Enter your username and password, and click Log in.
- Select an account.
- Click Allow.
- Under Select campaigns/lists, select your campaigns. As optional, under Select timezone, select the timezone.
- Under Query type, select the query type.
- 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. - Click Connect on the top right-hand side. This will open a full list of fields available in this connector. You can skip this list.
- Click Create report.
- Click Add to report to complete the authentication steps.
Add or remove a user account
- To add or remove a user account, go back to the data source settings. Click on the link at the end of the sentence that starts with “To add more/manage user accounts…”
- Click +Add new account to add a new user account.
- Click the Trash icon to remove that specific user account.
- Click Continue to proceed with that user account.
Reauthenticate
Learn how to reauthenticate the data source with Supermetrics in Data Studio.
Next steps
Learn how to create your first Supermetrics query with Mailchimp.Before you can authenticate the data source in Excel, you need to
install the Supermetrics add-on.
- Open an Excel file.
- Click Data → Show Supermetrics.
- Under Data source, select the data source.
- Click Start.
- Select an account.
- Click Allow.
- Under Select campaigns/lists, select your campaign/lists.
Reauthenticate
Learn how to reauthenticate the data source with Supermetrics in Excel.
Next steps
Learn how to create your first Supermetrics query with Mailchimp.Explore our guides to set up data transfers to various destinations.
- Set up BigQuery
- Set up Data warehouse and cloud storage (Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Snowflake, Azure Storage, or Azure Synapse)
- Set up Supermetrics API
Reauthenticate the data source
Troubleshooting
- If you encounter an authentication error such as “authentication failed”, “you need to reauthenticate” or similar, see this guide.
- If you encounter a permission error such as “user permission denied” or similar, follow this guide.