This guide gives instructions on how to successfully authenticate Pinterest Ads with Google Sheets, Google Data Studio, and Microsoft Excel.
Quick links to specific sections:
Google Sheets
Data Studio
- Authenticating with Data Studio
- Adding additional user accounts or removing old ones with Data Studio
- Team management with Data Studio
Excel
"If everything fails..."
Data Source Access Requirements:
Before authenticating the connector, please make sure you have gone through the rights and permissions required for this data source. To learn more, please refer to this guide:
Access requirement for user account:
- Valid Pinterest user account with at least Admin or Campaign access to an ad account.
Authenticating with Google Sheets:
This guide assumes that you have already installed the Supermetrics add-on for Google Sheets. If you haven't installed the add-on yet, see First steps: Getting the Supermetrics Sidebar in Google Sheets.
To authenticate Pinterest Ads in Google Sheets, please do the following steps:
1. Open up the Supermetrics sidebar in your Google Sheets.
2. Select Pinterest Ads in the sidebar, under data source.
3. Insert your credentials and click on log in.
3. Click on give access. If you wish to learn more about data security and data privacy, please see this page.
4. You have completed all the authentication steps. Now you can see the user account you logged in with, under Data Source.
Re-authenticating with Google Sheets:
To re-authenticate the connector in Google Sheets, please go to this guide.
Authenticating with Data Studio:
To authenticate Pinterest Ads in Google Data Studio, please do the following steps:
1. Click on add data.
2. Search for Pinterest Ads by Supermetrics and click on it.
2. Click on authorize. If you wish to learn more about data security and data privacy, please see this page.
3. Insert your credentials and click on log in.
4. Click on give access. If you wish to learn more about data security and data privacy, please see this page.
5. Select your account/s under "select accounts" to proceed.
6. Click on add on the bottom right side to continue.
7. As a final step, click on add to report.
Adding additional user accounts or removing old ones with Data Studio
1. Click on the link below to add additional user accounts or to remove old user accounts. If you don't need to add/remove user accounts, you can skip this step.
2. If you wish to add a user account, click on Add Pinterest Ads user account. If you wish to remove a user account, click on the bin icon. To continue with the same user account, click on continue.
Team management with Data Studio
From the link below, you can access your team management page, where you can change assigned users on your licenses, add new team members, etc. For more details, please see Team Management Basics.
Re-authenticating with Data Studio:
To re-authenticate the connector in Data Studio, please go to this guide.
Authenticating with Excel:
This guide assumes that you have already installed the Supermetrics add-on for Excel. If you haven't installed the add-on yet, see First steps: Getting the Supermetrics Sidebar into Excel.
To authenticate Pinterest Ads in Excel, please do the following steps:
1. Click on data and open up the Supermetrics sidebar in Excel.
2. Select Pinterest Ads in the sidebar under data source.
3. An automatic popup will open, click on start.
4. Insert your credentials and click on log in.
5. Click on give access. If you wish to learn more about data consent, please see our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
6. You have completed all the authentication steps. Now you can see the user account you logged in with, under Data Source.
Re-authenticating with Excel:
To re-authenticate the connector in Excel, please go to this guide.
"If everything fails..."
Common errors:
If you encounter any of the following errors below, please see the guide linked after the error message.
- Error: "Authentication failed" & "You need to re-authenticate at X and then run the query again.", please see this guide.
- Error: "This was a reauthorization request for user X but logged in as user Y", please see this guide.
- Error: "You're not allowed to run queries with this license #12345. This is because you have not been assigned to the license as a valid user." please see this guide.
- Error: "This action is not supported when you are signed into multiple accounts". please see this guide.
- If you no longer see a specific account/page/etc. when logging in, please see this guide.
- If you haven't managed to authenticate you might be affected by an issue at Google account management. For more information, please see this guide.
Forcing a refresh per account data & removing a data source:
To force a refresh per data source, please see this guide.
To remove a data source from Google Sheets, please see this guide.
To remove a data source from Data Studio, please see this guide.
To remove a data source from Excel, please see this guide.
Further assistance
If you have followed all the above steps and you still encounter an authentication error, please create a new support request with the details of the issue and we will assist you.