Use this guide to learn how to connect your Capterra PPC or Capterra Reviews data to Supermetrics. Both of these data sources follow the same steps, with a few minor variations.
If you need to connect either of these data sources to one of our data warehouse or cloud storage destinations, explore our data warehouse and cloud storage setup guides.
Before you begin
To connect Supermetrics to Capterra PPC, you need:
- API access and an API key enabled by the Capterra account manager.
To connect Supermetrics to Capterra Reviews, you need:
- A Capterra product identifier for search. This identifier can be taken from the URL of the product page in Capterra.
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 Capterra PPC or Capterra Reviews.
- To connect Capterra PPC, enter your account name and API key, and click Start.
- To connect Capterra Reviews, click Start, and then navigate to Report configuration. Enter your software ID in the field of the same name.
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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 Capterra PPC or Capterra Reviews 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 "Capterra PPC, or Capterra Reviews, 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.
- To connect Capterra PPC, enter your account name and API key, and click Start.
- To connect Capterra Reviews, click Start, and then navigate to Report configuration. Enter your software ID in the field of the same name.
- 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 Capterra PPC or Capterra Reviews.
- Choose to make this connection shared or private.
- To connect Capterra PPC, enter your account name and API key, and click Start.
- To connect Capterra Reviews, click Start, and then navigate to Report configuration. Enter your software ID in the field of the same name.
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