This guide will walk you through how to authenticate or reauthenticate Clockify in Supermetrics for Google Sheets, Data Studio, and Excel.
Before you begin
To connect Supermetrics to Clockify, you need:
- An Admin user role level. Learn more about Clockify permissions.
- An API key. Learn how to generate this token in Clockify.
With Clockify, you can:
- Track time spent (duration) for different tasks by time entries.
- Track cost/billable amount for different projects.
- Fetch data by time, by user, by client, or by project.
- Fetch billable and non-billable hours separately, and see what is the effective billing rate across your employees and projects.
- See how actual hours and costs compare to budgeted costs and time estimates.
Instructions
- Open a new Google Sheets file.
- Navigate to Extensions → Supermetrics → Launch to open the Supermetrics sidebar.
- Under Data source, select Clockify.
- Enter your Account name and API key and click Start.
- Select your accounts.
When you're ready, learn how to create your first Supermetrics query with Clockify.
- Open the Supermetrics data source gallery.
- Navigate to Clockify and click Try.
- Click Authorize.
- 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.
- Enter your Account name and API key and click Start.
- Select your accounts.
- Click Connect on the top right-hand side.
- Click Create report.
- Click Add to report to complete the authentication steps.
When you're ready, learn how to create your first Supermetrics query with Clockify.
Add or remove a user account in Data Studio
- Click the edit icon next to the data source's name in the Data Studio sidebar.
- At the top left of the connection pane, click Edit connection.
- Scroll down to Parameters.
- Browse team, account, and license management options in the section beginning "To add more/manage accounts..."
Connections
If you use Excel and no other Supermetrics products, you’ll be able to connect accounts to data sources and share these connections with your team. You can manage connections either within the add-in sidebar or via the Supermetrics Team Site. Learn more about shared connections.
Before you can authenticate the data source in Excel, you need to install the Supermetrics add-in.
- Open an Excel file.
- Click Data → Show Supermetrics.
- Under Data source, select Clockify.
- Choose if this connection should be shared or private.
- Enter your Account name and API key and click Start.
- Select your accounts.
When you're ready, learn how to create your first Supermetrics query with Clockify.
Explore our guides to set up data transfers to various destinations.
- BigQuery
- Data warehouses and cloud storage (Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Snowflake, Azure Storage, or Azure Synapse)
- The Supermetrics API
Reauthenticate
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.