This guide will walk you through how to authenticate or reauthenticate Pardot in Supermetrics for Google Sheets, Data Studio, and Excel.
Before you begin
To connect Supermetrics to Pardot, you need a user account in a Salesforce instance that's connected to Pardot, and a Pardot business unit ID.
- Log in to Salesforce.
- On the top right-hand side, click Setup.
- In the left-hand menu, navigate down to Platform Tools → Pardot → Pardot Account Setup.
- Copy the Business unit ID and Business unit name to your notepad. Keep them safe — you'll need them when you authenticate Pardot in Supermetrics for the first time.
If you can’t access the Pardot account's setup information, ask your Salesforce Administrator to provide you with the Pardot Business unit ID.
Instructions
- Open a new Google Sheets file.
- Navigate to Extensions → Supermetrics → Launch to open the Supermetrics sidebar.
- Under Data source, select Pardot.
- Enter your Business unit ID and Business unit name and click Start.
- Select the accounts you'd like to include in your reporting.
When you're ready, learn how to create your first Supermetrics query with Pardot.
- Open the Supermetrics data source gallery.
- Navigate to Pardot 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 Business unit ID and Business unit name and click Start.
- Select the accounts you'd like to include in your reporting.
- Click Connect on the top right-hand side.
- Click Create report.
- Click Add to report.
When you're ready, learn how to create your first Supermetrics query with Pardot.
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 Pardot.
- Enter your Business unit ID and Business unit name and click Start.
- Select the accounts you'd like to include in your reporting.
When you're ready, learn how to create your first Supermetrics query with Pardot.
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.