Follow these steps to connect your ActiveCampaign data to Supermetrics.
If you need to connect this data source to one of our data warehouse or cloud storage destinations, explore our prerequisite and filling guides.
Before you begin
Before using the ActiveCampaign connector, you need a copy of your API URL and API key and appropriate permissions for data access on your account.
Depending on your needs, your account needs access to the following objects in ActiveCampaign:
- Campaigns
- Deals
- Accounts
- Contacts
Each user in ActiveCampaign has their own API URL and API key. To get these:
- Log into ActiveCampaign with your account.
- Navigate to Settings → Developer.
- Copy the URL and key from the API Access section.
Query types
- Campaigns report: Follow the performance of your email campaigns.
- Deals report: Track the status of your sales deals.
- Accounts report: Fetch details of your customer accounts.
- Contacts report: Fetch details about your contacts.
Instructions
For Excel users
If your team uses Supermetrics for Excel, you'll see different options for managing and sharing data source connections in that destination. Learn more.
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 the Supermetrics sidebar.
- Click Create new query.
- Under Data source, select ActiveCampaign.
- Enter a name for your account for you to identify it later.
- Enter the API URL and API key.
- Click Start.
- Select your accounts.
Learn about advanced settings, best practices, and troubleshooting tips for Supermetrics for Google Sheets.
Make sure you've connected Supermetrics to Data Studio before following the steps below.
- Open the Supermetrics data source gallery.
- Navigate to ActiveCampaign 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 a name for your account for you to identify it later.
- Enter the API URL and API key.
- Click Start.
- Select your accounts.
- Click Connect on the top right-hand side.
- 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 ActiveCampaign.
- Choose if this connection should be shared or private.
- Enter a name for your account for you to identify it later.
- Enter the API URL and API key.
- Click Start.
- Select your accounts.
Learn about advanced settings, best practices, and troubleshooting tips for Supermetrics for Excel.