Follow these steps to connect your Everflow data to Supermetrics and use your data in Google Sheets, Looker Studio, and Excel, as well as the Supermetrics API. You can also connect to data sources from the Supermetrics Hub.
You can share your data source connection with your team and use the connection across all data destinations you use with Supermetrics. Learn more about shared connections.
Before you begin
To connect Supermetrics to your Everflow account, you need to create an API key.
- Log in to the Everflow platform
- From the left menu, expand the menu by clicking on the arrow icon at the bottom.
- From the menu navigate to Control Center → Security.
- Click + API key.
- Give a name for your API key, select the employee, and select at least the permission Reporting.
- Click Create API Key.
Your key will be displayed in the Generated Keys table.
Query types
- Performance: Measure the performance of your affiliate partners.
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 Everflow.
- Enter your API Key.
- Give your login a name. The name can be anything — its purpose is for you to recognize the login later in case you have multiple logins.
- Choose to make this connection shared or private.
- Click Start.
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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 Everflow 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 "Everflow requires authorization to connect to data").
- Select a team that has access to the account you want to connect.
- Enter your API Key.
- Give your login a name. The name can be anything — its purpose is for you to recognize the login later in case you have multiple logins.
- Choose to make this connection shared or private.
- Click Start.
- Select a query type, and click Next.
- 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 Everflow.
- Enter your API Key.
- Give your login a name. The name can be anything — its purpose is for you to recognize the login later in case you have multiple logins.
- Choose to make this connection shared or private.
- Click Start.
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- Log in to the Supermetrics Hub.
- In the left-side menu, under Transform, click Query Manager (API).
- Select for Supermetrics API from the dropdown menu next to the page title.
- Click Select data source.
- Select the Everflow data source.
- Enter your API Key.
- Give your login a name. The name can be anything — its purpose is for you to recognize the login later in case you have multiple logins.
- Click Start.
- Fill in the query details. See detailed instructions on how to set up a Supermetrics API query in Query Manager.
- Click Run to test your query.
- Log in to the Supermetrics Hub.
- In the left-side menu, select Connect → Data sources.
- Scroll down to the list of data sources you haven't connected to. You see this list below your existing connections, under the title Connect to new data source.
- Hover over the Everflow data source, and click Connect.
- Enter your API Key.
- Give your login a name. The name can be anything — its purpose is for you to recognize the login later in case you have multiple logins.
- Click Start.