Follow these steps to connect your Impact data to Supermetrics and use your data in Google Sheets, Looker Studio, Excel, and Power BI, 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
Before using the Impact connector, you need a copy of your Account SID and Auth Token.
Get your Account SID and Auth Token
- Log in to the Impact.com platform.
- From the bottom left, navigate to Settings.
- Under Technical, navigate to API.
- Under the API Access tab, you can find your Account SID and Auth Token.
Query types
- Performance by Ad / Partner / Date: Get performance data aggregated on an ad, partner, and daily level.
- Performance by Partner group: Get performance data aggregated on the partner group level. This report only returns data for Partners that are part of a Partner group.
- Performance by Country: Get performance data aggregated on the country level.
- Advanced action listing: List all actions and their details generated in a selected date range.
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 Impact.
- Enter your Account SID and Auth Token.
- 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 Impact 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 "Impact requires authorization to connect to data").
- Select a team that has access to the account you want to connect.
- Enter your Account SID and Auth Token.
- 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.
- 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 Impact.
- Choose to make this connection shared or private.
- Click Start.
- Enter your Account SID and Auth Token.
- 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 Export, click Power BI.
- Click Select data source.
- Select the Impact data source.
- Enter your Account SID and Auth Token.
- 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.
- Click Run query to test your query.
- 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 Impact data source.
- Enter your Account SID and Auth Token.
- 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 Impact data source, and click Connect.
- Enter your Account SID and Auth Token.
- 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.