This guide contains all permissions and requirements for connecting your LinkedIn Revenue Attribution data to Supermetrics.
You can connect to data sources from the Data sources page on the Supermetrics Hub. On the Hub, you can also share an authentication link to connect to a data source you don't have direct access to.
After you connect to the data source on the Hub, you can use the data source connection in all available destinations.
Required permissions
Before using the Revenue Attribution report, make sure that you have completed the following prerequisite steps:
- Create a LinkedIn Business Manager account, and make sure that the person using the Supermetrics data source connector has Admin-level access to the Business Manager. Please follow the steps in LinkedIn's help.
- Claim your ad accounts in your Business Manager. Please follow the steps in LinkedIn's help.
- Connect your LinkedIn Business Manager account with your Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform and wait for your data to synchronize. This can take up to 72 hours to complete. Please follow the steps in LinkedIn's help.
- Connect to the Supermetrics application inside LinkedIn Business Manager. Please follow the steps in LinkedIn's help.
Note that when your query includes the "Campaign" dimension, the data is always aggregated for the last year (365 days back from today).
Connection instructions
When connecting to LinkedIn Revenue Attribution, you need to log in to LinkedIn and select the account from which to pull data when prompted.
- Select the LinkedIn Revenue Attribution data source on the Supermetrics Hub or in the data destination.
- If prompted, choose to make this connection shared or private.
- Click Start.
- Log in with a LinkedIn account that has administrator access to the Business Manager account. If you are already logged in to LinkedIn, this connection will be used.
- Select the ad accounts to use in your query.
- In your data destination, select the lookback window, influence level, and engagement type settings to use in your query.
See instructions on how to connect to a data source from the Supermetrics Hub.
You can also connect to LinkedIn Revenue Attribution from these destinations:
- Google Sheets: How to log in to a Supermetrics data source in Google Sheets
- Looker Studio: How to connect data sources to Looker Studio
- Excel: How to connect data sources to Excel with Supermetrics
- Power BI: How to create your first Supermetrics query for Power BI
- The Supermetrics API: How to use the Query Manager
- Data warehouse and cloud storage (Hub): How to create a transfer
- BigQuery (marketplace): How to create a BigQuery (marketplace) transfer
Troubleshooting
If you encounter any of the following errors while using the connector, please try the suggested action. If you are unable to resolve the issue, contact our support team.
Authentication error: “We cannot find any connected enterprise entity”
- Make sure that you're logged in with a LinkedIn account that has administrator access to the Business Manager account.
- Make sure that the Supermetric business integration is enabled within the LinkedIn Business Manager. See the Before you begin section of this article for details.
Queries return error “LinkedIn Revenue Attribution failure (Data Source Error: Unprocessable Content)”
Please ensure that your CRM is connected to LinkedIn. See the Before you begin section of this article for details.
Queries return error: “No Revenue attribution metrics are generated when a Business Manager account has 0 claimed ad accounts connected to the customer CRM”
Make sure that you have claimed your ad accounts in Business Manager. See the Before you begin section of this article for details.
Queries only return partial data
Your CRM and LinkedIn may not have completed the data synchronization yet. Check the data ingestion status in LinkedIn Business Manager.