Supermetrics for SFTP
Connect Mailchimp to SFTP — Universal File Delivery
Deliver your Mailchimp email campaign data to any SFTP server as structured files. Archive open rates, click data, and subscriber engagement.
Why Connect Mailchimp to SFTP?
Store your raw Mailchimp data in SFTP for custom pipelines and full data ownership.
- Store every campaign's engagement data on your SFTP server for long-term analysis and subject line optimization.
- Combine email data with ad spend, web analytics, and CRM data on your SFTP server.
- Query email engagement patterns with your tools to find optimal send times and content strategies.
How to Connect Mailchimp to SFTP
Three steps. Under two minutes. Zero code.
- 1
Create a data transfer
Log into Supermetrics, select Mailchimp as your source and SFTP as your destination.
- 2
Configure your SFTP server
Enter your SFTP hostname, port, username, and password or SSH key. Choose the remote directory and file format for your data deliveries.
- 3
Set schedule and start transfer
Choose your delivery frequency (hourly, daily, or weekly) and click Start. Your Mailchimp data begins arriving as structured files on your SFTP server.
Mailchimp Data Format in SFTP
Supermetrics delivers your Mailchimp data in clean, structured files ready for downstream processing.
Comma-separated values — universally compatible and easy to inspect.
Structured key-value format — ideal for campaign metadata.
What to Build with Mailchimp Data in SFTP
Once your Mailchimp data lands in SFTP, here's what becomes possible.
Email-to-revenue attribution
Join Mailchimp campaign data with Shopify orders on your SFTP server to track email-driven revenue.
Engagement trend analysis
Query historical open and click rates with your tools to identify subscriber engagement trends.
What Mailchimp Data Can You Pull into SFTP?
Supermetrics gives SFTP access to your full Mailchimp reporting data — metrics and dimensions you already know from the Mailchimp interface.
Key Metrics
- Emails sent
- Open rate
- Click rate
- Bounce rate
- Unsubscribe rate
- Unique opens
- Unique clicks
- Total opens
- Revenue
- Orders
- Spam complaints
- Forwards
- Delivery rate
Key Dimensions
- Campaign name
- Campaign type
- Subject line
- Send date
- List name
- Automation name
- Email client
Why Supermetrics for SFTP?
Purpose-built for marketing data since 2009. 200,000+ companies trust Supermetrics to move 15% of global ad spend into reporting and analytics destinations.
No Vendor Lock-In
Your data lands in SFTP — infrastructure you own and control. Use any BI tool, any transformation layer, any ML platform. If you ever switch providers, your data and dashboards stay with you.
170+ Marketing Data Sources
Purpose-built for marketing data — not a generic ETL tool. Supermetrics covers 99% of metrics and dimensions from each source, with pre-structured tables ready for analysis. No transformation layer required.
Full Data Ownership
Your Mailchimp data lands in storage you control. No vendor lock-in, no proprietary formats — standard files you can process with any tool.
Your Data, Your Infrastructure
Supermetrics moves data directly to your destination — nothing is stored on our servers. SOC 2 Type II certified, GDPR and CCPA compliant. Your data stays in infrastructure you control, simplifying privacy and compliance reviews.
Flat-Rate, Predictable Pricing
Fixed annual pricing regardless of data volume — no per-row charges, no surprise bills during peak campaign seasons. Transfer as much Mailchimp data as you need without worrying about cost spikes.
Complete Data Access
Pull every contact, deal, campaign, and custom property from Mailchimp. No field restrictions, no record limits — your complete dataset, ready for analysis.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Log into the Supermetrics Hub, create a new data transfer, select Mailchimp as the source and SFTP as the destination. Enter your SFTP host, port, username, and password (or SSH key). Choose the remote directory, file format, and naming convention. Select your metrics and dimensions, set a schedule, and start the transfer. Supermetrics uploads structured files directly to your SFTP server on each scheduled run. Because SFTP is a standard protocol supported on every operating system — Linux, Windows, macOS, and any cloud VM — you can receive data on any server you already manage, with no proprietary agent or vendor SDK to install.
- SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol) encrypts both the authentication handshake and the entire data payload over an SSH tunnel, meaning your Mailchimp data is never exposed in plain text during transit. Combined with Supermetrics' SOC 2 Type II certification and GDPR compliance, your data is protected end-to-end. For hardened security, use SSH key authentication instead of passwords, restrict the SFTP user to a chroot jail directory, disable password login entirely, and configure your firewall to allow connections only from Supermetrics' published IP ranges. Unlike cloud-proprietary transfer methods, SSH encryption is an open standard with decades of security auditing behind it.
- Yes. You can set up multiple Supermetrics transfers delivering Mailchimp, Google Ads, LinkedIn Ads, and any other source to the same SFTP directory or organized into separate subdirectories on the same server. Because SFTP delivers plain files, your downstream workflow is entirely up to you: cron-scheduled shell scripts, Python or R pipelines, database LOAD DATA commands, or enterprise ETL tools can all pick up the files for unified processing. This file-based approach means zero vendor lock-in — if you ever change analytics platforms, your data is already in an open format. Supermetrics supports 170+ data sources, all deliverable to SFTP.
- All standard Mailchimp reporting metrics and dimensions are available, including Emails sent, Open rate, Click rate, Bounce rate, Unsubscribe rate, Unique opens, and more. You select exactly which fields to include during setup. Data arrives as structured files (CSV or JSON) in the directory you specify, ready for processing by any tool that reads files — no API client libraries or cloud SDKs needed. This makes SFTP the most universal delivery method: whether your downstream system is a MySQL LOAD DATA INFILE, an on-premise SAS installation, a legacy ERP file import, or a custom Python script, the data just works.
- Transfers can run hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly. Daily delivery is the most common setup. Each run uploads fresh files to your SFTP server, and you can match the delivery cadence with a cron job on your side: for example, schedule Supermetrics to deliver at 6 AM and your import script to run at 6:30 AM, so fresh Mailchimp data is in your database before the team's morning standup. Because SFTP works with any server and any OS, you can run this workflow on a $5/month VPS or an enterprise data center — Supermetrics handles all the API complexity, and your server just receives clean, ready-to-process files.
- Yes. Automation names and step-level email metrics are included in the export.
- Yes. Subject lines are available as a dimension alongside all engagement metrics.
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