Add an Owned Profile for Your Pinterest Account

Add a Pinterest account that you own or manage as an owned (private) profile to your Emplifi account. Having a Pinterest account as an owned profile allows you to see the insights of the account and to post content to the Pinterest account directly from Emplifi.

To know more about owned and public profiles, see Add a Profile as Owned (Private) or Public.

This article is for the users who have an account role with the “Add Pages & Profiles” permission (that is, for Account Admins and the users who have a custom account role with the “Add Pages & Profiles” permission under the Pages & Profiles section; see Account Roles).

Pinterest personal accounts vs. Pinterest business accounts

You can add Pinterest personal accounts as well as Pinterest business accounts to your Emplifi account.

• For business accounts, you can both post content to Pinterest and view the insights from Emplifi.

• For personal accounts, you can only post content to Pinterest from Emplifi. Viewing the insights from Emplifi is not available for personal accounts, because personal Pinterest accounts do not have access to analytics on Pinterest itself.

For more information about business Pinterest accounts, see this Pinterest help article.

Add an owned profile for your Pinterest account

Steps:

1. In a browser, log in to your Pinterest account.

2. In the same browser window, access Emplifi, and go to Settings -> Channels -> Social profiles.

3. Click +Add profile.
   The dialog for adding a new data source pops up.

4. Click Connect owned profiles.
   You are prompted to select a social media platform.

5. Click Pinterest.
   If it is the first time you are attempting to add a profile for a Pinterest account to Emplifi, you are asked to allow Emplifi to access all the relevant data required. Review the requested data permissions and allow Emplifi to access the data.
   
   Emplifi accesses the data from Pinterest, and the dialog shows the Pinterest account.

   

   If no Pinterest account is shown, see “Troubleshooting” further in this article.

6. Toggle the switch for the Pinterest Insights option to ON to enable access to the insights of the Pinterest account, and toggle the switch for the Pinterest Publishing option to ON to be able to post content to the Pinterest account from the Publisher module.
   Viewing the insights from Emplifi is not available for personal Pinterest accounts, because personal Pinterest accounts do not have access to analytics on Pinterest itself.
   
   The Connect profiles button on the bottom right gets enabled.

7. (Optional) Perform the following actions:

   

   • Click the group icon to set up the visibility of the profile in the Emplifi account.
     By default, the profile is set to be visible only to you and Account Admins (for more information about visibility, see Set Up Visibility of a Profile).

   • Click the label icon to assign labels to the profile (for more information about the labels, see Set Up Labels).

   • Select the timezone to apply to the profile (for more information about the timezones, see Customize Your Care Settings).
     By default, the timezone is set to your default timezone.

8. Click Connect profiles.
   The Pinterest account is added as an owned profile and appears in the list of profiles.

Troubleshooting

If something is going wrong while you are adding an owned profile for a Pinterest account, check that you are logged in to the correct Pinterest account.

If you are indeed logged in to the correct account, contact Emplifi Support at support@emplifi.io. Include the URL of the Pinterest account that you want to add to the Emplifi platform in your Support ticket.