Connect Kit (ConvertKit) to Phynite
Connect Kit and your email numbers show up next to your traffic numbers — open rates, click rates, top broadcasts. One dashboard, both stories.
Connect Kit (formerly ConvertKit) and your email numbers show up next to your traffic numbers — open rates, click rates, top broadcasts, month-over-month trends. One dashboard, both stories.
Why connect Kit
- See email and website performance side by side.
- Spot which campaigns actually drive traffic — not just opens.
- Find the subject lines and send times that consistently work for your audience.
- Skip the tab-switching between Kit and your analytics.
Before you start
- An active Kit account (free or paid — both work).
- A paid Phynite account.
Connect your account
Two ways in. Use whichever you happen to be looking at first.
From the Phynite dashboard
- Open Settings › Connections in your Phynite dashboard.
- Find Kit (ConvertKit) and click Connect.
- Sign in to Kit when prompted and click Authorize.
- You’ll bounce back to Phynite with a confirmation. Head to Dashboard › Email marketing › Kit analytics to see your numbers.
From the Kit App Store
- Open the Phynite Analytics app in the Kit App Store.
- Click Install and authorize the connection.
- You’ll come back to Phynite — your email analytics will be waiting at Dashboard › Email marketing › Kit analytics.
What you get
Email overview
At Dashboard › Email marketing › Kit analytics you’ll see your average open rate, average click rate, average recipients, total clicks, and your Kit account info. It’s the thirty-thousand-foot view.
Broadcasts, day by day
At Dashboard › Email marketing › Broadcasts every broadcast lines up with its subject, send date, status, open rate, click rate, recipients, unsubscribes, bounces, and delivery rate. Sort by any of them. Filter by Published, Scheduled, or Draft.
Export anytime
On the Broadcasts page, filter to what you want and use Export › CSV or Export › Excel. Useful for monthly trend reviews, sharing with a teammate, or feeding into another tool. The export includes subject lines, send dates, status, open/click rates, recipients, and delivery data.
Reading the metrics
Open rate
(Opens ÷ Recipients) × 100. A healthy band for food bloggers is 15–25%. If yours is lower, the usual levers are subject lines, send time, and a consistent sender name your readers recognize.
Click rate
(Clicks ÷ Recipients) × 100. Aim for 2–5%. Lower than that is usually a CTA problem — buried links, too many of them, or the lead recipe being below the fold.
Delivery rate
((Recipients − Bounces) ÷ Recipients) × 100. Aim for 95%+. If it slips, clean your list — bounces accumulate and gradually drag your sender reputation down.
Unsubscribes
Normal sits at 0.1–0.5%. A spike usually means either frequency creep or content drift. Both fixable in a week.
Security & what Phynite can see
- Read-only — Phynite can read your broadcast stats, never send emails or touch your subscriber list.
- OAuth 2.0 sign-in. We never see your Kit password.
- Tokens are encrypted at rest and refresh every six months. You’ll get a heads-up when it’s time to re-authorize.
Manage your connection
Check status any time at Settings › Connections. You’ll see one of three states next to Kit:
- Connected — everything's wired up.
- Expired — click Reconnect and re-authorize. Takes about thirty seconds.
- Disconnected — Phynite no longer has access. Reconnect any time; nothing on the Kit side is affected.
When something gets stuck
"Kit connection expired"
Click Reconnect on the Connections page. Tokens refresh every six months as a security baseline — this is normal, not a problem.
A broadcast isn’t showing analytics yet
Drafts and scheduled broadcasts don’t have stats until they send. Recently-sent ones can take 5–10 minutes to appear as Kit catches up.
"Authorization failed" during setup
Almost always one of two things: you signed in to the wrong Kit account, or your Phynite subscription isn’t active yet. Double-check both and try again. If it still won’t connect, email support@phynitesolutions.com.
Slow load on big lists
The first load fetches fresh data from Kit; after that it’s cached for the session. Filtering or exporting handles very large broadcast lists without making you wait for the full table to render.
Frequently asked
Do I need a paid Kit account? No. Free works. Paid tiers expose more advanced Kit-side reporting, but Phynite’s view works either way.
Can Phynite send emails through Kit? No. The connection is read-only. We can read your stats; we can’t touch the list, send broadcasts, or change settings.
Can I connect more than one Kit account? One Kit account per Phynite site. If you run multiple sites in Phynite, each one can have its own Kit connection.
Is my data secure? Yes — OAuth 2.0 sign-in, encrypted token storage, HTTPS everywhere, and read-only permissions.
How often is the data refreshed? Roughly hourly. If you just sent a broadcast and it isn’t there yet, give it about ten minutes.