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# Linking Your Steam Account

Appfigures provides the resources to easily track important app data from multiple app stores, including Steam!
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## ${color}[#000000](Connecting Your Steam Account Securely)

||| Note: Managing linked accounts requires the `Admin` or `Owner` role. If you are a viewer, please share this article with a team member who has the required role.

We highly recommend setting up a separate *group + user* inside of Steam to sync with, instead of providing your own credentials.

To create a *group + user* in Steam, log in to your [Steamworks](https://partner.steamgames.com/?goto=%2Fhome) account.

1. Go to Users & Permissions > Manage Users.
2. Click on `Add User`.
3. Set the role to *view financial info*. This role provides read-only access to reports.
* Since Steam has support for *groups + users*, both the group and the user need this permission enabled.

Once the user has been created, head back into your Appfigures account and into Account settings → Linked Accounts → [Link an Account](https://appfigures.com/account/externals#/add/2).
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Knowing how Steam reporting works is key to understanding how data will appear in reports.

## ${color}[#000000](What We're Tracking:)

* Purchases and revenue for *packages*
* Downloads for *titles*, *DLCs,* and *in-game purchases*
* Reviews
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## ${color}[#000000](How Products Are Reported:)

* **Packages** - This will include a combination of app + in-app. In Appfigures, they will appear as a bundle.
* **Titles** - Appear in reports as an app.
* **In-Game Purchases** - In reports, these products are reported as an app + IAP.
* **DLCs** - Can be reported two ways, either as an app + IAP when belonging to a Title or as a package when sold individually.

| Note: In Steam, apps/IAPs can't be purchased directly but rather through a package which means apps/IAPs do not have revenue of their own, just downloads.
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## ${color}[#000000](How Downloads are Reported)

To provide the most actionable data, downloads for packages are reported when a title is downloaded *and* play time is recorded. This is done by Steam, so it's accurate. Under the hood, downloads are derived from the “Downloads by Region” report that's available in your Steam developer account.

| Note: DLCs, titles, and in-app purchases are still derived from the "retail activations" metric in Steams reports, which counts all downloads regardless of usage. That's a limitation of Steam's reporting.