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How to create a tracked email chart in YakCharts

Basic and above; included in the free trial

When you email a monthly report, you want to know whether clients looked at it. A tracked embed saves the chart under its own image URL and records every time that image loads.

Before you start

  • A paid plan or an active free trial
Transcript

Email a chart and find out which clients opened it.

Build the chart as usual. Here it's a bar chart titled October client report.

Select Create tracked embed. The embed name comes from the chart title. Add a reference for each recipient, separated by commas, such as their ID in your email tool.

Select Create Embed. YakCharts shows the image URL to paste into your email, plus a separate URL for each recipient.

Steps

  1. Build the chart ▶ 0:04

    In Chart Editor, set Chart Type and a Chart Title, and add your data.

    Chart Editor with a titled bar chart ready

  2. Add recipient references ▶ 0:10

    Select Create tracked embed. Check the embed name, then enter recipient references separated by commas. Optional: leave it empty for one shared URL.

    Create Tracked Embed dialog with the name and two recipient references

  3. Create the embed ▶ 0:22

    Select Create Embed. Copy the image URL, or a per-recipient URL, into your email.

    Dialog showing the embed image URL and per-recipient URLs
ResultThe dialog shows the embed's image URL and one URL per recipient reference. Opens appear under Email Tracking.

Next steps

Updated 2026-10-26