Introducing Chartsy's MRR Breakdown Dashboard

Most subscription analytics tools dump every metric on a single screen and leave you to figure out what matters. The result is a dashboard you glance at, feel vaguely informed by, and close - without a clear answer.

Today we're shipping the MRR Breakdown Dashboard - a guided, narrative-driven view of your subscription revenue that's designed to leave you with answers, not more tabs to dig through.

What the MRR Breakdown Dashboard Does

The dashboard is built around a single principle: show the story, not just the data. Every section answers one specific question, in an order that builds a complete picture of your subscription health from top to bottom.

Here's what you'll see when you open it.

Section 1: Current MRR + Month-Over-Month Change

At the top, you get your current MRR alongside last month's figure - both the dollar delta and the percentage change. No date-range toggles. No mental math. In seconds you know whether you grew, stayed flat, or contracted.

This single comparison is more useful than most of what a typical billing dashboard gives you on the first screen.

Section 2: The Story So Far

Below the headline number, a 12-month trend line shows each month of MRR as a point on a chart. Watching the trend is the fastest way to see whether predictable revenue is actually building over time - or oscillating without direction.

Section 3: MRR Movements

This is where things get diagnostic. A bar chart breaks down monthly MRR changes by type:

Bars above zero = revenue added that month
Bars below zero = revenue lost that month
Stack height = total impact

At a glance you can see whether a growth month was driven by meaningful new revenue or just recovered from the previous month's dip. And you can see contraction and churn without having to calculate anything yourself.

Section 4: MRR by Plan

This is one of the most operationally useful views we've built. Every active pricing plan is listed with:

Its contribution to total MRR
The number of customers on that plan
Month-over-month percentage change

Toggle plans on and off to compare them directly. In practice, most teams discover quickly that growth - and churn - concentrates in one or two plans. Seeing which one changes how you think about pricing, roadmap, and retention investment.

Section 5: ARPU, Customers, Net Revenue, and Refunds

Four key health numbers surface together on the same card:

Current MRR - your normalized monthly recurring revenue
Customers - total active subscribers
ARPU - average revenue per user, calculated automatically
Total Net Amount - actual collected revenue in the period
Refunds - visible alongside revenue so you can see net health, not just gross

The relationship between these numbers matters as much as any individual figure. More customers but flat ARPU means growth isn't translating to higher-value relationships. Rising refunds alongside growing MRR is a warning sign worth catching early.

Section 6: Who's Paying You the Most

The final section ranks your customers by their current monthly contribution - not by lifetime value, not by signup date, but by what they're actually recurring on right now.

This is the list that should inform who you call when you're thinking about retention, who you target first for an expansion conversation, and who you'd most need to replace if they churned.

Most billing dashboards bury this in a customer list sorted by signup date. We put it at the bottom of the MRR narrative, where it's most useful.

Why We Built It This Way

A common pattern we saw: founders opening their Stripe or Paddle dashboard, seeing a revenue number, and closing it - without knowing whether that number was healthy, fragile, or improving.

The problem isn't the data. Your billing tool has the data. The problem is that raw data tools put the burden of synthesis on you. If you don't already know what questions to ask, you leave without answers.

The MRR Breakdown Dashboard takes the opposite approach. The questions are already sequenced. You follow the narrative - current state, movement, plan breakdown, customer ranking - and you arrive at a complete picture every single time you open it, whether it's your first week using Chartsy or your hundredth.

That consistency is what makes a dashboard useful. Not the number of metrics it shows.

How to Access It

The MRR Breakdown Dashboard is available to all Chartsy accounts with a Stripe or Paddle connection.

Log in to your Chartsy dashboard
Navigate to MRR Breakdown in the left sidebar
Select your date range - we recommend starting with Last 12 months for the clearest trend view
Use the plan toggles to compare individual pricing tiers

The dashboard updates automatically as new subscription data comes in - no manual exports or refreshes needed.

If you have questions about your MRR data or want to see the dashboard in action, connect your Stripe or Paddle account and it'll be waiting for you.

Open MRR Breakdown Dashboard →