Goal Tracking

Growth Goals & Challenges

Turn your MRR target into a habit, not a number you wrote down once.

Most founders can name their goal for the year - a revenue target, a subscriber count - but far fewer can tell you whether last week actually moved them closer to it. Chartsy's Goals feature closes that loop: set a target, and your progress updates automatically as new revenue and subscribers come in, so "how am I doing" is always a current answer, not a stale guess.

A goal that updates itself

Set a growth goal - an MRR target, a subscriber target, or both - and Chartsy tracks live progress toward it using your connected Stripe or Paddle data. Instead of a static number in a spreadsheet you update once a month (if that), the goal updates in real time as new revenue and subscribers come in.

A goal you check once a quarter barely functions as a goal at all - by the time you notice you're behind, there's little runway left to course-correct. A goal you can check in seconds, any day, is one you can actually steer toward.

Challenges add structure on top

Challenges layer a gamified structure on top of goal tracking, built for founders who find a bare number less motivating than visible progress with some structure around it. Rather than a single static target sitting in the background, Challenges frame growth as a series of milestones to hit, which tends to keep momentum higher over a multi-month push than a single distant number does.

This matters most for solo founders and small teams without a manager checking in on quarterly targets - the accountability has to come from the tool itself, or from a community you're sharing progress with.

Why a goal without visibility stops working

If checking progress requires opening a spreadsheet, exporting Stripe data, and doing manual math, most founders simply stop checking - not because the goal stopped mattering, but because the friction of checking became higher than the perceived value. Distant goals lose their pull over time, too: "$10k MRR by December" feels motivating in January and abstract by August. Breaking a large goal into smaller, checkable milestones keeps the target close enough to feel real week to week, rather than becoming a number you've mentally filed away as "eventually."

How it works

1

Open the Goals section

Navigate to Goals in your Chartsy dashboard once your Stripe or Paddle account is connected and syncing.

2

Choose a metric

Pick what you want to track toward - MRR, subscriber count, or both.

3

Set a target and a timeframe

For example, "$8,000 MRR by the end of Q3." Chartsy uses this to calculate live progress from your data.

4

Check progress anytime

Your standing against the goal is calculated automatically from live Stripe or Paddle data - no manual updates needed. Turn a goal into a Challenge for a milestone-based structure, or share progress publicly with Share Progress.

Key benefits

  • Set an MRR target, subscriber target, or both, with a timeframe
  • Progress updates automatically from your live Stripe or Paddle data
  • Challenges add gamified, milestone-based structure for multi-month pushes
  • No spreadsheet or manual export required to track standing
  • Built-in accountability structure for solo founders and small teams
  • Pairs with Share Progress to post updates without exposing exact revenue

Who this is for

Growth Goals & Challenges is for SaaS founders and small teams who want an ongoing, low-friction way to track a growth target - especially solo founders without a manager or board checking in on quarterly numbers. If you've set a goal before and quietly lost track of it by month two, this is built to close that gap.

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