Stripe is powerful for payment processing, but analyzing your key metrics over any period of time shouldn't require hours of manual work. Chartsy helps you make informed decisions - replacing the spreadsheet, the analyst, and the four browser tabs you have open trying to figure out what last month actually did.
Every customer, subscription, and charge in Stripe carries metadata - the custom fields you've been writing to all along. That includes acquisition fields like utm_source, utm_medium, and utm_campaign. Chartsy lets you group, filter, and chart by any of them.
Evaluating Stripe Sigma?
Stripe Sigma lets you write SQL against your Stripe data - but it requires SQL knowledge and charges per query. See how it compares to Chartsy.
Stripe stores the records. It does not turn them into Stripe metrics. Chartsy reads your charges, invoices, customers and subscriptions and derives the numbers a subscription business actually runs on - revenue trends, churned customers, average revenue per account and free trial conversion - updated on every sync, with no SQL and no spreadsheet.
Calculated from your Stripe charges, invoices and subscriptions, with annual plans normalised to a monthly figure so renewals never look like growth spikes.
Chartsy separates customers churned by choice from those lost to failed payments, because one is a product problem and the other is an operational one.
The numbers that decide whether growth is worth what it costs, including acquisition spend captured per channel.
Stripe processing fees, refunds, chargebacks and failed payments all change what you actually keep. Chartsy reports gross revenue alongside net revenue after refunds and fees, and separates involuntary churn from deliberate cancellations so recoverable revenue is visible rather than buried in the churn number.
Save any breakdown as a dashboard, get a weekly email summary of the movements that matter, and ask follow-up questions in plain English when a number looks wrong. Data-driven decisions fail when the reporting is too slow to consult mid-conversation.
Chartsy calculates MRR, ARR, churn rate, revenue churn, net revenue retention, LTV, CAC, ARPU, expansion MRR, trial conversion and refund totals directly from your Stripe data, plus payment analytics such as processing fees and failed payments. Every metric can be broken down by plan, country or any metadata field already on your Stripe objects.
Partly. The Stripe Dashboard reports billing volume, charges and some subscription trends, but it does not give you a normalised MRR figure with new, expansion, contraction and churned components separated, and it has no LTV or net revenue retention. Those require either Stripe Sigma and SQL, or a dedicated analytics layer.
Normalise every active subscription to a monthly value - divide annual plans by twelve, quarterly by three - then sum them, excluding one-time charges and setup fees. Doing this by hand in a spreadsheet is where most MRR errors come from, particularly around trials, proration and multi-currency conversion. Chartsy applies the same rules automatically on every sync.
For teams without a SQL analyst, usually yes. Sigma gives raw query access and expects you to build the metrics layer yourself; Chartsy ships that layer already calculated and answers questions in plain English. See the full comparison of Chartsy and Stripe Sigma for when each one is the better fit.
Yes. Multiple Stripe accounts can be connected and reported on together or separately, which matters if you run more than one product or entity. Chartsy also supports Paddle and BigCommerce, so revenue reporting can span more than one payment provider.
Chartsy performs a one-time backfill of your full Stripe history when the account is first connected, so historical revenue trends and cohort retention are available immediately rather than building up from the connection date.
No. Chartsy uses read-only access to your Stripe data. It can read customers, subscriptions, invoices and charges to calculate metrics, and it cannot move funds, issue refunds or modify anything in your Stripe account.
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Ministry of Economy and Innovation
Startup AlbaniaThe Chartsy program is realized with the financial support of the Albanian Government through the Ministry of Economy and Innovation, under the Grant 2026 scheme, and is implemented by the Innovation4Albania Agency.