When Stripe's own MRR dashboard is not enough
Stripe Billing includes analytics, free, in the dashboard you already use. For many young companies that is the right place to start. sumwerk is for the point where the numbers need explaining, customers live in more than Stripe, and the team wants to act on what it sees.
What this page says about Stripe Billing analytics comes from their own public pages, read on September 21, 2026 and listed below. Something out of date? Tell us and we correct it.
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The short answer
Choose sumwerk if
- You bill in several currencies and want to filter and group anyway
- You need every movement explained, closed months, and an independent check
- Trials and leads live in your product, not in Stripe, and belong in the funnel
- Two Stripe customers are one company, or one company moved to another currency
- You want at-risk rules, tasks, notes, automations, an API and an MCP server
Choose Stripe Billing analytics if
- You are early, bill in one currency, and need MRR, churn and retention at a glance
- You do not want another tool
sumwerk and Stripe Billing analytics, side by side
| sumwerk | Stripe Billing analytics | |
|---|---|---|
| What counts as MRR | Subscriptions that are active or past due, from subscription state; a trial counts from its first payment; rules written down per case | Subscriptions in status active and past_due, normalised to a month; tax, free plans and usage-based products excluded |
| Discounts | Active recurring discounts reduce MRR; one-off discounts do not | Configurable: deduct recurring and one-off discounts or not |
| Several currencies | Reporting currency of your choice at ECB rates, exchange-rate effect as a line of its own, all filters work | Filtering and grouping in the explorer is not available with subscription volume in several currencies |
| Changing a definition | Applies at once | Takes 24 to 48 hours to show |
| Several Stripe customers, one company | Linked with a reason; MRR nets, so a move is not a churn and a new customer | Each Stripe customer is a subscriber of its own |
| Leads and trials outside Stripe | Through the API, in the same funnel | Not applicable |
| Closed months and restatements | Yes | Not stated on the page we read |
| Exports | CSV for months, movements, customers, segments, funnel, at-risk; JSON API | CSV reports: MRR per subscriber per month, subscription metrics summary, customer MRR changes |
| Customer work | Owners, notes, calls, tasks, sequences, automations | Not part of Billing analytics |
| Price | Free during early access | Included with Stripe Billing |
“Not stated” means we did not find it on the pages we read; it does not mean the product cannot do it.
Where Stripe Billing analytics is stronger
- It is already there, with nothing to connect and nothing to pay on top of Stripe Billing.
- Benchmarks against similar businesses on Stripe.
- It is Stripe's own reading of Stripe's data, which makes it a useful reference. sumwerk checks itself against Stripe's invoices for the same reason.
What sumwerk does differently
Built for the questions that come after the dashboard
Why did MRR move? Which customers are behind it? Is last month final? sumwerk answers with the movement, its cause, the Stripe reference, and a record of every change to a closed month.
Customers are more than Stripe customers
Trials that never touched Stripe, companies with two Stripe customers, the owner in your sales team, the product usage that predicts churn: they sit next to the subscription.
Several currencies without giving anything up
Customers are valued in the currency they pay in, the report converts at the European Central Bank's rates, and the effect of exchange rates is its own line, so a stronger dollar never looks like growth.
Questions
- Will sumwerk's MRR match Stripe's dashboard?
- Usually closely, because both read subscription state. Differences come from settings, discounts, trials and exchange rates; sumwerk shows its rules and the customers behind a difference.
- Does sumwerk change anything in Stripe?
- No. It connects with a restricted key that can only read, and refuses standard secret keys.
Sources, read on September 21, 2026
- Stripe documentation on Billing analytics https://docs.stripe.com/billing/subscriptions/analytics
Stripe Billing analytics is a name of its owner, used here to describe their product. sumwerk is not affiliated with them.