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Works with Stripe Payment Links

Recurring revenue from Payment Links, counted properly.

Recurring Payment Links create real Stripe subscriptions; one-time links create charges. SadAnalytics reads both and shows the recurring side as MRR, churn and retention, with one-time sales kept apart.

What Stripe Payment Links shows you today

Stripe's own dashboard lists your payments and subscriptions, and its Billing analytics shows MRR, churn and cohort retention. All of it lives inside Stripe, away from your WordPress users, and it does not count a one-time link someone pays every month as recurring revenue.

How SadAnalytics reads it

Recurring Payment Links create Stripe subscriptions, which SadAnalytics reads directly. One-time links create charges, which show in Transactions. If a customer pays a one-time link at a regular interval, SadAnalytics detects the pattern, from the third charge onward, and counts it as a detected subscription.

What you get

The monthly recurring revenue card: the headline figure, the number of subscriptions behind it, the change against last month, and a sparkline.
Your real MRR, with annual plans spread monthly and detected subscriptions counted.
The filter bar on the Transactions report: a date range set to the last 12 months, then menus for status, type, plan, source, currency and payment method, with a group-by menu, a search box and the Export CSV button, which is a SadAnalytics Pro feature.
Succeeded payments by default. Failed and refunded are one pick away in the status menu.
A detected subscription in the customer drawer: its Active and Detected badges, the amount and interval SadAnalytics found, its start date, and buttons to confirm it as a subscription or mark it as one-time.
Recurring revenue SadAnalytics found in plain charges.

Three steps

  1. 1

    Install the plugin

    It is in review at WordPress.org. Once it is listed, go to Plugins, Add New Plugin, search for Sad Subscription Analytics, then Install Now and Activate.

  2. 2

    Paste a read-only Stripe key

    Read access to customers, subscriptions, charges, invoices and prices. Add products too if you want plan names.

    The setup wizard step that asks for the Stripe key.
  3. 3

    Run the first sync

    It runs in the background, and your dashboard fills in as it goes.

    The sync status pill showing a completed sync with its time.

Stripe Payment Links questions

Do I need a WordPress plugin for Payment Links at all?

Only for the reports. Payment Links keep working exactly as they do; SadAnalytics reads Stripe and shows the numbers inside wp-admin.

Are customers matched to WordPress users?

By email, when a WordPress user with the same address exists.

Which key permissions?

Read access to customers, subscriptions, charges, invoices and prices. Products is optional; it gives SadAnalytics your plan names.

See your real recurring revenue.

The free plugin is in review at WordPress.org. SadAnalytics Pro is coming soon. Want to know when it is out? Email [email protected].

SadAnalytics Pro: coming soon