Your Chargebee revenue dashboard, every dollar traced to the subscription.

MRR, ARR, gross and net revenue, and margin in one view, modeled from your Chargebee subscriptions, invoices, and transactions, reconciled with QuickBooks for accounting and Stripe for payment settlement.

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What’s in a chargebee revenue dashboard?

What’s in a chargebee revenue dashboard?

A Chargebee revenue dashboard is the single governed view of how money comes in through Chargebee: MRR from active subscriptions, ARR annualized from the same run rate, gross revenue from invoices and orders, net revenue after credit notes and refunds, and gross margin underneath. The version worth closing on reconciles Chargebee billing with QuickBooks accounting and Stripe payment settlement, so the revenue you report ties out to the bank.

Chargebee shows MRR and invoices in its own reporting, but it cannot reconcile against the general ledger or account for the gap between billed and recognized revenue. When your Chargebee subscriptions, invoices, credit notes, and transactions feed one governed definition alongside QuickBooks and Stripe, MRR and net revenue agree, and the distance between billing and recognized revenue is a known, explained number.

Who it’s forCFOs, finance leads, and controllers at Chargebee-billing companies who own the revenue number.

CadenceRefreshed daily; reviewed before close and board prep.

Built fromChargebee, Quickbooks, Stripe

§ How it works

Describe your dashboard. Fi builds it.

Fi is the AI agent inside Definite. Tell it what you’re trying to understand, and it connects your sources, defines the metrics, and builds the dashboard. One conversation, not a project.

You
Show me revenue from our Chargebee billing — MRR, ARR, net revenue, and gross margin, with every number tracing back to subscriptions, invoices, and credit notes.
✦ Fi
Here's your chargebee revenue dashboard, on your Chargebee, Quickbooks and Stripe data.
Here’s what’s in it

The top row leads with the 4 numbers that matter most: ARR, MRR, Net revenue, Gross margin. Each shows a delta versus the prior period so you can see direction at a glance. Below that, 2 trend charts (ARR over time, Net new MRR by movement) show how the headline numbers have moved over time. A breakdown (Gross revenue by product) splits the metric by dimension so you can see what's driving the total. A detail table (Revenue health) rounds it out with the secondary metrics and their deltas. Every number is computed from the exact formulas shown in the metric table below. Composites are derived from their components, not pasted in, so the KPI tiles, breakdowns, and totals all reconcile to each other.

Illustrative data

ARR

$15.38M▲ 8.8%
Data ▾
PeriodARR
Jan$6.86M
Feb$7.40M
Mar$7.87M
Apr$8.41M
May$9.09M
Jun$9.85M
Jul$10.54M
Aug$11.31M
Sep$12.15M
Oct$13.20M
Nov$14.14M
Dec$15.38M

MRR

$1.28M▲ 8.8%
Data ▾
PeriodMRR
Jan$572K
Feb$616K
Mar$656K
Apr$701K
May$757K
Jun$821K
Jul$879K
Aug$942K
Sep$1.01M
Oct$1.10M
Nov$1.18M
Dec$1.28M

Net revenue

$1.26M▲ 23.1%
Data ▾
PeriodNet Revenue
Jan$612K
Feb$646K
Mar$719K
Apr$764K
May$776K
Jun$852K
Jul$764K
Aug$779K
Sep$945K
Oct$1.05M
Nov$1.02M
Dec$1.26M

Gross margin

82.8%▲ 6.6%
Data ▾
PeriodGross Margin
Jan78.6%
Feb79.7%
Mar81.7%
Apr80.4%
May80.8%
Jun82.2%
Jul77.0%
Aug74.7%
Sep78.3%
Oct81.7%
Nov77.7%
Dec82.8%

ARR over time

6,000,000 8,000,000 10,000,000 12,000,000 14,000,000 16,000,000 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Data ▾
PeriodARR
Jan$6.86M
Feb$7.40M
Mar$7.87M
Apr$8.41M
May$9.09M
Jun$9.85M
Jul$10.54M
Aug$11.31M
Sep$12.15M
Oct$13.20M
Nov$14.14M
Dec$15.38M

Gross revenue by product

Platform Add-ons Services 100,000 200,000 300,000 400,000 500,000
Data ▾
ProductGross Revenue
Platform$570K
Add-ons$426K
Services$267K

Net new MRR by movement

0 30,000 60,000 90,000 120,000 150,000 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec New MRR Expansion MRR Contraction MRR Churned MRR
Data ▾
PeriodNew MRRExpansion MRRContraction MRRChurned MRR
Jan$34K$12K$6K$8K
Feb$46K$16K$6K$12K
Mar$39K$18K$6K$12K
Apr$43K$21K$6K$13K
May$52K$21K$6K$9K
Jun$58K$23K$4K$14K
Jul$49K$25K$4K$12K
Aug$60K$22K$5K$14K
Sep$58K$30K$5K$12K
Oct$78K$29K$6K$13K
Nov$67K$31K$6K$15K
Dec$91K$34K$5K$16K

Revenue health

Net Revenue$1.26M▲ 23.1%
Gross Margin82.8%▲ 6.6%
Net Revenue Retention101.1%▲ 0.1%
✦ Fi
Anything else I can do for you?
You
Why did net revenue dip last month when Chargebee MRR was flat?Which item in the Chargebee product catalog is driving margin, and which is dragging it?Show me the credit notes and refunds behind last month's net revenue drop in Chargebee.What is ARR if current Chargebee MRR holds through year-end?Break MRR out by Chargebee plan instead of the total.Trace this month's gross revenue back to the Chargebee transactions and Stripe payouts.Break net revenue out by Chargebee product catalog item and flag the one with the tightest margin.Show gross revenue from Chargebee invoices versus metered usage charges separately.Add MRR net of contraction from Chargebee subscription downgrades so I can see the expansion story alone.
  • Why did net revenue dip last month when Chargebee MRR was flat?
  • Which item in the Chargebee product catalog is driving margin, and which is dragging it?
  • Show me the credit notes and refunds behind last month's net revenue drop in Chargebee.
  • What is ARR if current Chargebee MRR holds through year-end?
  • Break MRR out by Chargebee plan instead of the total.
  • Trace this month's gross revenue back to the Chargebee transactions and Stripe payouts.
  • Break net revenue out by Chargebee product catalog item and flag the one with the tightest margin.
  • Show gross revenue from Chargebee invoices versus metered usage charges separately.
  • Add MRR net of contraction from Chargebee subscription downgrades so I can see the expansion story alone.
§ Why the numbers tie out

Every metric traces back to your systems

This is the part a BI tool can’t fake. Each metric is defined once, in your warehouse, from a specific object in a specific source. Change the definition in one place and every tile, report, and answer moves with it. So the number on the screen is the number in the source.

SubscriptionARRMRRNet New MRRNet Revenue Retention
InvoiceNet RevenueGross MarginGross Revenue
SubscriptionARRMRRNet New MRRNet Revenue Retention
Balance Transaction (Ledger)Net RevenueGross MarginGross Revenue
InvoiceNet RevenueGross MarginGross Revenue
PaymentNet RevenueGross Margin
Income Statement (Profit & Loss)Net RevenueGross MarginGross Revenue
General LedgerGross Margin
MetricWhat it measuresHow it's calculatedSources
ARRYour monthly recurring revenue annualized, the figure a board or investor anchors on.MRR × 12Chargebee, Stripe
MRRThe recurring revenue you're collecting this month, normalized to a monthly figure across every plan and billing cycle.prior MRR + Net New MRRChargebee, Stripe
Net RevenueRevenue you actually keep after refunds and credits, not what you originally billed.Gross Revenue − Refunds & CreditsStripe, Chargebee, Quickbooks
Gross MarginThe share of net revenue left after the direct cost of delivering the product, the ceiling on how efficiently the business can grow.(Net Revenue − COGS) ÷ Net RevenueStripe, Chargebee, Quickbooks
Net New MRRHow much your recurring revenue actually grew this month after new business, expansion, contraction, and churn net out, the single number that says whether the base is compounding.New MRR + Expansion MRR − Contraction MRR − Churned MRRChargebee, Stripe
Net Revenue RetentionThe clearest read on whether the product keeps earning its price: how much revenue this year's cohort of customers is worth versus last year, after expansion, contraction, and churn net out.(prior MRR + Expansion MRR − Contraction MRR − Churned MRR) ÷ prior MRRChargebee, Stripe
§ Then do something about it

Have our agent watch for you

A chargebee revenue dashboard tells you what happened, and Fi tells you why. The last step is not having to remember to check. Point Definite at the one number you can’t afford to miss, and it watches that number for you off the same definitions as your dashboard. When it moves, you hear about it before the next review instead of during it. One metric, one action, always reversible.

Autonomous agent · watch churn
Watch
A metric you choose
net revenue churn
Judge
One condition
> 5% week-over-week
Act
One action
alert #revenue + open doc
◄──── then waits · cooldown 24h before it can act again ────
Scoped to a single metric and a single action. You arm it; you can disarm it anytime.
§ The data that powers it

Built from whatever you already run on

Connect the systems you already use. Any source of these types works, and you don’t move data into a warehouse, because Definite is the warehouse.

No warehouse to stand up or connect. See how the platform models your data →

§ Get started

Build your chargebee revenue dashboard

From signup to a working dashboard in one sitting. No data team required.

01

Sign up

Free to start. No credit card, no infrastructure to set up.

Create your account
02

Connect your sources

Stripe, your CRM, accounting. Definite syncs and models them automatically.

03

Decide your metrics

Pick the numbers that matter or let Fi propose them from your data. Every metric gets one definition, governed in one place.

04

Ask Fi to build it

Describe what you need in plain language. Fi builds the dashboard, and you refine by asking follow-ups.

§ FAQ

Common questions

Chargebee counts MRR from active subscriptions and may include trial conversions or unbilled charges differently than your controller recognizes revenue. Definite models revenue from the raw Chargebee subscription, invoice, credit note, and transaction objects using one governed formula, so the number you report matches the billing record and reconciles with QuickBooks.
Chargebee is the primary source for subscriptions, invoices, credit notes, and the product catalog. QuickBooks adds the P&L and recognized revenue side. Stripe adds payment settlement and payout data. Definite syncs and models all three, then reconciles them so MRR from Chargebee and net revenue from accounting agree.
It is a live ECharts dashboard running on a deterministic synthetic dataset, labeled illustrative. ARR is computed from Chargebee subscription MRR, net revenue from gross minus credit notes and refunds, margin from the formula in the metric table. Connect your Chargebee account and Fi builds the same view from your data.
Type a prompt like the one above. Fi connects your Chargebee account, models the revenue metrics from your subscriptions and invoices, and you refine by asking follow-ups. The first version traces every dollar without a spreadsheet reconciliation.
MRR and ARR capture the recurring subscription run rate. Usage metering and unbilled charges from Chargebee flow into gross and net revenue but do not inflate MRR. The dashboard shows both so you can see recurring versus total, and the gap between them is explicit.

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