Your Stripe financial dashboard, tied to the ledger.

MRR, margin, burn, and runway modeled from your Stripe subscriptions, invoices, and balance transactions, reconciled with QuickBooks for the P&L so every number ties out.

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What’s in a stripe financial dashboard?

What’s in a stripe financial dashboard?

A Stripe financial dashboard is the governed view of your company's financial health built from Stripe's billing objects: subscriptions for MRR, invoices and payments for net revenue, balance transactions for margin, and payouts for cash reconciliation. When paired with QuickBooks for the P&L and balance sheet, every metric traces back to a source row.

Stripe gives you a revenue number, but it's not the same number your accountant closes on. Invoices hit Stripe before QuickBooks recognizes them; refunds, disputes, and Connect transfers shift the total. This dashboard models one definition of each metric from both systems, so the number you present to the board is the number in the bank.

Who it’s forCFOs and finance leads who run on Stripe and need the board number to tie out.

CadenceRefreshed daily; reviewed before monthly close and board prep.

Built fromStripe, Quickbooks

§ 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 our financials from Stripe — MRR, net revenue, margin, burn, and runway, reconciled against QuickBooks so the board number matches the close.
✦ Fi
Here's your stripe financial dashboard, on your Stripe and Quickbooks data.
Here’s what’s in it

The top row leads with the 4 numbers that matter most: MRR, Net revenue, Monthly burn, Runway. Each shows a delta versus the prior period so you can see direction at a glance. Below that, 2 trend charts (MRR over time, Net new MRR by movement) show how the headline numbers have moved over time. A breakdown (Net revenue by product) splits the metric by dimension so you can see what's driving the total. A detail table (Margin & retention) 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

MRR

$1.30M▲ 8.3%
Data ▾
PeriodMRR
Jan$583K
Feb$627K
Mar$675K
Apr$728K
May$788K
Jun$845K
Jul$909K
Aug$980K
Sep$1.05M
Oct$1.12M
Nov$1.20M
Dec$1.30M

Net revenue

$1.31M▲ 17.8%
Data ▾
PeriodNet Revenue
Jan$605K
Feb$716K
Mar$709K
Apr$761K
May$709K
Jun$803K
Jul$874K
Aug$791K
Sep$990K
Oct$1.01M
Nov$1.11M
Dec$1.31M

Monthly burn

$139K▼ 11.2%
Data ▾
PeriodMonthly Burn
Jan$183K
Feb$185K
Mar$190K
Apr$174K
May$147K
Jun$147K
Jul$171K
Aug$170K
Sep$138K
Oct$171K
Nov$156K
Dec$139K

Runway

18 mo▼ 0.0%
Data ▾
PeriodRunway (months)
Jan23
Feb21
Mar20
Apr21
May26
Jun24
Jul19
Aug18
Sep21
Oct17
Nov18
Dec18

MRR over time

500,000 600,000 700,000 800,000 900,000 1,000,000 1,100,000 1,200,000 1,300,000 1,400,000 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Data ▾
PeriodMRR
Jan$583K
Feb$627K
Mar$675K
Apr$728K
May$788K
Jun$845K
Jul$909K
Aug$980K
Sep$1.05M
Oct$1.12M
Nov$1.20M
Dec$1.30M

Net revenue by product

Platform Add-ons Services 100,000 200,000 300,000 400,000 500,000
Data ▾
ProductNet Revenue
Platform$233K
Add-ons$491K
Services$588K

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$42K$14K$5K$8K
Feb$43K$13K$4K$9K
Mar$50K$18K$6K$12K
Apr$51K$18K$4K$13K
May$54K$21K$5K$11K
Jun$52K$24K$5K$13K
Jul$57K$25K$4K$15K
Aug$65K$25K$5K$15K
Sep$65K$28K$5K$16K
Oct$63K$26K$6K$11K
Nov$66K$35K$5K$16K
Dec$89K$30K$6K$14K

Margin & retention

Gross Margin83.4%▲ 3.5%
Net Revenue Retention100.9%▼ 0.4%
Gross Revenue Retention98.4%▲ 0.2%
✦ Fi
Anything else I can do for you?
You
Why did net new MRR drop last month — which Stripe subscriptions churned?Trace this month's net revenue back to the Stripe payouts and flag any disputes.Which Stripe product is carrying margin, and which is dragging it?What's runway if burn holds at the trailing three-month average?Show me the gap between Stripe invoiced revenue and QuickBooks recognized revenue.Break revenue out by Stripe pricing tier instead of product.Break MRR by Stripe product and flag any product line where margin is negative.Exclude Stripe Connect transfers from burn and show platform-only runway.Show net revenue retention by pricing tier using Stripe subscription data.
  • Why did net new MRR drop last month — which Stripe subscriptions churned?
  • Trace this month's net revenue back to the Stripe payouts and flag any disputes.
  • Which Stripe product is carrying margin, and which is dragging it?
  • What's runway if burn holds at the trailing three-month average?
  • Show me the gap between Stripe invoiced revenue and QuickBooks recognized revenue.
  • Break revenue out by Stripe pricing tier instead of product.
  • Break MRR by Stripe product and flag any product line where margin is negative.
  • Exclude Stripe Connect transfers from burn and show platform-only runway.
  • Show net revenue retention by pricing tier using Stripe subscription data.
§ 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.

SubscriptionMRRNet New MRRNet Revenue RetentionGross Revenue Retention
Balance Transaction (Ledger)Net RevenueGross Margin
InvoiceNet RevenueGross Margin
PaymentNet RevenueGross Margin
PayoutRunway (months)
Income Statement (Profit & Loss)Net RevenueGross Margin
Cash FlowMonthly BurnRunway (months)
General LedgerMonthly BurnRunway (months)Gross Margin
Balance SheetRunway (months)
MetricWhat it measuresHow it's calculatedSources
MRRThe recurring revenue you're collecting this month, normalized to a monthly figure across every plan and billing cycle.prior MRR + Net New MRRStripe
Net RevenueRevenue you actually keep after refunds and credits, not what you originally billed.Gross Revenue − Refunds & CreditsStripe, Quickbooks
Runway (months)The number that sets the deadline on every plan: how many months of cash you have left at the current burn rate.Cash Balance ÷ Monthly BurnQuickbooks, Stripe
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 MRRStripe
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, Quickbooks
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 MRRStripe
Gross Revenue RetentionThe share of recurring revenue you'd retain with zero expansion, the floor under the base once upsell is stripped out.(prior MRR − Contraction MRR − Churned MRR) ÷ prior MRRStripe
§ Then do something about it

Have our agent watch for you

A stripe financial 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 stripe financial 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

Stripe counts MRR its own way — it includes one-time invoice items and doesn't net out disputes until they resolve. QuickBooks recognizes revenue on a different date than Stripe bills it. This dashboard models one definition per metric from both systems, so you see the number your accountant would close on, not Stripe's approximation.
Stripe for recurring revenue, invoices, payouts, and balance transactions. QuickBooks for the P&L, balance sheet, and cost data that produces margin and burn. Definite syncs both connectors and models them into one governed layer.
It's a live ECharts dashboard running on a deterministic synthetic dataset, labeled illustrative. The numbers reconcile because they're computed by the formulas in the metric table, not pasted in. Connect Stripe and QuickBooks, and Fi builds the same view from your data.
Type a prompt like the one above. Fi proposes the metrics, models them on your connected Stripe and QuickBooks data, and you refine by asking follow-up questions. The first version ties out without a spreadsheet reconciliation.
Connect transfers and application fees live in Stripe's balance transaction ledger. The dashboard includes them in net revenue and burn by default. Use a refinement prompt to split platform revenue from connected-account pass-through if you run a marketplace model.

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