Stripe integration

Stripe in Polar: recurring revenue and fees, in your P&L.

Connect Stripe over its API and MCP and Polar ingests your payments, subscription revenue, fees, refunds and disputes, blended with Shopify orders. Net revenue and contribution margin finally reflect real processing costs and recurring revenue, not a gross number with the costs left out.

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What you can bring in

Subscription revenue
"Where does my recurring revenue show up?"
MRR and subscription revenue from Stripe, blended with one-time orders.
MRR + orders
Processing fees
"Fees aren't in my margin."
Stripe fees pulled and netted out, so margin isn't overstated.
fees netted out
Refunds & disputes
"Chargebacks eat my numbers."
Refunds, disputes and chargebacks reflected in net revenue.
refunds + disputes
Net revenue
"What did I actually keep?"
Gross payments minus fees and refunds, blended into net revenue and margin.
real net revenue
One P&L
"Payments live in a silo."
Stripe revenue and costs on the same P&L as Shopify and ad spend.
one P&L
Query over MCP
"Can an AI reason on it?"
Available over the Stripe MCP and the Polar MCP, sourced.
MCP-ready

Stripe shows payments. Polar shows profit.

Stripe reports gross payments and its own fees in a dashboard of its own, apart from your Shopify orders, ad spend and margin. So net revenue, the number that actually matters, has to be reconstructed by hand. Polar builds it for you.

Stripe on its own

  • Gross payments, with fees in separate reports.
  • Recurring revenue lives apart from your commerce data.
  • No blended view of net revenue or margin.
  • Nothing reconciles against your real P&L.

Stripe with Polar

  • Payments, subscriptions and fees ingested and netted.
  • MRR blended with one-time orders on one P&L.
  • Net revenue and margin on real processing costs.
  • Every Stripe dollar reconciled into contribution margin.
Setup Guide

Bring Stripe into Polar.

01 · What you need
Polar

A Polar account with Shopify

A Polar account with Shopify connected. This connector plugs in right next to your stack.

Connect your data →

A Stripe account

API access to the payments, subscriptions and fees you want reflected in your P&L.

Open Stripe →

The Stripe MCP / API

Stripe is ingested via its MCP and API, then mapped into the semantic layer by Polar's AI data engineer.

02 · Bring Stripe into Polar
1

Connect over the API talk to Polar

Payments, subs, fees.
Grant API access. Polar ingests payments, subscription revenue, fees, refunds and disputes into your warehouse.
2

Map to the P&L built for you

Costs and MRR, governed.
The AI data engineer maps Stripe into your semantic layer, so fees net out and recurring revenue behaves like any governed metric.
3

See true profit the payoff

Real net revenue.
Net revenue and contribution margin now reflect real processing costs and recurring revenue, blended with Shopify.
Get started

Net revenue, not gross.

Ingest Stripe payments, subscriptions and fees over the API and blend them into your P&L.

Book a demo Connect your data ↗
The Gap

The connector is only half of it.

Once your Stripe payments, subscriptions and fees are clean and attributed inside Polar, you can use them wherever you already work. Ask Polar in plain language, pull them live through the Polar MCP, or schedule a snapshot into the report your team reads every morning.

Stripe

payments, subscriptions, fees
Polar

Polar

net revenue, blended margin

Ask Polar

Polar MCP

Scheduled reports

Featured Use Case

Net revenue, not gross.

Net revenue, not gross

Stripe will happily show you gross payments, but the number your business runs on is net, after processing fees, refunds, disputes and chargebacks, and Stripe keeps those scattered across separate reports. Meanwhile your recurring revenue sits in Stripe, disconnected from the Shopify orders and ad spend that make up the rest of the picture. Polar ingests Stripe over its API, nets the fees out, and resolves payments and subscription revenue into the same semantic layer as your commerce data. Net revenue and contribution margin finally reflect what you actually keep, MRR sits next to one-time orders, and the whole thing reconciles into one P&L, no month-end reconstruction required.

What makes it real

Fees netted out. Processing fees, refunds and disputes are pulled and subtracted, so margin is real.

Recurring, blended. Subscription revenue sits next to one-time orders on one governed P&L.

Ask Polar, in plain language. “Show net revenue after Stripe fees, and MRR next to DTC orders.” No SQL, no export.

See how the blended P&L works
Other Use Cases

Other use cases

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Your Prompt Library

Stripe in plain language

A scannable wall of sample prompts for your Stripe data inside Polar. Ask Polar, or Claude with the Polar MCP connected.
See it
Show my Stripe subscription revenue and MRR this month.
Break down Stripe fees and refunds.
Show gross vs net payments for the last 30 days.
Analyze it
What's my net revenue after Stripe fees this month?
Show MRR next to one-time DTC orders.
How much are processing fees costing my contribution margin?
Decide from it
Where is recurring revenue growing fastest on a net basis?
Which plans are most profitable after fees and churn?
Summarize how net revenue and MRR moved since last month.
Get started · connect once · real net revenue

Recurring revenue and fees, in your P&L.

Ingest Stripe over the API, net the fees out, and blend payments and subscription revenue into net revenue and margin, on one P&L.

Get started by booking a demo Connect your data in Polar
Phase 1 talk to PolarConnect StripeGrant API access to payments, subscriptions and fees.
Phase 2 built for youMap to the P&LFees net out and recurring revenue becomes a governed metric.
Phase 3 the payoffSee true profitNet revenue and margin on real costs, blended with Shopify.