Recharge in Polar: is the subscription business actually healthy?
Connect Recharge in a couple of clicks and your subscription revenue, MRR, renewals and churn flow into Polar, blended with Shopify orders. See new vs recurring revenue, churn and cohort LTV, so you know whether recurring revenue is growing or quietly leaking.
/Setup Guide
How to Connect Recharge to Polar.
01 · What you need
A Polar account with Shopify
A Polar account with Shopify connected. This connector plugs in right next to your stack.
Connect your data →A Recharge account
API access to your subscriptions, charges and churn and Polar backfills your history automatically.
Open Recharge →The AI data engineer
Recharge is connected natively and mapped into Polar's subscription analytics, blended with orders.
02 · Bring Recharge into Polar
1
Connect in a couple of clicks ~2 min
Subscriptions, charges, churn.
Polar connects natively to Recharge (a subscription platform), ingesting subscription revenue, renewals and cancellations.
2
Feed subscription analytics built for you
New vs recurring, churn.
Data maps into Polar's subscription analytics, new vs recurring sales, churn and lifecycle, blended with Shopify orders.
3
See if it's healthy the payoff
Growing or leaking.
See whether recurring revenue is growing or quietly leaking, with churn and cohort LTV next to acquisition and margin.
Side by side
Recharge bills the subscriptions. Polar tells you if they're healthy.
Recharge handles the billing, but it reports subscription revenue in isolation, apart from your acquisition, one-time orders and margin. So whether recurring revenue is truly growing, net of churn, stays a guess. Polar answers it.
Recharge on its ownon its own
+Recharge with Polarblended
Subscription revenue reported apart from the business.
New vs recurring revenue and churn in Polar's analytics.
No blend with one-time orders, acquisition or margin.
Blended with one-time orders, ad spend and margin.
Churn and LTV hard to read against cohorts.
Subscriber LTV by cohort vs one-time buyers.
Nothing reconciles into the P&L.
Recurring revenue reconciled into one P&L.
The Gap
The Recharge connector is only half of it.
Once your Recharge subscription data are connected to 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.
Recharge
subscriptions, MRR, churn
Polar
recurring revenue, blended