Stripe

Sync your Stripe customers and their revenue data to Vitally in real time with our Stripe integration

Overview

Vitally's Stripe integration can be used to sync the following Stripe data into Vitally in real time:

  • Customers - Vitally can import your Stripe customers into Vitally as accounts. When done, we'll add a wealth of new Stripe-defined traits to your Vitally profiles, such as the expiration of the customer's credit card, the plans they are subscribed to, and much more!

  • Revenue data - Vitally also imports your historical paid invoices from Stripe so that you have immediate, accurate insight into the purchase history of every account in Vitally.

Enabling the Stripe integration

To enable the Stripe integration, navigate to Integrations -> Stripe in your Account Settings (get there via Quick Jump). When there, first click the Connect to Stripe button. That will redirect you to Stripe, where you'll need to grant Vitally access to your Stripe data. Once you do, you'll be redirected back to Vitally, where you'll be able to configure the integration.

Configuring how accounts between Stripe and Vitally should be 'linked'

Once you connect us to your Stripe account, the first option in Vitally displays the question "Do your Stripe customers have the primary ID of the account attached in metadata?" with 2 options - "Yes" or "No":

As Vitally unifies your customer data from various sources, we need a way to 'link' the data stored by those sources together under the same account in Vitally. The most accurate way of doing that is by using the same "global ID" across all systems (which is usually the ID defined by your database), but different systems have different ways of specifying this ID. For example, in Segment, it is the first option passed when using analytics.group . In Intercom, it's the company_id field supported on their company object.

In Stripe, they have no way of natively specifying this ID. However, Stripe does have support for attaching arbitrary data to your accounts via a metadata field, and we recommend using that field to add each account's global ID to your Stripe customers.

If you can attach each account's global ID to your Stripe metadata, selecting "Yes" to the "Do your Stripe customers have the primary ID of the account attached in metadata?" question lets you select which field in your metadata contains that ID.

Handling customers with multiple Stripe subscriptions

If your Stripe customers have multiple subscriptions, just choose the "Yes" option to the question below:

Selecting "Yes" here defaults your trial, revenue, and churn tracking to use traits we'll attach to your accounts that identify the number of paying (the Subscription Paying Count trait) and trialing (the Subscription Trialing Count trait) subscriptions the account has in Stripe. We'll also default your MRR trait to one that totals revenue across all active subscriptions for each account.

More details about the Stripe integration

  • The Stripe integration works by initially importing all your existing customers as well as their past paid invoices.

  • Moving forward, we then listen for customer, subscription, and invoice changes using Stripe webhooks. If a customer or subscription is created, updated, or deleted in Stripe, we will handle that appropriately by creating, updating, or deleting (churning) the customer in Vitally. Additionally, if a Stripe invoice is paid, we will update the customer's MRR and renewal dates in Vitally.

  • Once you enable the Stripe integration, we will automatically adjust your revenue and churn tracking configuration to sync with Stripe. This means we will override any past configuration you had. If you'd rather that not happen, please reconfigure each after the integration is enabled. Note that if you have an existing trial tracking configuration, we will not override it. We do this because many teams choose to track trials internally, outside of Stripe.

  • All Stripe data is also attached to your Vitally customers as traits, giving you the ability to leverage that data in reports and Indicators.

Stripe account traits available in Vitally

When we import a customer from Stripe, we'll automatically add the below traits to your accounts in Vitally. Keep in mind that you can segment accounts by any traits, so you'll be able to run reports across all these fields below in Vitally 🎉

Trait

Type

Description

Account Balance

number

The current balance of the account in Stripe

Cancel At Period End

boolean

Whether the customer is canceling their subscription prior to the next renewal

Canceled At

date

The date the customer canceled their subscription

Card Expiration

date

The date the customer's primary card in Stripe is set to expire

Created

date

The date the customer was created in Stripe

Currency

string

The currency used for the customer in Stripe

Current Period End

date

The date the customer's subscription is set to renew. Note that we'll automatically use this trait as your renewal trait in your Subscribed Customers configuration.

Current Period Start

date

The date the customer's subscription started

Current Subscription Status

string

Set to either trialing, paying, or canceled. We calculate this trait for you and use it to auto-categorize your customers as trials, subscribed, or churn in Vitally.

Customer Id

string

The ID of the customer in Stripe

Delinquent

boolean

Whether the customer has an overdue balance in Stripe

Discount Amount Off

number

The flat discount the customer applies to their balance, if applicable

Discount Duration In Months

number

The number of months the customer's discount is valid for, if applicable

Discount Id

string

The ID of the customer's discount, if applicable

Discount Name

string

The name of the customer's discount, if applicable

Discount Percent Off

number

The percentage discount the customer applies to their balance, if applicable

Email

string

The email of the customer in Stripe

Last Invoice Id

string

The ID of the customer's last invoice in Stripe

Last Invoice Amount

number

The amount of the customer's last invoice in Stripe

Last Invoice Timestamp

date

The date of the customer's last invoice in Stripe

Metadata

objet

We'll import each key/value pair you add to the metadata of your Stripe customers

Mrr

number

This is an auto-calculated trait we set for you. It is set to the maximum of either 1) the customer's last invoice amount or 2) the customer's subscription amount. We'll also automatically use this trait as your revenue trait in your Subscribed Customers configuration.

Name

string

The name of the customer in Stripe

Plan Amounts

array

An array of numbers representing the amount of each plan the customer is subscribed to

Plan Ids

array

An array of strings representing the ID of each plan the customer is subscribed to

Plan Names

array

An array of strings representing the names of each plan the customer is subscribed to

Status

string

The Stripe-defined status for the customer's Stripe subscription

Subscription Amount

number

The amount of the customer's Stripe subscription

Subscription Id

string

The ID of the customer's Stripe subscription

Subscription Interval

string

The interval (e.g. month, year) of the customer's Stripe subscription

Trial Start

date

The start date of the customer's trial in Stripe

Trial End

date

The end date of the customer's trial in Stripe. Note that we'll automatically use this trait as your trial end trait in your Trials configuration.

If you select that customers have multiple subscriptions in Stripe, we’ll automatically transition to exclusively using the following set of traits:

Trait

Type

Description

Subscription Ids

array

An array of IDs for every Stripe subscription the customer has

Subscription Status

array

The Stripe-defined statuses for the customer's Stripe subscriptions

Subscription Paying Count

number

The number of Stripe subscriptions with active revenue

Subscription Trialing Count

number

The number of Stripe subscriptions with an active trial

Subscription Amounts Total

number

The total sum of all the customer's Stripe subscription amounts

Last Invoice Ids

array

An array of IDs for the last invoice of each subscription

Last Invoice Amounts

array

An array of amounts for the last invoice of each subscription

All Mrr

number

The total MRR across all paying subscriptions for the customer

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