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by saadatq 659 days ago
A counterpoint, from someone who’s worked on SaaS billing /MRR reporting for 10+ years - it’s usually more complicated than just exposing an API endpoint for precalculated MRR by month. Most analysis requires drilling into dimensions of MRR growth - by cohort, by billing period, etc - and so while Stripe exposing an API for MRR could be helpful, it won’t cover most of the cases for proper financial analysis for a SaaS business. There’s also the complication of how MRR is computed across companies and domains - it’s not a GAAP metric and no standardized definitions.