Stripe Metrics

Charges represent the total amount of customer payments processed through your payment gateway, net of refunds, disputes, and reversals. Depending on the payment platform, Charges may be reported before or after processing fees; in analytics and finance contexts, this metric is often aligned with net charges collected rather than gross payment volume. Charges reflect the actual value of customer payments successfully processed and retained through a payment system.

Changes Count measures the total number of Charges you have made to your customers. Use this metric to have an overall view of how many payments you have accepted from your customers for the products or services you sold.

Disputed Charges measures the total value of charges that have been challenged and may be reversed. This metric represents the amount of money that could potentially be deduced from your net charges.

Changes Count measures the total number of Charges you have made to your customers. Use this metric to have an overall view of how many payments you have accepted from your customers for the products or services you sold.

Failed Charges represents the total monetary value of any payments that have failed for reasons including declined payments, blocked payments, and invalid payments.

Failed Charges Count is the total number of payments that have failed for reasons including declined payments, blocked payments, and invalid payments.

The Invoices metric counts the number of invoices you have sent to your customers. It is helpful to track Invoices to keep a tab on what is owed to you.

New Accounts is the total count of new accounts created and includes free and paid accounts. This particular metric refers to new accounts you create as a business with a payment processing platform such as Stripe.

Payment acceptance is the percentage of attempted payments that are successfully authorised and accepted. In credit-card terminology, this is often called the authorization rate. Failed payments — whether declines by the card issuer, routing issues, or declines due to fraud filters — are a major source of lost revenue in online commerce because acceptance rates for card-not-present (online) payments are generally lower than for in-person transactions.

Payment Dispute Rate is the percentage of total successful payments that result in a dispute within the same period. Disputed payments, also called chargebacks, are initiated by the cardholder's bank and typically carry a processing fee for the merchant.

Payment Refund Rate is the percentage of successful payments that are refunded within a given time period. While refunds and chargebacks both result in money being returned to the customer, they are fundamentally different: refunds are voluntary and merchant-initiated, whereas chargebacks are involuntary, initiated by the customer’s bank, and typically incur additional fees and risk penalties.

Payouts are the funds a payment processing platform transfers to your bank account after collecting customer payments on your behalf. The deposited amount reflects gross sales minus processor fees, refunds, and chargebacks, delivered on a schedule you configure.