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Stripe & PayPal - What reporting & analytics service do you use to combine them, saving yourself the headache that comes with two gateways?

We use Stripe and PayPal as our two payment gateways.

We love Stripe for everything it offers minus the fact that it doesn't support PayPal.

We love PayPal for the trust it has built with users and the simplicity it brings to paying for our service.

What we don't like about PayPal is the lack of proper reporting & analytics tools. To our knowledge there isn't even a out of the box way to calculate MRR within PayPal.

That's why we are currently looking for a solution to merge Stripe & PayPal into one system where we can easily monitor the entirety of our business instead of having to go to two separate locations (and PayPal not even providing the most basic information).

We have built our own reports & dashboards in Google Data Studio but that method has proven to be quite error prone.

Our research brought up Radix (https://radixhaven.com/) but we have no experience with them and would like to get some recommendations from fellow hackers before we give a platform like this access to our payment gateways.

We also came across Chargebee (https://www.chargebee.com/) which is more involved and lets you handle everything from subscription management, billing, accounting and taxes as well as reporting & analytics. But for now we are not really looking to migrate our entire payment infrastructure to a new provider. Unless you guys tell us something like Chargebee is the way to go. :)

Looking forward to hear your thoughts and opinions!

on February 15, 2022
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    We had a customer ask us the same thing recently. Right now my product doesn't have reporting for both PayPal and Stripe but I'd be interested in what you report on with Data Studio to see if there's any overlap with our customer request.

    Radix does seem to be exactly what you are looking for. I can't find much about the company and it's the first I've heard of them.