Guides

Playbooks for finding revenue your billing platform is leaking.

In-depth guides on Stripe revenue audits, dunning, recovery gaps, zombie subscriptions, discount leakage, and the practical trade-offs between auditing your account yourself with Stripe Sigma and using a purpose-built tool. Written for SaaS founders, billing-ops, and RevOps teams.

• Playbook · 12 min read

  How to Audit a Stripe Account for Revenue Leaks: The 5-Check Playbook

  The five categories of unintended revenue loss hiding in your Stripe account, why each one accumulates over time, and the practical trade-offs between doing it yourself with Stripe Sigma and using a purpose-built audit tool.

• Deep dive · 11 min read

  Why your Stripe dunning is silently losing you money

  A deep dive on recovery gaps: how Stripe Smart Retries actually work, why your real recovery rate is often well below Stripe's published average, and the dunning levers that move the number without writing custom code.

• Deep dive · 10 min read

  Zombie subscriptions: the silent revenue killer hiding in your Stripe account

  How pause_collection subscriptions go from "we will sort this out next week" to thousands of dollars of foregone revenue without anybody noticing, plus a workflow for finding and resolving them every quarter.

• Deep dive · 10 min read

  Discount leakage: how expired promos keep charging your customers

  Why forever-duration coupons without a redeem_by date accumulate into a multi-thousand-dollar drag, plus the safest way to expire them without creating a customer-service incident.

• Deep dive · 11 min read

  Stripe Sigma vs purpose-built audit: when each makes sense

  An honest comparison of Stripe Sigma and dedicated revenue-audit tooling. Where Sigma wins, where a tool wins, what each one costs in real engineering hours, and the decision framework for choosing.