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Insights

Explore, under Insights in the Dashboard menu, charts your payment and customer data from a report you choose, and Saved insights lists the insights you saved there. This page explains how their numbers read. Each report has a page of its own that describes every measure, breakdown and filter it offers.

ReportWhat it coversThe date range selects
PaymentsYour payments and what became of them, with the revenue, refunds and chargebacks behind themPayments, by when they were created
Customer valueWhat your customers are worth: each customer placed by their first charge, with every upsell and rebill they pay after itCustomers, by when they made their first charge
Projected billingThe subscription charges coming up: each active subscription's next scheduled chargeCharges, by the day they are scheduled for — today and later
RebillsSubscription renewals and what became of them each dayRebills, by the day they were approved or declined
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The Payment summary, Customer value and Projected billing pages elsewhere in the Insights menu are separate reports. They count by rules of their own, so their numbers can differ from the reports in Explore.

How an insight is built​

ControlWhat it does
ReportThe report the insight reads. Measures, breakdowns and filters belong to a report, so choosing another report clears them.
MeasuresThe numbers to show. Choose one or more.
Break down bySplits every measure by the values of one breakdown: revenue by currency, payments by outcome.
Top valuesHow many values of the breakdown to show — 3, 5 or 10 — keeping the values with the largest totals in the first measure.
Date rangeThe period the insight covers. Each report places its rows in time by a date of its own, listed in the table above.
IntervalOne point per hour, day, week, month, quarter or year, or Total for one number over the whole period. An interval that does not fit the date range is unavailable.
Compare withShows the measures for an earlier period as well: the previous period, the same dates a year earlier, or a period as far back as you type, such as -4w.
FilterKeeps only the rows whose value meets the condition. Filters says how several filters combine.
FormulaCombines the measures into a number of its own, such as refunds as a percentage of gross revenue. Formulas says how to write one.

Reading the numbers​

  • Counts say how many there are of what the measure names: payments, customers, rebills.
  • Amounts are in your display currency. Averages, such as an average order value, are rounded down to the smallest unit of that currency.
  • Rates are percentages with two decimals. A rate with nothing to take a percentage of reads 0.00%.
  • Dates are in your timezone: a day, a week or a month starts at midnight there.
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An amount paid in another currency is converted to your display currency at the latest exchange rate, not the rate on the day of the payment. The total of a past period changes as exchange rates move.

Rates, and counts that count each customer once, do not add up across the values of a breakdown or the points of a chart. A customer who paid in two currencies counts once under each currency, and once in the total. For these measures, read the total rather than adding up the rows.

Breakdowns​

Rows with no value for the breakdown are grouped under none: broken down by Card brand, the payments not made by card. With none included, the values of a breakdown add up to the total of a measure that adds up.

The values past Top values are grouped under Other, so the chart still adds up to the total. Some measures cannot be added together across values: rates, counts of customers, counts broken down by Product or Price (where one payment or customer can count under several products), and the averages computed from them. When an insight holds one of these, the values past the top are left out for every measure in it, and there is no Other.

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Put Gross revenue beside Approval rate in an insight with a breakdown, and the revenue of the values past Top values is left out of the chart, with no Other to show it. To see it, show the rate in an insight of its own. An average computed from measures that add up, such as Average order value broken down by Currency, keeps an Other of its own.

Filters​

A filter compares with one of the conditions is, is not, is one of and is none of. A filter on a number also takes greater than, at least, less than and at most. Product and Price take only is and is one of.

A row must meet every filter you add. Rows on the same filter combine by their conditions:

  • Two or more is rows keep a row that matches any of their values, together with the values of any is one of row beside them: Billing country is United States, is Canada and is one of United Kingdom keeps all three countries. A single is row beside an is one of row keeps only a value both name.
  • is one of rows join their values.
  • is not and is none of rows leave out every value they name.
  • Bounds on a number must all hold: at least 10 and at most 50 keep the range between them, and two at least rows keep the higher.

When a filter's values are fixed, you choose from all of them: a status, an outcome, a type such as Card type or Attempt type, the ad platform, or a country, which you choose by its name. For another filter on a breakdown, you choose from the values in the date range, the most common first. The list is read from the latest 100,000 rows of the date range, so a rarer value can be missing from a long one: type it to use it. A listed value can still match no row of the report. For the other filters, you type the value.

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A filter never keeps the rows grouped under none, whatever its condition. Card brand is not Visa also leaves out every payment not made by card, and Billing country is none of United States leaves out every payment whose customer gave no billing address.

Formulas​

Choose the measures first. Once you add a formula, Measures shows each measure under a letter, in the order you chose them: A the first, B the second. Write the formula with those letters, numbers, +, -, *, /, % (the remainder), ** (the power) and parentheses. With Gross revenue as A and Refund amount as B, B / A * 100 is the share of gross revenue refunded.

Once an insight has a formula, its chart and table show the formulas in place of the measures. To show a measure beside a formula, add a formula of its letter alone, such as A. A formula is computed for every value of a breakdown and for the period you compare with, as a measure is. Give a formula a Name to read it by; without one, it reads as Formula (B / A * 100).

A formula's result reads as a plain number with up to two decimals, and a division by zero reads 0:

  • A share of one measure in another, such as B / A * 100, reads as a percentage without the % sign.
  • Amounts enter a formula in the smallest unit of your display currency, such as cents. A - B over two amounts reads 494,000 for $4,940.00.

A measure that a formula names cannot be removed until no formula names it. Removing another measure changes the letters of the measures after it, and the formulas change with them, so each still names the same measures.

How the ad platform is read​

The Ad platform breakdown and filter name the advertising platform the traffic came from. They read the first word of the utm_source captured at checkout — its first run of letters, in any case — and, when the source names no platform, the first word of the utm_medium. A word names a platform when it is one of the platform's names, alone or followed by ads:

PlatformNames
googlegoogle, adwords, youtube
metameta, facebook, fb, instagram, ig, messenger, msg, threads, th, an, whatsapp
tiktoktiktok
microsoftmicrosoft, bing, msn
snapchatsnapchat
pinterestpinterest
xx, twitter
linkedinlinkedin
redditreddit

So Facebook_Ads, fbads and IG all read as meta. A source or medium that names none of these reads as other; break down by UTM source to see which sources those are. A payment with neither captured is under none.