RecommendationsPublic preview

Learn more about the Stripe recommendations that can increase revenue and improve fraud detection.

Private preview

Recommendations are currently in private preview. You must have access to the Payments analytics preview to use Recommendations. If you log in and don’t have access to Payments analytics page in the Dashboard, join the waitlist.

Payments recommendations are suggestions that Stripe makes that can help increase your revenue or improve fraud protection. View these recommendations on the Acceptance page in the Stripe Dashboard.

How it works

You can view up to three recommendations at a time:

Depending on availability, you might have no recommendations at a given time, or less than three.
If you want to dismiss a particular recommendation, click X.
To share feedback on recommendations, select Feedback in Payments analytics, and click Submit.

Note

Carefully consider any recommendations. It’s up to your business to analyze and decide to act on a recommendation. Recommendations don’t constitute professional advice.

Any estimated impacts such as increases in revenue, are estimates and aren’t guaranteed. Stripe doesn’t have all the relevant information about your business to guarantee an outcome. Recommendations might require a tradeoff, such as an increase in costs, risk of fraud, or additional applicable legal terms.

Recommendation availability

Recommendations show up in your account when they’re relevant to your business. We base recommendations on factors such as your account settings and how you integrate with Stripe. Not all businesses receive the same recommendations.

We base some recommendations on thresholds. For example, if you share data on some of your payments, but not 80% or more, Stripe might recommend that you share that data on more of your payments.

Stripe updates recommendations on a daily basis. Natural fluctuations in your payments could affect the availability of a recommendation as well as its estimated impact.

Estimated impact

Each recommendation includes an estimated impact, such as a revenue (otherwise known as payment volume) increase or fraud model improvement. We show all of your revenue increases in your settlement currency.

Stripe estimates impact in one of the following ways:

Based on all payment volume	Stripe takes your most recent month of payment volume, multiplies it by an average increase figure, then multiplies it by 12 to provide an annual estimate. We base the average increase on the increase experienced by other businesses that took the action we’re recommending. Stripe regularly runs tests to evaluate this estimated impact. When annualizing the impact, we assume there’s no changes to your payment volume over time.
Based on relevant payment volume	Stripe takes your most recent month of relevant payment volume, multiplies this by an average increase figure, then multiplies it by 12 to provide an annual estimate. Stripe excludes payments that aren’t relevant for the recommendation. For example, in the card account updater recommendation, we exclude payments using cards that don’t have an available update.

Based on all payment volume

Stripe takes your most recent month of payment volume, multiplies it by an average increase figure, then multiplies it by 12 to provide an annual estimate.
We base the average increase on the increase experienced by other businesses that took the action we’re recommending. Stripe regularly runs tests to evaluate this estimated impact. When annualizing the impact, we assume there’s no changes to your payment volume over time.

Based on relevant payment volume

Stripe takes your most recent month of relevant payment volume, multiplies this by an average increase figure, then multiplies it by 12 to provide an annual estimate. Stripe excludes payments that aren’t relevant for the recommendation.
For example, in the card account updater recommendation, we exclude payments using cards that don’t have an available update.