RecommendationsPublic preview

Payments recommendations are suggestions that Stripe makes that can help increase your revenue or improve fraud protection. View recommendations at Payments > Analytics > Acceptance in the Stripe Dashboard.

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 a recommendation’s availability 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 three ways:

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. Not based on payment volume

   Stripe doesn’t use your payment volume in the impact estimate, and only looks at the average that we observe. For example, this could include an improvement to fraud modeling or conversion rate.

Enable recommendations

Recommendations are currently in private preview. If you don’t see recommendations, make sure that you’re logged in to your Stripe Dashboard, and have access to Payments analytics.

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. You can share feedback on recommendations by selecting Feedback in Payments analytics.