# Revenue Recognition data freshness

Understand when data becomes available to Stripe Revenue Recognition for different use cases.

You can access Stripe Revenue Recognition product data through:

- The Product Dashboard for report downloads and charts
- Sigma
- The Reporting API
- Data Pipeline for syncing Sigma tables with a custom data warehouse

This guide helps you interpret how soon completed activities might appear in each source.

> All load times listed in this guide are estimates. Actual load times might vary.

## New transaction data availability 

After you sign up, your account becomes active within 8 - 9 hours and you can start viewing the reports on your Dashboard.

For the Dashboard, Sigma, and Reporting API, new transaction data appears within approximately 3-4 hours after transaction completion. For example, ledger entries for an invoice finalized at 10:00 AM UTC on January 1, 2026 become available in reports as soon as 01:00 PM UTC the same day.

You can use the Data Pipeline to sync revenue recognition data with a custom data warehouse once every 6 hours. Ledger entries for new transactions appear in SDP within 8-9 hours.

The availability periods described above apply to the following use cases:

- New activity inside Stripe like charges, invoices, or refunds
- Manual data imports to Stripe Revenue Recognition
- Exclusions uploaded to ignore certain transactions

## Exceptions  

The following table lists use cases that don’t fall within the availability periods described above.

| Use case                                                         | Data freshness                                                                                  |
| ---------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Legacy metered subscription’s unbilled usage estimates           | Estimates include usage submitted as of 24 hours ago                                            |
| Mobile app store data imports                                    | 24 hours after data connector import                                                            |
| Estimation of FX Loss for Customer Balance transactions.         | Reports reflect these with a 24-hour delay.                                                     |
| Changes to revenue recognition rules or chart of account mapping | Historical data reflects changes within 24 hours                                                |
| Re-opening an accounting period for corrections                  | Reprocessed entries reflect changes within 24 hours                                             |
| Accounting entries on invoices                                   | Updates almost instantly, but can take up to four hours for changes to reflect in the reports 1 |

1 Applies only to standalone invoices finalized after April 2025.

## Data freshness timestamp by interface

| Interface                             | Data freshness value                                                                            |
| ------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Stripe dashboard (charts and reports) | Check the overview page for data freshness timestamp.                                           |
| Reporting API                         | Refer to [Reports Data availability](https://docs.stripe.com/reports/api.md#data-availability). |
| Sigma                                 | Check the `data_load_time` column in `revenue_recognition_debits_and_credits`.                  |
| Stripe Data Pipeline                  | Look at the `data_load_times` table shared in the warehouse.                                    |