Root Cause Analysis: Stripe + SAP
Why did this number change? askotter reads Stripe and SAP together and answers it for your business, by text.
How does root cause analysis with Stripe and SAP work for a small business?
askotter reads Stripe and SAP side by side so it can test each explanation against your connected accounts and find the cause. A ranked list of likely causes, each with the evidence behind it.
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The owner asks follow-up questions by text.
- From Stripe
- Payment transactions and revenue, Memberships and recurring plans, Customer payment profiles.
- From SAP
- Financial accounting, Inventory and materials management, Production planning.
- Status
- Both connect today.
- Not for
- Replacing Stripe or SAP. Both keep working exactly as they do now.
Why did this number change?
Bookings dropped 23%. The ad, the website and the weather all get blamed. Without your accounts side by side, it stays a guess.
How askotter handles it
askotter reads Stripe and SAP side by side, so it can test each explanation against your connected accounts and find the cause.
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How Stripe and SAP records line up
Stripe and SAP both store the customer's email address. askotter lowercases and trims it on both sides before matching, so the same person shows up as one customer across the two tools.
Shared between the two: the customer email address.
What root cause analysis uses from each
Root cause analysis needs timestamps precise enough to put events in order.
From Stripe that means decline codes and refund reasons. From SAP it means delivery dates, credit blocks and cancellations.
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Stripe on its own
Stripe knows the payment, the amount and the customer's email. It has no record of the ad, search or email that brought the customer in.
Timing. Stripe records each charge, refund and failed payment as it happens. Payouts land on a schedule days later, so charge date and payout date differ.
Access. A restricted, read-only Stripe API key, or Stripe Connect.
SAP on its own
SAP holds the booked order, the invoice and the customer master. It has no record of the marketing that produced the order.
Timing. SAP data usually reaches outside systems in scheduled extracts, so it runs as current as the extract schedule your ERP team sets.
Access. Read-only OData services or scheduled exports set up with your ERP team.
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