Combined Reporting: Stripe + Zendesk
How do you get one set of numbers you can trust? askotter reads Stripe and Zendesk together and answers it for your business, by text.
How does combined reporting with Stripe and Zendesk work for a small business?
askotter reads Stripe and Zendesk side by side so it can combine your accounts into one clean report you can ask questions of. One report covering every connected account, cleaned up and answerable by text.
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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 Zendesk
- Ticket volume and resolution, CSAT scores, Agent performance.
- Status
- Zendesk is on the integration roadmap, so the matching described here starts when that connector ships.
- Not for
- Replacing Stripe or Zendesk. Both keep working exactly as they do now.
How do you get one set of numbers you can trust?
GA4 says one thing, Stripe says another, and your booking system disagrees with both. Matching them by hand takes hours, and the answer is still fuzzy.
How askotter handles it
askotter reads Stripe and Zendesk side by side, so it can combine your accounts into one clean report you can ask questions of.
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How Stripe and Zendesk records line up
Stripe and Zendesk 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 combined reporting uses from each
Combined reporting needs a shared identifier or a shared time grain.
From Stripe that means customer emails and any order ID your checkout writes into charge metadata. From Zendesk it means requester emails and organisations.
Zendesk is on the integration roadmap, so the matching described here starts when that connector ships.
What each tool sees on its ownShow less
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.
Zendesk on its own
Zendesk sees the complaint and how it was handled. It cannot see what the customer is worth or whether they bought again.
Timing. Zendesk timestamps every ticket, reply and status change.
Access. The Zendesk Support API with a read-only token.
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Questions about Stripe + Zendesk
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How is askotter's Combined Reporting different from what Stripe shows on its own?
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