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May 8, 2026

New Stripe Integration: Forecast Smarter with Subscription-Level Insights

New Stripe Integration: Forecast Smarter with Subscription-Level Insights
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We’re excited to announce our newest integration: RunSmart now connects with Stripe Billing.
If your business uses QuickBooks Online for accounting and Stripe for subscriptions, this update gives you deeper insights into how your products drive revenue—and how pricing changes will impact your future.

Who This Is For

This integration was built for:

  • SaaS founders selling recurring software products through Stripe
  • Bootstrapped teams that need strategic insights but don’t have a full-time finance hire
  • Owners and Operators looking to tie subscription trends to real financial outcomes

If you’re already using RunSmart with QuickBooks, connecting Stripe unlocks a new layer of product-level forecasting and pricing analysis.

What You Can Do with the Stripe Integration

Once connected, RunSmart automatically pulls and organizes your Stripe invoice and product data each month. Here’s what that unlocks:

Forecast Revenue by Product or Plan

RunSmart identifies trends and seasonality in your Stripe data to generate revenue forecasts for each subscription plan—no manual mapping or spreadsheet work required.

Test Pricing Strategies with the Smart Pricing Sandbox

Thinking about raising prices or running a promotion?

With the sandbox, you can:

  • Adjust prices or expected subscriber volume for any plan
  • Instantly project the impact on ARR, revenue, and cash runway

Every scenario is grounded in your actual billing history—no guesswork required.

Why Connect Both Stripe and QuickBooks?

Stripe shows you what’s coming in. QuickBooks shows you what’s going out. RunSmart brings them together so you can plan ahead with confidence.

When you connect both:

  • Forecast cash flow, not just revenue
  • See the downstream impact of pricing decisions on profitability and runway
  • Align your Stripe revenue with your actual operating costs, payroll, and debt obligations

RunSmart handles all the modeling behind the scenes—using your QuickBooks data as the financial source of truth, and your Stripe billing data as the revenue driver.

Getting Started

To use the Stripe integration:

  1. First, connect your QuickBooks Online account to RunSmart (required)
  2. Then, securely connect your Stripe account by clicking on '+ Integration' via the Project page
  3. Rerun a forecast or test a pricing change scenario in minutes

It’s fully automated—no manual uploads, data mapping, or formulas required.

Better Forecasting Starts Here

If you’ve ever tried to forecast Stripe revenue or model price changes in a spreadsheet, you know how frustrating—and error-prone—it can be. RunSmart gives you clear answers, powered by your actual financials and product-level sales data—without needing a finance team to figure it out.

Whether you're considering a price increase, launching a new plan, or just trying to get ahead of cash flow surprises, RunSmart gives you the visibility to move forward with confidence.

By combining QuickBooks and Stripe, RunSmart is now even more powerful.

How do you compare against other financial planning & analysis (FP&A) software?

RunSmart is built specifically for small business owners who need a clear understanding of where their business stands today and how decisions will shape what comes next. While many FP&A platforms emphasize dashboards and complex configuration, RunSmart focuses on turning your QuickBooks data into practical financial intelligence you can act on.

It continuously analyzes historical performance, highlights meaningful financial shifts, and provides a clear view of your current financial health across profitability, cash flow, and growth. At the same time, it generates forward-looking forecasts that help you evaluate the financial impact of hiring, pricing changes, borrowing, or expansion before committing capital.

The result is a platform designed to help you understand your business today, plan confidently for tomorrow, and make informed decisions without the overhead of traditional enterprise tools.

Do I need a strong background in finance to use RunSmart?

Not at all. RunSmart is designed to be easy to use. We handle all calculations and generate forecasts automatically so you don’t have to. That said, to deliver reliable results, your books need to be clean, up to date, and properly categorized every month. If you’re unsure about your bookkeeping quality, we recommend working with a professional bookkeeper first to get things in order.

What makes RunSmart’s forecasts more reliable than other tools?

RunSmart’s forecasts are built to support real business decisions, not just generate projections. Instead of relying on simplified assumptions, RunSmart uses advanced statistical models that account for seasonality, long term trends, and volatility in your historical QuickBooks data.

By continuously analyzing performance patterns and financial shifts, RunSmart produces rolling forecasts that reflect how your business actually behaves. The result is forward looking projections you can confidently use to evaluate hiring, pricing, borrowing, and growth decisions.

My small business has been operational for less than 2 years; can I still use RunSmart?

To ensure reliable forecasts, we require a minimum of 2 consecutive years of historical financial data in your QuickBooks Online account to use RunSmart. Anything less than 2 years does not provide enough data to identify seasonal patterns or trends effectively.

Does RunSmart support consolidations or class tracking for budgeting?

No. RunSmart is intentionally designed for single-entity businesses and does not support consolidating multiple companies or budgeting by class.

In many small businesses, consolidating financial data or budgeting across multiple classes can make it harder to clearly identify where issues are developing. RunSmart focuses on analyzing each business independently so trends, risks, and performance changes are easier to detect and address.

These types of consolidation and class-level budgeting tools are typically designed for large finance teams managing complex corporate structures. RunSmart instead prioritizes clear forecasts, financial diagnostics, and decision insights that small business owners and advisors can quickly understand and act on—without the added complexity of enterprise finance features.

I don’t use QuickBooks Online for my small business. Can I still use RunSmart?

At this time, we currently only support an integration with QuickBooks Online.

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