Query billing data

Use Sigma or Data Pipeline to retrieve billing information.

Billing is made up of different components that work together to provide one-off invoices and periodic billing, with different aspects of billing data available across a number of tables. All billing-specific tables are in the Billing section of the schema, with the primary tables being subscriptions and invoices.

To explore billing data further, you can use the additional tables that represent the components of subscriptions and invoices, such as prices, products, or coupons. In addition, the customers table is a fundamental part of billing, and contains data you might need to report on.

Subscriptions

Each row within the subscriptions table represents data about an individual Subscription object – the same information that the API retrieves or is available in the Stripe Dashboard. You can report on every subscription that you create on your account.

This table is our recommended starting point for creating reports about your current subscribers. You can join this to other related tables, allowing you to explore your data in more detail.

The following example retrieves a list of subscriptions that have been marked as unpaid, along with any available contact information for the customer.

select
 subscriptions.id,
 subscriptions.customer_id,
 customers.email
from subscriptions
inner join customers
 on customers.id = subscriptions.customer_id
where
 subscriptions.status = 'unpaid'
limit 5

Customers

Data about Customer objects are contained in the customers table (this isn’t part of the Billing Tables group). It’s commonly used as part of billing-based reports and can be joined to a number of tables. It’s also useful if you’re creating charges with saved payment information.

The following example retrieves a list of customers with subscriptions that are currently in a trial period. It retrieves both the ID and email address for each customer.

select
 customers.id,
 customers.email,
 subscriptions.price_id
from subscriptions
inner join customers
on customers.id = subscriptions.customer_id
where subscriptions.status = 'trialing'
limit 5

Products and prices

Products describe items that your customers can purchase with a subscription. Prices are tied to products and set out the cost, billing interval and currency. When you view data from the subscriptions table, you can join it with subscription_items. Additionally, you can join it to products.id by using the price_product_id from the item.

The following example returns a list of active subscriptions along with the product name and its statement descriptor:

active_subscription_products.sql

with active_subscriptions as (
 select
 s.id as subscription_id,
 si.id as subscription_item_id,
 si.price_id,
 p.name as product_name,
 p.statement_descriptor
 from subscriptions s
 join subscription_items si on s.id = si.subscription_id
 join products p on si.price_product_id = p.id
 where s.status = 'active'
)
select
 subscription_id,
 subscription_item_id,
 price_id,
 product_name,
 statement_descriptor
from active_subscriptions
order by 1,2

Price tiers

While using prices with tiers in your subscriptions, the price_tiers table can provide specific data about each tier. For instance, if you want to understand the initial tier of your subscriptions, including the maximum quantity for the first tier and the used unit amount, refer to the following query:

tiered_prices.sql

with subscription_item_prices as (
 select
 si.subscription_id,
 si.price_id,
 p.currency
 from
 subscription_items si
 join prices p on si.price_id = p.id
),
price_tier_details as (
 select
 sp.subscription_id,
 pt.price_id,
 pt.upto,
 stringify_amount(sp.currency, pt.amount, '.') as tier_price,
 sp.currency
 from
 subscription_item_prices sp
 join price_tiers pt on sp.price_id = pt.price_id
)
select
 ptd.subscription_id,
 ptd.price_id,
 ptd.upto,
 ptd.tier_price,
 ptd.currency
from
 price_tier_details ptd
order by
 ptd.subscription_id,
 ptd.price_id,
 ptd.upto asc

Invoices

The invoices table contains data about individual Invoice objects. Each subscription generates an invoice on a recurring basis that represents the amount the customer owes. This automatically includes the amount required for the subscription and any additional invoice items that might have been created (listed as line items).

Invoices are comprised of individual ( invoice) line items. These line items represent any subscriptions that the customer is billed for, and invoice items that have been created and applied to the invoice. To break down an invoice and analyse each of its line items, use the invoice_line_items table.

The source_id column of this table contains the ID of either the subscription (for example, sub_eAq9noYWe7f4tbv) or invoice item (for example, ii_FyRrNVXBBftJUng) that the line item corresponds to. The source_type column reflects whether the line items represent a subscription or an invoice item.

Unlike other foreign keys, the subscription column of the invoice_line_items table isn’t always populated. If the corresponding invoice item is a subscription, this column is blank – its ID already appears in the source_id column.

Invoice items

Data about Invoice items is provided in the invoice_items table. Invoice items are commonly used to specify an additional amount (or deduct an amount) that’s applied on the next invoice at the beginning of the next billing cycle. For example, you would create an invoice item if you need to bill your customer for exceeding their monthly allowance or if you need to provide a credit on the next invoice for unused service.

The following example retrieves all the invoices and associated charge IDs for a particular subscription.

select
 id,
 charge_id,
 amount_due
from invoices
where subscription_id = 'sub_ALJXL9gBYtv6GJ'

Invoice totals and discounts

The invoice subtotal represents the amount of all subscriptions, invoice items, and prorations on the invoice before any discount is applied. The invoice total is the amount after discounts and tax have been applied:

invoice.total = invoice.subtotal - discount + invoice.tax

There is no column to represent the discount amount on an invoice. Instead, you can calculate this by aggregating the line items’ discount amounts. The following query returns a list of invoices, their period start and end, and the total discounted amount for the invoice.

invoice_discounts.sql

with invoices_with_discounts as (
 select
 invoice_id,
 sum(amount) as total_discount_amount
 from
 invoice_line_item_discount_amounts
 group by
 invoice_id
)
select
 i.id as invoice_id,
 i.period_start,
 i.period_end,
 stringify_amount(i.currency, ilda.total_discount_amount, '.') as total_discount_amount,
 i.currency
from
 invoices i
 join invoices_with_discounts ilda on i.id = ilda.invoice_id
order by i.id

Working with invoice dates and periods

Subscription invoices are pre-billed, meaning the customer makes the payment at the beginning of a billing cycle. This is represented in a line item’s period value. For example, a customer with a monthly subscription is billed at the start of each month. If they choose to cancel_at_period_end, their subscription stays active until the month’s end, after which the subscription ends.

The period_start and period_end values of an invoice represents when invoice items might have been created – it’s not always definitive of the period of service that the customer is being billed for. For example, if a customer is billed on the 1st of each month and exceeds their monthly allowance on the 15th, you might create an invoice item for any additional costs that the customer is charged for. This invoice item is then included in the next invoice, which is created on the 1st of the next month. When the next invoice is generated, the period_start date would be the 15th of the previous month – the date the additional line item is first created.

Usage based billing

Usage-based billing enables you to charge customers based on their usage of your product or service.

Billing meters

A Meter object specifies how to aggregate meter events over a billing period. Meter events represent all actions that customers take in your system (for example, API requests). Meters attach to prices and form the basis of what’s billed. These objects are available through the billing_meters table.

The following query returns all active billing meters.

meters.sql

select
 id,
 status,
 display_name,
 default_aggregation_formula
from
 billing_meters
where
 status = 'ACTIVE'
 and livemode

Billing meter event summaries

A Billing Meter Event Summary object represents an aggregated view of a customer’s billing meter events within a specified timeframe. It represents how much usage a customer accrues for that period. These objects are available through the billing_meter_event_summaries table. Hourly summaries are available, as indicated by the value_grouping_window column.

The following query returns a sum of billing meter events for a specific customer.

billing_meter_event_summaries.sql

select
 billing_meters.display_name,
 sum(billing_meter_event_summaries.aggregated_value) AS total_usage
from
 billing_meter_event_summaries
 join billing_meters on billing_meters.id = billing_meter_event_summaries.meter_id
where
 billing_meter_event_summaries.customer_id = 'cus_EDQkYj7P2Jf3sJ1'
 and billing_meter_event_summaries.start_time >= timestamp '2025-02-01 08:00'
 and billing_meter_event_summaries.end_time <= timestamp '2025-02-01 20:00'
 and value_grouping_window = 'hourly'
group by
 display_name

Billing meter usage analytics

Billing Meter Usage Analytics objects represent an analytics summary of a customer’s billing meter usage within a specified timeframe. It can be grouped by or filtered by meters, dimensions and tenants to power customer analytics dashboards.

The integration guide demonstrates request and response shapes.

This API is available in public preview. Request access to this API.

Billing meter invalid events

A Billing Meter Invalid Event object represents a billing meter event that isn’t successfully validated. These objects are available through the billing_meter_invalid_events table. The associated billing_meter_invalid_events_payload table contains the event payload from the original event.

The following query returns all invalid billing meter events for a specific customer.

billing_meter_invalid_events.sql

SELECT
 billing_meter_invalid_events.id as event_id,
 billing_meter_invalid_events.error_code,
 billing_meter_invalid_events.error_message
FROM
 billing_meter_invalid_events
 JOIN billing_meter_invalid_events_payload ON billing_meter_invalid_events_payload.event_id = billing_meter_invalid_events.id
WHERE
 billing_meter_invalid_events_payload.key = 'stripe_customer_id'
 AND billing_meter_invalid_events_payload.value = 'cus_EDQkYj7P2Jf3sJ1'

Coupons

A Coupon object represents an amount or percentage-off discount that you can apply to subscriptions or customers.

coupons.sql

select
 coupons.id,
 coupons.amount_off,
 coupons.percent_off
from coupons
where valid = false
limit 5

Discounts

A discount is the application of a coupon, represented by a Discount object. The following query returns a list of subscriptions and their associated discounts and coupons:

discounts.sql

select
 subscriptions.id as subscription_id,
 t.discount_id,
 coupons.id as coupon_id
from
 subscriptions
 cross join unnest(split(subscriptions.discounts, ',')) as t(discount_id)
 join discounts on discounts.id = t.discount_id
 join coupons on coupons.id = discounts.coupon_id
limit 3

Promotion codes

A promotion code represents a customer-redeemable code for a coupon. The following query provides a list of promotion codes pertaining to a specific coupon and displays the number of times each code has been redeemed:

promotion_codes.sql

select
 promotion_codes.id as promotion_code_id,
 promotion_codes.code as promotion_code,
 promotion_codes.times_redeemed
from
 promotion_codes
limit 3

Subscription Item Change Events

The subscription_item_change_events table tracks changes to subscription items that affect Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) and subscription quantities. Use this table to calculate MRR for individual customers, products or plans, to create custom metric definitions for your business models and to track subscription quantity changes.

Caution

This table provides more up-to-date data than the source driving the MRR metrics on the Billing overview in the Stripe Dashboard. This means the data for the last and current day’s MRR here could be more accurate and could differ from what you see in the Dashboard.

Subscription Item Change Events v2 Public preview

The subscription_item_change_events_v2_beta table supersedes the subscription_item_change_events table with improved data freshness. Data in this table maintains a 3 hour freshness in Sigma and a 7 hour freshness in Stripe Data Pipeline. It shares the same schema with the existing dataset. You can query it by appending the v2_beta suffix to the table in the same example template queries.

Data might change

This table provides data that is fresher and more consistent with the Stripe Dashboard than the existing dataset. This means that future deliveries of this dataset might have updated data for the last and current day’s MRR. Allow all data to settle (48-hours maximum) before consuming this data incrementally.

local_event_timestamp and event_timestamp

This table includes two timestamp columns:

• event _ timestamp : This is the UTC timestamp.
• local _ event _ timestamp : This timestamp is in your local time zone, typically the time zone of the person who created your Stripe account.

currency

Here, you’ll find the subscription item’s settlement currency as a three-letter ISO currency code in lowercase. The currency must be one that Stripe supports.

mrr_change

The mrr_change column shows the positive or negative impact of an event on your MRR in the subscription item’s settlement currency’s minor unit (such as cents for USD).

quantity_change

The quantity_change column shows the associated positive or negative change in the quantity of a subscription item that a customer subscribes to.

event_type

Note

Some user actions can create multiple events, so you could see an event with an event_type of the related setting on one item and then immediately an event with an event_type of the related setting on another item for the same subscription_id.

Other columns

Other columns ( product_id, price_id, customer_id, subscription_id and subscription_item_id) hold IDs related to the subscription item change event.

Example queries

For additional and most up-to-date examples, see the Subscriptions section of query template library in Sigma sidebar.

To calculate the monthly recurring revenue (MRR) and the number of active subscribers from this table, you’ll need to use window functions. Additionally, if you have customers using different currencies, you’ll need to perform foreign currency exchange calculations. The calculation aims to track monthly MRR and the evolution of active subscribers, distinguishing between new additions, reactivations, expansions, contractions and churns. The final results are presented in minor currency units, such as cents for USD.

WITH ts_grouped_sub_item_events AS (
 SELECT
 local_event_timestamp,
 customer_id,
 currency,
 sum(mrr_change) AS mrr_change
 FROM
 subscription_item_change_events_v2_beta
 GROUP BY
 1,
 2,
 3
),
ts_grouped_sub_item_events_with_mrr AS (
 SELECT
 *,
 date_trunc(
 'day',
 date(local_event_timestamp)
 ) AS local_event_date,
 -- Stripe defines an "active subscriber" as a customer with non-zero MRR.
 -- Therefore instead of summing up event_type to get subscription count (and its diff),
 -- We count the amount of revenue on each customer instead and later check its movement from / to zero
 sum(mrr_change) over (
 PARTITION by customer_id
 ORDER BY
 local_event_timestamp ASC
 ) AS mrr,
 -- We count the # of times MRR has actually changed, and use nullif to ignore events that do not impact MRR
 -- Otherwise we may confuse between new vs. reactivation
 count(nullif(mrr_change, 0)) over (
 PARTITION by customer_id
 ORDER BY
 local_event_timestamp ASC
 ) AS mrr_change_count
 FROM
 ts_grouped_sub_item_events
),
ts_grouped_sub_item_events_with_previous_mrr AS (
 SELECT
 *,
 coalesce(
 last_value(mrr) IGNORE nulls OVER (
 PARTITION by customer_id
 ORDER BY
 local_event_timestamp ASC ROWS BETWEEN UNBOUNDED PRECEDING
 AND 1 PRECEDING
 ),
 0
 ) AS previous_mrr
 FROM
 ts_grouped_sub_item_events_with_mrr
),
customer_events AS (
 SELECT
 *,
 CASE
 WHEN mrr = 0
 AND previous_mrr > 0 THEN 'ACTIVE_END'
 WHEN mrr > 0
 AND previous_mrr = 0
 AND mrr_change_count = 1 THEN 'ACTIVE_START'
 WHEN mrr > 0
 AND previous_mrr = 0
 AND mrr_change_count > 1 THEN 'REACTIVATE'
 WHEN mrr > previous_mrr THEN 'ACTIVE_UPGRADE'
 WHEN mrr < previous_mrr THEN 'ACTIVE_DOWNGRADE'
 ELSE NULL
 END AS cus_event_type
 FROM
 ts_grouped_sub_item_events_with_previous_mrr
),
date_grouped_customer_events AS (
 SELECT
 local_event_date,
 currency,
 sum(mrr_change) AS mrr_change,
 sum(
 CASE
 cus_event_type
 WHEN 'ACTIVE_START' THEN mrr_change
 ELSE 0
 END
 ) AS new_mrr,
 sum(
 CASE
 cus_event_type
 WHEN 'REACTIVATE' THEN mrr_change
 ELSE 0
 END
 ) AS reactivation_mrr,
 sum(
 CASE
 cus_event_type
 WHEN 'ACTIVE_UPGRADE' THEN mrr_change
 ELSE 0
 END
 ) AS expansion_mrr,
 sum(
 CASE
 cus_event_type
 WHEN 'ACTIVE_DOWNGRADE' THEN mrr_change
 ELSE 0
 END
 ) AS contraction_mrr,
 sum(
 CASE
 cus_event_type
 WHEN 'ACTIVE_END' THEN mrr_change
 ELSE 0
 END
 ) AS churn_mrr,
 sum(
 CASE
 WHEN mrr = 0
 AND previous_mrr > 0 THEN -1
 WHEN mrr > 0
 AND previous_mrr = 0 THEN 1
 ELSE 0
 END
 ) AS active_subscribers_change,
 sum(
 CASE
 cus_event_type
 WHEN 'ACTIVE_END' THEN 1
 ELSE 0
 END
 ) AS churned_subscribers,
 sum(
 CASE
 cus_event_type
 WHEN 'ACTIVE_START' THEN 1
 ELSE 0
 END
 ) AS new_subscribers,
 sum(
 CASE
 cus_event_type
 WHEN 'REACTIVATE' THEN 1
 ELSE 0
 END
 ) AS reactivated_subscribers
 FROM
 customer_events
 GROUP BY
 1,
 2
),
-- Prepare the multi dimensional table with all days + currency combinations and conversion rate metadata
-- Exchange_rates_from_usd contains one row for every date from 2010-01-07 until today
-- which is why we don't need to generate a separate date series for the full table
dates_with_rate_per_usd AS (
 SELECT
 -- We use previous day's closing rates in precomputed metrics
 date - INTERVAL '1' DAY AS fx_date,
 cast(
 json_parse(buy_currency_exchange_rates) AS map(varchar, double)
 ) AS rate_per_usd
 FROM
 exchange_rates_from_usd
),
currencies AS (
 SELECT
 DISTINCT(currency)
 FROM
 subscription_item_change_events_v2_beta
),
first_default_currency AS (
 SELECT
 default_currency
 FROM
 accounts
 WHERE
 default_currency IS NOT NULL
 LIMIT
 1
),
dates_x_currencies_with_conversion_rate AS (
 SELECT
 fx_date as local_date,
 currency,
 default_currency,
 1 / rate_per_usd [currency] * rate_per_usd [coalesce(default_currency, 'usd')] AS conversion_rate
 FROM
 dates_with_rate_per_usd
 CROSS JOIN currencies
 CROSS JOIN first_default_currency
 ORDER BY
 1,
 2
),
daily_metrics_by_currency AS (
 SELECT
 dpc.local_date,
 dpc.currency,
 dpc.conversion_rate,
 coalesce(
 sum(mrr_change) over (
 PARTITION by dpc.currency
 ORDER BY
 dpc.local_date ASC
 ),
 0
 ) AS mrr,
 coalesce(
 round(
 sum(mrr_change) over (
 PARTITION by dpc.currency
 ORDER BY
 dpc.local_date ASC
 ) * dpc.conversion_rate
 ),
 0
 ) AS converted_mrr,
 coalesce(round(new_mrr * conversion_rate), 0) AS converted_new_mrr,
 coalesce(round(reactivation_mrr * conversion_rate), 0) AS converted_reactivation_mrr,
 coalesce(round(expansion_mrr * conversion_rate), 0) AS converted_expansion_mrr,
 coalesce(round(contraction_mrr * conversion_rate), 0) AS converted_contraction_mrr,
 coalesce(round(churn_mrr * conversion_rate), 0) AS converted_churn_mrr,
 coalesce(dgce.mrr_change, 0) AS mrr_change,
 coalesce(dgce.new_mrr, 0) AS new_mrr,
 coalesce(dgce.reactivation_mrr, 0) AS reactivation_mrr,
 coalesce(dgce.expansion_mrr, 0) AS expansion_mrr,
 coalesce(dgce.contraction_mrr, 0) AS contraction_mrr,
 coalesce(dgce.churn_mrr, 0) AS churn_mrr,
 coalesce(
 sum(active_subscribers_change) over (
 PARTITION by dpc.currency
 ORDER BY
 dpc.local_date ASC
 ),
 0
 ) AS active_subscribers,
 coalesce(dgce.active_subscribers_change, 0) AS active_subscribers_change,
 coalesce(dgce.churned_subscribers, 0) AS churned_subscribers,
 coalesce(dgce.new_subscribers, 0) AS new_subscribers,
 coalesce(dgce.reactivated_subscribers, 0) AS reactivated_subscribers
 FROM
 dates_x_currencies_with_conversion_rate dpc
 LEFT JOIN date_grouped_customer_events dgce ON dpc.local_date = dgce.local_event_date
 AND dpc.currency = dgce.currency
),
daily_metrics AS (
 SELECT
 local_date,
 sum(converted_mrr) AS mrr,
 sum(converted_new_mrr) AS new_mrr,
 sum(converted_reactivation_mrr) AS reactivation_mrr,
 sum(converted_expansion_mrr) AS expansion_mrr,
 sum(converted_contraction_mrr) AS contraction_mrr,
 sum(converted_churn_mrr) AS churn_mrr,
 -- Customer can only have active subscription in a single currency at a time, as a result this doesn't result in over-counting subscriber changes
 -- This also matches the precomputed metrics logic in billing dashboard / CSV download
 sum(active_subscribers) AS active_subscribers,
 sum(churned_subscribers) AS churned_subscribers,
 sum(new_subscribers) AS new_subscribers,
 sum(reactivated_subscribers) AS reactivated_subscribers
 FROM
 daily_metrics_by_currency
 GROUP BY
 1
),
daily_metrics_with_derived AS (
 SELECT
 *,
 mrr - lag(mrr) over (
 ORDER BY
 local_date
 ) - new_mrr - reactivation_mrr - expansion_mrr - contraction_mrr - churn_mrr AS fx_adjustment_mrr,
 lag(mrr) over (
 ORDER BY
 local_date
 ) AS previous_mrr
 FROM
 daily_metrics
),
-- Turn daily into monthly metrics
monthly_metrics_with_derived AS (
 SELECT
 date_trunc('month', local_date) AS local_month_start,
 max_by(mrr, local_date) AS ending_mrr,
 sum(new_mrr) AS new_mrr,
 sum(reactivation_mrr) AS reactivation_mrr,
 sum(expansion_mrr) AS expansion_mrr,
 sum(contraction_mrr) AS contraction_mrr,
 sum(churn_mrr) AS churn_mrr,
 sum(fx_adjustment_mrr) AS fx_adjustment_mrr,
 max_by(active_subscribers, local_date) AS ending_subscribers,
 sum(churned_subscribers) AS churned_subscribers,
 sum(new_subscribers) AS new_subscribers,
 sum(reactivated_subscribers) AS reactivated_subscribers
 FROM
 daily_metrics_with_derived
 GROUP BY
 1
)
SELECT
 local_month_start,
 ending_mrr - fx_adjustment_mrr - churn_mrr - contraction_mrr - expansion_mrr - reactivation_mrr - new_mrr AS beginning_mrr,
 new_mrr,
 reactivation_mrr,
 expansion_mrr,
 contraction_mrr,
 churn_mrr,
 fx_adjustment_mrr,
 ending_mrr,
 -- Churned subscribers is a positive number in CSV reports instead of negative for churn / contraction mrr
 ending_subscribers - (-1 * churned_subscribers) - reactivated_subscribers - new_subscribers AS beginning_subscribers,
 new_subscribers,
 reactivated_subscribers,
 churned_subscribers,
 ending_subscribers
FROM
 monthly_metrics_with_derived
ORDER BY
 1 DESC