One exports every transaction. The other tells you if MRR grew.
Stripe to Google Sheets Importer and Stripesync for Sheets both pull from Stripe into Google Sheets. They are not competing for the same job. This page lays out the difference, including the cases where an importer is the tool you should install.
The short answer
Install Stripe to Google Sheets Importer if you need the ledger. It writes every charge, refund, dispute and payout into your sheet as its own row, on a schedule, so you can reconcile and audit.
Install Stripesync for Sheets if you need the trend. It writes one row per week or month holding MRR, gross volume, new customers, active subscribers and churn rate, then builds the charts.
Most people asking this question want the second thing and assume they have to build it on top of the first.
Side by side
Their column paraphrases their public Google Workspace Marketplace listing. Where that listing says nothing, this table says so rather than guessing.
| Stripe to Google Sheets Importer | Stripesync for Sheets | |
|---|---|---|
| What lands in the sheet | One row per transaction — charges, refunds, disputes, payouts, subscriptions and fees. | One row per week or month, holding five metrics. No transaction rows at all. |
| Grain | Individual records, filterable by date, status, currency or customer. | Weekly or monthly buckets. Pick 1–104 trailing periods per run, 14 by default. |
| MRR and churn | Their listing names MRR among the dashboard KPIs it generates. | The entire point. Churn rate is computed per period and charted on its own axis. |
| Charts | Auto-generated financial dashboards built into the add-on. | Two native Google Sheets charts you own and can edit — a combo chart and a churn line. |
| Scheduled refresh | Yes — automatic scheduled syncs keep the sheet current. | No scheduler. Every import is a button you press; each run appends below the last. |
| Currencies | Multi-currency support with conversion across USD, EUR, GBP, INR and others. | Single presentation currency. No conversion layer. |
| Stripe key accepted | Not specified in their listing. It states keys are held in Apps Script user properties. | Restricted read-only keys only. A full secret key is rejected and never saved. |
| Where your key goes | Runs inside your own Google Sheet — no external servers, per their listing. | Same shape: Apps Script calls Stripe directly. Makeinfo runs no backend for this. |
| Price | Free plan available, with a paid Pro tier for priority support. | Free. No tiers, no seats, no in-app purchase. Bring your own Stripe key. |
What a transaction importer gives you
It is worth being clear about this first, because an importer does several things Stripesync for Sheets does not do at all.
You get the raw record. Every charge, refund, dispute, payout, fee and subscription arrives as a row you can filter by date, status, currency or customer. That record is what reconciliation needs. It is also what you hand an accountant, and what you go back to when a customer disputes a charge from four months ago.
You also get scheduling and currency conversion. The sheet refreshes on its own, and multi-currency revenue is converted during the import. Stripesync for Sheets does neither. If either is a hard requirement, stop reading and install the importer.
The catch is what happens next. The ledger does not tell you whether MRR grew. To get that, you build pivot tables and formulas on top of a sheet that gains thousands of rows a month.
What Stripesync for Sheets gives you instead
It skips the ledger and writes the summary directly. Pick Week or Month, pick how many trailing periods to pull, and each period arrives as a single row holding five numbers.
- MRR — normalised to monthly from each active subscription
- Gross volume — succeeded charges in the period
- New customers
- Active subscribers
- Subscriber churn rate
You can pull between 1 and 104 periods in a run, and it defaults to 14. Two years of weekly history is 104 rows, so the sheet stays small enough to open on a phone.
One more click adds two native Google Sheets charts. A combo chart puts MRR and gross volume on lines with new customers and active subscribers as bars, and churn rate gets its own line chart. They are ordinary Sheets charts, so you can restyle them or move them into a slide.
One honest caveat. Stripe publishes no MRR or churn endpoint outside Sigma, so these are computed approximations rather than audited financials. MRR is each active subscription’s unit price times quantity, normalised to monthly. Churn is cancellations during a period divided by subscriptions active at its start. Read them as trend lines.
Point by point
Five differences that actually change which one you should install.
Rows versus a trend line
Stripe to Google Sheets Importer
An importer answers "show me every charge in March". You get the ledger, then build the summary yourself with pivot tables and formulas.
Stripesync for Sheets
This answers "did MRR grow and did churn get worse". The summary is the import. There is nothing to pivot.
Sheet size over time
Stripe to Google Sheets Importer
Transaction volume compounds. A busy Stripe account produces thousands of new rows a month, and the sheet slows down as it grows.
Stripesync for Sheets
Fourteen periods is fourteen rows. Two years of weekly history is 104 rows. The sheet stays small enough to open on a phone.
What a leaked key could do
Stripe to Google Sheets Importer
Their listing does not state which Stripe key types it accepts, so we cannot say what a leaked key from it would be able to do.
Stripesync for Sheets
Only a restricted read-only key is ever stored. Paste a secret key and it throws instead of saving, so a leaked key cannot charge, refund or write anything.
Where the metric is calculated
Stripe to Google Sheets Importer
Their dashboards compute KPIs for you inside their own generated layout.
Stripesync for Sheets
Metrics are computed before the write, then land as plain values in plain columns. Nothing is locked to a layout we control.
Staying current
Stripe to Google Sheets Importer
Scheduled auto-sync. Set it once and the sheet refreshes without you.
Stripesync for Sheets
Manual. You press Import when you want fresh periods. This is a real gap if you need an always-live sheet.
Which one should you install?
There is a clean split here, and it is not close once you know which question you are trying to answer.
Choose Stripe to Google Sheets Importer if…
- You reconcile books and need every charge, refund and payout as its own row.
- You are working a dispute or a chargeback and need the underlying transaction record.
- You sell in several currencies and want conversion handled during the import.
- You need the sheet to refresh on a schedule without anyone opening it.
- You are exporting to QuickBooks or handing an auditor a transaction-level trail.
Choose Stripesync for Sheets if…
- You want one number per week: MRR, and whether it went up.
- You track churn rate as a trend and want it charted without building the chart.
- You would rather hand out a read-only restricted key than a key that can write.
- You want charts you can edit, in a sheet you already own, not a generated layout.
- You do not want another paid tier for something this small.
The question worth asking either tool
Any Sheets add-on that reads Stripe holds a Stripe key inside your Google account. Neither tool routes that key through a vendor server, so the real question is narrower: what could that key do if it leaked?
Stripesync for Sheets answers it by refusing anything but a restricted read-only key. Paste a full secret key and it throws rather than saving, even temporarily. The restricted key is scoped to read access on Customers, Subscriptions, Charges and Balance, so a leaked key cannot charge, refund or write anything at all.
We cannot make a matching claim about Stripe to Google Sheets Importer, because its public listing does not state which key types it accepts. It says keys live in Apps Script user properties and that nothing leaves your environment. That is a statement about storage, not about scope.
Worth checking before you paste a key into anything: if a tool only reads, ask it to prove it only takes a key that can only read.
Can you run both?
Yes, and plenty of people should. They read the same Stripe account and write to different sheets, so nothing collides.
A sensible split: the importer keeps the transaction ledger current for reconciliation and disputes, while Stripesync for Sheets maintains the short MRR and churn sheet you actually put in front of a board or a team. This page is a comparison, not an argument that you must pick one.
Common questions
Can I use Stripe to Google Sheets Importer and Stripesync for Sheets together?
Yes, and it is a reasonable setup. They read the same Stripe account and write to different sheets. Use an importer when you need the transaction ledger, and Stripesync for Sheets for the weekly MRR and churn line you actually show people. Neither one blocks the other.
Is Stripesync for Sheets a drop-in replacement for a Stripe importer?
No. It never writes transaction rows, so it cannot replace an importer for reconciliation, disputes or audit trails. It replaces the summary sheet you would otherwise build on top of those rows.
Where do the MRR and churn numbers come from?
They are computed from your own Stripe data. MRR is each active subscription’s unit price times quantity, normalised to monthly. Churn is subscriptions cancelled during a period divided by those active at its start. Stripe publishes no MRR endpoint outside Sigma, so treat these as directionally correct trend lines rather than audited financials.
What Stripe key does it need?
A restricted key with read access to Customers, Subscriptions, Charges and Balance. Secret keys are rejected outright and never stored, even briefly. The Settings tab walks you through creating a restricted key in the Stripe dashboard.
Does my Stripe data pass through Makeinfo?
No. The add-on runs in Google Apps Script inside your own Google account and calls the Stripe API directly. There is no Makeinfo backend in the path, and nothing is stored on our side.
Does Stripesync for Sheets refresh on a schedule?
Not today. Each import is a button press, and every run appends a fresh set of periods below what is already there. If an unattended, always-current sheet is a hard requirement, a scheduled importer is the better fit.
On accuracy. Every claim about Stripe to Google Sheets Importer here paraphrases its public Google Workspace Marketplace listing as read on 18 August 2026. Where that listing is silent, this page says so rather than inferring. Products change — if something here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.
Makeinfo is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Stripe to Google Sheets Importer or its publisher. Stripe is a registered trademark of Stripe, Inc. Google Sheets and Google Workspace are trademarks of Google LLC. Trademarks are used here only to identify the products being compared.
Want the trend, not the ledger?
Stripesync for Sheets is free, runs entirely inside your own Google account, and takes a read-only Stripe key.