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Lago’s reports answer the everyday finance questions. What did we bill? What did we collect? What is still owed? What is our run rate? This page covers the rules that apply to every report. Each report then has its own page with the exact definition of every number on it.

Analytics reports in Lago

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The reports

Subscriptions

How many subscriptions you have, how many you added, how many you lost.

Revenue streams

What you charged, what you gave back, what you kept.

MRR

Your recurring run rate, and what moved it up or down.

Credit ledgers

Credits bought, granted, spent, and what customers still hold.

Usage

What customers consumed, including consumption not yet invoiced.

Cash collection

Payment attempts, why they fail, and what dunning recovers.

Invoices

What you invoiced, what state it is in, and what is overdue.

Forecasted usage

A projection of what your customers will consume next year.

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How to read a number

Every chart shows one of three kinds of value. Each report page labels its charts this way. Charts also behave in one of three ways. That tells you what a single point covers, and what changing the date range does to it.

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Currency

Lago reports every amount in the currency you billed in. It never converts one currency into another.
Filter to one currency before quoting a total. If a chart mixes currencies, or if you remove Currency from the Breakdown, dollars and euros are added into one number that means nothing. Filter to one currency, or break the chart down by currency.

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When the numbers update

The numbers update once a day, overnight. An invoice you finalize today shows up tomorrow. For a same-day check, use the invoice and subscription views in the app instead.

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Who is left out

Two groups are excluded from the revenue reports, on purpose:
  • Partner accounts are left out of Revenue streams, MRR and Usage. They are still counted on Subscriptions, Credit ledgers, Cash collection and Invoices.
  • Self-billed invoices, the ones you issue on a partner’s behalf, are left out of Revenue streams. They still appear on Invoices.
Both are reported separately under Revenue share.

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Exports and extensions

Any chart or table exports to CSV, JSON or Excel, with your filters applied, so the file matches the screen. You can also add your own charts on top of the same numbers, for board reporting or a customer deep dive. And your engineering team can pull the same numbers through the Lago API.

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Not the same as revenue recognition

These reports show billing activity: what you invoiced, collected, consumed and committed. Revenue recognition shows earned revenue, spread across the periods you actually deliver the service in. The two will not match line for line. That is expected, not a reconciliation problem.