The Stripe ERP Integration That Automates Your Accounting (For Real)

Claire Huang
Marketing at Rillet
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If you’re running finance, accounting, or FP&A at a modern and fast-growing company, you already know the truth: Stripe is incredible for powering revenue, but it wasn’t built to be your ERP.

And yet, most ERPs act like Stripe is “just another payment processor,” forcing teams to hack together spreadsheets, manual mappings, or brittle custom workflows just to get clean data, reconcile payments, or run revenue analytics.

That’s exactly why we built the Rillet & Stripe integration – not as a surface-level connector, but as an ERP-native experience that understands the realities of running a finance function today.

If you're curious how it works and why it’s different, here’s a quick look behind the scenes (and you can download the full integration guide here).

Why Most Stripe ERP Integrations Break (and How We Fixed It)

When we started building Rillet’s Stripe integration, we kept hearing the same frustrations:

  • “Our ERP only pulls summary data, so we lose all the transaction context.”
  • “Refunds and disputes completely break our reporting.”
  • “We can’t reconcile at scale without custom tooling.”
  • “Revenue recognition still requires external systems.”

So we built the integration we wished existed. One designed by accountants and finance operators, not by generic API sync logic.

Real-Time Visibility That Actually Reflects the Business

We integrate with Stripe at the transaction-level, syncing the who, what, when, and how much of every payment, refund, fee, and adjustment – with full detail and metadata.

Metadata is often the missing piece for SaaS and PLG companies, especially when you're trying to analyze customer behavior, subscription movements, LTV, CAC, and other investor-grade metrics.

Download the full integration guide →

Rillet is Built for Edge Cases… Because Real Life Is One Big Edge Case

Every finance leader has felt the pain of “non-standard” Stripe flows blowing up their ERP. Refunds, disputes, multi-entity setups, usage-based products – you name it, we’ve seen it.

Rillet was intentionally built to handle the scenarios that break traditional Stripe ERP integrations. That means no more downstream fires when a customer disputes a charge or when your revenue operations get complex.

This becomes especially important for companies with high-volume, product-led growth, where you may be dealing with hundreds of thousands of Stripe transactions each month. Rillet syncs both subscription products and usage-based activity in a clean, structured way.

Automated Reconciliation Without the Headaches

If reconciliation still requires late-night tab juggling between Stripe, your ERP, and your bank statements… it’s not automated.

With Rillet, we designed reconciliation the way finance wants it:

  • We pull Stripe’s fees, net amounts, disputes, and metadata
  • We automatically link payments to the correct invoice and contract
  • Finance teams can adjust mapping rules to fit their workflows

This flexibility matters because no two companies reconcile Stripe the same way. Rillet gives you the structure you need with the adaptability your team requires.

The guide walks through our reconciliation flow step-by-step – including metadata logic.

Get the guide →

Audit-Ready Revenue Recognition (Without Extra Tools)

One of the hardest challenges with Stripe ERP integrations is turning messy transactional data into clean, defensible revenue recognition.

In Rillet, we post revenue recognition at the transaction level – giving you granularity, accuracy, and clear traceability back to the Stripe objects themselves. Even better, every Stripe object is clickable in Rillet, so you can drill directly into underlying Stripe data whenever you need context.

This structure:

  • Supports clean month-end close
  • Reduces manual review
  • Helps FP&A teams model revenue more confidently
  • Keeps you audit-ready without extra software

Your team gains clarity instead of more spreadsheets.

A Stripe Integration That Sets Up in Minutes

Our favorite part? You can get up and running in about three minutes (yes, really just three minutes).

It’s truly plug-and-play – and if your business has unique workflows or entity structures, we support deeper customization as needed.

This means finance teams get value fast without waiting for engineering cycles or building custom middleware.

Why Rillet Is the Best ERP Integration

If you’re searching for the best ERP Stripe integration or evaluating Stripe ERP integration options, here’s the simple truth:

Most ERPs treat Stripe like an afterthought. Rillet treats Stripe like a first-class financial system – because for many modern companies, it is.

By syncing transaction-level detail, metadata, fees, adjustments, and all Stripe objects in a way accountants understand, we give finance teams:

  • Cleaner reporting
  • Faster closes
  • Fewer edge case explosions
  • A single system of record
  • Confidence in their revenue data

And most importantly: A foundation that scales with the business, not against it.

Download the Rillet & Stripe integration guide

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