PolarPolar churned subscriptions in the MacBook notch
Churned subscriptions are Polar subscriptions that ended in the window, bucketed by the date they ended.
What Polar calls an end
A Polar subscription ends when it is revoked or when it is cancelled and the current period runs out. The widget counts the subscription at that point, not at the moment the customer pressed cancel, so a yearly plan cancelled in January is counted the following January.
Trials that end without converting are not subscriptions ending. They never started paying, so they belong to the trial funnel rather than to churn, and counting them here would make a healthy top of funnel look like a leak.
Placing it
Put this beside the new subscriptions widget and read them as a pair. The difference is net movement, which is the number that decides whether MRR goes up. Neither figure alone tells you which direction the business is going.
What Polar churned subscriptions means, exactly
Subscriptions that ended in the window, as Polar counts them.
A whole number.
How the widget behaves
- Buckets
- hourly, daily, weekly and monthly
- Shape
- A figure with a sparkline
- Against last period
- Yes
- Fetched from
- api.polar.sh, sandbox-api.polar.sh
Churned subscriptions from other sources
Notch Metrics reports churned subscriptions from 2 other sources. Each defines it its own way, so the widgets stay separate rather than being added together.
Questions
- How is Polar churned subscriptions calculated?
- Subscriptions that ended in the window, as Polar counts them. Notch Metrics reports that number, unchanged, in the MacBook notch.
- Can I see Polar churned subscriptions over time?
- Yes. Polar churned subscriptions is bucketed hourly, daily, weekly and monthly, so the widget carries a sparkline alongside the headline figure, and a comparison against the previous window.
- What unit is Polar churned subscriptions in?
- A whole number.
- Which other sources report churned subscriptions?
- Besides Polar, Notch Metrics reports churned subscriptions from Stripe and Paddle. Each provider defines the number its own way, so the widgets stay separate rather than being added together.
- What does it cost to put Polar churned subscriptions in the notch?
- $9 a month, or $49 a year, with every connector included and no per-integration charge. The seven-day trial needs no card, so you can see your own churned subscriptions before deciding.