PayPal revenue tracking for solo founders

Updated 2026-08-04

PayPal is the platform most indie founders forget they're still taking money through — an old checkout link, a legacy customer, an invoice from a consulting job. It adds up, and it almost never appears in anyone's dashboard.

FRGMNT folds it into today's cash and the ledger.

What FRGMNT reads

• Today's cash — payments received today.
• The ledger — PayPal transactions in the same feed as Stripe, Lemon Squeezy and Gumroad, tagged by source.

What it doesn't do

PayPal does not contribute to True MRR. PayPal does support recurring billing, but FRGMNT does not currently compute recurring revenue from it. If a meaningful share of your subscriptions bill through PayPal, your MRR figure will understate reality — worth knowing before you rely on it.

As with Lemon Squeezy and Gumroad, PayPal fees are not subtracted, and amounts are assumed to be USD.

The credentials you need

A REST app in the PayPal developer dashboard gives you a client ID and secret. Scope it to reporting only — it does not need permission to send money, issue refunds or manage payouts.

Walkthrough: how to create a read-only PayPal REST app.

Both values are stored in your device Keychain and used to call PayPal's API directly from the phone.

Why it's worth connecting anyway

PayPal is rarely anyone's main revenue source, which is exactly why it goes unwatched. A few hundred dollars a month arriving somewhere you never look is both real money and a real gap in your understanding of the business.

If Stripe is your primary processor, see Stripe + PayPal revenue together.