One of the most useful features I’d love to see Shopify add to the Partners portal is a chart of your MRR (monthly recurring revenue).

This answers a simple question of What is the current value of all of my active recurring charges? In other words, how much money will you receive in the next 30 days?

There is one problem with the Earnings chart:

It’s a lagging indicator showing you the last 30 days. Not very helpful if you need to know if your marketing or sales efforts are moving the needle.

To find out my current MRR, I’ve put together a rake task that runs once daily (using Heroku Scheduler) and sends me an email with the result (thanks, Sendgrid!).

Here’s what it looks like:

# frozen_string_literal: true

desc 'Send out daily MRR update email'
task mrr_email: :environment do
  mrr = 0

  Shop.all.find_each do |shop|
    ShopifyAPI::Session.temp(
      domain: shop.shopify_domain,
      token: shop.shopify_token,
      api_version: ShopifyApp.configuration.api_version
    ) do
      p "Reading #{shop.shopify_domain}..."

      begin
        current_charge = ShopifyAPI::RecurringApplicationCharge.current

        next unless current_charge

        mrr += current_charge.attributes['price'].to_f
      rescue ActiveResource::UnauthorizedAccess
        p 'App uninstalled...'
      rescue ActiveResource::ClientError
        p 'Store closed / charge expired...'
      end
    end
  end

  # Account for Shopify's 20% fee
  final_amount = (mrr * 0.8).round(2)
  p "Your MRR is $#{final_amount}."

  NotificationsMailer.mrr_update(amount: final_amount).deliver_now
end

Pro tip: Set it up so that you receive it as the first thing in the morning and include some positive encouragement. You’re doing a fine job - make sure you know it’s making a difference and pat yourself on the shoulder to keep going! 💪

Here’s mine:

Hope it helps!