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Views don’t pay the bills. Once RevenueCat is connected, the Business panel on your Stratos dashboard shows MRR, revenue, active subscriptions and new customers on the same timeline as your posts — so you can see whether posting weeks are growing weeks. The connection is read-only and takes about two minutes.

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Before you start

  • You need a RevenueCat account with at least one project (your app). If your app isn’t in RevenueCat yet, add it there first — Stratos reads numbers, it can’t create them.
  • You need to be the project’s owner or admin to create API keys.

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Step 1 — Open your project’s API keys

  1. Sign in at app.revenuecat.com.
  2. Pick the project for your app (top-left project switcher).
  3. Go to Project settings → API keys.

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Step 2 — Create a secret key just for Stratos

  1. Click + New secret API key.
  2. Name it Stratos so you can recognise (and revoke) it later.
  3. Under permissions, give it Read on Charts & metrics — nothing else. Stratos never needs to write to RevenueCat or see customer data.
  4. Click Generate. The key starts with sk_. Copy it now — RevenueCat shows it only once.
Use a secret key (sk_…), not a public SDK key. Public keys can’t read metrics, and Stratos will tell you so if you paste one.

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Step 3 — Paste it into Stratos

  1. In Stratos, open Dashboard and find the Business card.
  2. Paste the key and click Connect.
  3. Stratos calls RevenueCat once to verify the key and find your project, then stores the key encrypted. You’ll see “Connected — pulling numbers for Your app”.
Numbers appear within a minute. RevenueCat’s store data lags the stores by a day or two, so “today” is usually partial.

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What you’ll see

Stratos shows correlation, not attribution. Nothing on the dashboard claims that a specific post caused a specific install — RevenueCat doesn’t know which post someone saw.

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Disconnecting

Dashboard → Business → Disconnect. The key is deleted from Stratos immediately. You can also revoke it on RevenueCat’s side at any time (Project settings → API keys → revoke) — Stratos will show the panel as disconnected on its next refresh.

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Troubleshooting

  • “RevenueCat didn’t accept that key” — you pasted a public key, or the secret key lacks Charts & metrics read permission. Create a new secret key with that permission.
  • “That key works, but its RevenueCat account has no projects yet” — add your app as a project in RevenueCat first.
  • Numbers look a day behind — that’s RevenueCat’s store sync cadence, not Stratos.