The verified-revenue bar
How verification works
Read only, from the processor itself. Nothing typed in, nothing screenshotted, nothing taken on trust.
Connected processor, read-only
The number comes from the account that actually takes the money (Dodo Payments, Stripe, RevenueCat, Lemon Squeezy or Polar) through a read-only connection. We can read the revenue totals and nothing else: we never see a card number, never move a cent, and can never issue a charge or a refund. The scope is read, and only read.
Pulled via API, never typed
Nobody types their MRR into a box. There is no field to inflate, no screenshot to doctor, no invoice PDF to photoshop. The figure on a badge is the figure the API returned, and a listing that can only offer a self-reported number is not verified: it stays in the un-verified state until a real connection is made.
Refreshed regularly
A verified number is only honest on the day it was read, so we re-pull it on a regular schedule and stamp each badge with when it was last checked. If a connection goes quiet or the pull starts failing, the badge is marked stale rather than frozen at its last good reading. An out-of-date badge that still claims a number is exactly the lie this whole system exists to prevent.
Public & permanent: Open Revenue
Once a figure is verified it is shown in public (on the board, in the stats, on the listing) as Open Revenue. It is not a private dashboard metric you flash and hide; it is a standing entry anyone can see and return to. Building in the open is the point: the badge means something precisely because it can't be quietly walked back the moment the number dips.
What we refuse to call verified
A number someone typed
A screenshot of a dashboard, a figure in a form, a “trust me” in a bio. None of it touches the processor, so none of it is verified. Self-reported revenue is left in the un-verified state: visible as unclaimed, never dressed up as confirmed.
A badge that went stale
A connection that stops pulling doesn't get to keep coasting on its last good number. Once a refresh is overdue the badge is flagged stale, and the last-checked date is on it the whole time, so nobody acts on a figure that no longer describes the business.
What we never touch
The connection is read-only by design, not by policy we could quietly change. We read the revenue totals the processor reports and nothing beside them: no card or bank details, no customer identities, no ability to charge, refund, or move money. A verified badge proves the money is real: it is never a doorway into the account behind it. Processors we verify through: Stripe, RevenueCat, Razorpay, Dodo Payments.
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