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Self Pay Estimation for Stripe

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A Stripe widget that tells you how much you can safely pay yourself

by sachou·Jun 2, 2026·5 points·0 comments
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Stripe Dashboard calculator when a spreadsheet does the same math.

Strengths
  • •Restricted read-only API key stays local, never exposed to the Stripe page
  • •Three-month trailing revenue average smooths out monthly variance
Weaknesses
  • •Simple arithmetic — expenses, tax, and buffer percentages could live in a spreadsheet
  • •Chrome extension injection breaks if Stripe changes their dashboard DOM structure
Category
Finance
Target Audience

Solo founders and small business owners using Stripe

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Post Description

I built this simple Chrome extension to always see how much I can pay myself based on my Stripe income. So now when I open my Stripe dashboard, I always see how much I can pay myself.

How it works is pretty simple.

You create a read-only Stripe API key (this key stays on your laptop), the widget gets the last 3 months of your revenue to calculate an average, and then you can specify your monthly expenses and adjust a tax and buffer %.

Then you get a nice card that shows you how much you can pay yourself this month.

It's fully open source under an MIT license. Please let me know if you have any feedback, and feel free to submit a PR.

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