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Connect Stripe to Cursor

  • Do purchases match payments?

Use real Stripe revenue in Cursor to build revenue dashboards and check that checkout events match what Stripe records. Lemonado connects them in about 2 minutes, no API keys needed.

MCPhttps://mcp.lemonado.io/mcp

Why connect Stripe to Cursor?

If you build the dashboard yourself, Cursor's agent can fill it with real Stripe numbers through Lemonado, and check that the purchase events your site sends to GA4 and the ad platforms match the payments Stripe records.

  • All your Stripe data

    Customers and subscriptions, ready to ask about.

  • Always today's numbers

    New revenue and MRR, synced from Stripe automatically, so answers use today's numbers.

  • Connect all your tools

    Questions like "Is ad spend turning into revenue?" use Stripe and Google Ads, Meta Ads at once.

How to connect Stripe to Cursor

Before you start

  • A Stripe account you can sign in to
  • Cursor installed
  • A Lemonado account (the free trial works)
  1. 1

    Connect Stripe in Lemonado

    In Lemonado, open Connectors, find Stripe and sign in. Connect the Stripe account that takes your live payments.

  2. 2

    Turn on external access

    In the company's settings, open External tools, turn the connection on, choose which sources it can reach and copy the server URL.

    text
    https://mcp.lemonado.io/mcp
  3. 3

    Open your MCP config

    Open ~/.cursor/mcp.json for every project, or .cursor/mcp.json for this project only. Create the file if it doesn't exist.

  4. 4

    Add Lemonado

    Merge this into the file and save.

    json
    {
      "mcpServers": {
        "lemonado": {
          "url": "https://mcp.lemonado.io/mcp"
        }
      }
    }
  5. 5

    Sign in

    Cursor asks you to sign in to Lemonado. Approve access, then ask the agent about your data.

  6. 6

    Ask Cursor about Stripe

    Try "Compare Stripe successful payments last month with the purchase events our checkout sends to GA4 and Meta. Where do they differ?" Or ask: "Which campaigns bring revenue?" or "Where do we lose the UTMs?"

Good to know

  • Editing the file directly avoids relying on menu labels that change between Cursor versions.

What can Cursor do with Stripe?

Cursor's agent reads your Stripe data while it edits: it fills components with real data, checks tracking code and writes the analysis next to your code.

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Compare Stripe successful payments last month with the purchase events our checkout sends to GA4 and Meta. Where do they differ?

Stripe: 1,940 payments. GA4: 1,710 purchases, Meta: 2,380. GA4 misses Apple Pay orders, and Meta double counts orders when the thank-you page is refreshed.

Source: Stripe + your code

Reading this as an AI agent?

Everything an agent needs to set this up, in plain text. Paste this page's link into Cursor and ask it to connect you, or copy the block.

For agents · markdown
# Connect Stripe to Cursor (Lemonado MCP)

- Server URL: https://mcp.lemonado.io/mcp
- Transport: Streamable HTTP
- Auth: OAuth; the user signs in to Lemonado in the browser. No API keys.
- In Lemonado: connect the Stripe account. Connect the Stripe account that takes your live payments.
- In Cursor: ~/.cursor/mcp.json

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "lemonado": {
      "url": "https://mcp.lemonado.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

First question to try: "Compare Stripe successful payments last month with the purchase events our checkout sends to GA4 and Meta. Where do they differ?"

More: https://lemonado.io/integrations/stripe · https://lemonado.io/llms.txt
FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. Add Lemonado to Cursor's mcp.json and connect Stripe in Lemonado. The agent can then query payments, subscriptions and refunds while it works on your code, with no Stripe key in your environment files.

Open Cursor's settings and find lemonado in the MCP list. A red dot or a sign-in prompt means the login expired. Restart Cursor after editing mcp.json. In Lemonado, check that Stripe is connected and External tools is on for the company. If revenue looks wrong, check you connected the account that takes live payments. Test-mode payments aren't real revenue.

Yes, if both are connected in Lemonado. One connection reaches every source you allow, so you can ask things like "Weekly ad spend across Google and Meta next to new Stripe revenue for the last quarter."

MCP is included in Lemonado's paid plans and in the free trial, so you can try it before you pay.

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