Start with the payment architecture
Attriboo vs Swetrix
Choose how revenue enters your analytics, then check the reports.
Both tools connect analytics with payments. Attriboo supports several payment connections per website. Swetrix documents one active revenue source per project and adds broader performance and experimentation tools. Compare the setup your team can maintain.
Reviewed · By Jay Kang
- Provider connection
- Sync
- Backend transactions
- API
- Same payment twice?
- Check IDs
Choose the ingestion route, preserve visitor matching and reconcile each payment once before reading source totals.
Plan your connection checksThe short answer
Choose the Work You Need in One Tool
Start with your payment providers, then decide whether performance debugging or experimentation belongs in the same purchase.
Consider Attriboo When…
- You want to evaluate several supported payment connections for one website.
- Your main task is source credit, payment reporting and recorded journeys.
- You want an ongoing free hosted allowance.
Consider Swetrix When…
- You need its performance and error investigation.
- You want to evaluate Plus features such as replay and A/B testing.
- Your team wants to maintain its own Community Edition installation.
Connections, identity and scope
Compare the Payment Route and the Reporting Job
Check payment sources, visitor matching and the rest of the investigation workflow together.
| Your decision | Attriboo | Swetrix |
|---|---|---|
| Payment sources | Attriboo Connect more than one supported payment provider to the same website. Verify each provider's records, history and matching. Attriboo details | Swetrix One active revenue source per project: Stripe, Paddle or an API feed. Swetrix details |
| Custom transaction ingestion | Attriboo The REST API accepts documented payment writes. Keep stable provider and payment identifiers to avoid duplicate records. Attriboo details | Swetrix The revenue API accepts sales, subscriptions and refunds. It returns a conflict if a built-in provider is already active. Swetrix details |
| Visitor matching | Attriboo Follow each connection's instructions to match payments with recorded visits; inspect unmatched records before assigning credit. Attriboo details | Swetrix Pass its profile and session identifiers through checkout to connect transactions with recorded activity. Swetrix details |
| Refunds and sync | Attriboo Supported connections bring in payment and refund updates. Record availability and import scope vary by provider. Attriboo details | Swetrix Stripe and Paddle sync every 30 minutes. The guide documents net revenue and refunds in the Traffic chart. Swetrix details |
| Broader investigation | Attriboo Source credit, recorded journeys, payment reporting and supported ad-spend connections. Check the report needed for your decision. Attriboo details | Swetrix Offers performance and error investigation; Plus adds session replay, feature flags and A/B testing. Swetrix details |
| Evaluation and hosting | Attriboo Hosted service with 5,000 monthly events free for one website. Attriboo details | Swetrix A 14-day cloud trial requiring a payment method, or a self-hosted Community Edition. Swetrix details |
Reviewed against official documentation on October 31, 2026. These are documented capabilities, not a measured accuracy or speed comparison.
Keep every transaction explainable
Map Your Providers Before Connecting Them
List each payment provider, currency and checkout flow. In Attriboo, choose the website, open Setup → Connect your payment provider and follow each provider's instructions. The connection guide explains which records and history are supported.
- Choose the ingestion route.
Swetrix's API reference explains why its API feed cannot run alongside an active built-in provider for the same project.
- Preserve visitor matching.
Follow the checkout instructions and keep stable payment identifiers. A revenue total can exist even when the associated visit cannot be found.
- Reconcile payments and refunds separately.
Compare IDs, amounts, dates and currency with the provider ledger. Do not send the same business payment through overlapping connections without checking duplicate behavior.
For today's records in Attriboo, open Watch visits become customers → Live activity and select Refunds. The context and numbered controls below show where to inspect the recorded deduction.
Where to find itDashboard → Watch visits become customers → Live activity
Find this card below Follow the money. The overview keeps the complete globe, filter controls and Latest activity feed visible. The totals and refund row are enlarged below.
Select the overview to open the full screenshot.
Enlarged detail of the outlined area
- Filter to refunds
Select Refunds to show the recorded deductions in the activity feed. This does not change the historical reporting range above the dashboard.
- Check the net total
Read net revenue with the payment and refund counts underneath. The amount is before fees and other business costs.
- Inspect the recorded event
The refund row shows its recorded amount and available source and location. Reconcile it with the provider record before interpreting source revenue.
The revenue guide explains the difference between payment records and revenue credit assigned to sources.
Count the right events
Include the Features and Maintenance You Need
Swetrix's Standard and Plus plans differ in features, account limits and API allowance. Its event definition includes error events as well as pageviews and custom events. Estimate the workload for each product separately.
Your recorded workload
Work Out Your Attriboo Allowance
Use pageviews and custom goals. Payments do not count as these events. Bot requests have a separate allowance. These inputs stay in your browser.
Up to 10,000 monthly events. Billed monthly.
Review all allowances and termsCompare the same measured workload with Swetrix's current plans. This calculator quotes Attriboo only; it does not estimate another vendor's bill or convert visitors into events. Attriboo's report window and event-row limit still apply.
Attriboo's calculator quotes its hosted allowance only. If you choose self-hosting, add infrastructure, updates and backups to your evaluation. Check Attriboo's 365-day and 250,000-event complete-load guard separately from the monthly billing allowance.
Your remaining questions
Before You Choose Attriboo or Swetrix
Use these answers to resolve the reporting, setup and switching questions that can change your decision.
When is Attriboo a good Swetrix alternative?
Consider Attriboo when your main task is source-level revenue reporting with several supported payment connections on one website. Verify matching, currency, history and reporting scope first. Swetrix is worth evaluating when its performance investigation, experimentation or self-hosted edition is central to your requirements.
Can Swetrix use Stripe and Paddle in the same project?
Its revenue guide says one revenue source can be active per project. Choose Stripe, Paddle or an API feed. If you need a combined backend feed, check that implementation separately and prevent duplicate transactions. Attriboo documents multiple supported provider connections per website, but each connection still needs its own matching and record checks.
Can I send custom revenue while a Swetrix provider connection is active?
Swetrix's revenue API documentation says a request returns 409 Conflict when a Stripe or Paddle key is already connected to the project. It requires choosing one ingestion route. Before changing routes, plan stable transaction identifiers, refunds, currency and visitor matching, and retain the records needed to reconcile the change.
Does Swetrix handle refunds and subscriptions?
Yes. Its revenue guide documents Stripe and Paddle sales, subscriptions and refunds, with automatic sync every 30 minutes. Its API supports those transaction types too. Compare the same payment period and refund treatment in Attriboo; a provider's ledger and revenue attributed to recorded visits can have different scope.
Is a free self-hosted tool the same cost as Attriboo's free plan?
No. Swetrix offers a self-hosted Community Edition, while Attriboo's ongoing free allowance is a hosted service for one website. Self-hosting also needs infrastructure, updates, backups and someone responsible for the installation. Compare that work with the reporting features and account limits you need before deciding which option costs less for your team.
Do the two products count the same events for billing?
Not necessarily. Swetrix's pricing page includes pageviews, custom events and error events in its event definition. Attriboo's pricing counts pageviews and custom goals, with a separate crawler allowance. Estimate the workload for each tool independently and check the selected plan and billing term; visitors are not interchangeable with events.
How should I evaluate visitor-to-payment matching?
Record a known arrival, preserve the tool's visitor identifiers through checkout and confirm the resulting transaction once. Swetrix documents profile and session identifiers for this link. In Attriboo, follow the chosen payment provider's instructions. Compare the records before comparing source credit, and investigate payments with no matching visit.
Evaluate One Website and One Known Payment
Start with a supported checkout and a reporting question, or explore the payment and refund views in the demo.