One short note a day on Stripe payouts

Fees, refunds, disputes and what your books are missing, in under a minute of reading. RSS

Oct 23, 2026
A renewal that fails on the 28th is usually next month's money
Stripe keeps retrying a declined card for days or weeks, so a renewal billed in September often reaches your bank in October, and the ones that never recover leave no trace in a sales report.
Oct 22, 2026
A UK customer's $100 charge costs $5.70 in fees, not $3.20
Cards issued outside the US add 1.5% and charging in the customer's currency adds 1% more, and neither shows up anywhere but a smaller payout.
Oct 21, 2026
Refund a $120 sale and you are still out $3.78
Stripe returns the full amount to the customer and keeps the processing fee from the original charge, on full and partial refunds alike.
Oct 20, 2026
Tuesday's Stripe payout holds three days of sales
On the standard two-business-day schedule, Friday, Saturday and Sunday charges all land in one payout on Tuesday, so Monday looks short and Tuesday looks big.
Oct 19, 2026
About 1 in 48 of your customers' cards expires every month
If cards last about four years, a 240-customer SaaS sees five expire each month, and each one is a renewal that can fail.
Oct 18, 2026
The 30¢ Stripe fee is what makes small charges expensive
On a $5 charge, Stripe's fixed 30¢ costs more than the percentage, so the fee is 8.9% instead of 2.9%.