Resources
Everything we publish for finance and payments teams, in one place: guides, answers to common Stripe problems, free calculators and the latest articles.
Guides
In-depth guides to fees, pricing and switching
- Stripe fees explained: what high-volume merchants really pay
- How to negotiate your Stripe fees
- Interchange-plus pricing vs flat rate, explained
- Level 2 and Level 3 card processing for B2B companies
- How to switch from Stripe without losing customers or cards
- Chargeback and dispute costs at scale
- How to reduce credit card processing fees
- How to lower your Stripe fees
Stripe problems
Held funds, support, declines and large payments, with what to do
Tools
Free calculators
Industries
Costs and options by business model
Reference
Comparisons, definitions and how we work
Latest articles
- Does Stripe keep its fee when we refund a customer?
Yes. On standard pricing Stripe keeps the original processing fee on every refund. What that costs at $10M, $25M and $50M a year, and how to reduce it.
- Stripe Billing's 0.7%: what it costs at $10M, $25M and $50M ARR
Stripe Billing costs 0.7% of billing volume: $70,000 a year at $10M ARR and $350,000 at $50M. Plans, off-Stripe volume, alternatives and when it pays.
- Effective rate: the one number that tells you what card processing really costs
How to calculate your effective processing rate, why it's higher than the headline rate, and how to use it to compare Stripe with any alternative.