"Stripe steals from you and there's nothing you can do about it" from Reddit r/saas, ranked #12. By DigiHold, 1 score, 1 comments. Data from Daily Trends.
Stripe steals from you and there's nothing you can do about it
- Rank
- 12
- Subreddit
- r/saas
- Author
- DigiHold
- Score
- 1
- Comments
- 1
- Posted
- 3/25/2026, 11:00:05 PM
- Snapshot
- 3/26/2026, 12:00:00 AM
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I've been using Stripe for years across multiple projects. Never questioned it, never looked twice at the fee breakdowns. Last week I refunded a customer on my SaaS (14-day money back guarantee, completely within the window), and for the first time I actually looked at what happened to my balance after the refund went through. Stripe kept their processing fee on a transaction that was fully refunded. I refunded the customer $39, but Stripe didn't give me back the $1.43 they took as their commission on that same payment. So yeah, I didn't break even on that refund, I lost $1.43 out of my own pocket for a sale that doesn't exist anymore. And when I think about all the refunds I've issued over the years without checking, across every project I've ever run on Stripe, I have no idea how much money I've silently lost. I contacted support thinking this had to be a bug or something I was missing, their answer was basically "yeah, that's how it works". They said the banks and card networks al...