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A finance lead closes the month and sees a Stripe deposit in Xero that appears to reconcile cleanly. The bank feed match is accepted, the invoice is marked paid, and the ledger looks tidy. Later, someone checks the revenue and fee accounts and finds the issue: the net Stripe payout was treated as though it ... Read more
Read Article →A finance manager opens Xero on Monday morning and sees that an invoice has been marked paid. Stripe shows the payment as settled, but the operating bank account contains a smaller net deposit. The bookkeeper tries to match the figures, discovers a refund from the previous payout, and then finds that the BAS worksheet no ... Read more
Read Article →A Stripe payout lands in the operating account, but the amount doesn’t match the invoices marked as paid in Xero. The bookkeeper opens a CSV export, searches for refunds, checks the Stripe fee report, and tries to explain why the bank deposit is a lump sum rather than a customer payment. By the time the ... Read more
Read Article →A Melbourne SaaS operator called after a Stripe payout stopped matching the entries in Xero. Stripe showed $84,200 in cleared charges, but the Xero clearing account was $612 short. The difference came from a $19 dispute fee, a $48 refund, and three subscriptions billed in USD that converted at different rates. That gap wasn’t a ... Read more
Read Article →Stripe Integration: How I Solved a Stripe and Firebase Authentication Bug That Was Causing Paying Customers to Hit the Paywall Again If you’ve ever built a subscription platform using Next.js, Firebase Authentication and Stripe, you’ll know that the payment flow isn’t actually the difficult part. The difficult part is making sure every system agrees ... Read more
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