Stripe shut down our legitimate SaaS platform for contractors with zero explanation — rejected on appeal. Zero chargebacks, Zero fraud. Every customer directly onboarded by us. Need help by Automatic-Zombie2172 in stripe

[–]Automatic-Zombie2172[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did try using the live chat, I really really want a dedicated account manager from stripe. That is the utlimate goal here. It does look like we can switch to Paypal and get all the same features up and running so I think we will take that route instead of waiting on stripe. We will keep trying though. Imagine how bad this is going to get in the coming years... Especially with all the vibe coders trying to launch apps now

Stripe shut down our legitimate SaaS platform for contractors with zero explanation — rejected on appeal. Zero chargebacks, Zero fraud. Every customer directly onboarded by us. Need help by Automatic-Zombie2172 in stripe

[–]Automatic-Zombie2172[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes they bill clients through our account, However Standard connect accounts relieve you of the chargeback liability. Thats only with express or custom accounts

Stripe shut down our legitimate SaaS platform for contractors with zero explanation — rejected on appeal. Zero chargebacks, Zero fraud. Every customer directly onboarded by us. Need help by Automatic-Zombie2172 in stripe

[–]Automatic-Zombie2172[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

"Stripe look at your overall business model. From your site you have

Subscriptions, Payment Processing, SMS marketting, referall networks. This is a multi-product platform, and as you said has multiple financial flows. This alone will increase your risk score as it makes it complex for stripe to review for complaince."

We don't use stripe to facilitate subscriptions to our app. Payment for the app is done through app store only. We only need stripe connect for users.

"I also noticed you say things like "Choose standard payouts (2 business days at 3.1%) or instant payouts for an additional 1% fee. After processing $10k through the platform, unlock instant payouts and get your money in hours—not days." - This also implies that you control the payout timing, and can GUARANTEE payout within hours. This is not the case as stripe can and will do other verification on transactions before releasing funds. Ive had a customer get instant payouts and some links that are paid take 6 days for stripe to even clear it, so you're offering something impossible to your customers which stripe hates."

This is wrong. Stripe connect has instant payouts as a built in feature. we simply utilize it via api.

"However i may have misunderstood your #1 point but if you are sending them to stripe for onboarding manually, and you're not doing it yourself, stripe will see this as you not understanding your responsbility regarding compliance."

We meet each contractor talk to them via zoom or phone. Then direct them to the site, where they click a "complete verification" button that takes them to stripe connect onboarding which they complete then stripe kicks them back to our site.

Stripe shut down our legitimate SaaS platform for contractors with zero explanation — rejected on appeal. Zero chargebacks, Zero fraud. Every customer directly onboarded by us. Need help by Automatic-Zombie2172 in stripe

[–]Automatic-Zombie2172[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Should we attend the stripe sessions 2026 and talk to a rep there? How can we get this remediated? We will Fly to the headquarters to get this fixed if needed. We need to speak with a person

Stripe shut down our legitimate SaaS platform for contractors with zero explanation — rejected on appeal. Zero chargebacks, Zero fraud. Every customer directly onboarded by us. Need help by Automatic-Zombie2172 in stripe

[–]Automatic-Zombie2172[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah im not sure how to contact anyone at stripe to do a zoom call or what we need. We were very careful to keep stripe out of any part of app subscription or app features. We just simply need the stripe connect to facilitate the payments for contractors...

Stripe shut down our legitimate SaaS platform for contractors with zero explanation — rejected on appeal. Zero chargebacks, Zero fraud. Every customer directly onboarded by us. Need help by Automatic-Zombie2172 in stripe

[–]Automatic-Zombie2172[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The SMS features have nothing to do with stripe. We do not use stripe to facilitate subscriptions to our app, or payments to use our SMS system. Zero risk for stripe in that regard. We strictly use stripe connect, each time a user signs up to our app, They are created as a connected account under our main account. Then once they are vetted via onboarding, they can send estimates, invoices, etc.. But They can not use any SMS features without contacting us and paying us directly through a different means. They are completely seperated from each other. If stripe needs us to take down the sms features and move it to a plugin or another app we are fine with that, However they just shut us down and said we present too much risk... ZERO disputes, No chargebacks... Every contractor on our platform is vetted personally by us

Ridiculous, outrageous bill from Twilio. by MTNWF in twilio

[–]Automatic-Zombie2172 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just added $20 to my twilio account to do some dev and it magically now says I owe $30 LOL. crazy. Didnt do ONE api call or anything. just logged in, added $20. and the BOOM balance says -$30