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Stripe Destroys Small Business

Has anyone else had their small business destroyed by Stripe? I moved my tutoring business to Stripe as the sales team ensured me it would be the perfect invoicing solution. On our first round of invoicing they put an arbitrary tiny limit on how much we can invoice customers per week. As a result we missed payroll and are basically out of business as our entire cashflow has been hijacked by stripe. Customer support is useless. How could they have not mentioned limits when signing up? No way on Earth I would have used Stripe if I had known about invoicing limits. And they last for 4 MONTHS!
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Re:Stripe Destroys Small Business by edwinwee on Monday October 05, 2020 @12:00PM (#24688929)
Edwin from Stripe here. Could you email me at [email protected] and I can look into this?
Re:Stripe Destroys Small Business by mtmail on Monday October 05, 2020 @10:42AM (#24688174)
What are the minimum limits? Do you have a link to a documentation or support help page?
Re:Stripe Destroys Small Business by mtmail on Monday October 05, 2020 @11:19AM (#24688506)
I found https://stripe.com/docs/currencies#minimum-and-maximum-charg... which suggest minimum charge amount is $0.50.

[edit] And the transaction costs $0.30 per charge https://stripe.com/pricing

Re:Stripe Destroys Small Business by jeanniesarah on Monday October 05, 2020 @10:48AM (#24688228)
Yeah, I'm curious about this as well. Has anyone else experienced anything similar?

Currently making an implementation decision between Paypal/Braintree vs Stripe for payment processing and would like your insight!