• Stripe

Stripe

Overview

Stripe has a rating of 1.09 stars from 434 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about Stripe most frequently mention customer service, high risk, and credit card problems. Stripe ranks 189th among Payment Processing sites.

  • Service
    220
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    205
  • Shipping
    82
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    88
  • Quality
    199

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Critical highlights

  • STRIPE IS THE WORST PAYMENT PROCESSING COMPANY and has the poorest customer service.
  • Their terms say "Stripe will initiate a withdrawal back from your bank account to cover the negative balance".
How would you rate Stripe?
Top Positive Review

“Great”

Chris g.
3/7/24

Awesome fantastic phenomenal great the best ever have no problems they should be God's and super proud of it

Top Critical Review

“Stripe NO”

Matthew C.
3/26/24

I would recommend to everyone who is thinking about using this platform to think about it. They have made my company lose thousands of pounds by hiding behind clause number 5.6, after a dispute with a customer who requested a refund for an item, keeping all the money we had sold in a month in our store. We currently work with Square and we have not had any problems in addition to the fact that it is cheaper and was much easier to integrate into our web platform.

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customer service (82) bank account (36) use stripe (91) stripe account (23)
Thumbnail of user matthewscareypit
1 review
0 helpful votes
March 26th, 2024

I would recommend to everyone who is thinking about using this platform to think about it. They have made my company lose thousands of pounds by hiding behind clause number 5.6, after a dispute with a customer who requested a refund for an item, keeping all the money we had sold in a month in our store. We currently work with Square and we have not had any problems in addition to the fact that it is cheaper and was much easier to integrate into our web platform.

Tip for consumers:
They rob my money and from more people

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Neurotech

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Thumbnail of user rick.fothergill
1 review
0 helpful votes
March 13th, 2024

Stripe suspended my account without warning and with no reason. They are holding £££££'s of my cash for 120 days and have terminated all incoming transactions.

For a small business, this has absolutely crippled my finances and we will likely have to close as a result.

I urge any small business owner to avoid Stripe at all costs, they WILL fleece you (Google "Stripe 120 days" for lots of identical cases).

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Thumbnail of user clientc6
1 review
3 helpful votes
February 5th, 2024
Verified purchase

Scam company who is blocked my account! With no reason! During a month I tried to reach support & I received just automatic messages. I read real reviews in google & a lot of people can't get money back even after 120 days!
Scam! Be aware! 🤯🤯🤬🤬

Thumbnail of user carlyw93
1 review
1 helpful vote
March 1st, 2024

Stripe will decide to stop your pay-outs with NO reason and NO warning. You will battle them for weeks to try and understand why and get this resolved, without resolution and during that time they will ruin your business as you can't accept payments. You will not be able to speak to a human on the phone and email responses are slow and robotic. I have been with them for 8 years and they treat my company like dirt. DO NOT use them if you care about your business.

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Thumbnail of user lifetimecoops
1 review
0 helpful votes
March 7th, 2024

Awesome fantastic phenomenal great the best ever have no problems they should be God's and super proud of it

Thumbnail of user inyangm
1 review
2 helpful votes
January 15th, 2024

Working with stripe has being a bad experience, withholding funds and customer service will ask you to wait and close your issue, they can do better!

Tip for consumers:
STRIPE COULD BE A SCAM!

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Thumbnail of user josephm4517
1 review
2 helpful votes
January 11th, 2024

Stripe is ineffective at processing your information. After I made a change to my bank account numbers, they basically blocked me from any of my money and now I am screwed. Don't use Stripe. It's impossible to get anybody on the phone to get anything straightened out. I'm a Gloss Genius business and unfortunately Stripe was the payment processor they used on being new to business. I had no idea how poorly run everything is. I'm definitely going to have my customers pay cash from here on out until I find a processing company that aren't sharks.

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Thumbnail of user larryj876
1 review
2 helpful votes
February 6th, 2024
Verified purchase

It's been over a month since I made a purchase online. The seller stated they didn't send the product because stripe locked their account and now stripe won't release the funds to me. Do not use this service

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Thumbnail of user brucef645
1 review
2 helpful votes
February 5th, 2024

STRIPE promises to be a simple, and easy to use fintech payment processing platform. It is simple, but not easy to use because its reporting is almost non-existent, and is often inaccurate. Compound that by its terrible, almost hateful off-shore customer service team and you get a payment processing partner that is bordering on deceitful. After 25 years in the payment processing space, this is by far the worst platform I have ever had to use. Stay away!

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Thumbnail of user dakwanb
1 review
1 helpful vote
February 9th, 2024

Dealing with the same issue for over a week they told me if I paid them money that I owe everything would be clear I paid it still nothing. No one's responding back to me can't get no one on the phone. My business has been out of business for a week because of it, no one showing any urgency. This is the worst processing company I have ever came across. I would never recommend this place to anyone if you want to operate smoothly. If you run into any problems, you have to wait for emails. They do not value there customers just there money No one has time to wait 10 hours for an email back when you can solve an issue within 45 minutes in business days/hours of being on the phone to talk to someone so if your a small business do not use stripe when you come across a isssue it's going to be a issue to fix the issue stay away from stripe

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I’m not sure if they do any shipping they just handle transactions between me and my customers with an overall under average satisfaction rate would not recommend to anyone

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Thumbnail of user ala282
1 review
3 helpful votes
December 12th, 2023

Im honestly chocked how many people have the same experience as me, they say I'm a threat etc. I provide everything needed, they still don't verify me.

They lie that my client didn't verify his card although for me it says he did(see picture in swedish).

They don't reply to my emails, they don't pay me my money.
They say they will return the money to the buyer although he got his watch delivered. I've provided everything, every single document. And they still treated me like this.

Thumbnail of user tejaswi.pawar94
1 review
3 helpful votes
December 11th, 2023

Stripe doesn't even deserve a single star. They blocked my payouts. Its more than 2 months i am waiting for my payment. The employee have no idea what's going on. Every time a new date is given for payout. What's wrong with *******@stripe. Because of these people i had to face a huge loss. Do not use this app, they will not give your money. Scammers.!

Thumbnail of user johns8901
3 reviews
23 helpful votes
November 21st, 2023

I opened my stripe account went through verification and even had clients use thier card to pay their bill once my account was funded without issue and raised no red flags as far as risk factors I was told my account would be closed and the money left in it after 5 days would remain theirs. They are not refunding the clients but keeping thousands themselves. There will be a class action suit over this as I see other going through the same and they do have loopholes in their terms and conditions because what they are doing is stealing nothing more.

Thumbnail of user akhadase
1 review
0 helpful votes
December 11th, 2023

Stripe might be a good payment platform but reporting module is HORRIBLE. Looks like reports built for internal use only. Simple example. There are several payouts to my bank account monthly and I need to see a report showing amount transferred and all fees associated with this particular transfer plus customer name and item so I do not need to drill down every payout. All data is available in various reports but with increase of volume it is really time consuming. I hope Stripe will adjust to its clients requirements.

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Thumbnail of user deejayb1
1 review
0 helpful votes
January 5th, 2024

Stripe is the worst app company platform service I've ever used I would strongly recommend not to use this service to anyone your money is not and will not be safe nor secure or useful as a professional business owner and operator….

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Card processing

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Thumbnail of user confidentiala1
1 review
1 helpful vote
February 12th, 2024

Stripe will loose it's funding, become insolvent, and file for bankruptcy that is why they are freezing business accounts randomly and stealing the funds. You have been warned. Stay away from these crooks.

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Thumbnail of user genterw
7 reviews
2 helpful votes
February 29th, 2024

Stripe unexpectedly terminated our agreement and kept funds designated for client refunds under their service terms.

Promised refunds have not been made to my client (I speak to them every week), reflecting a pattern where funds are withheld without clear rationale. This practice, reported by many, raises serious concerns about the integrity of Stripe's operations, suggesting a systematic issue that borders on the misappropriation of customer funds on a potentially vast scale.

The lack of effective communication and resolution from Stripe further exacerbates the situation, severely impacting my business and diminishing trust in their services. I urge potential users to proceed with caution and remain vigilant about Stripe's handling of financial transactions and customer support, given these alarming patterns.

I also urge people who experienced confiscation of funds on the pretext of refund that never happened, especially the EU based to report it to authorities. I believe we might have a case here.

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Thumbnail of user brandonm1321
1 review
0 helpful votes
February 21st, 2024

These animals shut us off for zero reason. They have nothing but automated responses. I have a billing company that partnered with them and we inherited them by default. Now I have tens of thousands of dollars lost in converting all of our customers to a new system.

Thumbnail of user timothyc1561
1 review
0 helpful votes
February 10th, 2024

Stripe issued a payment and than withdrew it from my account 3 days later causing my account to be overdrawn and checks to be returned unpaid. Customer service hasn't responded in 2 days to multiple emails. DO NOT USE STRIPE!

Products used:
Square

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Thumbnail of user aldenh31
1 review
0 helpful votes
February 16th, 2024

Stripe - stay away! They will keep your funds for months with no reason and no updates. Their foreign call center is adept at avoiding any kind of service and will not answer your questions.

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Thumbnail of user wcbell44
1 review
1 helpful vote
January 6th, 2024

On December 13th, my client paid me $1138.50 on 12-13-23 using Stripe. The payment has been located, but now more dragging of the feet, and the procrastination of transferring the funds to me.
Working with the Stripe support group is a nightmare within itself. Do yourselves a favour and use Quickbooks. They do not deserve a 1 star!

Tip for consumers:
Stripe Sucks!

Products used:
Stripe Credit Card services.

Thumbnail of user alih537
1 review
0 helpful votes
February 10th, 2024

8 accounts with them all goes well until it's not
One account is flagged, they steal 5000 of money money never return to me or to my clients and we are 6 months later. All emails are answered by fake humans and is AI based. Going legal now

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Thumbnail of user briand302
2 reviews
6 helpful votes
June 4th, 2018

I use both Stripe and Paypal. Stripe has a 7 day payout delay until you provide the ID. When the ID is uploaded and verified, Stripe says they'll payout in normal timeframes - but they do not. When an ID is uploaded they keep the payout schedule at 7 days which means with Stripe you'll actually be paid 1 week after you receive payment. Paypal have the funds cleared within 1/2-1 day typically.

I don't know why Stripe claim to offer 1-2 day settlements but they do not.

Thumbnail of user cruisesfromgalveston.texas
1 review
1 helpful vote
November 3rd, 2023

My client makes the payment and the transaction is missing from my dashboard as if the transaction never happened which means it never goes into my bank but they keep the money from my customer. The customer has sent me proof that the money has come out of their bank and paid. Please help and report them. The support is horrible to no help if you see the payment is not on the stripe dashboard shown in the photo.

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Switching over to Square for payment processing

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Thumbnail of user aosystems1group
1 review
0 helpful votes
February 17th, 2024

Friends, use caution with Stripe. We are all tight on money, and after finding that a customer had charged back for 4 months of service to paypal, I was essentially left without a way to process funds without first paying back $200 to PayPal. The fail to disclose a mandatory hold on your funds for up to 2 weeks or 10 business days before releasing the funds into your account - which isn't an instant process, as I had become accustom to with paypal. The need another 5-6 business days to wire money, so 16-17 business days before seeing a measily $180 USD. Sent by a relative as I am in dire need of money here in Canada.All business models assume some risk, but stripe holds you money hostage for a long time. I was not told at all about the "mandatory hold of money" nor was I told about the mandatory transfer time for a wire transfer. So if they have to hide facts, I'm be very careful using this service to process money. You'll be better off using PAYPAL.

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