There are multiple little things that make me feel less trusting of stripe and that it’s shifting away to be more profit focused instead of customer oriented. One change that was unannounced (to my knowledge — maybe I missed something) was the payout schedule. It’s still two days technically, but at some point last year they started delaying the payout in their end if it was a weekend or holiday.

It used to be like this: income from Thursday, Friday and Saturday all arrived Monday, so Monday was a big payout day and this was good since it was often a higher expense day as well due to weekend charges being delayed to Monday.

Now, Thursday‘s sales arrive Monday (same), Friday’s Tuesday (a day later), and Saturday’s arrive on Wednesday (two days later), and any holidays further delay it.

This could be ok, but the unexpected change from what I had come to expect, and noting that it seems to be intentional design change on their end make it feel like they’re trying to delay the payout schedule while still claiming the same rolling 2-day, and in the end not really putting the customer first.