Stripe charges up to $2 just to send an invoice email… so I built my own tool

While working on a few projects using Stripe, I noticed something frustrating.

When you receive a payment, Stripe already takes ~2.9% + $0.30 in processing fees.

But if you want to send the customer an invoice using Stripe Invoicing, they charge an additional 0.4% per invoice sent (max $2) - just to generate the PDF and send the email!!

Example:

$100 payment

• ~$3.20 processing fee
• ~$0.40 invoice fee

It doesn’t sound like much, but it adds up quickly.

If you have 100 customers and send 12 invoices per year, that's 1,200 invoices.

At up to $2 per invoice, that can be $2,400/year just for sending PDFs, separate from transaction fees 🤯🤯🤯🤯

So I built a small tool that generates invoices directly from Stripe payments without using Stripe’s invoicing system.

So I built a small tool that generates invoices directly from Stripe payments without using Stripe’s invoicing system.

On top of that it also:

• Automatically detects EU VAT numbers
• Applies reverse charge when applicable
• Supports European and US invoice formats
• Lets you download all invoices in bulk

I originally built it for my own projects but decided to release it:

https://stripdo.com/