Stripe payouts in bookkeeping, splitting fee and VAT.
Stripe withholds a fee per transaction. Accounting-wise per payout you must see customer payment, fee and any FX effect. Stripe provides payouts.csv with this split, use it.
Try this first
- 1Download monthly Payouts CSV from the Stripe Dashboard, gives per payout a list of transactions with fee.
- 2In your bookkeeping: create a clearing account 'Stripe', book customer payments there, payout to bank brings balance to zero.
- 3Book the monthly Stripe fee on a separate cost account 'PSP fee Stripe', VAT typically 0 percent (reverse charge from Ireland).
- 4For multi-currency Stripe accounts: a separate clearing per currency so FX differences are clearly visible.
- 5Reconcile the clearing account monthly, a residual means a missing fee booking or unprocessed refund.
When to bring us in
For an automated Stripe import with fee and VAT split, we can set it up.
See also
- Switching from Exact Online to Yuki, open items and history do not matchPackage migrations stumble on ledger mapping and open AR/AP. Without a mapping table you lose context.
- Twinfield to Exact, dimensions and cost centres go missingTwinfield uses dimensions, Exact uses cost centres and projects. The mapping is not one-to-one.
- Accountant asks for RGS mapping, your ledger does not follow RGSRGS is the Dutch standard chart that SBR filings and accountant software expect. Without mapping, every year-end is manual.
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