Tell HN: Stripe Destroyed Our Business after 7 months of building our product
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37546468We have created our Stripe account on Feb 2023, and for past 7 months we have been building our product, integrating Stripe, and working on going live by getting clients.
Our website is (https://onclickcheckout.com/) and we are Stripe Connect marketplace account where we advertise for other Stripe accounts and get them clients without any upfront fees. We only charge when their customers pay them and we charge via application fee feature of Stripe Connect.
We use Stripe Standard Connect where if you have existing Stripe account you can work with us to get new clients
Few days ago, after integrating CRMs, 7 months of intense work on building our advertising platform and getting 5 clients (5 connected accounts) we finally went live and it was successful in terms of business where our tech brought 30k worth of sales in couple days, all that work finally paid off and I could finally pay our team as none have been paid yet
and today Stripe closed our account froze our funds and marked our account "fraudulent" and saying "unauthorized payments" and sent us appeal form which all you can do is upload company formation documents which we did and they automatically denied it
I need everyone to know the real face of Stripe, now if this issue cannot be resolved after all the work done, I need to find a way to pay our team or shut down the company and lose all my team