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How do you reconcile Stripe payouts with your bank deposits?Reconciling Stripe payouts means matching each payout in the settlement report to the deposit that actually landed in your bank, then flagging short or missing payouts, fee overcharges, refund and dispute mismatches, and reserves that were never released. You compare two sources: the processor settlement report and your bank statement.Read the guideWhere do Shopify and Amazon payout errors hide?Shopify and Amazon payout errors hide in the gap between the settlement report and the bank deposit: fees charged above your rate, refunds that deducted the fee twice, disputes you won that were never credited back, and reserves or holds that were due back and never released. Matching each payout to its deposit surfaces them.Read the guideHow do you read a Stripe or Shopify settlement report?A settlement report breaks a payout into its parts: gross charges, refunds, disputes, processing fees, adjustments, and reserves, netting to the amount deposited. To read it for errors, check the fee rate, confirm refunds reversed their fees, and match the net to the deposit that actually landed.Read the guide