Connect Stripe
If you get paid through Stripe, you can connect it to Aikount as another treasury. Aikount imports your Stripe account activity and gets it ready to reconcile against your bank.
What Aikount imports
When you connect Stripe, Aikount brings in:
- Charges: each payment you receive from your customers.
- Fees: what Stripe charges you for processing each payment.
- Payouts: the transfers Stripe sends to your bank account.
Why the bank never matches gross sales
This is the point that confuses almost everyone. Stripe does not transfer each charge separately. What reaches your bank is the payout, which is the net:
payout = sum of charges − fees (− refunds)
That's why the amount you see in the bank never matches gross sales: it's missing the fees (and any refunds) that Stripe already deducted before paying you.
Trying to match a bank deposit against a single sales invoice doesn't work with Stripe: one payout usually bundles many charges at once, minus the fees.
How Aikount solves it
Aikount rebuilds the full chain and links payout ↔ charges ↔ bank deposit:
- It identifies the payout that landed in your bank.
- It breaks it down into the individual charges that make it up.
- It deducts the corresponding fees.
That way each sale is booked at its gross amount, the fees are recorded as an expense, and the net matches exactly what came into the bank.
You'll find the detail of this flow in The Stripe payout case.
After connecting
Stripe shows up as a treasury with its own balance and history, alongside your banks and PayPal. See Treasuries and balances to view all your connected accounts.