Payouts matched in your accounting
Every deposit is split into its payments, refunds and fees and posted to the right accounts.
Stripe integration consulting
Connect Stripe to the rest of your business.
Stripe handles payments, subscriptions and invoices reliably. We build the connections around it, so what Stripe collects lands in your books, your CRM and your reports without exports.
Keep it, then extend it
What Stripe does well, and where teams outgrow it.
Where Stripe shines
- Payments and billing in one placeCards, bank payments, subscriptions and invoices run through one account, with receipts and failed-payment retries handled.
- Detailed payout reportsThe payout reconciliation report lists every payment, refund and fee behind each deposit to your bank.
- Workflows without codeStripe Workflows can run steps when a payment, customer or invoice changes, or on a set schedule, from inside the Stripe Dashboard.
Where teams hit the limits
- The books live elsewhereEach payout is a bundle of charges, refunds and fees, and someone splits it up by hand to match invoices in accounting.
- Customer details driftSales, support and billing each keep their own customer record, and plan changes don't reach the CRM on their own.
- Reports that mix systemsRevenue by customer, product or region needs data from your CRM and accounting, so it gets rebuilt in spreadsheets each month.
What we build around it
Connecting Stripe to the rest of your work.
Invoices and payments into your books
Stripe invoices and payments post to your accounting with the right customer and revenue account.
Stripe and your CRM in sync
New customers, plan changes and failed payments show up on the account in your CRM.
Failed payment follow-up
Declined renewals open a task for the account owner with the customer's history attached.
Quotes and contracts into billing
Signed deals create the customer, subscription or invoice in Stripe without retyping.
Revenue reports across systems
Stripe revenue combined with CRM and accounting data in one scheduled report.
Before we start
How access works.
Someone with Administrator or Developer access in your Stripe account creates a restricted key that allows only what the connection needs, such as reading payments or creating invoices, and it can be rolled or deleted at any time (see Stripe's guide to restricted keys). We build and test in a Stripe sandbox, where no real money moves, before going live. Stripe caps how many requests software can make each second and how many lookups an account makes relative to its payment volume, so for heavy reporting we rely on Stripe's own reports instead of pulling every record.
Industries
Where this comes up most.
Related problems
Common places to start.
Chasing payments by hand
The job finished two weeks ago. The invoice still isn't out, because someone has to pull hours, check the contract rate and find the signed delivery ticket. When it finally goes, the follow-up depends on who remembers.
Read moreA slow month-end close
The books close on the tenth, if things go well. The first week goes to exports, reconciliations and chasing explanations. Leaders get last month's numbers while they're already deciding next month.
Read moreBooks that never catch up
Receipts sit in email. Card charges wait for someone to say what they were. Your bookkeeper spends half the week chasing people for answers instead of keeping the books.
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FAQ
Common questions.
Does this replace our accounting software?
No. Stripe collects the money and your books stay in QuickBooks, NetSuite or whatever you already use. We connect the two so they agree.
Will card numbers pass through your software?
No. We design builds so card details stay with Stripe. Our software works with Stripe's records of payments, customers and invoices, and its access is limited to what each connection needs.
Will this break when Stripe updates?
Stripe dates its changes and lets a connection stay on the version it was built for, so nothing changes by surprise. We upgrade deliberately, test in a sandbox first and add checks that alert us if something stops matching.
Are you a certified Stripe partner?
No. We're an independent integration consultant and development team. We build with Stripe's official developer tools and approved access, using the access your team grants, and we work alongside your Stripe admin or implementation partner rather than replacing them.
Sources
- Stripe: Restricted API keys
- Stripe: User roles
- Stripe: Sandboxes
- Stripe: Rate limits
- Stripe: Payout reconciliation report
- Stripe: Workflows
- Stripe: Receive Stripe events in your webhook endpoint
Facts checked against the vendor's own documentation, November 2026. Names are trademarks of their owners. Inkwell is independent and not affiliated with these companies.
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