Marketplace Payment Flow

This diagram shows how a $10 payment flows through a two-party marketplace system:

  1. Customer Payment: $10 charge initiated by customer
  2. Connected Account: Receives $10, retains $8.77 after fees
  3. Application Fee: $1.23 extracted and sent to platform
  4. Processing Fee: $0.59 paid by platform to Stripe
  5. Final Balances: Connected account $8.77, Platform $0.64
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Fee Breakdown

PartyReceivesPaysNet
Connected Account$10.00$1.23 (app fee)$8.77
Platform$1.23 (app fee)$0.59 (processing)$0.64
Stripe$0.59 (processing)-$0.59