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FeeGuard Free Audit: No Stripe Access or API Key Required

Feeguard free audit itself: The free audit itself never touches Stripe or asks for a key — it only reads what you paste.

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The free audit itself never touches Stripe or asks for a key — it only reads what you paste.

Real-time detection and recovery of silent fee leaks

Real-time detection and recovery of silent fee leaks in Stripe Connect platforms.

FeeGuard is a Stripe Connect recovery engine

FeeGuard is a Stripe Connect recovery engine: it finds the money refunds and disputes leave behind on connected accounts, and gives you a controlled path to take it back.

Four Connect failure modes cost platforms money silently (reverse_transfer, refund_application_fee)

Four Connect failure modes cost platforms money silently, and none throws an error or appears in logs: a destination charge refunded without reverse_transfer, where Stripe refunds the buyer from your balance while the connected account keeps the transfer.

  • A refund without refund_application_fee, where your platform fee stays attached to revenue that no longer exists.
  • A lost dispute where Stripe debits you in full and the connected account that received the funds is untouched.
  • And FX slippage compounding across cross-border payouts.

Each finding names the exact Stripe event (application_fee, charge.refunded)

Each finding names the exact Stripe event behind it: charge.refunded, application_fee.refunded, charge.dispute.closed, balance.available, and connects the event, the missing Stripe parameter, and the amount still in reach.

Read-only by default on standard Stripe scopes, AES-256-GCM

Read-only by default on standard Stripe scopes, AES-256-GCM per-tenant key encryption, and an append-only audit trail on every action.

Zero impact on the payment flow — FeeGuard

Zero impact on the payment flow — FeeGuard observes, it does not sit in the path.

A free audit at feeguard.dev — paste (feeguard.dev)

A free audit at feeguard.dev — paste an export (refund and dispute events, or a Stripe list/CSV).

  • No API key, nothing connected, and it runs in under 90 seconds.
  • Detection and the 90-day lookback are free.
  • Monitoring and recovery are paid.
  • A clean result means every refund and dispute in what was pasted reconciled correctly — a real answer, not a failure to find something.
  • Pasting something the scanner cannot read means nothing was checked, not a finding either way.
  • There is also a seven-step manual reconciliation checklist on the page a team can run themselves without us at all.

FeeGuard is an independent product and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Stripe, Inc. "Stripe" and "Stripe Connect" are trademarks of Stripe, Inc., referenced descriptively.

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