Goodshuffle Pro uses Stripe to process debit, credit, and other types of card payments. Like all payment processors, Stripe charges fees for these services. Here’s how they work. Configurable Payment Policies on Goodshuffle Pro allow you to determine who is responsible for covering these fees—either yourself or the client.

Stripe charges:

This is called the processing fee.

If the card is in a different currency from your bank account, Stripe also charges a 2% international fee.

You can have the processing fee taken out of the total after the card is charged, or you can pass the fee to the client. The allocation of this fee is driven by your configured Payment Policies, which determine whether you or your client covers the processing fee.

To understand this better, let’s explore how Payment Policies function in Goodshuffle. Payment Policies Goodshuffle’s Payment Policies provide flexibility in assigning processing costs to yourself or to your clients. These policies can be configured per project and tailored to scenarios such as pre-defined deposits for a special event or other unique situations. Ensuring that you review Payment Policies for each project will help avoid unexpected fee responsibilities.

Each installment by a client is treated as a separate transaction and incurs its own fees. Even if the project’s total sum remains constant, the cumulative fees may vary depending on the number of installments made.

Here’s how vendors calculate fees when they don’t pass them to the client:

For a $1000 contract:

When you pass fees to clients, the math changes slightly because the total charged is higher, which increases the fee.

To calculate the total fee charged to the client:

Formula: ((Contract Total + 0.30) / (1 - 0.029)) - Contract Total

For a $1000 contract:

When you pass the fee onto the client, the total amount being charged to their card increases. Since Stripe calculates the fee based on the total charged, this results in a slightly higher fee. But now, because the fee is higher, you need to charge more to cover it—raising the total again. This creates a feedback loop where each increase slightly raises the fee again.

👉 That’s why the total fee is a bit higher when passed to the client, and why the calculation is different compared to when you're absorbing the fee yourself.

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