Best Practices for Collecting Unpaid Invoices with Stripe

Bence Badinszky
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April 1, 2025
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In the fast-paced world of digital payments, managing overdue invoices can be time-consuming and costly. Stripe, one of the world's leading online payment platforms, has streamlined the payment process for millions of businesses. But when a customer fails to pay, what comes next? This is where Payee's Stripe integration becomes a game-changer for effective dunning management and legal debt collection.

What is Stripe and how does it support your debt collection process?

Stripe is a global financial infrastructure platform that allows businesses to accept payments, send payouts, and manage online transactions. It powers millions of businesses worldwide, from startups to large enterprises, with secure and scalable payment solutions.

While Stripe is powerful for processing payments, it does not natively handle complex debt collection workflows. Businesses often need to chase overdue payments manually, send multiple reminders, or even involve legal procedures. That's where Payee steps in.

Introducing Payee for Stripe Legal Debt Collection

Payee is a specialized platform designed to automate and simplify the process of international legal debt collection and dunning proccesses for Stripe users. It connects seamlessly with your Stripe account and provides both soft and legal collection tools, enabling you to recover unpaid invoices faster and with minimal effort.

You can choose from two steps:

  • Pre-Legal Step: Send professional, customized AI-driven reminder emails and SMS messages to customers with overdue payments.
  • Legal Step: create and deliver formal demand letters that comply with legal requirements, or initiate legal proceedings, such as an official order for payment, directly from the platform when soft reminders are not effective.
Businesses usually turn to Payee for invoices that are 30+ days overdue

How Does It Work?

Integrating Payee with Stripe is simple and secure. Here's how it works:

  1. Install Payee App from Stripe Marketplace: Yes, it is free.
  2. Select unpaid invoices: Choose which unpaid and invoices invoices you'd like to recover.
  3. Start collecting in seconds: Choose if you need a soft pre-legal step or a hard legal action to recover your unpaid invoice.
  4. Track and monitor: follow the progress of each case within your Payee dashboard.

Stripe Debt Collection Dashboard
Choose customer, then select your unpaid invoices

When You Need Payee?

When you've tried everything-evenyour usual email reminders-but the invoice is still unpaid. That's when Payee steps in:

Legal Debt Collection Stripe Payee
Payee is like a second line of defence of your revenue

Your benefits

  • Recover up to 80% more: Go beyond email reminders with professional legal steps.
  • Save Time: Automate routine follow-ups and reduce manual work.
  • Stay Compliant: All demand letters and legal steps are handled in compliance with local laws.
  • Focus on Growth: let Payee handle collections so you can focus on your core business.
  • Strengthen cash flow: improve your liquidity sustainably.
  • Stay in control: track your receivables in real-time through Stripe or the Payee dashboard.

Get Started Today

If you're looking to improve your Stripe debt collection process, Payee offers a seamless solution with both dunning management and legal debt collection capabilities.

Try it today on the Stripe App Marketplace and recover your unpaid invoices effortlessly.

Benefit from seamless receivables management through the partnership between Payee and Stripe, the online payment service.

Bence Badinszky

He is currently building the ecosystem as co-founder and Head of Business Development at Payee. Otherwise, he is a business IT specialist, entrepreneur and a big fan of fintech and lawtech. He graduated from Corvinus University of Budapest with a degree in Business Informatics, where he was more interested in the business side. He has taught at the Budapest University of Economics, worked at a startup developing human diagnostics software, at an international digital marketing agency and has also tried his hand as a business analyst in the corporate sector.

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