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Stripe considers using a real card to test a zero-tolerance fireable offence.

I, as the name on record for an organization with Stripe, made an actual, legitimate payment to said organization (and did not refund it). Stripe's automated system caught the payment and terminated my account automatically by the time I woke up the next morning; fortunately I was able to reach a real human and explain that in addition to working for the non-profit, I was also donating to it, and they begrudgingly restored the account.



My company has hundreds/thousands of ecommerce clients, of which a huge portion use Stripe and we do real card testing every time we deploy code that could affect payments and its never been an issue.


It’s pretty clearly stipulated in their TOS, for what it’s worth.


I don't see anything referring to testing in https://stripe.com/en-ca/legal/ssa Other than that you are provided test keys and live keys.


Stripe will take pretty much any excuse to terminate an account and pocket the money. At this point it might as well be part of their business model.


But why? Why testing with real payment methods is a bad idea for stripe?




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