Steda

A customer payment portal for QuickBooks, on your own address

Customers sign in at your subdomain, see a statement that ties to your aging, and pay through your own Stripe account. The payment is written back to the invoice in QuickBooks.

Sample Company · Statement for Alderwood Fabrication

yourname.stedahq.com

Balance

15,600.00

Past due

3,200.00

InvoiceDueAmountPDF
INV-105810/14/20263,200.00Download
INV-106711/13/20267,400.00Download
INV-107111/28/20265,000.00Download
Checkout runs on your own Stripe account. Steda never holds the funds.
Sample data. The buttons are a drawing, not a checkout.

$199 a month for the first entity, $129 for each additional. Unlimited users, both connectors, and the close. Annual billing is two months free.

Pricing and implementation →

Steda Receivables. Buying both products costs less than buying them separately.

Where the money goes

The fee is published on the pricing page. A bank payment through the portal never carries more than $5 of Steda fee, however large the invoice.

  • The money goes to your own Stripe account. Steda never holds it and never touches your bank.
  • Stripe bills you its processing directly, at your own Stripe rate.
  • Steda charges a platform fee of 0.5 percent on a card payment and 0.5 percent on a bank payment, capped at $5 per payment.
  • The payment is written back against the invoice in QuickBooks, Online or Desktop.
  • The Stripe payout is reconciled to the bank deposit, so the month closes without a suspense account.

What your customer sees

  • Your subdomain and logo

    The portal runs at yourname.stedahq.com, or on your own domain if you ask us to set one up, under your logo. Its emails close with a line saying the billing portal is powered by Steda.

  • A statement that ties

    Open invoices, credits and payments in date order, from the same aging you work from.

  • Disputes from the portal

    A customer can dispute an invoice from the portal. The dispute pauses the chase and goes to your escalations queue.

  • Autopay

    A customer can authorize autopay, and it runs on your policy. A returned bank payment reverses as its own entry and the invoice goes back on the aging.

The portal is included in Steda Receivables, with the aging, the worklist and the reminder runs. There is more detail on the portal page.

Questions

What does Steda charge on a payment?

A platform fee of half a percent on a card payment, and half a percent on a bank payment capped at $5, on top of the processing your Stripe account is billed for. The rate is published on the pricing page and is the same for everybody, unless an order form sets a negotiated rate.

How does that compare with QuickBooks Payments?

The bank payment fee on QuickBooks Payments is one percent, and whether it is capped depends on when the Payments account was opened. Intuit does not publish the rate on its own payments pricing page. Check the rate on your own Intuit account and compare it with the figure above. The comparison page sets out both, with sources.

Do we need a Stripe account?

Yes. The portal is not a payment processor and Steda is not a merchant of record. Payments run through your own Stripe account and the payout is paid into your own bank account.

Does it work with QuickBooks Desktop?

Yes, including Enterprise, through the Web Connector. Invoices come out of the company file and payments are written back to it. QuickBooks Desktop 2023 lost its own in-product card and check processing when Intuit discontinued that version after 31 May 2026.

Can we buy the portal on its own?

No. The portal is part of Steda Receivables at $199 a month for the first entity, with the aging, the worklist and the reminder runs. It was previously an add-on with a setup fee.

What do customers have to do to sign in?

Nothing. They follow a link from a statement or a reminder and a sign-in link is sent to their email address. There is no password and no account to create.

See the portal from the payer's side on the walkthrough, with your own statement in it.

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