Reconcile Stripe Payouts

The grind

Variances get caught at close, not weekly

Here's what doing this by hand looks like today, and why it doesn't scale.

• By the time month end reconciliation starts, there are four weeks of tiny variances to trace. Each one could be a fee reversal, an FX blip, or a real bug, but investigating them at month end takes days.
• Refund fees get booked without the reversal line.
• FX noise hides inside the real variances.
• Reconciling once a month means the problems compound.

MewCP collapses all of this into one prompt. Here's what that looks like.

The flow

5 steps · 3 servers

Your agent runs it end-to-end

01

List the week's Stripe payouts with gross and net amounts.

02

Match each payout to a Xero bank transaction by reference and date.

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03

Calculate the variance per payout and flag anything over 50 dollars.

04

For flagged items, trace the transaction level breakdown.

05

Post the weekly variance report to your finance channel with suggested journal entries.

The payoff

Variances caught in days, not weeks

The weekly cadence surfaces the real problems, like missed fee reversals and pricing bugs, before they compound. Month end close ties out on the first pass.

Paste this into Claude, Codex, or any MCP-connected agent. It'll connect your apps and run the task from start to finish.

Run it yourself

Copy the prompt

Goal: Reconcile Stripe Payouts

MCP servers needed (connected through MewCP): Stripe, Xero, Slack

Steps:
1. List the week's Stripe payouts with gross and net amounts.
2. Match each payout to a Xero bank transaction by reference and date.
3. Calculate the variance per payout and flag anything over 50 dollars.
4. For flagged items, trace the transaction level breakdown.
5. Post the weekly variance report to your finance channel with suggested journal entries.

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