Stripe charges up to $2 just to send an invoice email… so I built my own tool

I haven’t posted here in a while, but I’m back to share a new project I’ve been working on. While working on a few projects using Stripe, I noticed something frustrating. When you receive a payment, Stripe already takes ~2.9% + $0.30 in processing fees. But if you want to send the customer an invoice using Stripe Invoicing, they charge an additional 0.4% per invoice sent (max $2) - just to generate the PDF and send the email!!!! 🤯 Example: $100 payment ~ $3.20 processing fee ~ $0.40 invoice fee It doesn’t sound like much, but it adds up really quickly. If you have 100 customers and send 12 invoices per year, that's 1,200 invoices. At up to $2 per invoice, that can be $2,400/year just for sending PDFs, separate from transaction fees 🤯 So I built a small tool that generates invoices directly from Stripe payments without using Stripe’s invoicing system. There’s very little competition in this niche, but most existing tools don’t properly handle European tax regulations. And if you’ve ever