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Understand how Stripe calculates and pays out the administrative facilitation fee for your platform.
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Stripe pays eligible Connect platforms an administrative facilitation fee (AFF) as compensation for providing administrative services in connection with your connected accounts’ financial accounts.
Eligibility
AFF is available to eligible platforms in the US only. To add AFF to your Stripe contract, contact Stripe.
AFF Calculation
Each day at 23:59:59 UTC, Stripe records the end-of-day (EOD) balance of each financial account, treating negative balances as 0 USD.
Stripe calculates the daily AFF using the following formula, rounded to the nearest cent:
(sum of financial account EOD balances) × (the related setting - N bps) / 360
- the related setting is the 50th percentile Effective Federal Funds Rate published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York .
- N bps is the negotiated rate in your contract. If the related setting is lower than N bps, the daily AFF is 0 USD.
- For non-business days, Stripe uses the previous business day’s the related setting value.
The following example illustrates three days of AFF calculations for one financial account:
| Day | EOD balance | the related setting midpoint rate% | AFF rate in contract | Calculation | Daily AFF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20,000 USD | 4.33 | the related setting - 275 bps | 20000 x (0.0433 - 0.0275) / 360 | 0.88 USD |
| 2 | 22,000 USD | 3.80 | the related setting - 275 bps | 22000 x (0.038 - 0.0275) / 360 | 0.64 USD |
| 3 | 15,000 USD | 3.80 | the related setting - 275 bps | 15000 x (0.038 - 0.0275) / 360 | 0.44 USD |
Total AFF for the 3 days: 0.88 + 0.64 + 0.44 = 1.96 USD.
AFF Payouts
You receive the sum of all daily AFF amounts from the previous month, with no compounding, by the 4th of each month.
You can view your monthly AFF earnings under Transactions > All Activity > Financial Accounts in the Dashboard. AFF payouts appear with the label Treasury for platforms - Administrative Facilitation Fee and the relevant date range.
Download AFF reports
You can download a detailed breakdown of your AFF data from the Dashboard. The Financial account balance summary report includes per-account, per-day breakdowns of EOD balance, the related setting value, and fee amount.