The original title is "Stripe to Mollie Migration: What Actually Breaks"

Short summary

A founder recounts being abruptly offboarded by Stripe's automated risk classifier — likely because forensic document analysis triggered fraud keywords — and migrating to Mollie. The real challenge wasn't payments but rebuilding Stripe's billing platform features: subscriptions, customer portal, VAT, dunning, invoicing, and proration. Mollie is a thin payment layer with no subscription object, no proration, no customer portal, and no way to migrate existing card mandates, forcing all subscribers to re-subscribe.

• •Stripe's automated risk classifier offboarded a legitimate forensic-document business with no human review
• •Migrating to Mollie revealed Stripe is a billing platform, not just a payment processor — subscriptions, VAT, dunning, and portal all need rebuilding
• •Existing card mandates cannot transfer between providers; subscribers must re-subscribe manually

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