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stripe connect negative balance 180 day reserve sweep
A seller who takes one chargeback and vanishes leaves the platform down for good
losses_collector: application means the platform absorbs a connected account's negative balance -- and after 180 days negative, Stripe sweeps the platform's own reserve to zero it out (D11-D12).
This is one of the things Marketplace Payouts & Connected Accounts already handles. Take payment from buyers and pay out sellers, with the onboarding and identity checks Stripe requires.
Is this you?
A seller who takes a large chargeback and then never sells again leaves their Stripe balance negative with no future transactions to recover it from -- and under losses_collector: 'application' (the platform's own onboarding configuration), that negative balance is the platform's liability, not the seller's. Left untracked, it surfaces up to 180 days later as an unexplained reserve sweep against the platform's own account.
Why this one is easy to get wrong
The dispute-handling code path looks complete once it correctly debits the platform and attempts to recover the seller's net from their balance -- what's easy to miss is that recovery can fail (the seller's balance is already too low or empty), and nothing about a successful-looking dispute handler surfaces that the shortfall is now a standing, un-clawed-back liability sitting quietly for up to six months.
What you get instead
disputeAction() computes expectedNegativeBalance directly -- how far a reversal would drive the seller's balance negative -- and Seller.negativeBalance tracks accrued exposure so it's visible on the /marketplace page immediately, rather than surfacing only when Stripe's 180-day sweep eventually happens. payments.debit_negative_balances, which lets Stripe attempt to auto-debit a seller's bank account, is deliberately left as a manual live-cutover checklist item rather than a code default, since it carries real consumer-protection implications the pack won't silently opt an operator into.
Source: ARCHITECTURE.md D11, D12 — checkable in the pack you receive
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