Payments
Firm-to-vendor payments over Stripe Connect, with Scope's cut taken as an application fee on the vendor's quoted price.
What it does
Scope processes the firm-to-vendor payment over Stripe Connect. Invoices are created on the vendor's connected account, and Scope's cut peels off as an application fee on the vendor's quoted price, not on any legal fee.
Vendors onboard to Stripe with hosted identity verification. Their payout status is tracked, and a dispatch accept-gate holds vendors whose payouts are not yet enabled until onboarding completes.
Webhooks keep the record current: payment captured, payment failed, dispute opened, account updated, and payout failed all write back to the matter, and a failed payout notifies the vendor and the operator.
Why it matters
The buyer side is free. Scope's revenue comes off the vendor's quoted price as a transparent application fee, which keeps the lawyer-client fee a separate transaction Scope never touches.
Exactly-once capture and webhook reconciliation mean payments do not double-charge and do not silently fail.
How to use it
Vendors complete Stripe Connect onboarding once. Capture happens automatically when a matter completes. Firms pay nothing to use Scope.