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by nicholas73 2231 days ago
Anyone know why Stripe doesn't handle this?
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They don't handle this by design, and this is called a payment gateway - a simple service that just charges cards. If they were to handle this they would become a merchant of record, and there is FastSpring and Paddle that do it. Because of the different problems they solve they charge more.