[macu]

This issue came up for me recently when signing up for Audible. You get 1 free audiobook/month but have to verify a credit card before the free trial month. I imagined this was to cut down on users who sign up with throwaway accounts to get free books. What gets me is you can buy $10 prepaid credit cards and sign up repeatedly anyway, spending your $10 elsewhere. Completely opposed to the practise, however, when it enrols you in automatic payments which you have to opt out of before your free trial expires.

[mgbmtl]

Have you tested this? Prepaid cards usually don't support subscriptions, which is a way of avoiding that. (I work with handling online payments, and tried this before, but it failed for my test-case)

[gramakri]

Do you know if stripe supports identifying these cards?

[mgbmtl]

I haven't tested it with Stripe, but according to their docs, yes: https://support.stripe.com/questions/find-the-type-of-card-a...