[shaunkoh]

Could payments not be aggregated?

Eg, consumers incur those credit card charges by topping up an online wallet. They “pay” 5 cents from that wallet itself. The news website only receives payment when the aggregated total paid to it hits a certain amount.

General epayment wallets are already widely (Grab in Singapore for instance), even with auto top up. There just isn’t one for news.

[rcme]

That solves the problem of profitably charging the card (maybe) but it doesn’t solve the issue of convincing people to sign up and pay for something that costs 5c.