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by xiaomei 5168 days ago
I believe Amazon Payments allows for sub-dollar charges.
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white_devil 5168 days ago
Can you guess where one needs to be located to use Amazon Payments?
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nodesocket 5168 days ago
The Stripe minimum charge is currently $0.50.
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marquis 5168 days ago
According to their pricing at 2.9% + 30c per charge that leaves you with 18.55c. Paypal is 5% + $0.05, a massive 47.45c. If Stripe could even partially match that I'd be delighted. I'm currently looking into Amazon's aggregated option and haven't come up with numbers yet.
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fomojola 5167 days ago
One point: the Paypal micropayments tariff level makes sense for stuff under about $12 or thereabouts. For prices above that, it is actually worse.

But yes, Stripe matching the micropayments levels would be kinda neat.

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saurik 5167 days ago
You are allowed to have two accounts (this is even officially recommended by PayPal), one with micropayments and the other with normal payments; as you know the amount of money being requested before transferring the user to PayPal, you can use the two accounts to get the best possible rate in all cases.
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