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by pulledpork 4901 days ago
Great idea, this is called an authorization hold for credit cards however I believe most banks will only honor this for about 7 days.
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Actually, with Stripe and Amazon they will just hold on to the information and not authorize/charge so you can wait much longer (like Kickstarter). The downside is that you aren't guaranteed to be able to charge the amount at the end, but I don't think that's likely to account for the majority of your customers.