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by yellow_and_gray 4181 days ago
I'm disappointed in Stripe on this one. There should be better rates for micropayments.
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I agree, Stripe is one of the most advanced, easy to plugin platform with just a completely wrong old school, bank-a-like business model.
It's surprising right? I like pretty much everything else about them.

To the OP's question: for apps that facilitate micro-transactions I ended up using Stripe, but I forced the user to add a balance to their account first. So, rather than charge their credit card for every micro transaction, they'd add $20.00 to their account in the beginning, and every transaction would just draw-down from that account. Antiquated, but seemed to work alright.