What are the chances of Stripe offering micropayments like Paypal? For charges o...

trafficlight · on April 18, 2012

It's like Square and Stripe need to join forces.

meatsock · on April 19, 2012

if they do, they should call it mondrian

xiaomei · on April 18, 2012

I believe Amazon Payments allows for sub-dollar charges.

white_devil · on April 18, 2012

Can you guess where one needs to be located to use Amazon Payments?

nodesocket · on April 18, 2012

The Stripe minimum charge is currently $0.50.

marquis · on April 18, 2012

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.

fomojola · on April 19, 2012

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.

saurik · on April 19, 2012

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.