Ask HN: Best way to collect payments under 3$?
Which service to use if you intent to primarily collect payments under 3$? Needs to be able to collect payments from all over the world, not just the US. Paypal has Micropayments, 5% + $0.05 USD per transaction
http://www.ebay.com/gds/Micro-Payments-On-Paypal-HOW-TO-SETU... How about bitcoins? * Very low transaction cost
* International Transfers is same as local transfers. Suggest to read up more about pros/risks before proceeding. The solution in Iowa is Dwolla. http://www.dwolla.com In Europe, the answer is probably GoCardless. Depends what kind of payments though - if it's card type payments you need, (I.e instant, fore commerce type stuff), then not, but subscriptions, most bills/invoices, absolutely GoCardless. Square Cash - https://square.com/cash I think amazon payments has special terms for this kind of thing Yes they do (this was news to me). For Transactions < $10: 1.5% + $0.01 for Amazon Payments balance transfers 2.0% + $0.05 for bank account debits 5.0% + $0.05 for credit card They also appear to support payment aggregation, which is another method of making micropayments via credit card profitable. https://payments.amazon.com/help/Amazon-Flexible-Payments-Se... Check out Skrill (formerly Moneybookers). Why? Their rate is 3.9% + €0.35 for non-european merchants and 2.9% + €0.25 for european merchants. That's not exactly cheap. Do they offer a service I don't know about that makes them better suited for small payments than Stripe, Balanced or BrainTree? I didn't know about their high fees. But I know they have a good international money transfer support. I used them for personal financial transactions for 4 years and found them very good.