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Tokens are mapped to the underlying account not to a specific card. This is one of the selling points of network tokenization to merchants. If the underlying card gets lost/stolen/…

The slightly tricky part is that the brand rules may still apply even if it transaction on debit rails, since the brand is printed on the card and Visa/MC doesn't want to deal with…

Brazil has a unique thing "combo cards" in which a single card number can be tied to different accounts. So selecting credit draws from a line of credit while selecting debit draws…

One of the Chase Merchant Services platforms had an outage earlier.

Braintree / Paypal | Chicago, IL or Austin, TX or San Francisco, CA or REMOTE USA | Software Engineer | https://www.braintreepayments.com/careers/ Braintree lets you move money fro…

None of the major card networks except for American Express validate cardholder name. The Address Verification Service (AVS) also only validates numeric values (so if your address …

The article states they were rendering maps screens on the phone and shipping the screenshot to the watch to handle performance issues with the watch.

Stripe sends an email to the customer asking for them to provide a refund bitcoin address: https://stripe.com/docs/sources/bitcoin#refunding-bitcoin-pa...

Braintree allows you to bring your own merchant account and then its just a per transaction fee. https://www.braintreepayments.com/faq#pricing

If you use standalone accounts, then the liability is with Stripe. With managed accounts you're collecting all this information, Stripe charges an additional .5% and financial liab…

Financial liability is also shifted to the platform / api user.

Current Apple Pay works with subscriptions, I don't see why this would not.

You can do "payouts" with Stripe Connect. Stripe doesn't have a money transmission license so they can only do a payout when it's tied directly to a charge (like marketplace). You …

Only American Express offers name verification to merchants. When it comes to address verification, only the numeric data gets checked. So for an address "123 Main Street" would ma…

There's self-reported data that some Stanford students have scrapped from CourseRank before it got shutdown. http://www.stanfordrank.com/cs143

I plugged this before, but https://commencepayments.com , which basically acts as a server for a Stripe integration which is pretty neat for people who don't have access to their s…

There is SQL Server Express though it has a 10GB limit

True, though to some extent I'd expect the moderation and reviews of people on Github or apt would be stronger than that of the average wordpress user.

There was a popular (4000+ active installs) Wordpress plugin for Stripe that up until recently (read a week ago) wasn't PCI compliant. I wouldn't be surprised if this sort of thing…

"Paypal indicated that UnoTelly is not allowed to provide services that enable open and unrestricted internet access." I don't agree with that intreptation, I'm assuming that the P…

A simple hack, if you register your computer as non Windows/ OSX device you're not forced to run it.

Stanford students have to get software installed on their laptops to access the Stanford network. Supposedly this is to force us to have anti-virus installed and the latest securit…

Assuming it's a Visa card and it was not a pin based transaction. Visa has a Zero Liability of fraudulent transactions for card holders regardless of the issuing bank

With Managed Accounts you can create accounts for other people via the API that besides for a line in your terms of service they don't need to be aware of Stripe for.