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Why did my engineering team handle payments through Stripe instead of building a custom payment processor? Aren’t they supposed to be engineering things?


Coding agents presumably don't know how to deal with non-coding things. Stripe's real value isn't in its technology, but it sorting out the complex human problems associated with payment processing. Sending a number over a network is not any great feat. Getting humans to agree that number has meaning is another matter.


This is an extremely roundabout way of saying that you need a payment processor license.




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