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Jul 19, 2026Coupons and affiliate commissions on Stripe: what do you actually pay?
Here is a case that quietly breaks a lot of affiliate programs: a customer uses a discount code and...
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Jul 18, 2026Polar rejected my SaaS over two words in my landing page. Here's the appeal process nobody documents.
Last week my merchant-of-record application got denied. Automated review. Then my appeal got denied...
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Jul 18, 2026A Success URL Is Not Proof of Payment
A checkout success redirect proves a browser reached a URL — not that anyone paid. Why entitlement must come from a verified event, not a redirect.
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Jul 18, 2026We made our security auditor buyable by AI agents (x402, one serverless function)
Last night we made our Supabase security auditor buyable by AI agents. One HTTP request, a USDC...
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Jul 17, 2026A field guide to Stripe decline codes, and what to actually do about each
Stripe tells you why a card failed. Most checkouts hide it. Here is the decode mapped to the fix, so you stop guessing.
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Jul 17, 2026x402 Just Got a Standards Home. Who Conformance-Tests the Authority?
The Linux Foundation launched the x402 Foundation on July 14 with the entire payments industry - and no conformance suite, security profile, or validation procedure. The industry is standardizing the receipt. Nobody is shipping the adversary that tries to forge it.
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200 OK. Nothing Was OK
The most dangerous failures don't look like failures. They return 200, they pass every check, and...
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Jul 17, 20266 Platforms for Mass Global Contractor Payouts, Compared by API, Rails, and Reconciliation
Key Takeaways Paying one contractor and paying five thousand contractors across forty...
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Jul 16, 2026Can you accept payments without a company in the UK? (2026, practical answer)
Disclosure up front: I'm Oded Kovach, co-founder and CTO of UniPaaS, an FCA-authorised Payment...
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Jul 16, 2026An AI agent opened an FCA-regulated merchant account in one prompt - full log
I'm Oded Kovach, co-founder and CTO of UniPaaS, the FCA-authorised Payment Institution (No. 929994)...
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Jul 16, 2026André Dias Moreira Prol: DREX & Instant Payments in Brazil's Finance
When people ask me whether DREX will replace Pix, I always smile. Having spent the last two decades...
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Jul 16, 2026Why UniPaaS built paas.build
I'm Oded Kovach, co-founder and CTO of UniPaaS, an FCA-authorised Payment Institution (No. 929994)....
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