Ask HN: Is there a way to automate the occasional micropayment?

I've been toying with an idea for an app which would occasionally make automatic donations to a charity.

I've been googling for a while, and it's not clear to me that there's an easy way to try this out (e.g. the paypal API).

Anyone know of a place to start? I'm looking for something lightweight to make a start prototyping.

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bobbonew 6y ago ↗

Stripe offers subscriptions. Easy too.

Additionally for mobile apps they support in app purchase subscriptions as well. You could use phonegap to develop current mobile apps with just HTML/css/backend-programming.

karmakaze 6y ago ↗

Just to ensure that PayPal payments are still working on my SaaS, I subscribed as a customer to a test plan that charges me $0.02 per month--just my 2 cents.