💳 You Can Now Buy Pickful Books by Card | 11.14

Hey Pickful community,

Starting today, you can buy books on Pickful by card, not just with USDC.

🤔 Why cards

Until now there was one way to buy a book: pay with USDC on Base. Many of you told us that meant buying USDC on an exchange and moving it to a wallet first, and plenty of readers gave up right there.

Now: click “Pay by card” on the book page and enter your email and card on Stripe Checkout. No wallet, no crypto needed.

🛒 How to buy

1. Sign in to Pickful, open the book, and click “Pay by card”.
2. On Stripe Checkout, which shows Pickful as the merchant, enter the email for your receipt and your card details.
3. Back on the book page, it unlocks within a few seconds. If it doesn’t, refresh the page.

A few details:

• Books are priced in USDC, and a card is charged the same number in US dollars: a 9.90 USDC book costs 9.90 USD.
• You need to be signed in, so the book unlocks on your account.
• Books under 0.50 USD can’t be bought by card yet (Stripe’s minimum charge).
• If you signed up with a wallet or a social login, type an email on the checkout page; that’s where your receipt goes.
• Alipay is still under review at Stripe. We’ll let you know when it’s available.

🔐 After you pay

You enter your card only on Stripe’s page. Pickful never sees or stores your card number.

A book unlocks only when Stripe confirms the payment, not based on which page you land on afterwards. If the same confirmation arrives twice, it’s still recorded once.

✍️ For authors

• Nothing to set up. Pickful collects card payments for you; you don’t need a Stripe account.
• Your commission rate doesn’t change. Each book keeps its current rate, and Pickful covers Stripe’s fees.
• Your commission tier counts sales from both methods combined, so how a reader pays never affects your tier.
• The 30-day hold is there because card payments can be refunded or disputed during that window.

💬 To the community

Card payment is live on the web. If you run into any trouble paying or unlocking a book, send us a DM.

Pickful Team
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