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I was under the impression that everyone outsources payment processing because PCI compliance is hard.


It's a complete pita, but even without any security rules you still need to figure out how to clear payments using something like ACH, weird and usually 99% undocumented bank APIs, building a lot of automation, reporting & monitoring tools yourself, etc. It's a lot of work.




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