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I tried explaining to people that you’re dealing with systems that are so antiquated places accept Diner’s Club cards. Accepting a credit card at all was a big deal because you literally copied a number and hoped it worked. People have cards that don’t have email associated with them. Furthermore there a ton of settling nuances. It’d be like building a browser if you were an alien who was given RFC specs.

I’ve worked with giant companies working directly with providers. Testing legalese and reality are far apart. In no scenario would we have the customer “test” a major new feature rollout. We’d have a budget and someone would make a real purchase then donate to charity the good or usually it was office candy for a month. I doubt the budget was even touched. We likely had provisions the prevented a $10k charge on a $15 product, that never happened. The only issue was that it’d skip normal QA (India has weird rules), and usually actually be a frivolous purchase or purchases on corporate and private cards.