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This is simultaneously the most boring yet exciting blog title I've written in a long time. How you pay for services isn't exactly a sexy topic, but it solves a problem that's been a massive bugbear for a long time.Here's a brief history of the issue: many organisations have policies that make it extremely hard to purchase goods and services with a credit card. I wrote about this more than two years ago now, where I referred to "Neville" in the procurement department who, because "reasons", demanded an invoice in advance and payment via electronic funds transfer (EFT) only. That ultimately means the world's most popular way to make online payments is out of reach for them. Unfortunately, until today, that was the only way we could take payment via Stripe, which processes all our online HIBP purchases. That left only two options for orgs in this situation:Don't use Have I Been Pwned at all 😢Buy a subscription via a reseller 🤢The problem with the first option is obvious. The second…

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