Stripe

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Compared with the approach of PayPal, the long-dominant player in the payment intermediary market, it is expanding its ecosystem with a relatively easy and simple API under the slogan "copy and paste 7 lines of code". It also grew rapidly by offering a 2.9% fee rate, nearly half the average US payment service fee rate of 4-5%. It ranks second in the industry after PayPal.