Once a month I’d have to pay a few pennies to Google for our cloud use at a school district I worked for. It always baffled me!
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NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ve had Google charge me $0.01 before for firebase usage.
They really should have waited until I owed more since that cost them money.
rainman@lemmy.myserv.one 2 months ago
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They should almost just make it so even the free version of firebase has a $1 non refundable pre-payment so they can just whittle away at the pennies instead of getting charged processing/transaction fees on a $0.01 transaction.
I think people would pay $1 to enable the paid plans. If you’re going that far, you’re getting $1 of use out of it.
ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
On my personal AWS account, Im paying them 0.17 cents a month.
I wonder if they pay a fee.
kamen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So is that less than a cent or is it 17 cents? If it’s the former, I don’t think it’s even possible to make a transaction that small.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They’re bigger so it’s hard to know, but it’s usually something like 2.9% + 10c a transaction.
At their scale though who knows
szczuroarturo@programming.dev 2 months ago
Only in us tho. I think eu has it set to percantage only.
boonhet@lemm.ee 2 months ago
This might’ve changed but 10 years ago the small shop next to my school said they wouldn’t allow card payments of under 1 EUR because they’d be losing money. In Estonia
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Nope. Just depends on the processor