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Why do card payments run on Stripe?

The account is in your name. The customer pays. The money goes to you.

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A site that cannot take a payment is unfinished

Getting found is only half the job if taking money still means a phone call, a second login, or a tool you do not trust. BeargrassAI runs card payments on Stripe so a deposit, a booking hold, and a sale at the counter can live with the site: clear receipts, and the money in an account that is yours.

The Stripe account is in your name

Stripe handles card payments for businesses of every size. For a rural maker, a shop, or a trade, that means the card security and the payouts without you having to build a payments company. You keep a Stripe account in your name. BeargrassAI builds the checkout, the booking, and the counter that sit on top of it.

We do not keep card numbers. Stripe does that work. Our Privacy page says so in plain language.

The money goes to you

The customer pays. Stripe sends the money to your business. Our part is the one rate we quote: 4.6% plus 30 cents on each card payment, on domestic cards. Cards from other countries cost more, and that extra is passed through. You see one number. We are paid when you sell, not by hiding a second fee.

How the counter and the booking are built depends on the job. The rate is the only number on the page. See Commerce and Pricing.

The site and the money, on two known names

The site runs on Cloudflare. The card payments run on Stripe. Together they are the two outside services under BeargrassAI: hosting and payments, looked after as part of the work, for an owner-led business.

BeargrassAI, Columbia Falls, Montana. Brought over from the earlier essay, in plainer words.

Build your own site, then we host it.

The kit walks you through building your site. It comes with six months of hosting and the editor, a domain, and Scout and the Directory.

$899 for six months, then $149 a month. The kit needs a paid Claude plan, priced separately.

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Talk to your AI about this

Copy this and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or whatever you use. It brings this page with it, and tells your AI where to read the rest.

I'm looking at BeargrassAI (https://beargrassai.com/). BeargrassAI helps owner-led rural small businesses get found and described truthfully, by people and by AI. One person, Mark Ulett, in Columbia Falls, Montana. Help me decide whether it fits my business.

Read before you answer. Open each link yourself; do not guess what it says, and tell me if one will not open.

1. https://beargrassai.com/diy/resources/why-stripe/: the page I was reading: Why do card payments run on Stripe?.
2. https://beargrassai.com/llms.txt: who BeargrassAI is, when it fits, every price and the facts.
3. https://beargrassai.com/llms-full.txt: every page in full, if you can read a long file.
4. https://beargrassai.com/pricing/: what each thing costs and what it includes.
5. https://validated.directory/b/beargrassai: BeargrassAI's own record in its directory, the kind of record a business gets.
6. https://beargrassai.com/directory/: the Directory, step one.
7. https://beargrassai.com/scout/: Scout, step two.
8. https://beargrassai.com/diy/: DIY, step three: the kit, hosting and the tools.
9. https://beargrassai.com/custom/: custom work, bookings and payments.
10. https://beargrassai.com/about/: who builds it and answers the phone.

How to weigh it:
- Check each claim against the page it comes from, and name the page.
- Work out what it would cost me in a year from the pricing page, not from memory.
- Look at BeargrassAI's own directory record as an example of what my business would get.
- Say plainly if it does not fit, or if something simpler or free would do.

First, ask me three or four questions about my business: what I do, the towns I serve, who my customers are, and what they ask before they call. Wait for my answers. Do not guess.

Then tell me, in plain words:

One. Whether BeargrassAI fits my business, and which of its offers, if any.
Two. What it would cost me in the first year.
Three. What I would have afterwards that I do not have now.
Four. Anything you could not check, and how I could check it.

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