Credit card not accepted

Questions / Help
1

I want to deploy my ruby on rails app somewhere to demo it, however no free provider accepts my credit card (Germany, Visa, prepaid)
What can I do?

2

I’m having this problem too, I want to deploy an internal application that would require billing beyond the free tier anyway, but in the past week the card which I use for literally every other online payment keeps getting refused when i try to add it to my account.
Looking at the network tab I can see a request to Stripe returning

402
{code: "card_declined", decline_code: "generic_decline"}

I suspect the stripe support would just tell me to contact the seller for support, but i’ll be in touch with them too.

3

me having same problem but after waiting for a month everything works fine again, maybe its fraud prevention problem from stripe.

4

You can try to buy credits, it will work but the save credit card can’t

5

Prepaid credit cards aren’t supported as billing payment methods (ref 1, ref 2). But you should be able to use the prepaid credit card to buy prepaid credits (min $25). Be warned that accounts can get flagged by the fraud detection systems and require a credit card or manual action from the support team to unlock (ref).

6

But I don’t want to pay 25$ for a free service and I don’t have access to a non-prepaid card.

7

Yes, I agree that it sucks. You might be able to get them to manually allow you to use the prepaid credit card (ref) or unlock your account by contacting billing@fly.io.

Some alternatives:

  • Render doesn’t require a credit card (ref) and supports Ruby on Rails, but note that their free PostgreSQL database expires after 90 days (might not be a problem for a demo app); and they require linking with GitHub/GitLab (ref).
  • alwaysdata doesn’t require a credit card and supports Ruby on Rails.
  • Railway has a free plan. Unverified accounts get a one-off $2 free credits. You can verify by linking to a >=90-day-old GitHub account, then you get $5/month free credits but execution is limited to 500hr/month (= 70% uptime). To lift the execution limit you can buy prepaid credits (min $5; they call this a “credit-based subscription” for the Developer Plan; you’d continue to get $5/month free credits; ref). They support Ruby on Rails (third party video tutorial).
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