# Credit card not accepted **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions / Help\ **Tags:** login-only\ **Created:** [April 9, 2023, 9:38am UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/credit-card-not-accepted/12116 "2023-04-09T09:38:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Spyrex](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/fly1/user_avatar/community.fly.io/spyrex/32/11257_2.png) [@Spyrex](https://community.fly.io/u/Spyrex)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2023, 9:38am UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/credit-card-not-accepted/12116/1 "2023-04-09T09:38:25Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Thanzex](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/fly1/user_avatar/community.fly.io/thanzex/32/11260_2.png) [@Thanzex](https://community.fly.io/u/Thanzex)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2023, 10:48am UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/credit-card-not-accepted/12116/2 "2023-04-09T10:48:23Z")
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 ```auto 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. ---
**Author:** ![mhp](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/fly1/user_avatar/community.fly.io/mhp/32/40301_2.png) [@mhp](https://community.fly.io/u/mhp)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2023, 3:39pm UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/credit-card-not-accepted/12116/3 "2023-04-09T15:39:17Z")
me having same problem but after waiting for a month everything works fine again, maybe its fraud prevention problem from stripe. ---
**Author:** ![mhp](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/fly1/user_avatar/community.fly.io/mhp/32/40301_2.png) [@mhp](https://community.fly.io/u/mhp)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2023, 3:41pm UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/credit-card-not-accepted/12116/4 "2023-04-09T15:41:16Z")
You can try to buy credits, it will work but the save credit card can’t ---
**Author:** ![tom93](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@tom93](https://community.fly.io/u/tom93)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2023, 3:48pm UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/credit-card-not-accepted/12116/5 "2023-04-09T15:48:30Z")
> [@Spyrex](#): > > prepaid Prepaid credit cards aren’t supported as billing payment methods ([ref 1](https://community.fly.io/t/what-types-of-cards-are-supported-for-payment/530), [ref 2](https://community.fly.io/t/new-prepaid-credits-and-a-bonus-story/716)). But you should be able to use the prepaid credit card to buy prepaid credits (min $25). Be warned that accounts can get flagged by the fraud detection systems and require a credit card or manual action from the support team to unlock ([ref](https://community.fly.io/t/your-account-has-been-marked-as-high-risk/3615/3)). ---
**Author:** ![Spyrex](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/fly1/user_avatar/community.fly.io/spyrex/32/11257_2.png) [@Spyrex](https://community.fly.io/u/Spyrex)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2023, 8:25am UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/credit-card-not-accepted/12116/6 "2023-04-10T08:25:32Z")
But I don’t want to pay 25$ for a free service and I don’t have access to a non-prepaid card. ---
**Author:** ![tom93](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@tom93](https://community.fly.io/u/tom93)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2023, 10:35am UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/credit-card-not-accepted/12116/7 "2023-04-10T10:35:46Z")
Yes, I agree that it sucks. You might be able to get them to manually allow you to use the prepaid credit card ([ref](https://community.fly.io/t/what-types-of-cards-are-supported-for-payment/530/3)) or unlock your account by contacting [billing@fly.io](mailto:billing@fly.io). Some alternatives: - [Render](https://render.com/) doesn’t require a credit card ([ref](https://render.com/free)) and [supports Ruby on Rails](https://render.com/docs/deploy-rails), but note that their free PostgreSQL database [expires after 90 days](https://render.com/docs/free#free-postgresql-databases) (might not be a problem for a demo app); and they require linking with GitHub/GitLab ([ref](https://feedback.render.com/features/p/deploy-without-githubgitlab)). - [alwaysdata](https://www.alwaysdata.com/en/) doesn’t require a credit card and [supports Ruby on Rails](https://help.alwaysdata.com/en/languages/ruby/ruby-on-rails/). - [Railway](https://railway.app) 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](https://docs.railway.app/reference/plans#developer-plan-offering)). They support Ruby on Rails ([third party video tutorial](https://dev.to/timnans/deploy-rails-application-to-railwayapp-12gl)). ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/fly1/original/3X/6/e/6e8955d00cb218e186ebbe3a6ab06fefdce15290.svg) [@system](https://community.fly.io/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 10:35am UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/credit-card-not-accepted/12116/8 "2023-04-17T10:35:50Z")
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