Having looked into a lot of payment services recently, including scanning Stripe's terms at the link above, I'm genuinely curious about something.

What kind of management trusts a new start-up with such a fundamental part of their business, inevitably including a certain amount of opportunity cost and risk of delay if moving to another service is necessary, based only on a contract of adhesion that allows for the service to be terminated at any time with negligible notice and without any sort of compensation or guaranteed handover arrangements?

Thanks for the update. I did have one other question and wasn't sure where to post it here. What's your timeline for a Perl API binding?