micropayment
Noun
Meaning
micropayment (plural micropayments)
(economics) A financial transaction for a very small amount of money
Examples
M-Pesa doesn't seem to be online banking, its more of a micropayment scheme using your pre-pay credit on your phone.
I made a payment prediction back in 2007 that a viable micropayment requires a core… and now have a patented model for this via a single provider and pending for multiple providers.
Making individual articles available at micropayment levels would tempt even more librarians to use this method of accessing the literature, and further undermine subscription revenue.