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Everyone who owns or runs a business knows that deciding how much to charge your customers and when to do it is complicated.

Even when you start with something simple, like charging $50 a month for a phone plan, it gets messy.

But this is Decoder, so instead of just saying that, let's game it out.

Over the course of this episode, our ads will get into the nitty-gritty of how payments get

really complicated, really fast.

That monthly charge will be different for business users, and both of those numbers will be

different for customers living in Ireland, and different again for folks in Canada.

And don't forget sales tax or that.

How the heck do you go about implementing those changes?

More to come in our next break.

Hello and welcome to Decoder.

I'm David Pierce, the editor at large at the verge.

As you may have noticed, we're dropping some extra episodes in the Decoder feed this week.

You'll have Neely back on Friday and for next week, I promise, as we

run towards the end of the year. Lots of good stuff still coming. But I'm really excited to be here

with all of you today because I get to talk about one of my very favorite things, podcasts.

There's something strange happening these days in the podcasting world. Actually, there are

kind of a lot of strange things happening in the podcast world.

It's been a wild year in general.

One thing I've really noticed is the way that companies that deal in money have started

using podcasts in kind of unusual ways.

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