A penny to several dollars

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"While currently in the early planning stages, micropayments will be a payment vehicle available to both Google and non-Google properties within the next year," Google wrote. "The idea is to allow viable payments of a penny to several dollars by aggregating purchases across merchants and over time."

Could any one tell me the structure of the underlined part for me to understand it better?

And please tell me what 'and over time' means here?

Thanks.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/google-plans-tools-to-help-news-media-charge-for-content/?partner=rss&emc=rss

BarbaraPA · Accepted Answer

Payments that may range from those that are as small as one penny to those that are as large as several dollars.

Usually processing a payment for a penny costs a lot more than the payment, but it seems this system combines many payments to the overall cost to process the payments is shared.

Clive · Answer

Hi,

"While currently in the early planning stages, micropayments will be a payment vehicle available to both Google and non-Google properties within the next year," Google wrote. "The idea is to allow viable payments of a penny to several dollars by aggregating purchases across merchants and over time."

Could any one tell me the structure of the underlined part for me to understand it better?

( The idea is ) ( to allow viable payments ) ( of amounts that range from a penny to several dollars)

And please tell me what 'and over time' means here? by aggegating purchases that occur at different times during a period of time.

Best wishes, Clive

Liveinjapan · Answer

Thanks, Barb and Clive.

The scales fell from my eys! It's simple!

A penny to several dollars

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