Adyen vs. Checkout.com

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Adyen
Score 8.8 out of 10
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Adyen is a payment gateway software solution offered by Adyen.N/A
Checkout.com
Score 8.5 out of 10
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Checkout.com headquartered in London enables businesses with technology designed to make payments seamless. Checkout.com boasts the fastest, most reliable payments in more than 150 currencies, with in-country acquiring, fraud filters and reporting through one API. Checkout.com can accept all major international credit and debit cards, as well as popular alternative and local payment methods. The company launched in 2012 and now has a team of over 1100 people across 18 offices worldwide.N/A
Pricing
AdyenCheckout.com
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AdyenCheckout.com
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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AdyenCheckout.com
Features
AdyenCheckout.com
Payment Gateways
Comparison of Payment Gateways features of Product A and Product B
Adyen
9.6
Ratings
28% above category average
Checkout.com
7.9
Ratings
8% above category average
Fraud Detection9.60 Ratings7.40 Ratings
API or SDK9.70 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Recurring Payment Support9.50 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Billing and Invoicing Support9.50 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Global Support9.60 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Payment Form Acceptance9.80 Ratings7.50 Ratings
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AdyenCheckout.com
Small Businesses
Apple Pay
Apple Pay
Score 9.3 out of 10
Apple Pay
Apple Pay
Score 9.3 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Apple Pay
Apple Pay
Score 9.3 out of 10
Apple Pay
Apple Pay
Score 9.3 out of 10
Enterprises
Checkout.com
Checkout.com
Score 8.5 out of 10
Adyen
Adyen
Score 8.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
AdyenCheckout.com
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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8.3
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Likelihood to Renew
9.0
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9.1
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Availability
9.0
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9.1
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Performance
-
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9.1
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Support Rating
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7.9
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Product Scalability
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9.1
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User Testimonials
AdyenCheckout.com
Likelihood to Recommend
Wherever a payments solution needs to be offered relatively fast, it's easy to set up and powerful, with strong technical capabilities. It works well both in settings where there isn't a dedicated payments department or team, as it can be customised with relative ease and low technical know-how
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Checkout offers great service and expertise and stands above its peers in full-service offering, integration, and ongoing support. However, Checkout is not suitable in a scenario where Paysend is fully licensed and a direct acquirer of the scheme. In this scenario, Paysend can perform the full value chain in-house.
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Pros
  • PCI DSS Compliant Solution
  • Provided options to configure a specific list of payments, like Alipay, ACH, PayPal, etc.
  • Good support and quick solution for the technical help
  • Well described documentation on technical integrations
  • Drop in framework to display the payment options
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  • Reliability of the platform
  • Account management: bi-weekly calls and follow up by email or slack, good understanding of our needs and high engagement
  • Technical account manager: as above, high engagement with us and sharing Checkout.com technical roadmap
  • Performance: with the recent enhancement in intelligent acceptance,
  • Mix of own and third party acquiring: this is much appreciated for a merchant like us to be able to process locally via third party acquiring when Checkout.com does not have its own
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Cons
  • I would like to be able to create my own reports, like a combination between "Received payment details" and "Interactive payment accounting".
  • Maybe you can have a better integration with PayPal. The disputes are reflected all wrong in Adyen, for example if we accept a chargeback in PayPal, in Adyen we see a "chargeback reversed" status first, then we see a "refund" status. This is very confusing for us, we have accepted that chargeback, which means we have lost the case, what are a Chargeback Reversed and a Refund statuses doing here? I think PayPal is trying to unblock the transaction that received the chargeback, but this is a very confusing way of handling the chargebacks. If I look at the "Dispute transaction details" reports, all the PayPal chargebacks are "won" because of that "Chargeback reversed" status, which is obviously wrong, we lose some cases and we win others.
  • Amex chargebacks could be integrated. We don't see them in Adyen at all.
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  • Their dashboard can get better. They have been making improvements
  • Faster settlements as it's a bit of a pain to have big reserves till ACH clears every day
  • Much stronger consumer facing brand name in the US so more end customers trust the links powered by Checkout.com
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Likelihood to Renew
Well, Ayden is a very easy system to manage, it allow the user a nice visibility and many details about the clients. It integrated very easily to our system and allow us to increase our activity. In addition, Ayden have a very good help center that available all the time and very helpful.
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We do not challenge the change of payment solution every year. It's a long-term choice.
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Reliability and Availability
Response time are as expected, and Adyen team is always knowledgeable and are clear subject matter experts. Quite often I am assigned an engineer who is not in our time zone and sometimes 8-12 hours different from me. This causes delays in resolution due. It would be great to have a support agent who is located in the US.
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In the last 3 years that I have been working with Checkout.com, they had an unplanned outage that lasted less than a few minutes. Their uptime is amazing. If they have maintenance, unlike banks, they don't have downtime during this time. We frequently require their support and Checkout.com responds to us within minutes. When we have important rollouts, I schedule calls with our merchant support manager to monitor the rollout/perform tests, etc. It is always easy to find time lost even with short notice.
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Performance
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Checkout.com performance as an acquirer and a PSP is excellent. We have too many transactions per day, therefore reports take some time to generate before they are available for downloading. But it indeed takes reasonable time. We use native/h2h integration therefore, there is no redirection issue, all pages load quickly on our side. Based on my experience, Checkout.com will never never integrate with software or systems that will slow them down. Amongst all payment methods they offer, all are processed immediately, without delays.
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Support Rating
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Support has been top-notch. I've been with 3 different payment processors in the past and they did not provide any support with regards to failed payments, regular calls to optimize our acceptance rating. Checkout.com has been in constant communication with us since Day 1, explaining trends and providing us with data and explaining to us how we can improve to get the most out of Checkout.com.
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Alternatives Considered
Ayden has proved to be much more reliable with transactions and faster at completing them. We also have been benefited by their affordable rates and that it doesn't feel like a scheme to take from our profits. Lastly, the reports they provide help us to know what next steps we should take as a company, thankful for that direction.
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We still use all the above, but checkout was selected to be included within them because of their current stability, their future-looking approach, and our interest in how they would develop. It's fair to say they are keeping to that initial evaluation and going from strength to strength.
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Scalability
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Our tech team implemented payments API to process payments online. Analytics team receives transaction repots that we use to build our own performance dashboards and help to reconcile transactions. API is indeed flexible - we don't use all features but if required we can easily implement them. When Checkout.com adds new features or functionalities, some of them can be used even on an older API version which saved us tech resources and implementation time. We use the same API to expand into new markets - technically we don't need to change anything when we want to launch payments in a new country.
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Return on Investment
  • After implementing payment integration, payment of B2B orders is instant which really helps business financial planning.
  • Using Adyen payment integration, businesses are also able to provide payment options based on their geography.
  • It provides multi-currency support.
  • It also provides key and secret-based security for sites and origin.
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  • To be honest the performance are in line with other providers.
  • The positive impact is related to the quality of the services, very high and easy to handle.
  • The negative impact is related to the revision of manageable volumes due to the revision of risks other than those expected after contract signing.
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