Braintree, a PayPal service vs. Google Pay

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Braintree, a PayPal service
Score 6.5 out of 10
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Braintree, a Paypal service and subsidiary, is a billing platform which stores credit card data directly from the merchant’s systems on secure servers, and it allows for cards to be recharged or refunded . Braintree also supports international payments. Pricing is 2.9% plus a 30c transaction fee.N/A
Google Pay
Score 5.8 out of 10
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Google Pay (including Google Pay Send, formerly Google Wallet) is a payment processing solution from Google.N/A
Pricing
Braintree, a PayPal serviceGoogle Pay
Editions & Modules
Standard Pricing
2.9% +$0.30
per transaction
Custom Pricing
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Braintree, a PayPal serviceGoogle Pay
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Braintree, a PayPal serviceGoogle Pay
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Braintree, a PayPal serviceGoogle Pay
Small Businesses
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Score 8.5 out of 10
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Score 9.3 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies

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Apple Pay
Apple Pay
Score 9.3 out of 10
Enterprises

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User Ratings
Braintree, a PayPal serviceGoogle Pay
Likelihood to Recommend
1.0
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2.0
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Likelihood to Renew
10.0
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-
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Usability
5.0
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1.0
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Support Rating
1.6
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6.9
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Implementation Rating
10.0
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User Testimonials
Braintree, a PayPal serviceGoogle Pay
Likelihood to Recommend
Braintree is a good payment processor if you are looking to accept multiple payment methods across multiple geographies and localizations. It is also a good place to keep a single source of truth for customer payments and keeping payment methods on file. If you are only in one geography or would be fine with accepting only a single payment type, Braintree is not a good choice.
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The most fitting scenarios for use of Google Pay generally include times in which people go out to eat or grab coffee or drinks. Other times are for planned parties where one person needs to put down a credit card to pay vendors, buy products/food/etc, and needs to be reimbursed by others who may not have cash/are not in the same office space as the payor/and other similar circumstances
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Pros
  • Extremely reliable which is incredibly important for payment processing
  • Accepts all payments types we need to be able to accept from all around the world, which is very important for an international company like ours
  • Has a great, easy to use API for building out additional functionality that Braintree itself doesn't support
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  • They provide good rewards like cash back offers and gift vouchers.
  • Easy to pay by scanning the QR code.
  • Help us to find best recharges for our mobile.
  • Easy to pay electricity bill.
  • Will notify us if our validity expires on recharges.
  • Self money transfer, we can transfer money to other account if both the accounts are linked with Google Pay.
  • We can check balance by enter the UPI Pin.
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Cons
  • Not all companies support the use of Braintree. I wish there was more back-end support on some of the sites we wanted to use. This is more about the sites we want to use and less about Braintree, but it's worth mentioning.
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  • Google Wallet had a few glitches I was unhappy with, but Google Pay seems to have corrected them. Who knows if the changes were related to the name change or if they just happened to coincide with the timing for the most part, but either way I really don't have any big complaints.
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Likelihood to Renew
There's a huge cost in migrating payment providers, and we're very happy with Braintree so far.
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Usability
As a product, functionality has been fine for us. In our experience, some issues during On Boarding but because we had a dedicated Account Manager assigned to us, these issues were dealt with. Now we are a customer, it feels like they have stopped caring about us or aren't interested in working with us to resolve any issues we have.
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I feel that this system not safe. Google keep charging my credit card but they say they cannot trace the payment because there is no transaction record! I cannot stop the payment.
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Support Rating
Their support is a joke. There's nothing "supportive" about them. Every time I call in with an issue no one has an answer or even a recommendation. I am put on hold and no one ever comes back. It's time to find another processor.
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I have had no direct experience with the Customer Support team for google pay. I never faced any issues or problems. I heard from other friends and colleagues that the customer service is great. This method of payment is now more and more being used as it is more secure and also at the same time fast and easy.
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Implementation Rating
It is simple for a developer to do.
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Alternatives Considered
Paypal's Business plan has a monthly charge in addition to the per transaction charges if you'd like to use recurring billing. Braintree gives you recurring billing options without the monthly charge and automatically sends a transaction receipt to the client each month. Once it is set up it is completely hands off which saves a lot of time.

Bank of America merchant products. They charge extra for setups that include manually entered credit cards. They also have high start up costs that would take a while to pay for themselves due since we don't process enough transactions to make it worthwhile.
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I was not a part of the discussion to implement Google Pay into our store, but I am definitely an advocate. Amazon Pay was used sparingly but still a helpful option; I believe that Google Pay is more widespread and simpler to use. I would be interested to see how payment disputes are handled between these different payment platforms; so far, we have only had to handle disputes through PayPal, which can be complicated but have typically been resolved quickly.
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Return on Investment
  • The competitive rates we are receiving with Braintree through their program for BigCommerce enterprise customers have saved us quite a bit in sales costs.
  • Braintree's fraud detection is likely set to very high as when we switched to Braintree we only received 1 fraudulent transaction in 2 years which is a huge relief.
  • Prompt disbursements have granted us faster ROI than other payment processors.
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  • Google Pay (formerly known as Google Wallet) organizes spending and makes recommendations--all around grouped conversations
  • Improves risk mitigation and ensures safety and account health of our vendors
  • Increased efficiency and pushes payments through at a faster rate
  • Provides work-life balance when fiscal deadlines slowly approach
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