Braintree, a PayPal service vs. Kansys Edge

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Braintree, a PayPal service
Score 6.7 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
Kansys Edge
Score 6.7 out of 10
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Kansys Edge (formerly Ericsson Enterprise & Cloud Billing, or ECB) is a pricing, billing, charging, and settlement software platform. The platform is based on Metanga, or Metranet, a subscription billing platform and division of MetraTech acquired by Ericsson in 2014 and sold to Kansys in 2019.N/A
Pricing
Braintree, a PayPal serviceKansys Edge
Editions & Modules
Standard Pricing
2.9% +$0.30
per transaction
Custom Pricing
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Braintree, a PayPal serviceKansys Edge
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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User Ratings
Braintree, a PayPal serviceKansys Edge
Likelihood to Recommend
1.0
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7.0
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Likelihood to Renew
10.0
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Usability
5.0
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Support Rating
1.6
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Implementation Rating
10.0
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User Testimonials
Braintree, a PayPal serviceKansys Edge
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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Metanga is easy for automating recurring billing and it has quite a nice trusted API platform but, one time payments require workarounds. Metanaga is well suited for customizing subscriptions and payments.
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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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  • Easy functionality integration with other financial systems.
  • We were able to integrate it with CRM programs and that helped in expediting the subscription services.
  • Rich API features and proper documentation helped a lot.
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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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  • Pricing model could be more competitive with similar services.
  • If we wanted to use one time payment, it required lot of hassle and workaround.
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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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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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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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It has a clean and simple interface. [There are] automatic notifications for failed transactions. The easy integration with Intacct, Netsuite, QuickBooks, SOFTRAX and other financial systems to extend functionality made us choose Metanga over Zuora.
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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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  • Applying discounts and batch pricing to services were easy and saved time.
  • Self-service portals for customers to manage their own information and accounts helped build good client relations and interactions.
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