Braintree, a PayPal service vs. Pelcro

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 platform is well-suited for managing recurring subscriptions, offering flexible pricing models, and integrating with websites and apps for a seamless user experience. It excels in handling complex billing needs, such as tiered subscriptions or trial periods. However, it may be less appropriate for eCommerce businesses focused on one-off purchases, as its strengths lie in subscription-based models rather than traditional retail transactions.

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• 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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• Subscription Management
• Strong Front End Customer Experience
• Simple to use interface

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• 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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• more option for ecommerce
• simplifying reporting across all areas

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There's a huge cost in migrating payment providers, and we're very happy with Braintree so far.

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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.

It has put us in a better position then where we were before.

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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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It is simple for a developer to do.

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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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Price and ability to work within our current tech stack.

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• 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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• ability to offer multi currency
• streamlined workflows
• better visibility of data

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