Airwallex vs. GoCardless

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Airwallex
Score 8.7 out of 10
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Established in Melbourne in 2015, Airwallex is a payments platform that aims to transform the way businesses move and manage money globally. They state their goal is to empower businesses of all sizes to grow without borders, and by doing so, contribute to the global economy. With technology at its core, Airwallex offers a global financial infrastructure to help businesses transact, collect and pay in any foreign currency across 130+ countries and 50+ currencies, without the constraints of the…N/A
GoCardless
Score 9.3 out of 10
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GoCardless, from the company of the same name in San Francisco, is a recurring payments platform that integrates with the applications businesses use every day, to give businesses more visibility over payments and saving the time on tasks like payment reconciliation. The vendor states they partner with more than 150 billing and subscription software partners globally, including Xero, Sage, QuickBooks, Zuora and Salesforce.N/A
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AirwallexGoCardless
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AirwallexGoCardless
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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AirwallexGoCardless
Small Businesses
Recurly
Recurly
Score 8.1 out of 10
Apple Pay
Apple Pay
Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Checkout.com
Checkout.com
Score 8.2 out of 10
Apple Pay
Apple Pay
Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises
Checkout.com
Checkout.com
Score 8.2 out of 10
Adyen
Adyen
Score 8.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
AirwallexGoCardless
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(3 ratings)
9.0
(8 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
2.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
AirwallexGoCardless
Likelihood to Recommend
Airwallex
Airwallex suits small to medium businesses that need to have transactions in multiple currencies. This can be as simple as a small business that pays for advertising with Facebook or paying for Saas platforms in USD.
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GoCardless Ltd
We believe GoCardless is the best-in-class solution for global companies who wish to streamline payment processing in many countries, especially when integrating within a company website or supported complementary software. It also works very well for recurring payment situations as it can be very streamlined for recurring & auto-payments. This is NOT a tool for credit card processing, so understand that and consider something like Stripe if credit card integration is your goal. The fees for GoCardless may be highly dependent on the anticipated processing volume and size of your business, so do know that very tiny companies may find the fee structure to be higher. For a US-only business, I'm not sure if GoCardless really would make the most sense outside of specifically for integrating within the software for click-thru payment processing. Where GoCardless shines is when your business operates in many countries and is looking for a seamless solution for your customers that also avoids them paying banking fees.
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Pros
Airwallex
  • Cross border payments
  • Virtual Cards
  • Payments
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GoCardless Ltd
  • Real time status of direct debit payments
  • Homepage dashboard is well made and efficiently tracks the payment status
  • GoCardless website supports multiple language
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Cons
Airwallex
  • Excellent payroll solution that enables one to pay multiple international accounts.
  • Helps reach new markets with foreign currency accounts.
  • It makes bookkeeping easy and sync capabilities.
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GoCardless Ltd
  • Not really useable on mobile - no mobile app and poor display in a mobile browser
  • Takes a while for the first payment in a DD to come in, although I appreciate that's a limitation of DD rather than a GoCardless issue, it's worth noting compared the credit/debit card alternatives
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Usability
Airwallex
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GoCardless Ltd
It has a good web dashboard, you can see who has paid, who hasn’t, when payments will be taken from client and when they will arrive in the bank account
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Support Rating
Airwallex
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GoCardless Ltd
There is no phone support, email only, and the support is slow coming. The support staff often don't read your support query properly, so you waste time having to re-explain yourself. That is the only downside of this product.
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Alternatives Considered
Airwallex
Payoneer was more expensive for transfers and it was less featured than Airwallex.
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GoCardless Ltd
GoCardless provides a simple way to take one-off card payments or set up direct debits for customers. Payment links can be included on electronic invoices, and certainly, from a UK perspective, it provides a more professional appearance than using, say, PayPal for business-to-business payments.
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Return on Investment
Airwallex
  • Saved money on bank fees
  • Saved money on FX transfers
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GoCardless Ltd
  • Increase customer digital payments vs. check by 18% and climbing.
  • Decrease time to pay significantly and allow payment directly at time of order.
  • Reduce write-off and non-payment by customer.
  • Cost to Kanopy has been reasonable and benefit exceeds the fees.
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