Braintree, a PayPal service vs. Chargent

Braintree is a lower cost alternative to many of the options business owners have through their bank. However, they will need to be techy or be working with a developer to set up. The setup and backend isn't as user friendly as alternatives. Braintree is a great option if you'll need to manually type in credit card details. Banks will sometimes charge a lot more for that option. The manual option is nice if your clients aren't as tech savvy and prefer to pay over the phone than to pay on your website.

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For organisations keen to streamline their payment processes and who use Salesforce, this is a brilliant solution.

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• Braintree has excellent integration with the BigCommerce platform. The switch of our previous payment processing gateway to Braintree was very easy and only required a few clicks.
• Tying into Braintree's BigCommerce integration, for company's like ours that are on the BigCommerce enterprise plan, Braintree's rates for BigCommerce enterprise customers are extremely competitive and saved us money.
• Braintree has a pretty easy to use portal that can be accessed through the same login we use for PayPal which we are using in conjunction with Braintree with ease.
• I've only had to call Braintree twice and my customer service issues were handled extremely quickly and easily.

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• Extremely easy to implement + 100% native on salesforce.com.
• Payment information is on the opportunity level making it easily visible across teams.
• Payment request feature allows cutomers to pay online via force.com site.
• Supports recurring payments which allows payment processing to be run on an automated schedule.

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• Not a very good subscription management platform for a Saas business, but they make up for it on the API with others that are
• Doesn't have a lot of additional features, but that's what you'd expect out of a payment processor
• Very expensive per transaction, but the reality is that any processor who helps early stage companies accept online payments are expensive.

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• Because it is a low fee, you need to do more configuration on your own to get it up and running.

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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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It just works.

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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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They were overwhelmingly easy to deal with and helped us work through some very specific use cases

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It is simple for a developer to do.

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Braintree is better at handling international payments and supporting a variety of payment methods that can all be configured from the same dashboard. Braintree supports PayPal, Venmo, Apple Pay, Google Pay, etc. in addition to simply credit cards like Stripe. Braintree has a vault of existing user payment methods so the user doesn't have to re-enter their information each time.

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Chargent has been better for us as it works within Salesforce and can be mapped into workflow processes and reporting.

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• Simplified billing so we spend less time on it
• Saved $20 a month or more when compared to alternatives that have a monthly charge.
• It gives peace of mind because we know that any service we use in the future will likely integrate with Braintree

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• Decreased time to collect payments. Payment collection process can be integrated into team workflows, thus incentivizing quicker collection from customers.
• Increased revenue collection as billing information is easily accessible on the opportunity.
• Reduced labour needed to process payments. Recurring payments can be automated, payments can be accepted online.

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