Likelihood to Recommend Checkout offers great service and expertise and stands above its peers in full-service offering, integration, and ongoing support. However, Checkout is not suitable in a scenario where Paysend is fully licensed and a direct acquirer of the scheme. In this scenario, Paysend can perform the full value chain in-house.
Read full review Vantiv is excellent for companies that need to be able to accept credit cards and want to keep accurate reports. However, if you ever need to contact customer service or your account rep, be prepared to be extremely frustrated. Vantiv recently merged with another company, and we are having a very difficult time getting information from our account manager about how to access out account now.
Read full review Pros They provide excellent advice from knowledgeable subject matter experts on all things payments. They adapt quickly to our business-changing needs, helping us stay agile as our business grows. They provide trustworthy and reliable services that enable us to take payments with as little friction as possible. They are as passionate about performance as we are, working closely with us to ensure we maximize the chances of success for every transaction. Read full review It has broad support for networks and software solution. It is fairly easy to implement and configure. Has good technical support when you have the proper contact. Read full review Cons Their dashboard can get better. They have been making improvements Faster settlements as it's a bit of a pain to have big reserves till ACH clears every day Much stronger consumer facing brand name in the US so more end customers trust the links powered by Checkout.com Read full review In my experience, Some of the WORST tech support/customer service I've ever experienced Two of the last four years, gift cards crashed for multiple days during our Black Friday sale Duplicate charges Fraud controls are weak and (for gift cards) cost extra for dubious protection It took them over a month (and constant badgering) to give us a copy of our contract The system crashes quite a bit, leaving our locations without any ability to charge customers I dread having to deal with WorldPay, yet have to on a daily, if not weekly, basis Read full review Likelihood to Renew We have a long term contract and we already have them in our plans for the next 5 years.
Read full review As long as Vantiv continues to improve and we can get better responses from customer service, we will likely continue to use Vantiv. However, if customer service declines, we will likely look for something else
Read full review Reliability and Availability In the last 3 years that I have been working with Checkout.com, they had an unplanned outage that lasted less than a few minutes. Their uptime is amazing. If they have maintenance, unlike banks, they don't have downtime during this time. We frequently require their support and Checkout.com responds to us within minutes. When we have important rollouts, I schedule calls with our merchant support manager to monitor the rollout/perform tests, etc. It is always easy to find time lost even with short notice.
Read full review Performance Checkout.com performance as an acquirer and a PSP is excellent. We have too many transactions per day, therefore reports take some time to generate before they are available for downloading. But it indeed takes reasonable time. We use native/h2h integration therefore, there is no redirection issue, all pages load quickly on our side. Based on my experience, Checkout.com will never never integrate with software or systems that will slow them down. Amongst all payment methods they offer, all are processed immediately, without delays.
Read full review Support Rating When we were discovering the possibility of opening an entity in the United States to process transactions as domestic cards, Checkout.com did not just quickly provide the requirements to open that market as we asked them to but showed us slides with all the possibilities we had for each of their licenses in the world, calculating an estimate of the acquiring costs and acceptance rate we would have, based on the cross-border volumes we were processing with them, to evaluate other ways to improve our business.
Read full review Many customer support employees of Vantiv do not seem to know much about the Vantiv website. I have been transferred around to as many as four different people to get an answer to what I thought was a simple question. I am not sure if it would be possible to receive adequate support for a more complex issue.
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CyberSource and Ingenico provided poor support on any types of issues. Integration was a nightmare as it took months just to set them up as compared to Checkout.com. Checkout.com provided us with quick integration and constant monitoring of our transactions which is what we really needed.
Read full review ANYONE would be better than Worldpay. My parent company requires its use. Otherwise, I would have run away screaming a long time ago.
Read full review Scalability Our tech team implemented payments API to process payments online. Analytics team receives transaction repots that we use to build our own performance dashboards and help to reconcile transactions. API is indeed flexible - we don't use all features but if required we can easily implement them. When Checkout.com adds new features or functionalities, some of them can be used even on an older API version which saved us tech resources and implementation time. We use the same API to expand into new markets - technically we don't need to change anything when we want to launch payments in a new country.
Read full review Return on Investment Checkout has allowed us to enter markets worldwide without having to find a new provider—the same seamless experience across Europe, the UK, and Australia. The efficient chargeback setup on the portal allows us to monitor and respond to chargebacks promptly and efficiently, and help is always available for cases that are a little less black or white. Read full review Positive- More clients are enticed to use World Pay when they hear the benefits. Negative- Customer service lacks so our clients tend to complain about that. Negative- Rates can be a little high depending if client is currently using a local bank. Read full review ScreenShots