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    Checkout.com

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ACheckout.com headquartered in London enables businesses with technology designed to make payments seamless. Checkout.com boasts the fastest, most reliable payments in more than 150 currencies, with in-country acquiring, fraud filters and reporting through one API. Checkout.com can accept all major international credit and debit cards, as well as popular alternative and local payment methods. The company launched in 2012 and now has a team of over 1100 people across 18 offices worldwide.N/A

    Paddle

    Score5.1 out of 10
    N/ALondon-based Paddle offers an ecommerce and subscription management solution for software companies seeking a streamlined demonstration of their services and centralized management of their different service levels and cloud-based offerings.N/A
    Pricing
    Checkout.comPaddle
    Editions & Modules
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    Custom
    custom pricing
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    Checkout.comPaddle
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Checkout.comPaddle
    Considered Both Products
    Checkout.com
    Chose Checkout.com
    Most of the above payment gateways perform well in specific markets but may perform poorer elsewhere. Checkout.com has good acceptance rate in overall most of the countries, allowing us to rely on them on capturing transactions that other payment processors would struggle with.
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    Paddle
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    44 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    41 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    42 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    31 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    40 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Checkout.comPaddle
    Payment Gateways
    Comparison of Payment Gateways features of Checkout.com and Paddle
    Feature
    Checkout.com
    7.9
    39 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Paddle
    -
    Ratings
    Fraud Detection7.432 Ratings00 Ratings
    API or SDK8.437 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recurring Payment Support7.929 Ratings00 Ratings
    Billing and Invoicing Support7.933 Ratings00 Ratings
    Global Support8.236 Ratings00 Ratings
    Payment Form Acceptance7.533 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Apple Pay
    Score9.1 out of 10
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    Payoneer
    Score8 out of 10
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    Score8.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Adyen
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Zuora
    Score8.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Checkout.comPaddle
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (45 ratings)
    7.1
    (6 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    Performance
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    7.9
    (43 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Checkout.comPaddle
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Checkout.com
    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.
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    Paddle
    I wouldn't recommend them to anybody because their support is getting worse and worse and their business processes require you to contact support whether you want to or not. You will be forced to contact support and then wait for days to get any meaningful response that's not a copy/pasted sentence from FAQ.
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    Pros
    Checkout.com
    • 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.
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    Paddle
    • Super easy to implement SDKs across supported platforms that support modern interface paradigms.
    • Real team members that provide backend support for merchant issues. We had issues addressed quickly and taken seriously whenever we needed anything.
    • Help with navigating VAT transparently. We never worried that we were messing up in this complicated area of international sales.
    • Great first line customer support reduces the need for an extensive customer support organization on our end. They dealt with all purchase related issues as well as lightweight technical issues (e.g pointing users to FAQs, update links, etc.).
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Checkout.com
    • 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
    Incentivized
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    Paddle
    • Analytics could support more flexible analysis of reported data and better custom events.
    • More customization of the drop in purchase UI on the web without the need for a full custom site integration.
    • Sometimes communication from their front line support staff has gone to the wrong address.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Checkout.com
    We have a long term contract and we already have them in our plans for the next 5 years.
    Incentivized
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    Paddle
    No answers on this topic
    Reliability and Availability
    Checkout.com
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Paddle
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Checkout.com
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Paddle
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Checkout.com
    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.
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    Paddle
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Checkout.com
    Both 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.
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    Paddle
    We tried using Stripe before Paddle, but it was a pain integrating it and it lacked the licensing. Paddle allows us just to add a payment button and don’t ever think about payment methods, we don’t have to make a separate button for card payments and another one for PayPal. Paddle does all this in their checkout process.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Checkout.com
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Paddle
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Checkout.com
    • 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.
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    Paddle
    • We wanted to grow faster, which was possible once we integrate recurring payment gateway. And we've got Paddle to do that.
    Incentivized
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