GoCardless vs. PayKickstart

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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ANALYTICS & REPORTING: It lets you gain the insight you need to make informed decisions to improve and grow business. It gives you access to all of your reporting and analytical data. Some of the insights you'll have access to:

1. Transactional Reports
2. Subscription Analytics
3. Performance Reports
4. Event and Activity Logs

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• 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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• Subscriptions
• Checkout forms
• Dashboard

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• 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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• Better payment plans
• Support Crypto payments with the legal transparency
• Build in A/B testing capability

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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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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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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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PayKickstart is an established named and has a repute of its own. PayKickstart is powerful and versatile. You can use it for a very simple one time fee checkout. Very easy to setup and compared to other platforms, lets you control the products and get daily insights of our data.

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• 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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• It's been a pivotal tool for growth
• It's helped me predict our monthly recurring revenue
• It's been a critical part of our growth

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