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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Google Ads

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Ads (formerly AdWords) is Google's pay-per-click online advertising program. With Google Ads users set their budget and choose where their ads appear in search listings, and on partner websites. Google Ads uses cost-per-click (CPC) bidding.

    $500

    in Ads credit in the first 60 days

    Paytm

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/APaytm is a mobile payment processing app from Indian company One97 Communications.N/A
    Pricing
    Google AdsPaytm
    Editions & Modules
    Offer A
    $500
    in Ads credit in the first 60 days
    Offer B
    $1500
    in Ads credit in the first 60 days
    Offer C
    $3000
    in Ads credit in the first 60 days
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Google AdsPaytm
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Google AdsPaytm
    Ad Campaigns
    Comparison of Ad Campaigns features of Google Ads and Paytm
    Feature
    Google Ads
    7.2
    11 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Paytm
    -
    Ratings
    Ad campaign creation7.911 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad deployment7.510 Ratings00 Ratings
    Display advertising7.410 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad display and retargeting segmentation7.511 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sequence targeting6.910 Ratings00 Ratings
    Contextual advertising7.210 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social advertising6.35 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Ad Reporting & Analytics features of Google Ads and Paytm
    Feature
    Google Ads
    7.3
    11 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Paytm
    -
    Ratings
    Ad dashboards7.511 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad performance reports7.911 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad conversion tracking7.311 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad attribution reporting7.211 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad forecasting and optimization6.911 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad Auctions
    Comparison of Ad Auctions features of Google Ads and Paytm
    Feature
    Google Ads
    7.9
    10 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Paytm
    -
    Ratings
    Ad bidding7.910 Ratings00 Ratings
    Payment Gateways
    Comparison of Payment Gateways features of Google Ads and Paytm
    Feature
    Google Ads
    -
    Ratings
    Paytm
    6.4
    2 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Fraud Detection00 Ratings6.02 Ratings
    API or SDK00 Ratings6.52 Ratings
    Recurring Payment Support00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Billing and Invoicing Support00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Global Support00 Ratings5.52 Ratings
    Payment Form Acceptance00 Ratings6.52 Ratings
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    Small Businesses
    WordStream
    Score6.9 out of 10
    Apple Pay
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    WordStream
    Score6.9 out of 10
    Payoneer
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    No answers on this topic
    Checkout.com
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Google AdsPaytm
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (126 ratings)
    7.5
    (22 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.6
    (21 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.7
    (17 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Google AdsPaytm
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Google
    Google Ads is a useful advertising tool to build brand exposure and generate lead volumes for your chosen product. Whilst it can be costly at times due to competitor bidding strategies and requires constant monitoring to ensure campaigns perform as expected, it typically provides the desired quality and quantity of leads for custom budgets.
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    Paytm
    The portal is easy to understand. Anyone can use this payment gateway on their website or app. Small businesses also can use this gateway to accept payments from their customers. Payment notifications are instant and received fund gets settled in bank account without any delay. Provides less payment gateway charges for debit, credit, and prepaid cards where with UPI and rupay payment gateway charges are zero. It has a unique dashboard to monitor transaction details. Available in both web and mobile application.
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    Pros
    Google
    • Automated targeting via Smart Shopping campaign. It's one of the best campaign types in Google Ads. In the beginning, you may see lower revenue and ROAS, but once you give some meaningful time to your campaign, it is most likely to perform well.
    • Smart bidding strategies: Google Ads has developed some really great bidding strategies such as maximizing conversion and maximizing conversion with ROAS settings. Based on one's requirement and their goal with revenue and target ROAS, they can choose the appropriate bidding strategy.
    • Reporting: A business owner and advertising must know about their audiences, how their campaigns have been performing, what's working and what's not, and for that reason, powerful, effective reporting is needed, and Google Ads provides rich details reporting that covers almost every aspect of a business.
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    Paytm
    • You can use Paytm to purchase from a selection of common items to luxurious items.
    • Tickets - Can be used to book tickets ranging from movie/concerts to flights/trains.
    • Bills - You can use Paytm to pay bills for your house/electricity/DTH.
    • Gifts - You can send gifts to your loved ones using Paytm.
    • UPI Transfer - Directly transfer money to another customer's bank account by UPI transfers.
    • Metro - Metro cards can be recharged from the app itself helping you beat the queue at metro stations.
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    Cons
    Google
    • If you don't know what you're doing, it will be a costly mistake. You need to target ads, and it is difficult the first time to do that.
    • There isn't a feature to run an add for a couple set date spans, just hours you want to run them or a single date span.
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    Paytm
    • One of the not so convenient things on Paytm is that if there is a connection failure while making a payment, your money is not credited directly to your bank account but rather to the Paytm Wallet, and this money can only be used by the Paytm platform.
    • In Paytm, user verification requires a personal visit to their physical offices, this can generate a lot of discomfort among potential users since if we want to use a virtual service it is precisely to encourage time saving.
    • You should be very careful when making purchases through Paytm's direct store, since in many occasions there are products of lower quality than the one offered and even fake products, it is better to use it to make payments to third parties and in considered amounts.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Google
    I think Google Ads is good for getting your company out there and becoming more visible to potential customers in general. However, for specific product launches, social media advertising might be a better fit. Also, our user base is younger so social media is a better channel for our target audience.
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    Paytm
    Good in-terms of sending reminders on Electricity bill payments and credit card bill payments.
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    Usability
    Google
    This is more of a subjective rating, because I think it can be increased with how much our ad spend is. The more of an ad spend, the more visibility we can get, and therefore all features can climb. With an overall larger presence the usability is that where we can get messages out quick, and that's the main thing we try to do with our campaigns.
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    Paytm
    Paytm is highly usable due to its wide range of services, seamless payment structure and user friendly UI support.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Paytm
    Planned outages & downtime window
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    Performance
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Paytm
    Slight improvements required
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    Support Rating
    Google
    We have not yet had an account rep who hasn't tried to bully me or other employees to raise our budgets. At the same time, several years ago, one attempted to help refine our ads and ended up changing the ads to be something we were not affiliated with
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    Paytm
    Need slight improvement on issues TAT
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    Online Training
    Google
    Daily use with advanced account structures. Familiarity with reporting/api and complex setups.
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    Paytm
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Google
    Our agency invests heavily in Google Ads (particularly paid search advertising) on behalf of our clients relative to competitors like Microsoft and Yahoo because Google is the top search engine in the world. Google collects the most search data which enables the company to improve its AI to drive better performance for agencies and brands. As such, our paid search and app install campaigns always start with Google. If a client has a large budget, we will allocate media dollars to other search engines, but in some cases, the entire search budget goes to Google because we see the best returns.
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    Paytm
    I use Paytm just for the ticket booking system. For most of my daily transactions, Google Pay is the way. Google Pay has provided things very simple and faster. They always focus on a user-friendly env rather than adding everything to the app. They kept the app more simple and more useful.
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    Scalability
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Paytm
    Easy to integrate
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    Return on Investment
    Google
    • Google Ads is often one of our highest ROI channels, especially when you factor in branded ads.
    • Depending on the stage your business is in, search ads can be really powerful from an ROI perspective, providing an investment with a very high spend cap.
    • If you do not manage the campaigns well though, you can quickly spend a lot of money on nothing. So make sure someone is keeping an eye on your account.
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    Paytm
    • It decreased checkout time for the user which allowed us to increase user experience.
    • Rarely, I used to face issues with transactions. If order got cancelled refunding of money, settling them etc.,
    • Since Paytm has link with UPI and I am able to collect money from any UPI applications, using credit or debit card, and internet banking it acted as single stop solution for me. There is no need to have multiple payment gateway options.
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