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    PayKickstart

    Score4.2 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    PayKickstart provides shopping cart and affiliate management for online businesses. The vendor promises to help customers increase metrics such as sales, average customer/transaction value, and monthly recurring revenue with advanced out-of-the-box tools. These include customizable checkout pages & popup widgets, 1-click upsells, order bumps, coupons, free/paid trials, payment plans, address auto-complete, subscription saver sequence, and exit intent popup. PayKickstart has 0%…

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    PayPal Enterprise Payments

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/APayPal Enterprise Payments, formerly Braintree, is a billing platform which stores credit card data directly from the merchant’s systems on secure servers, and it allows for cards to be recharged or refunded. It also supports international payments.N/A
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    PayKickstartPayPal Enterprise Payments
    Editions & Modules
    Starter
    $99.00
    Growth
    $199.00
    Scale
    $299.00
    Standard Pricing
    2.9% +$0.30
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    PayKickstartPayPal Enterprise Payments
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
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    Likelihood to Renew
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    10.0
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    Usability
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    Support Rating
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    Implementation Rating
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    User Testimonials
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    PayKickstart
    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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    PayPal
    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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    Pros
    PayKickstart
    • Subscriptions
    • Checkout forms
    • Dashboard
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    PayPal
    • 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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    Cons
    PayKickstart
    • Better payment plans
    • Support Crypto payments with the legal transparency
    • Build in A/B testing capability
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    PayPal
    • 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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    Likelihood to Renew
    PayKickstart
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    PayPal
    There's a huge cost in migrating payment providers, and we're very happy with Braintree so far.
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    Usability
    PayKickstart
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    PayPal
    As a product, functionality has been fine for us. In our experience, some issues during On Boarding but because we had a dedicated Account Manager assigned to us, these issues were dealt with. Now we are a customer, it feels like they have stopped caring about us or aren't interested in working with us to resolve any issues we have.
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    Support Rating
    PayKickstart
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    PayPal
    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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    Implementation Rating
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    PayPal
    It is simple for a developer to do.
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    Alternatives Considered
    PayKickstart
    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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    PayPal
    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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    Return on Investment
    PayKickstart
    • 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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    PayPal
    • 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
    Incentivized
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