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Piano Activation vs. 2Checkout from Verifone

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    Piano Activation

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/APiano Composer, from Piano Software in New York, allows users to design, test, deploy, and manage audience experiences based on scenarios, rules, triggers, and conditions, all without IT. It presents out of the box loyalty and engagement solutions, and allows users to engage customer segments on the content they find most interesting and valuable - based on page attributes, metadata, or URL conditions.N/A

    2Checkout from Verifone

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AThe 2Checkout Monetization Platform, now from Verifone (acquired September 2020) is designed to address the complexity of online commerce, subscription billing, and global payments for software, SaaS and online services companies. The vendor says that their solution is backed by: a proven cloud platform, unmatched expertise and a depth of digital commerce services. The vendor’s value proposition is that their solution simplifies the complexities that online merchants face when expanding and…N/A
    Pricing
    Piano Activation2Checkout from Verifone
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    Piano Activation2Checkout from Verifone
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—2SELL - 3.5% + 0.30 EUR per successful sale 2SUBSCRIBE - 4.5% + 0.40 EUR per successful sale 2MONETIZE - 6.0% + 0.50 EUR per successful sale
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    User Ratings
    Piano Activation2Checkout from Verifone
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    User Testimonials
    Piano Activation2Checkout from Verifone
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Piano Software
    Piano Composer is well suited to news publishers in particular currently, but in theory this tool could be used by any organisation that relies on a paywall or advertising to generate revenue. Their increasingly powerful segmentation tool would also be very useful to many companies, as you can target particular users very easily or rely on their algorithms to do it for you and learn to optimise over time. I also think that if you have a sales pipeline/funnel that you want to nurture users through, Piano Composer can help you to do that.
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    Verifone
    2Checkout Monetization Platform is well suited for emerging SaaS businesses because along with payment processing, they offer you exposure to Affiliates and make electronic code delivery easy. The dashboard is cumbersome and reporting graphs/options are not easy to comprehend so it might become trouble when the business grows and you want to show it to venture capitalists or any investor/buyer.
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    Pros
    Piano Software
    • Very easy to use interface
    • Powerful algorithms to improve targeting
    • Great engagement with clients about improvements and future roadmaps
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    Verifone
    • 2Checkout handles credit cards that I would not be able to accept from my country.
    • Fraud prevention works. They saved me a couple of times and I appreciate that.
    • I always received my payments on time. I never had to complain.
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    Cons
    Piano Software
    • Acquires companies often and integration of these sometimes cause bugs and outages
    • Can be slow to load sometimes
    • Any custom work you need done by their developers takes far too long
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    Verifone
    • In the 2Checkout dashboard, searching for transactions is a bit awkward
    • I wish there were more reports available for me in the 2Checkout dashboard
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    Usability
    Piano Software
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    Verifone
    It is surreal. Everything feels like they don't really want you to use them. I had to beg them to approve my account because of stupid approval questions. Example: give ONE url where payments will come from. (my payments will come from a page inside my webapp which means absolutely nothing to users who don't have a user in my webapp. I also have many URLs where the users can pay from) Then their API is super complicated to use. I couldn't believe how complicated it is. It is not well explained in the documentation and you have to guess until you understand the underlying logic. I wouldn't use it if I Stripe was available in my country.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Piano Software
    Optimizely is a great platform for A/B testing with multiple variants and across a range of devices, browsers etc. What makes Piano Composer different is that you can add tests within your flows - specifying exactly where and why you want things to happen, whilst still building the rest of your experiences around this. The other huge benefit to Piano Composer is that it contains their Customer Segmentation engine and processing this data with their proprietary algorithms, so it is taking everything it knows about your users and including this in the segmentation process, which I think it much more powerful.
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    Verifone
    Avangate digital commerce is the only available leading payment gateway service provider for Sri Lankans. That is the main reason to choose Avangate for my web store. It's easy and cost-effective and easy to use as a payment gateway service provider overall. Pricing, customer care, payout process and reporting is very good at Avangate.
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    Return on Investment
    Piano Software
    • Increased digital subscriptions substantially
    • Enables quick and easy testing, which saves lots of time
    • Is quite expensive as a tool overall, so you need to balance the benefits to the number of users you have
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    Verifone
    • I now get excellent customer service as compared to when I was with PayPal
    • I no longer have to subject my customers to the pain of maintaining a PayPal account
    • 2Checkout allows me to offer the same service as any large company and I'm a 1 man show
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