Braintree, a PayPal service vs. Worldpay from FIS

Braintree is a good payment processor if you are looking to accept multiple payment methods across multiple geographies and localizations. It is also a good place to keep a single source of truth for customer payments and keeping payment methods on file. If you are only in one geography or would be fine with accepting only a single payment type, Braintree is not a good choice.

Incentivized

World pay from FIS is well suited to help our clients with storing credit cards on file in the software, memberships, offers a variety of payment options, etc. Typically it can be less suited for smaller businesses who are getting better rates from their local banks in town, compared to what World Pay can offer them.

Incentivized

• Extremely reliable which is incredibly important for payment processing
• Accepts all payments types we need to be able to accept from all around the world, which is very important for an international company like ours
• Has a great, easy to use API for building out additional functionality that Braintree itself doesn't support

Incentivized

• Vantiv's credit card processing terminal is very straightforward, easy to use, and fast.
• Vantiv's credit card dispute portal provides beneficial information regarding disputes and chargebacks. Even the customer number associated with the charge is provided, which cuts down on time needed to research conflicts.
• The Vantiv homepage/dashboard is structured in a very easy to navigate fashion.

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• Not all companies support the use of Braintree. I wish there was more back-end support on some of the sites we wanted to use. This is more about the sites we want to use and less about Braintree, but it's worth mentioning.

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• The account teams that are assigned are not technical.
• It can be very hard to get answers if you talk to the wrong person.
• There is long lead times in account set up.

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There's a huge cost in migrating payment providers, and we're very happy with Braintree so far.

Incentivized

As long as Vantiv continues to improve and we can get better responses from customer service, we will likely continue to use Vantiv. However, if customer service declines, we will likely look for something else

Incentivized

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.

Easy! Easy! Easy!

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

Many customer support employees of Vantiv do not seem to know much about the Vantiv website. I have been transferred around to as many as four different people to get an answer to what I thought was a simple question. I am not sure if it would be possible to receive adequate support for a more complex issue.

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It is simple for a developer to do.

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Paypal's Business plan has a monthly charge in addition to the per transaction charges if you'd like to use recurring billing. Braintree gives you recurring billing options without the monthly charge and automatically sends a transaction receipt to the client each month. Once it is set up it is completely hands off which saves a lot of time.

Bank of America merchant products. They charge extra for setups that include manually entered credit cards. They also have high start up costs that would take a while to pay for themselves due since we don't process enough transactions to make it worthwhile.

Incentivized

We looked at using Authorize.Net and we went with Worldpay because it was most similar to our US backend. If we started from scratch, we would have harmonized and done both US and international on the same gateway as it would have simplified our overall landscape from implementation.

Incentivized

• The competitive rates we are receiving with Braintree through their program for BigCommerce enterprise customers have saved us quite a bit in sales costs.
• Braintree's fraud detection is likely set to very high as when we switched to Braintree we only received 1 fraudulent transaction in 2 years which is a huge relief.
• Prompt disbursements have granted us faster ROI than other payment processors.

Incentivized

• Duplicate charges have caused untold damage to our reputation
• I've spent a ridiculous amount of time trying to fix WP problems with AND without tech support help
• We switched POS systems from CenterEdge to Roller, but issues persist
• The problems we experience have been so vast that we will never know the true cost of the negative impact WorldPay has had on our business.