Braintree, a PayPal service vs. Paytm

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Braintree, a PayPal service
Score 6.6 out of 10
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Braintree, a Paypal service and subsidiary, 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 . Braintree also supports international payments. Pricing is 2.9% plus a 30c transaction fee.N/A
Paytm
Score 7.5 out of 10
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Paytm is a mobile payment processing app from Indian company One97 Communications.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
Standard Pricing
2.9% +$0.30
per transaction
Custom Pricing
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Braintree, a PayPal service
Chose Braintree, a PayPal service
In my opinion, Braintree, a PayPal service, have a better user platform which makes it easier to see your daily/weekly/monthly revenue figures and processing refunds is simple to. Having functionality between Paypal & Braintree has been useful too which is why we opted to use …
Chose Braintree, a PayPal service
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 …
Chose Braintree, a PayPal service
Braintree allows our customers to integrate their existing merchant processor to the Braintree gateway, whereas the other options require you use their merchant processor (full stack).
Chose Braintree, a PayPal service
We went with Braintree without trying or even investigating other alternatives which was a shame.
Chose Braintree, a PayPal service
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 …
Chose Braintree, a PayPal service
We used Braintree over Stripe because our developer was more familiar with Braintree and was able to integrate it the way we needed to. However, Stripe seemed like a good option but there wasn't any compelling reason in price or other features that made it worth taking more …
Chose Braintree, a PayPal service
We started using Chargify, but migrated to Braintree due to its more up-to-date libraries and easy integration with Paypal. We have not tried any other competitor, however, Stripe seems very interesting, specially now that their cross-country support is really broad. We are not …
Chose Braintree, a PayPal service
At the time Braintree was cheaper and much quicker and easier to implement then Barclaycard. Braintree will pay you in the currency of your choice (within reason) which is a distinct advantage over PayPal which is limited to your domestic currency.
Chose Braintree, a PayPal service
We use Braintree because we got recommended by another user, it has no fees at the beginning and it's very well documented.
Chose Braintree, a PayPal service
The price and quality has been a part of why we chose Braintree as our main payment method. We started with PayPal but as the business was growing, we needed a system that was easy to implement to get paid by cards. We looked into Stripe, but it was more difficult to implement, …
Chose Braintree, a PayPal service
Prior to Braintree, we used authorize.net which is actually great however authorize.net's rates were not as competitive as Braintree's. One advantage that I would have to give to authorize over Braintree is their incredibly robust system which has settings and customization …
Paytm
Chose Paytm
Paytm is all in one junction for all daily life needs and business use cases. It's versatility in all the services makes it the only best app in market.
Chose Paytm
Promotional codes and cashback offers . Good in-terms of sending reminders on Electricity bill payments and credit card bill payments.
Chose 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 …
Chose Paytm
Amazon Pay's bank transfer take quite a lot of time and in term of end to end security, Paytm is much better than others. It is highly used by millions of people. It is quite used by them on day to day basis.
Chose Paytm
Paytm doesn't charge a fee for payment gateway. Provides UPI capability for mobile payment making it easy for customers.
Chose Paytm
I like documentation of Paytm when compared with others. This allows me during development and solves any issues if raised. Coming to Razorpay, I have faced a lot of issues with it regarding transactions.
Chose Paytm
When I inquired about payment gateway I found lots of platforms but all have differences. When I compared with Razorpay I found that Razorpay takes fix 2% charges for all types of payments received on your account while Paytm takes max 2.5% charges for Prepaid card and 0 for …
Chose Paytm
Paytm is much better than Sodexo due to the wide array of use cases. Also, we need not carry a physical card in the case of Paytm. Additionally, Paytm is accepted in many more places than Sodexo.
Chose Paytm
PayPal Payments still needs to be widely accepted, whereas Paytm is almost in every corner of India.
Chose Paytm
Amazon's payment gateway has a higher transactional fee. For the Indian region, Paytm is the best solution for your e-commerce store, and QR code scan is very easy.
Chose Paytm
Depends on my usage. When I get better offers on Paytm like cash-backs and all, I go for Paytm only. Google pay no doubt is as good as Paytm but sometimes Paytm is much beneficial. But there are so many updates on the iOS platform which is a bit frustrating as it also consumes …
Chose Paytm
It's a much better solution for the Indian ecosystem as it solves for more of the domestic use cases and problems. It also offers the PG in Hindi which is the local language, that helps for Tier 2/3 city users. It also has offline payment through QR that other PGs dont offer.
Chose Paytm
Google Pay wasn't widely accepted when we started using Paytm but even after using it we prefer to use Paytm because it provides us with very useful services and is widely accepted. Paytm app is also faster than Google Pay app and offers more cashbacks than any other similar …
Chose Paytm
Paytm is well suited for Indian needs and market with integrations. Paytm offers a lot more services. Paytm supports credit scores.
Chose Paytm
Paytm is widely used across my country. The penetration rate of this product is highest amongst the competitors, leading to its easier acceptance from a local seller to a premium seller. It was the first one to introduce the UPI transfers making it pretty easy for non-Paytm …
Chose Paytm
I've found PayPal to be less user-friendly. Paytm is, overall, much easier to use in my current market.
Chose Paytm
Before this app, I did not use any other digital payment services, but after using it I tested other apps like Mobikwik, PhonePe and PayPal. I didn't find these apps as convenient as Paytm. And those apps don't offer as many services as Paytm offers. So now I am using Paytm …
Features
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Payment Gateways
Comparison of Payment Gateways features of Product A and Product B
Braintree, a PayPal service
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Ratings
Paytm
6.4
Ratings
13% below category average
Fraud Detection00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
API or SDK00 Ratings6.50 Ratings
Recurring Payment Support00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Billing and Invoicing Support00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Global Support00 Ratings5.50 Ratings
Payment Form Acceptance00 Ratings6.50 Ratings
Best Alternatives
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Small Businesses
Stripe Payments
Stripe Payments
Score 8.5 out of 10
Apple Pay
Apple Pay
Score 9.3 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies

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Apple Pay
Apple Pay
Score 9.3 out of 10
Enterprises

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Checkout.com
Checkout.com
Score 8.5 out of 10
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
1.0
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7.5
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Likelihood to Renew
10.0
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Usability
5.0
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8.0
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Support Rating
1.6
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Implementation Rating
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
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.
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Paytm is extremely well suited for lunch reimbursements and for paying road tolls. Paying road tolls is so easy using a Paytm money balance. loading money takes less than a minute. Lunch reimbursement amounts are directly transferred to Paytm wallet and these can be used in thousands of places. Paytm can improve its eCommerce portal and simplify the KYC process. Also, the app is a bit cluttered as of now. There is scope to make the app more modern and simple.
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Pros
  • 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
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  • 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
  • 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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  • 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
There's a huge cost in migrating payment providers, and we're very happy with Braintree so far.
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Good in-terms of sending reminders on Electricity bill payments and credit card bill payments.
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Usability
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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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
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Planned outages & downtime window
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Performance
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Slight improvements required
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Support Rating
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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Need slight improvement on issues TAT
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Implementation Rating
It is simple for a developer to do.
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Alternatives Considered
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.
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When I inquired about payment gateway I found lots of platforms but all have differences. When I compared with Razorpay I found that Razorpay takes fix 2% charges for all types of payments received on your account while Paytm takes max 2.5% charges for Prepaid card and 0 for UPI and Rupay cards. Razorpay takes 2 days to settle the amount in your account where Paytm settles the amount in your bank account next day by morning.
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Scalability
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Easy to integrate
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Return on Investment
  • 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.
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  • 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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