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Braintree Payments Review

Braintree is one of the most important providers in the eCommerce and mobile processing worlds and has an enormous catalog of unique features and no monthly fee.

    Chris Motola
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  • Shannon Vissers
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    Shannon Vissers

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Braintree Payment Solutions

Total Rating 4.5
Fees & Rates4.4

Products & Services5.0

Contract5.0

Sales & Advertising Transparency4.8

Customer Service3.8

User Reviews3.1

Braintree Payment Solutions At A Glance

  • Braintree is a developer-centric eCommerce processor offering full merchant accounts
  • As part of the PayPal ecosystem, Braintree increasingly comes with PayPal’s strengths and weaknesses
  • Businesses with average transaction sizes below $60 may find PayPal’s flat-rate pricing model to be too expensive

Chris Motola

Chris Motola

Senior Staff Writer at Merchant Maverick
Chris has been writing about small business topics since 2003. In 2015, he joined Merchant Maverick, where he writes about business financing, payment processing, and demographic trends in entrepreneurship. Chris has been featured in Fox Business, ABC News, Yahoo Finance, GoBankingRates, Newsweek, BizJournals, and other publications. He has a Bachelor’s of Arts in English Writing Arts from SUNY Oswego, and a Masters of Science in Interactive Media from the University of Central Florida. He currently resides in the Hudson Valley region of New York.
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We evaluate and test each payment processor that we review at Merchant Maverick, placing special emphasis on certain key characteristics in order to generate our granular ratings for merchant accounts and credit card processors.

For payment processing reviews, we use a 24-point rubric to evaluate the provider. First, we look at pricing structure – interchange plus, subscription-based, tiered, or hybrid – giving the most points to providers that provide fair, transparent pricing and docking those that rely on tiered models. Then we examine rates, the presence and transparency of early termination fees, and any additional fees.

We also look at contract length and fairness and test out sales staff and customer service channels ourselves to ensure that the company uses reputable, above-the-board sales techniques. Finally, we take the company’s online reputation into account, reading customer reviews and comments.

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