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If that’s the case, they’re losing money on your account because that pricing is below the wholesale bank costs (which is the same for everyone). You probably want to check the fin…

No, I didn't.

This is Bryan from Braintree. I was working for a different company at the time I visited my former customers. I honored the one year non-compete I had with my former employer.

We (Braintree) don't require fax usage. It's an option but not a requirement.

This advice is hard earned. Great write up. We're on the opposite side of the spectrum as a company in that we're not well known, we're not well connected, we don't have outside ca…

Good for them. They've worked very hard and been extremely thoughtful about how they've built their business.

The DataPortability Project has been at the forefront of addressing challenging data portability issues that affect all of us. We (Braintree) are really excited to see our Credit C…

Not directly related, but we (Braintree) recently blogged about credit card expiration dates. Here is a snippet: "If you run a transaction in our gateway and enter a date in the pa…

We (Braintree) have no contracts and no termination fees. Merchants can leave whenever they want and for whatever reason without penalty. Some of our sponsoring banks unfortunately…

We (Braintree) now work with companies of all sizes, including a lot of startups, and have no volume requirements. In the past we did have volume requirements. We were a smaller co…

We (Braintree) now work with companies of all sizes, including a lot of startups, and have no volume requirements. In the past we did have volume requirements. We were a smaller co…

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Sachin - the online payments industry is indeed very complex. I'm impressed that you both took the time to write this up and did such a nice job. I would add a few things. (Disclos…

It's actually between 2-5k per month, depending on average ticket. For merchants looking to maintain volumes less than that for the long term, other providers will cost less in mon…

We (Braintree) are one of the gateway and merchant account providers that Chargify supports. When choosing a payment gateway, merchants need to be aware that most providers will ho…

I think you have two options. First, to become a payments aggregator as Dan Manges pointed out. You would essentially be performing the same function as Paypal does on ebay today: …

I'm unsure if you are comparing apples to apples on the pricing as it looks like SecureTrading is a UK only provider. The UK and the U.S. have entirely different credit card proces…

That's language that one of our sponsoring banks unfortunately has not yet removed from the agreement. It's boilerplate language that is optional for us to enforce. Regardless, we'…

We (Braintree) have never had contracts or termination fees. Customers can cancel whenever they want and port the credit card data elsewhere. As for our pricing, it's actually very…