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klynch

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About klynch

Community manager at Braintree. The world is in the middle of a shift in the way we do business, and I love being a part of the transition. Interested in customer engagement, how human beings learn, and the galaxy.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #8017754

    Paypal does have a future payments token capability [1]. The user must explicitly authorize the merchant the ability to use the token in order to use it for future transactions. We…

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    Comment #8015041

    Yep, you're able to save PayPal credentials to the vault. From there, you can treat it exactly like you would a stored credit card.

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    Comment #8012468

    The new integration method is available for our marketplace merchants, but PayPal as a payment method is not available for marketplaces in this initial launch.

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    Comment #8012382

    Kristi from Braintree here. You can securely store the card info to the Braintree vault so the user only has to enter the credit card info in your app one time. You won't be able t…

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    Comment #7358806

    Hi, I work for Braintree. This is open to marketplaces as well, and payouts are always free.

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    Comment #7357343

    Kristi from Braintree here. Happy to help. Just sent you an e-mail.

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    Comment #6212011

    Kristi from Braintree here. We work with one of the major credit bureaus to cross-reference the data provided to match it with a social security number.

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    Comment #5799583

    Braintree here. Gave the same response below in the thread,but wanted to make sure to address here as well. You all are right. Getting a merchant account and setting up a foreign c…

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    Comment #5799103

    Braintree here. You all are right. Getting a merchant account and setting up a foreign currency account has been notoriously difficult to get in the past with extremely high fees a…

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    Comment #4785750

    Kristi from Braintree here. To be totally honest, although we've been beta testing for a few months, we're still new to the market, and there are still some unknowns. We could've l…

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    Comment #4725226

    The idea behind this offer is to help launch more startups. If you are a pre-revenue start-up or just started to collect fees for your product, then shoot us an email at accounts@b…

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    Comment #4724729

    Kristi from Braintree here. Admittedly, our legacy bank relationships left us as the middle man to their risk departments. This may be what you are referring to when you mention th…

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    Comment #4724721

    Braintree here. Can you elaborate? We're not seeing anything slow down on our end.

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    Comment #4724289

    Most applicants will be approved instantly. There are some circumstances, such as the specifics of your business model, that may require a brief manual review. At most this will ta…

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    Comment #4723719

    We would love to do this for startups around the world. It's tricky to do with international banking relationships, but we'll continue to work with them to bring more opportunities…

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    Comment #4723619

    @sethbannon- This is not most promotions. Our goal is to help startups get off the ground. @davidedicillo- We're happy to help recent signups who qualify, shoot an e-mail over to s…

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    Comment #4718922

    Kristi from Braintree here. We're working pretty furiously to make the sign-up experience just as seamless for our international customers. Can't offer specific timing yet, but wor…

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    Comment #4599715

    Kristi from Braintree again. All of our merchants get their own merchant account during our onboarding process. Admittedly, it's a complex process behind the scenes. We know that a…

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    Comment #4599352

    That's great! Not sure if you saw this answer to @davidandgoliath where I elaborate a little more on our process: Most applicants will be approved instantly. There are some circums…

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    Comment #4598862

    We're working on it, but no timeline. You can sign up to be notified when we become available in Latin America here: https://www.braintreepayments.com/tour/international

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    Comment #4598824

    Kristi from Braintree here. We wrote our own underwriting software that connects our online signup process with years of data and experience underwriting tech companies. That combi…

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    Comment #4598517

    Yes, we do have a universal checkout product in the works with the Venmo team. We’ll provide more details as we get further with the product but expect to see more from us on this …

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    Comment #4598470

    @jkalkundi - Kristi from Braintree here. Currently, the instant underwriting process is only available to our US based merchants. We've made underwriting for merchants outside the …

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    Comment #4598314

    Most valid applicants will be approved instantly. There are some circumstances, such as the specifics of your business model, that may require a brief manual review. At most this w…

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    Comment #4597903

    Kristi from Braintree here. Good news- we recently launched in Canada and the EU. We plan on rolling out support for local payment methods in 2013. You can check out what our curre…