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Braintree Takes On Stripe, PayPal With Debut Of “Marketplace”

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Re: Braintree Takes On Stripe, PayPal With Debut Of “Marketplace”

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Looking at Braintree's Marketplace docs, it appears you have to "onboard" each sub-merchant you want to send payouts to, which requires entering their name, address, date of birth, and their social security number. It then says "If [the social security number] is not provided, we will attempt to retrieve the full Social Security number based on the other applicant details." So my question is: How is it possible / how…

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Re: Braintree Takes On Stripe, PayPal With Debut Of “Marketplace”

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry Elliot I did not know that. I added WePay to the list.

Just to keep it historically accurate, PayPal's Adaptive Payments API supported marketplace use case since mid 2010. Disclaimer: I used to work on it in my past life.

To keep this historical accuracy trend going: Balanced has been doing marketplace payment for the likes of Zaarly since early 2011.

But congrats to Braintree on the launch!

(Disclosure: I'm a co-founder of Balanced)

Re: Braintree Takes On Stripe, PayPal With Debut Of “Marketplace”

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just to keep it historically accurate, PayPal's Adaptive Payments API supported marketplace use case since mid 2010. Disclaimer: I used to work on it in my past life.

To keep this historical accuracy trend going: Balanced has been doing marketplace payment for the likes of Zaarly since early 2011. But congrats to Braintree on the launch! (Disclosure: I'm a co-founder of Balanced)

Sorry, I googled your launch date, saw some TC posts from 2012 and didn't know you guys were doing beta before that.

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