Braintree’s Payments Platform Launches Across Europe And Canada

Server Density has recently finished integrating into Braintree having had awful experiences with Netbanx (aka Optimal Payments) in the UK.<p>Our existing provider, Netbanx, have terrible customer support often taking days to reply to e-mails and refusing to answer questions over the phone. They have no out of hours support for critical issues and continually change their backend and API without informing customers. This meant we often had failed payments because changes Netbanx made which were undocumented and broke our integration. Having a stable and trusted payment processing partner is essential and Netbanx failed to get this right.<p>Braintree support has been excellent for the few times we've needed it (their dev docs are great, as are the libraries for each language) and it means we now combine our merchant account and payment API in a single provider, one control panel, one set of rates and one location for support.

Great to see things finally starting to move in the EU payments space!<p>However with the amount of paperwork required to apply and opaque "contact us" pricing (which includes significant monthly fees if it's anything like the US counterpart) it doesn't sound like they are interested in small clients.<p>Sticking with FastSpring for now, despite their huge transaction fees.

From the article:<p>Supported countries are now: the U.S., the U.K., Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Ireland, and Italy.<p>(As a Swiss citizen, I'm feeling non-european again...)

GoCardless [1] based out of London is looking like it'll be the Stripe of the UK.<p>[1]: <a href="https://gocardless.com/" rel="nofollow">https://gocardless.com/</a>

So much welcome to Europe! It's amazing it has taken so much years to have a decent solution for the continent.<p>Stripe next?

Does somebody has experience with them or knows how they compare to SaaSy/Fastspring? From a first glance they both provide a complete solution for payments, including a gateway for tacking credit card, merchant account, recurring billing, invoicing and stuff like that.

How do they compare to Stripe?

For perspective, it is interesting to observe whats happening in the low-end space for payments as well. There is a firm called eko - referred to as "India's Square" - payments done using simple SMS.

I thought Braintree was also looking at launching in Australia during Q3? Was hoping to find that in this release as well, as the only real alternative (pin.net.au) is still in private beta.

No plans/prices?

Hopefully a payments provider can come to the Latin America and Caribbean Market soon...