Braintree is giving $50k in processing to every startup

Works out to about $1,450 in savings if you process $50,000. I hope people don&#x27;t impulsively go with them <i>just</i> to take advantage of this offer. In fact, you probably don&#x27;t want this offer to have anything to do with your decision-making on the best processor for your needs. That decision is not easy to undo - and will easily cost you more than the savings.

Pretty cool. I love the competition in the payments space right now. My bet is that Braintree is seeing some serious competition from Stripe and others.<p>One thing to keep in mind is that 2.9% + 30cents is relatively high. If you go to Authorize and negotiate they will lower the price if your volume is high enough. Stripe will also negotiate once you hit a certain volume.<p>One thing I really want to do is take on the micropayments space. No one has really managed to do it well. Think about how much it costs to charge someone a dollar. The cheapest way is paypal. But what if you want to take a Visa&#x2F;Mastercard? You are at their payment network&#x27;s mercy. In order to really challenge that you need to make your own payment network. And then get banks onboard. And get through all the regulation. Yikes. If anyone is interested though contact me.

In case some of you aren&#x27;t aware of this, PayPal acquired BrainTree a while ago:<p><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/26/paypal-acquires-payments-gateway-braintree-for-800m-in-cash/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;09&#x2F;26&#x2F;paypal-acquires-payments-ga...</a>

For a moment I thought it was the first $50,000 in <i>fees</i> not transaction volume. Still pretty cool and will probably get me to try them out.

I&#x27;m delighted for all potential US customers to get such a nice deal thrown their way - nice one Braintree! Too bad the offer doesn&#x27;t extend to Europe, but I can appreciate the complexity in setting up something like this world wide.<p>I&#x27;m currently in the process of going live with two sites using Braintree, and everything has been great so far. Excellent Python API, documentation and extremely quick, knowledgeable and friendly support.<p>My previous payment provider experience has been with Cleverbridge, Digital River and Paymill...and so far Braintree has managed to surpass them in every single way. YMMV but for my use case Braintree has been a great fit.<p>Keep up the good work!

They ran this promotion before too. I tried to use it but later was told I couldn&#x27;t because I&#x27;m a 3rd party payment aggregator. The trouble is they never said TPPA couldn&#x27;t participate anywhere in the promotion. I felt tricked. I continued to try to set up processing with them as a TPPA but it was this long drawn out and manual process. The CEO ended up contacting me to apologies and see what the problem was. He told me they didn&#x27;t disclose the TPPA restriction on the website to make it &quot;simpler&quot;. After many phone calls with them I was never able to get set up. Stripe just came out with Stripe Connect and I was up and running in a matter of minutes. Not to mention support at stripe has never been so bad that the CEO had to contact me. In fact I think stripes real edge is their excellent support. I would never use anyone but stripe after seeing how bad it can be. Note I have no affiliation with either company. I&#x27;m a Chicagoan and want to see Chicago companies like Braintree succeed but boy what a poor job they did. Definitely not with $1500 IMO.

Every startup in the US at the moment which is a shame, same rules as last time

As a European who was disappointed that Stripe isn&#x27;t in my country yet, I was pleasantly surprised to find out that Braintree is every bit as easy to use[1] (took me a half hour to set up a test transaction website), and it&#x27;s even cheaper than Stripe. (Edit: Seems Braintree&#x27;s European pricing differs from their US pricing. Braintree&#x27;s European pricing is 1.8% to 2.6% (everything included) which is considerably cheaper than Stripe).<p>The only downside I can see is the approval process which in Europe takes 7-10 days.<p>1) <a href="https://www.braintreepayments.com/docs/python/guide/getting_paid" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.braintreepayments.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;python&#x2F;guide&#x2F;getting_...</a>

I&#x27;m a current Braintree customer, where my start-up integrates to their services via our custom cart. I can&#x27;t really compare them to their other competitors, but one of the things I really like is the ability to call them and ask questions about my business workflow.<p>Often times, I get their 2 cents before I change my business workflow, or I get crazy unexpected scenarios I need help on (mainly involving vendors getting new credit cards).<p>I appreciate them going beyond the call of duty with helping me with things outside the traditional technical api questions. I just hope the paypal acquisition won&#x27;t change things...

Braintree isn&#x27;t a bad choice, not the best but better than most. Their documentation and needs for more complex stratiges for domain logic is lacking. Stripe has one of the best documentations I&#x27;ve seen as far as payment gateways go and how it can fulfill most business needs. As far as MVP products go I grade each api on documentation and flexibility. 1. Stripe, 2. Braintree, 3. Custom gatwate solutions such as shopifies gem. Im sure there are many more solutions but as a developer without a huge background in payment processing solutions this is my assessment.

&quot;for any U.S.-based startup&quot;, then I closed the tab. But great, good option &quot;for any U.S.-based startup&quot;, they seem like a fair and cool payment gateway.

I am working on a marketplace project right now and I was wondering if anyone can suggest an international payment processor other than PayPal. Braintree Marketplace would have been perfect but it is currently only for the US. The same goes for Balanced Payments and several other options.<p>(My project involves freelancing and finding small projects - Sign up page at <a href="http://www.ladr.io/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ladr.io&#x2F;</a> if anyone interested)

I think this is a really great way of enticing new startups. Yes it&#x27;s to get them more business, but for once it actually brings a good benefit of $1400+ for startups.<p>I would use Braintree for things like this.

Existing customers too? The signup button sends me to a form for new customers.<p>Do I really have to cancel my account and open a new one?

Important note, I believe this doesn&#x27;t include marketplaces.

Fantastic! That&#x27;s a great way to delight your customers.

Non US, non EU merchant? Sorry no cookie for you. :(

Which countries do they support?

...for any U.S.-based startup...

Use it for the first $50k then switch to Stripe..