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Braintree vs Stripe Billing: What are the differences?
What is Braintree? Accept payments in your app or website today. Braintree replaces traditional payment gateways and merchant accounts. From one touch payments, to mobile SDKs and international sales, we provide everything you need to start accepting payments today.
What is Stripe Billing? A set of tools for billing and subscriptions. A set of billing and subscription tools for developers and business people. Developers can use out-of-the-box functionality to get started quickly or use the composable API building blocks to design fully customized subscription logic and pricing models. Business people can create and manage subscriptions and invoices—and view detailed financial reports.
Braintree and Stripe Billing can be categorized as "Payment Services" tools.
Some of the features offered by Braintree are:
- Simple pricing with no minimums- Pay only for what you use, with no minimum monthly volume, at the simple US pricing rate of 2.9% + $.30 per transaction.
- An API developers love- Integrate your app with our API over a cup of coffee.
- We support your business model- Subscriptions or one-off, mobile or web, local or global, our platform adapts.
On the other hand, Stripe Billing provides the following key features:
- Accept Orders - From the dashboard, Stripe.js and Elements, Billing API & Mobile SDKs
- Billing & Invoicing - One-off billing, recurring billing, flexible billing, invoice delivery, hosted invoice pages, and sales tax integrations
- Collect Payments - Credit cards, ACH and wire, local payments, retry logic, card updater, payment reminders
Airbnb, Uber Technologies, and Stack Exchange are some of the popular companies that use Braintree, whereas Stripe Billing is used by Nextdoor, eero, and Unleak. Braintree has a broader approval, being mentioned in 162 company stacks & 33 developers stacks; compared to Stripe Billing, which is listed in 14 company stacks and 7 developer stacks.
Stripe was made with developers in mind first so the extensibility of it is great! This makes it very easy for us to integrate and automate as much as we need with its APIs and SDK. It allows a lot of customization of exactly what we need to build our applications. They also manage all of our customers from a tax and accounting perspective which makes it easy from a business standpoint.
Pros of Braintree
- Well-designed api25
- Developer friendly18
- Easy setup17
- Reliable14
- Excellent documentation6
- Great support4
- Can use paypal and debit card3
- Test it without obligation, great SDK/API and prices2
- Great API, awesome docs1
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Cons of Braintree
- Lacking documentation for mobile integrations1
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