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Overview

authorize.net supports payment processing by helping businesses accept credit card and eCheck payments online, in person, via mobile devices, and more. The product offers a range of features, including online payments, mobile point of sale, virtual point of sale, phone payments, eCheck payments, digital invoicing, and fraud protection. It provides account updater and recurring payments capabilities to help businesses manage payments.

PayPal Braintree is a cloud-based payment solutions that allows businesses to process eCommerce transactions on mobile platforms and desktop. It provides multi-lingual sales and live support with fraud protection assessments. It also enables users to customize design of the checkout to match application or website interface.

  • Platforms supported
  • Web-based
  • iPhone app
  • Android app
  • Windows Phone app
  • Typical customers
  • Freelancers
  • Small businesses
  • Mid size businesses
  • Large enterprises
  • Customer support
  • Phone
  • Online
  • Knowledge base
  • Video tutorials
  • Platforms supported
  • Web-based
  • iPhone app
  • Android app
  • Windows Phone app
  • Typical customers
  • Freelancers
  • Small businesses
  • Mid size businesses
  • Large enterprises
  • Customer support
  • Phone
  • Online
  • Knowledge base
  • Video tutorials

Video & Screenshots

Pricing

Starting from

25

Per month

  • Free trial available
  • Credit cardless trial
  • Free account
  • Subscription based

Starting from

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No pricing info

  • Free trial available
  • Credit cardless trial
  • Free account
  • Subscription based

User reviews

4.5

220

5

4

3

2

1

135

64

13

3

5

  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
73%
would recommend this app

4.2

100

5

4

3

2

1

53

29

7

3

8

  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
60%
would recommend this app

Pros

“Authorise.net is so powerful that even their resellers built top class payment solutions for end users like me who have clients that want to use authorise.net to access USA payments.”
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Babatunde O.

SEO Marketer

“The monthly gateway charges are accumulated within a short period even in months when our transaction volume is low.”
JP

John P.

Transport Broker

“we eventually left the platform and was left with our pre existing handling solutions that do cost more.”
MG

Matt G.

Business Operations Manager

Pros

“Integrating more advanced, built-in automation features—such as modern conversational AI assistants or automated reconciliation models—would drastically improve overall user efficiency and modernize our daily oversight.”
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Melissa R.

Financial Manger

“The platform provides a solid foundation for day-to-day operations, but there is still a noticeable amount of manual data validation required from our team.”
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Melissa R.

Financial Manger

“I am impressed by how PayPal Braintree lets me accept a wide variety of payment methods—including PayPal, Venmo, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and all major credit and debit cards—on a secure, user-friendly platform with transparent fees and strong fraud protection”
EO

Ejiroghene O.

head teacher

Cons

“The interface feels outdated, and some features aren’t as user-friendly as they could be.”
AP

ALISSA P.

OWNER

“The interface can be a bit outdated at times and requested system updates are not as quick as we would like.”
DS

Dru S.

Property Success Parntner

“My least favorite things are that the dashboard feels clunky and not intuitive.”
RP

Ryan P.

Graphic Designer

Cons

“A major limitation is the lack of intelligent automation features.”
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Melissa R.

Financial Manger

“Quite tricky, filters not that flexible, and the overall backend which is not allowing to quickly accessing everything. And the dispute management, not so flexible, and time consuming.”
PB

Paul B.

Customer Experience Manager

“Indians can receive worldwide payments through PayPal Brain tree but cannot make domestic payments, which I found a bit problematic.”
GJ

Gurucharan J.

Captain

  • Vendor responds to reviews
  • Last review3 months ago
  • Vendor responds to reviews
  • Last review3 months ago

Key features

  • Total features125
  • ACH Payment Processing
  • API
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Access Management
  • Accounting
  • Accounting Integration
  • Accounts Receivable
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Activity Monitoring
  • Activity Tracking
  • Ad hoc Reporting
  • Alerts/Escalation
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Authentication
  • Automatic Billing
  • Billing & Invoicing
  • Billing Portal
  • Billing Rate Management
  • CRM
  • Chargeback Tracking
  • Check Processing
  • Contact Database
  • Contact Management
  • Contingency Billing
  • Credit Card Management
  • Credit Card Processing
  • Customer Database
  • Customer Management
  • Customizable Invoices
  • Customizable Reports
  • Data Import/Export
  • Data Security
  • Data Visualization
  • Debit/Credit Card Processing
  • Discount Management
  • Dues Management
  • Electronic Payments
  • Electronic Signature
  • Fee Management
  • Financial Aid Management
  • Financial Analysis
  • Financial Reporting
  • Financial Transaction Approval
  • For Banking
  • For Electricity
  • For Financial Institutions
  • For Higher Education
  • For Insurance Industry
  • For Internet Service Providers (ISP)
  • For Natural Gas
  • For Nonprofits
  • For Restaurants
  • For Retail
  • For Schools
  • For Telecommunications Industry
  • For Trash
  • For Water
  • For eCommerce
  • Fraud Detection
  • Fund Accounting
  • In-Person Payments
  • Internal Fraud Monitoring
  • Invoice Creation
  • Invoice History
  • Invoice Management
  • Invoice Processing
  • K-12
  • Loyalty Program
  • Metered Billing
  • Mobile Access
  • Mobile Card Reader
  • Mobile Commerce
  • Mobile Payments
  • Multi-Location
  • Multi-Period Recurring Billing
  • Multi-Store
  • Multiple Payment Options
  • Non-Metered Billing
  • Online Invoicing
  • Online Ordering
  • Online Payments
  • Ordering Automation
  • PCI Compliance
  • Partial Payments
  • Payment Collection
  • Payment Fraud Prevention
  • Payment Gateway Integration
  • Payment Options
  • Payment Processing
  • Payment Tracking
  • Point of Sale (POS)
  • Point of Sale (POS) Integration
  • Projections
  • Promotions Management
  • Purchasing & Receiving
  • Real-Time Analytics
  • Real-Time Data
  • Real-Time Monitoring
  • Real-Time Reporting
  • Real-Time Updates
  • Real-time Alerts
  • Receipt Management
  • Recurring Invoicing
  • Recurring/Subscription Billing
  • Refund Management
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Restaurant POS
  • Retail POS
  • Returns Management
  • Risk Analysis
  • Risk Management
  • Risk Scoring
  • SSL Security
  • Sales Reports
  • Sales Tax Management
  • Search/Filter
  • Self Service Portal
  • Separate Checks
  • Split Checks
  • Subscription Management
  • Subscription Plan Management
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Transaction History
  • Transaction Monitoring
  • Tuition Management
  • Work Order Management
  • eCommerce Management
  • Total features18
  • ACH Payment Processing
  • API
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Access Management
  • Accounting
  • Accounting Integration
  • Accounts Receivable
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Activity Monitoring
  • Activity Tracking
  • Ad hoc Reporting
  • Alerts/Escalation
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Authentication
  • Automatic Billing
  • Billing & Invoicing
  • Billing Portal
  • Billing Rate Management
  • CRM
  • Chargeback Tracking
  • Check Processing
  • Contact Database
  • Contact Management
  • Contingency Billing
  • Credit Card Management
  • Credit Card Processing
  • Customer Database
  • Customer Management
  • Customizable Invoices
  • Customizable Reports
  • Data Import/Export
  • Data Security
  • Data Visualization
  • Debit/Credit Card Processing
  • Discount Management
  • Dues Management
  • Electronic Payments
  • Electronic Signature
  • Fee Management
  • Financial Aid Management
  • Financial Analysis
  • Financial Reporting
  • Financial Transaction Approval
  • For Banking
  • For Electricity
  • For Financial Institutions
  • For Higher Education
  • For Insurance Industry
  • For Internet Service Providers (ISP)
  • For Natural Gas
  • For Nonprofits
  • For Restaurants
  • For Retail
  • For Schools
  • For Telecommunications Industry
  • For Trash
  • For Water
  • For eCommerce
  • Fraud Detection
  • Fund Accounting
  • In-Person Payments
  • Internal Fraud Monitoring
  • Invoice Creation
  • Invoice History
  • Invoice Management
  • Invoice Processing
  • K-12
  • Loyalty Program
  • Metered Billing
  • Mobile Access
  • Mobile Card Reader
  • Mobile Commerce
  • Mobile Payments
  • Multi-Location
  • Multi-Period Recurring Billing
  • Multi-Store
  • Multiple Payment Options
  • Non-Metered Billing
  • Online Invoicing
  • Online Ordering
  • Online Payments
  • Ordering Automation
  • PCI Compliance
  • Partial Payments
  • Payment Collection
  • Payment Fraud Prevention
  • Payment Gateway Integration
  • Payment Options
  • Payment Processing
  • Payment Tracking
  • Point of Sale (POS)
  • Point of Sale (POS) Integration
  • Projections
  • Promotions Management
  • Purchasing & Receiving
  • Real-Time Analytics
  • Real-Time Data
  • Real-Time Monitoring
  • Real-Time Reporting
  • Real-Time Updates
  • Real-time Alerts
  • Receipt Management
  • Recurring Invoicing
  • Recurring/Subscription Billing
  • Refund Management
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Restaurant POS
  • Retail POS
  • Returns Management
  • Risk Analysis
  • Risk Management
  • Risk Scoring
  • SSL Security
  • Sales Reports
  • Sales Tax Management
  • Search/Filter
  • Self Service Portal
  • Separate Checks
  • Split Checks
  • Subscription Management
  • Subscription Plan Management
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Transaction History
  • Transaction Monitoring
  • Tuition Management
  • Work Order Management
  • eCommerce Management

Integrations

  • Total integrations6
  • Adobe Commerce
  • BigCommerce
  • CoreCommerce
  • Drupal
  • FreshBooks
  • Jotform
  • Miva
  • PayPal
  • Recurly
  • Shopify
  • TaxCloud
  • Wufoo
  • Total integrations8
  • Adobe Commerce
  • BigCommerce
  • CoreCommerce
  • Drupal
  • FreshBooks
  • Jotform
  • Miva
  • PayPal
  • Recurly
  • Shopify
  • TaxCloud
  • Wufoo

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