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Alternatives to Coinbase

Kraken.io, Gemini, BitPay, PayPal, and Stripe are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Coinbase.
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What is Coinbase and what are its top alternatives?

Coinbase provides a simple and powerful REST API to integrate bitcoin payments into your business or application. We allow all major operations in bitcoin through one API.
Coinbase is a tool in the Bitcoin Services category of a tech stack.

Top Alternatives to Coinbase

  • Kraken.io
    Kraken.io

    It supports JPEG, PNG and GIF files. You can optimize your images in two ways - by providing an URL of the image you want to optimize or by uploading an image file directly to its API. ...

  • Gemini
    Gemini

    It is an agile project tracker with issue tracking and help desk ticketing going beyond project management software. It scales for every size of team, project or enterprise. ...

  • BitPay
    BitPay

    Once received, BitPay converts the bitcoin to your preferred currency and adds the full amount of the payment – without fees – to your next BitPay account settlement. Funds are then deposited to your bank account or bitcoin address. ...

  • PayPal
    PayPal

    PayPal is an online payments and money transfer service that allows you to send money via email, phone, text message or Skype. They offer products to both individuals and businesses alike, including online vendors, auction sites and corporate users. PayPal connects effortlessly to bank accounts and credit cards. PayPal Mobile is one of PayPal’s newest products. It allows you to send payments by text message or by using PayPal’s mobile browser. ...

  • Stripe
    Stripe

    Stripe makes it easy for developers to accept credit cards on the web.

  • Braintree
    Braintree

    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. ...

  • Blockchain
    Blockchain

    It is a bitcoin block explorer service, as well as a cryptocurrency wallet supporting bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, and Ethereum. ...

  • Stripe Billing
    Stripe Billing

    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. ...

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Kraken.io

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    Gemini

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            Adrien Rey-Jarthon
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            To accept payments on updown.io, we first added support for Stripe which is by far the most popular payment gateway for startups and for a good reason. Their service is of awesome quality: the UI is gorgeous, the integration is easy, the documentation is great, the API is super stable and well thought. I can't recommend it enough.

            We then added support for PayPal which is pretty popular for people who have money on it and don't know where to spend it (it can make it feel like you're spending less when it comes from PayPal wallet), or for people who prefer not to enter a credit card on a new website. This was pretty well received and we're currently receiving about 25% of our purchases from PayPal. The documentation and integration is much more painful than with Stripe IMO, I can't recommend them for that, but not having it is basically dodging potential sales.

            Finally we more recently added support of BitPay for #Bitcoin and BitcoinCash payments, which was a pretty easy process but not worth the time in the end due to the low usage and the always changing conditions of the network: the transaction fees got huge after price raise and bitcoin because unusable for small payments, they then introduced support for BCH and a newer Bitcoin protocol for lower fees, but then you need a special wallet to pay and in the end it's too cumbersome, even for bitcoin users, to pay with it. I think unless you expect a bit number of payments using cryptocurrencies it's not worth implementing this solution, and better to accept them manually.

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            PayPal logo

            PayPal

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              Consumers know it
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              It's available for many countries
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            • 54
              Best way to get paid outside US
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              Most widely used payment processor
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              Express Checkout
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              Consumers trust it
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              Flexible and secure
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            To accept payments on updown.io, we first added support for Stripe which is by far the most popular payment gateway for startups and for a good reason. Their service is of awesome quality: the UI is gorgeous, the integration is easy, the documentation is great, the API is super stable and well thought. I can't recommend it enough.

            We then added support for PayPal which is pretty popular for people who have money on it and don't know where to spend it (it can make it feel like you're spending less when it comes from PayPal wallet), or for people who prefer not to enter a credit card on a new website. This was pretty well received and we're currently receiving about 25% of our purchases from PayPal. The documentation and integration is much more painful than with Stripe IMO, I can't recommend them for that, but not having it is basically dodging potential sales.

            Finally we more recently added support of BitPay for #Bitcoin and BitcoinCash payments, which was a pretty easy process but not worth the time in the end due to the low usage and the always changing conditions of the network: the transaction fees got huge after price raise and bitcoin because unusable for small payments, they then introduced support for BCH and a newer Bitcoin protocol for lower fees, but then you need a special wallet to pay and in the end it's too cumbersome, even for bitcoin users, to pay with it. I think unless you expect a bit number of payments using cryptocurrencies it's not worth implementing this solution, and better to accept them manually.

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            Tom Klein

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            Stripe

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              Developer friendly
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              Well-designed api
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              Great documentation
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              Clear pricing
            • 75
              Secure
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              Reliable
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              Full integration with webhooks
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              Amazing api
            • 38
              Great customer support
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              Easy
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              Credit cards never hit your server - no pci worries
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              Recurring billing
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              No merchant account/gateway required
            • 3
              BitCoin
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              Easy to integrate
            • 2
              Support for SCA (Strong Customer Authentication)
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              Fast UI
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              Great app
            • 1
              Beautiful
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              Payments without own backend (using Stripe Products)
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              Connect
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              Checkout.js
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              Great UI
            • 1
              So easy to use
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              Connect
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              CANNOT withdraw USD to a Canadian Bank Account
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              Does NOT have a currency conversion option like Paypal
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              They keep 25% of the income for 60 days

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            We then added support for PayPal which is pretty popular for people who have money on it and don't know where to spend it (it can make it feel like you're spending less when it comes from PayPal wallet), or for people who prefer not to enter a credit card on a new website. This was pretty well received and we're currently receiving about 25% of our purchases from PayPal. The documentation and integration is much more painful than with Stripe IMO, I can't recommend them for that, but not having it is basically dodging potential sales.

            Finally we more recently added support of BitPay for #Bitcoin and BitcoinCash payments, which was a pretty easy process but not worth the time in the end due to the low usage and the always changing conditions of the network: the transaction fees got huge after price raise and bitcoin because unusable for small payments, they then introduced support for BCH and a newer Bitcoin protocol for lower fees, but then you need a special wallet to pay and in the end it's too cumbersome, even for bitcoin users, to pay with it. I think unless you expect a bit number of payments using cryptocurrencies it's not worth implementing this solution, and better to accept them manually.

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            Braintree

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              Great support
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              Test it without obligation, great SDK/API and prices
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            Dear StackShare Community,

            I am seeking inspiration on creating a billing & subscription stack and came across this wonderful website and community.

            From what I understood so far, I need something like Stripe or Braintree to collect payments without dealing with PCI compliance or setting up merchant accounts, etc... Additionally, services like Chargebee, Recurly, Chargify, etc. are said to make life easier when dealing with recurring billing.

            Stated below, I've tried to give you some context on what I want to achieve. I am very curious about your ideas and how you'd configure an optimal stack.

            Project context (very high level):

            • Loyalty program for local merchants (stores, restaurants,...).

            • Customers support their community and merchants by shopping local.

            • Merchants grant points to customers based on a customer's value spent in a store, restaurant, etc.

            • Customers can redeem their points at any participating merchant.

            Billing / Subscription scenarios to be considered:

            (affecting merchants only)

            One-time setup fee

            • What: Merchant pays a setup fee by signing up for the service

            • Where: Order placed on the website

            Monthly retainer fee

            • What: Merchant pays a monthly recurring retainer for the service.

            • Where: Order placed on the website

            Manually initiated payment

            • What: Merchant initiates a payment to top up his virtual points wallet. E.g. pays 100 USD to top up 100000 points which then can be used by the merchant for granting points to customers.

            • Why: Points issued to members need to be paid for by the merchant. We first considered billing the merchants post-ante, e.g. monthly based on the points they've granted to their customers in the last 30 days, but this seems too risky: If they can't / won't pay we'd still have to pay out points to the customers (technically to the merchants where the customers redeem their points). Thus, the pragmatic idea to reduce risk by having the merchants to pre-pay for their points by topping up their balance.

            • Where: Web application (with the merchant logged in)

            • Nice to have: Opt-in for automatically initiated top-ups if a merchant's balance falls below a certain amount.

            Invoicing

            • What: After every transaction (setup, retainer, top-up,...), we need to automatically issue and send (E-Mail) an invoice to the merchant.

            • Nice to have: Customer portal with all their invoices.

            Other potentially relevant parameters

            • Currency: Only Euro

            • Country: Only Germany (so far)

            • Tax: Only one tax rate

            • Payment for setup & retainer: Credit Card; ideally SEPA Direct Debit (but that still causes headache due to the SEPA regulatory and risk of chargebacks still after weeks), PayPal?

            • Payment for top-up: Same as above plus any other that makes sense (Klarna, Sofort, PayPal...)

            Again, thank you very much for sharing your ideas and thoughts! I'd highly appreciate any input :-)

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            Tim Little
            Software Consultant at timlittletech · | 7 upvotes · 115K views

            Hi there, I am trying to figure out if it's worth creating a Braintree account to do subscription billing in my Shopify store. The goal is to have as little custom code as possible for the store but be able to do subscription billing services, we already have a PayPal business account, but from the looks of it, we can't use PayWhirl directly with Paypal.

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                Would it be possible to do these using SDKs like Blockchain /Coinbase or should I start from scratch? If so, which kind of architecture should I use? I am hesitant to use ETH as the starting point as the transaction fees are too high for testing.

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                Stripe Billing

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                    When I started building a SaaS from scratch, I adopted the Stripe Billing product for managing plans and subscriptions. At that moment (roughly a year ago) I did not fully realise that this was a new addition to the Stripe product line.

                    One year down the road, I can write this decision and support it with technical details on how I implemented Stripe Billing and integrated it with the Checkly backend.

                    Key takeaways are:

                    • Keep coupling minimal. I hardcode our pricing and plans into the pricing page.

                    • Choose good ID's and a good structure to segment product and pricing. This enables grandfathering customers and adding ad hoc new products.

                    • Use one or two webhooks to keep things in sync. We use just one webhook.

                    See all details with code examples in the linked blog post.

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