Amazon FPS vs GoCardless

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Amazon FPS

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Followers29

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GoCardless

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Followers73

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Amazon FPS vs GoCardless: What are the differences?

Amazon FPS: Charge Amazon’s tens of millions of customers using their Amazon account. With Amazon Flexible Payments Service developers can accept payments on their website for selling goods or services, raise donations, execute recurring payments, and send payments. Amazon customers can pay using the same login credentials, shipping address and payment information they already have on file with Amazon. Amazon FPS supports the processing of payments using credit cards, bank accounts and Amazon Payments account balances to send or receive money; GoCardless: The UK's #1 for online Direct Debit. GoCardless makes it super simple for businesses to take regular payments online direct from their customers' bank accounts, perfect for invoicing and recurring subscriptions.

Amazon FPS and GoCardless can be primarily classified as "Payment Services" tools.

Some of the features offered by Amazon FPS are:

Accept one time payments on your website for selling physical goods, digital content, and services
Execute periodic or delayed payment features required by subscription and usage-based services such as digital music and online storage
Facilitate transactions between a buyer and a third party seller, take a cut of the transaction, and have control over who pays the transaction processing fees

On the other hand, GoCardless provides the following key features:

Low pricing for everyone
Simple dashboard for managing payments
Developer friendly

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Advice on Amazon FPS, GoCardless

Taylor

May 23, 2020

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With COVID-19 looming over us, businesses are, more than ever, looking for ways to set up online payments.

And having recently gone through implementing both Stripe and GoCardless to get monthly subscriptions set up and automated on my company website, I felt there was no better time to write this blog post!

If you're currently looking at working with a Payment Gateway provider API, or you're currently working with one but are not a fan, are looking to automate things a bit more, or are just generally thinking about changing, then you should have a read of my latest blog post where I compare Stripe and GoCardless.

I compare APIs in depth, specifically the subscription checkout flow that both offer (they're very similar, with some BIG differences).

There are plenty of code examples on how to set it up in a Node.js environment and right at the end, I rate each API based on the following factors:

API ease of use
API documentation
Payment pages
Costs / fees
Security
Developer appeal
Customer experience
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So feel free to check it out, and I hope you like it. Please leave any feedback as it is very helpful. Thanks!

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Detailed Comparison

Amazon FPS	GoCardless
With Amazon Flexible Payments Service developers can accept payments on their website for selling goods or services, raise donations, execute recurring payments, and send payments. Amazon customers can pay using the same login credentials, shipping address and payment information they already have on file with Amazon. Amazon FPS supports the processing of payments using credit cards, bank accounts and Amazon Payments account balances to send or receive money.	GoCardless makes it super simple for businesses to take regular payments online direct from their customers' bank accounts, perfect for invoicing and recurring subscriptions.
Accept one time payments on your website for selling physical goods, digital content, and services;Execute periodic or delayed payment features required by subscription and usage-based services such as digital music and online storage;Facilitate transactions between a buyer and a third party seller, take a cut of the transaction, and have control over who pays the transaction processing fees;Aggregate multiple payments, including micropayments, into a single, larger transaction and charge the customer before or after the service is provided;Programmatically access account activity	Low pricing for everyone; Simple dashboard for managing payments; Developer friendly; Instant setup; Recurring payments
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Stacks 21	Stacks 53
Followers 29	Followers 73
Votes 8	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 2 Backed by Amazon 2 Aggregate multiple payments 2 Accept one time payments 2 Periodic or delayed payments	No community feedback yet

What are some alternatives to Amazon FPS, GoCardless?

Stripe

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

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.

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.

Recurly

Recurly is the leading pay-as-you-go recurring billing service because setup is easy, integrations are quick, and our service grows with the needs of your business.

Adyen

A payments technology company that provides a single global platform to accept payments anywhere in the world. Businesses can process payments across online, mobile and in-store (POS) with over 250 payment methods and 187 currencies.

Payoneer

It is a financial services company that provides online money transfer and digital payment services and working capital solutions

TransferWise

It bypasses pricey international payments entirely by using two local transfers instead of one international transaction. If you want to convert your pounds to euros, you send the money in pounds to its UK-based account.

Zuora

Zuora gives you the enterprise-class, cloud-based tools you need to launch and scale any subscription service, quickly and affordably. Design your pricing and packaging, start taking quotes and placing orders, automate your billing and payments, and keep tabs on your financials.

Razorpay

Razorpay is the only payments solution in India that allows businesses to accept, process and disburse payments with its product suite. It gives you access to all payment modes including credit card, debit card, netbanking, UPI and more.

WePay

WePay helps people sell tickets to events, send invoices, sell items online, and accept donations online. WePay also provides an API that allows developers to access its payments platform.