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Braintree vs Paddle: 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 Paddle? The better way to sell software. A platform that takes makes it incredibly simple to sell apps, games and other digital products. 

We think that creators should be allowed to focus on building awesome products, so we handle all of the boring things like payments, analytics, customer support and VAT so that they can do just that Using Paddle's software development kits, developers can easily set up trial versions, licensing mechanisms, in-app purchases and even track performance & usage with Paddle’s in-app analytics technology -- all under a single dashboard..

Braintree and Paddle 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, Paddle provides the following key features:

  • End-to-end customer journey
  • Flexible subscription billing
  • Global commerce platform
Decisions about Braintree and Paddle

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.

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    Well-designed api
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    Developer friendly
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    Easy setup
  • 14
    Reliable
  • 6
    Excellent documentation
  • 4
    Great support
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    Can use paypal and debit card
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    Test it without obligation, great SDK/API and prices
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    Great API, awesome docs
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      Lacking documentation for mobile integrations
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      What is 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.

      What is Paddle?

      A platform that takes makes it incredibly simple to sell apps, games and other digital products.  We think that creators should be allowed to focus on building awesome products, so we handle all of the boring things like payments, analytics, customer support and VAT so that they can do just that. Using Paddle's software development kits, developers can easily set up trial versions, licensing mechanisms, in-app purchases and even track performance & usage with Paddle’s in-app analytics technology -- all under a single dashboard.

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