PayPal Review
PayPal
PayPal – The simpler, safer way to pay and get paid
Summary review: One of the most well-known payment gateway providers, offering good worldwide coverage and reasonable rates, the Paypal brand goes a long way to instill trust in your customers
Website: https://www.paypal.com
Twitter: @paypal
As featured in our guides:
PayPal Stripe ReCurly Braintree Authorize.net eWay Sage 2Checkout WorldPay BeanStream Amazon Payments PayMill Dwolla PinPayments CyberSource USAePay
Best in Category BEST FOR INTEGRATIONS BEST FOR RECURRING PAYMENTS BEST INTRO OFFER BEST DEDICATED MERCHANT ACCOUNT BEST FOR WORLDWIDE PAYMENTS BEST PHONE PAYMENTS
Online Payment Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y
Mobile Payment Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y
Over-the-Phone Payment Y Y Y Y Y Y Y
In Person Payment Y Y Y Y Y Y Y
Send Invoice Y Y Y Y Y
Number of countries covered (Set-up) Worldwide UK, EU, Australia, and USA UK, EU and USA EU, USA, Canada, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand EU/USA/Canada/Australia EU, USA, Canada, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand UK, EU, Australia, new Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia and USA 197 UK, EU, Australia, new Zealand, Singapore, Japan and USA USA / Canada UK, Germany, Luxembourg, Sweden, Portugal, Hungary, Denmark UK/UE USA Autralia Worldwide
Number of countries covered (payment) 203 "Anywhere in the world" >40 Worldwide 8 196
Number of currencies covered 26 >100 19 >130 Any Any 25 >120 140 (US based - otherwise USD/CAD) ?, ? >100 9
Bitcoin? Y Y Y
API Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y
Customizable Y Y Y
Recurring Billing Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y
Merchant Account included? Aggregate Aggregate Aggregate Aggregate Dedicated Aggregate Dedicated Aggregate Dedicated Aggregate Aggregate Aggregate Dedicated
Team Management Y
Webhooks Y Y
Analytics/reports Y
Additional Costs PayPal Stripe ReCurly Braintree Authorize.net. eWay Sage 2Checkout WorldPay BeanStream Amazon Payments PayMill Dwolla PinPayments CyberSource USAePay
Chargeback fee $20 ?15 ?20 $25 Handled by bank Not involved - merchant bank responsible $20-25 Not involved - merchant bank responsible $25 $10 ?18.75 $25
Payment Timing 7-day rolling basis "A few business days" 2days to 4weeks Instant Next Day
International charges + 1% cross-border fee +/- 2.5% currency conversion +2% Inclusive in $299 price point and above Only non-EU - 3.4%-3.9% +1.5% international fees Need separate account for each currency to be handled 2-3% +1.5% cross-border fee for merchants in the Gambia nil 0.02
Integrations VERY HIGH VERY HIGH MID HIGH HIGH MID MID MID MID MID MID LOW LOW LOW LOW LOW
Recurring Payments Y BEST Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y
Card/Mobile readers Y BEST Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y
Invoicing Y BEST Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y
Recurrent Billing Y BEST Y Y Y Y Y Y Y
Booking & Ticketing Y BEST Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y
email Y BEST Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y
CRM BEST BEST Y Y BEST Y Y Y
eCommerce Y BEST Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y
Analytics Y BEST Y Y Y Y Y
Accounting Y BEST Y Y Y Y
Basic <500 transactions/month
Subscription $99 0 $25 0 19.¥à 2.4% +30c UK 19.95 $25 $10-25 $15
% fee 2.90% 2.40% 1.25% 2.40% 2.90% 2.20% 2.40% 02.¥à 3.40% 2.95-3.95% 2.60% 3-4%
transaction fee $0.30 20p $0.10 20p $0.30 30c 12 30c 10p $0.30 20p 28c 30c 20-25c $10 per 5000 transactions
Top-tier ?15,000-55,000 >?20,000
Subscription $299 $20 45 ?15 $1500
% fee 1.90% 0.0125 2% 1.90% 2.25%-2.8%
transaction fee 20p $0.10 25c 10p 10p $0.10 -0.15
Paypal is widely known and used payment gateway provider. The strong sides are: operates worldwide (203 countries), very HIGH level of integration with 3rd party apps. The best thing about Paypal is how it integrates your CRM.
We gave it 2nd place with this category, particularly because it integrates with 109 out of 234 external apps we analysed.
| PayPal | Stripe | ReCurly | Braintree | Authorize.net. | eWay | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud Cart Connector | Y | Y | Y | |||
| Commerce Sync | Y | Y | ||||
| Less Accounting | Y | Y | ||||
| PennyPipe | Y | Y | ||||
| Recognized.io | Y | |||||
| S2Q | Y | |||||
| Snapy | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Sush.io | Y | Y | ||||
| Taxamo | Y | Y | Y | |||
| TaxCloud | Y | Y | Y | |||
| Zoho Books | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Abacus Metrics | Y | |||||
| AccountDock | Y | |||||
| Baremetrics | Y | |||||
| Cashmetrics | Y | |||||
| ChartMogul | Y | Y | Y | |||
| Cohorts.co | Y | |||||
| Datahero | Y | Y | ||||
| FirstOfficer | Y | |||||
| getMetrics | Y | |||||
| Intercom | Y | |||||
| Keen IO | Y | |||||
| LineLytics | Y | |||||
| Magi Metrics | Y | |||||
| Main Metrics | Y | |||||
| Preact | Y | Y | ||||
| ProfitWell | Y | |||||
| Putler | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||
| RevUp | Y | |||||
| SaaS Metrics | Y | |||||
| Sparked | Y | |||||
| Stripetics | Y | |||||
| SumAll | Y | |||||
| Target Revenue | Y | |||||
| Tender | Y | |||||
| Visible | Y | |||||
| Woopra | Y | |||||
| ProsperWorks (formerly Stride) | Y | |||||
| HookFeed | Y | |||||
| Nurego | Y | Y | ||||
| Acuity Scheduling | Y | Y | Y | |||
| Alf.io | Y | |||||
| AttendStar | Y | Y | ||||
| Bookeo | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||
| BookingBug | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Bookitbee | Y | Y | ||||
| Evenium | Y | Y | ||||
| Eventbee | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||
| eventcube | Y | Y | ||||
| EventHQ | Y | Y | ||||
| Full Slate | Y | Y | Y | |||
| Genbook | Y | |||||
| Get Invited | Y | Y | ||||
| GorillaDesk | Y | |||||
| Inn Style | Y | |||||
| Martialytics | Y | |||||
| Mitingu | Y | Y | ||||
| Mystro | Y | |||||
| Nutickets | Y | Y | ||||
| Picatic | Y | |||||
| Rezdy | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Skedda Bookings | Y | |||||
| Studio Bookings Online | Y | |||||
| Summit Evergreen | Y | Y | ||||
| Tickera | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Ticket Tailor | Y | Y | ||||
| Ticketbase | Y | Y | ||||
| Ticketbud | Y | |||||
| TicketSpice | Y | Y | Y | |||
| Tito | Y | Y | ||||
| Universe | Y | Y | ||||
| Vacation Labs | Y | Y | ||||
| Zapla | Y | |||||
| Agile | Y | |||||
| Chargedesk | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| MemberFindMe | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||
| SalesForce | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||
| BedRock Data | Y | |||||
| Zapier | Y | Y | Y | Y | in dev | |
| 3dcart | Y | Y | ||||
| ASecureCart | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||
| BiddingforGood | Y | |||||
| Bigcommerce | Y | Y | Y | |||
| BuildingLink | Y | |||||
| Cartloom | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Celery | Y | |||||
| ContentShelf | Y | Y | Y | |||
| CoreCommerce | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Create.net | Y | Y | ||||
| Drupal Commerce | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Easy Digital Downloads | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| eCRATER | Y | |||||
| Ecwid | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Estoreify | Y | |||||
| FoxyCart | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||
| GoCart | Y | Y | ||||
| Goodsie | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Helium | Y | |||||
| Highwire | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||
| LemonStand | Y | Y | Y | |||
| Modest | Y | |||||
| Moltin | Y | |||||
| MonetizeJS | Y | |||||
| NuggetWeb | Y | |||||
| OpenCart | Y | Y | ||||
| Orders2.me | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Placebag | Y | |||||
| Powerstores | Y | |||||
| SamCart | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||
| SendOwl | Y | Y | Y | |||
| Shopify | Y | Y | Y | |||
| ShopReply | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||
| ShopSite | Y | Y | Y | |||
| Snipcart | Y | Y | ||||
| Spiffy Stores | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Squarespace | Y | |||||
| Thinkific | Y | Y | ||||
| UberCart | Y | Y | Y | |||
| UltraCart | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Volusion | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Webs | Y | Y | ||||
| Weebly | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||
| WooCommerce | Y | Y | Y | |||
| X-Cart | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Yola | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Yovigo | Y | Y | ||||
| PhotoBiz | Y | |||||
| Big Cartel | Y | Y | ||||
| Memberful | Y | |||||
| RightSignature | Y | |||||
| BeStunning | Y | |||||
| Churnbuster | Y | |||||
| Drip | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Email Hooks | Y | |||||
| INinbox | Y | Y | ||||
| Instant Dunning | Y | |||||
| Klaviyo | Y | |||||
| MailSquad | Y | |||||
| Satago | Y | |||||
| sendwithus | Y | |||||
| 123ContactForm | Y | Y | Y | |||
| a la Reg | Y | Y | Y | |||
| Cognito Forms | Y | |||||
| Formstack | Y | Y | Y | |||
| JotForm | Y | Y | Y | |||
| Payzo.io | Y | |||||
| Sign Up Forms | Y | |||||
| Stamplay | Y | |||||
| Wufoo | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Plasso | Y | |||||
| FormCrafts | Y | Y | ||||
| BetrSpot | Y | |||||
| DonorBox | Y | Y | ||||
| Giving Impact | Y | |||||
| Kindful | Y | Y | Y | |||
| Amazon Payments | Y | |||||
| Authorize.net | Y | |||||
| Beanstream | Y | |||||
| Braintree | Y | |||||
| Chase | Y | |||||
| CyberSource | Y | |||||
| Merchant e-solutions | Y | |||||
| Paypal | Y | |||||
| stripe | Y | |||||
| Vantiv | Y | |||||
| Recurly | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| ReUp | Y | |||||
| Maxpanda CMMS | Y | Y | ||||
| Stitch | Y | Y | Y | |||
| Anchor | Y | Y | ||||
| Ballpark | Y | Y | ||||
| Blinksale | Y | |||||
| Cheqbook | Y | Y | ||||
| Duet | Y | Y | ||||
| Expensify | Y | |||||
| FreeAgent | Y | Y | ||||
| FreelanceSuite | Y | Y | ||||
| FreshBooks | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Funding Gates | Y | |||||
| Harvest | Y | Y | ||||
| Hiveage | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||
| HostBill | Y | Y | Y | |||
| Invoice Ninja | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Invoice Sherpa | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Invoiceberry | Y | |||||
| Invoiced | Y | Y | ||||
| KashFlow | Y | Y | Y | |||
| Minterapp | Y | Y | Y | |||
| Octobat | Y | Y | Y | |||
| Pancake | Y | Y | Y | |||
| Paydirt | Y | Y | ||||
| PayTango | Y | |||||
| Quaderno | Y | Y | Y | |||
| QuickFile | Y | Y | ||||
| QuoteRobot | Y | |||||
| Ronin | Y | Y | Y | |||
| Sellsy | Y | |||||
| Servicejoy | Y | |||||
| Simple Invoices | Y | |||||
| Ultradox | Y | |||||
| Wave | Y | |||||
| Xero | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Yardbook | Y | |||||
| AccountingSuite | Y | |||||
| ChargeBee | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| CardFlight | Y | Y | ||||
| Chrrp | Y | |||||
| Control | Y | |||||
| Innerfence | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Paid | Y | |||||
| PayApp | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Paymentio device. | Y | |||||
| TapTap | Y | |||||
| Zing | Y | |||||
| Glip | Y | |||||
| Hooked | Y | |||||
| IFTTT | Y | |||||
| Slack | Y | |||||
| CleanCloud | Y | Y | ||||
| Dinamikos Technology | Y | |||||
| Charge Rabbit | Y | |||||
| Chargify | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Kill Bill | Y | Y | Y | |||
| LessChurn | Y | Y | ||||
| Member Moose | Y | |||||
| Paywhirl | Y | |||||
| ReCharge | Y | Y | Y | |||
| Resibo | Y | Y | ||||
| Zuora | Y | |||||
| MoonClerk | Y | |||||
| Ambassador | Y | Y | Y | |||
| LeadDyno | Y | Y | Y | |||
| ShipRobot | Y | Y | ||||
| UserApp | Y | Y |
Nominations
Best Payment Gateways
Runner-up
Battle wins
Payment Gateways Battles
Runner-up
Battle wins: 4/5
