Braintree adds Venmo Payouts API with focus on merchants
www.zdnet.com
on 03/20/2013
Excerpt: Many of Braintree's mobile payments tools have been designed to enable developers to provide a seamless experience for consumers, but it's latest introduction has merchants in mind. The Chicago-based company is introducing Venmo Payouts, an API that should enable merchants to make immediate, automatic payments to service providers. Here's how it works. Braintree customers will be able to pay their service providers from any bank account to a Venmo user, U. S. phone number or email address with a single API call. Receivers are immediately notified they have been paid -- regardless if they are a Venmo user or not. Service providers can then apply the money to Venmo accounts or cash out within a business day.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Braintree, Payments, Venmo
Braintree finally delivers on Venmo promises with Touch
pandodaily.com
on 01/31/2013
Excerpt: The payment wars have been raging for the better part of a year with upstarts like Square, Stripe, and Braintree all nibbling away at PayPal’s entrenched but unpopular hegemony. Stripe and Braintree have been the two most similar in the battle– both try to up the PayPal ante by being more customer friendly. Stripe excels with developers for easy integration; Braintree excels with white-glove customer service and strong mobile commerce chops. Last year, Stripe pulled an early coup with its instant underwriting capability that allows customers to start taking payments right after signing up– no waiting on a merchant account required. Braintree quickly regrouped and launched a competing feature.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Braintree, Googlereader, Hacker, Ifttt, News, Payments, Venmo
Excerpt: The payment wars have been raging for the better part of a year with upstarts like Square, Stripe, and Braintree all nibbling away at PayPal’s entrenched but unpopular hegemony. Stripe and Braintree have been the two most similar in the battle– both try to up the PayPal ante by being more customer friendly. Stripe excels with developers for easy integration; Braintree excels with white-glove customer service and strong mobile commerce chops. Last year, Stripe pulled an early coup with its instant underwriting capability that allows customers to start taking payments right after signing up– no waiting on a merchant account required. Braintree quickly regrouped and launched a competing feature.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Braintree, Googlereader, Hacker, Ifttt, News, Payments, Venmo
