13 engineers on Hacker News describe using Braintree first-hand: 3 endorse it, 3 regret it, 2 are mixed.
“Braintree was better than paypal but that wasnt saying much. Then paypal bought Braintree and started fucking around with it”
mixed · production · tempest_ · 2026-07-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“your company profile is too risky, we won't serve you unless you keep a deposit of $x million with us. We couldn't afford that, so we migrated to another provider”
regret · production · arnvald · 2022-11-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched to Braintree back when they were offering $50K in free payment transactions... made it a no-brainer.”
endorse · production · watchdogtimer · 2019-03-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We started with Braintree... accounting was a nightmare. ... We only switched because Braintree kicked us out.”
regret · production · bartoszhernas · 2019-03-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I do think Braintree does have an advantage in some areas... Braintree/PayPal really needs to hire a serious UX/frontend team to clean up their docs and dashboards”
mixed · production · callmeed · 2016-11-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Braintree provides us with the same functionality and a flat $0.25 payout fee, which is a better alignment of incentives for us.”
endorse · production · mstachowiak · 2015-03-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have the utmost respect for Braintree. ... we've switched to Braintree”
endorse · production · bkirkbri · 2013-09-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run BigCouch for Database and BrainTree for processing... anyone who uses these systems has to perform their own sanity checks.”
regret · production · josh2600 · 2013-07-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“using our payment processor (Braintree at the time) - and no longer kept any card numbers in our database whatsoever.”
neutral · production · xp84 · 2025-05-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched to Braintree in a few hours, we already had that code built as a backup.”
neutral · production · adxl · 2021-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We mainly started with services we use, we'll be adding more rapidly”
neutral · production · triaged · 2013-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched from PayPal to Braintree explicitly because PayPal was too broken for our use case.”
neutral · production · tomlu · 2013-09-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched to Braintree over the course of about 5 weeks”
neutral · production · 1 yr · joeemison · 2012-09-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?