Comments on: Payment Gateway Popularity Contest

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:56:34 +0000

I work for a Payment Gateway in Canada called Beanstream. We work with Canadian and US currencies/merchants. beanstream.com

By: David Goodale

David Goodale — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:26:23 +0000

Many people focus on rates (for obvious reasons), but the gateway you choose will also impact the processing currencies you can support. As e-commerce matures, expect more cardholders to want to pay in their local currency. It’s a significant marketing advantage, particularly for North American customers targeting customers overseas. We specialize in handling multi-currency processing, and is a criteria I recommend my clients at least consider before deciding which gateway they are going to put their transactions through.

By: Payment Gateway

Payment Gateway — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:16:08 +0000

Hi, payment gateway can be a very useful solution for a small business services company.

Regards

By: Ryan Wilson

Ryan Wilson — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 04:53:31 +0000

With VersaPay you can use Authorize.net or PSI*Gate with your Canadian merchant account. Rates range from 2%-2.89% depending on the site of your business.

Get local canadian personal service with your VersaPay merchant account with the brilliance of freshbooks invoicing!

By: Levi Cooperman

Levi Cooperman — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:08:41 +0000

Hi Robs,
I guess the title is supposed to be kind of a joke Yes as you mentioned these stats are based purely on usage. It has nothing to do with how well liked each gateway is. I’m sure if we did a survey, we could find out though.
- Levi

By: Robs

Robs — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:43:17 +0000

Hmm, are these stats based on popularity or merchant size? Just because someone is using a Payment Gateway does not always mean they like them.

By: Andrew Birchall

Andrew Birchall — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:37:37 +0000

Just so you know, Landmark does not have it’s own payment gateway, it just provides its users with the iTransact payment gateway.

Also, Authorize.Net was recently purchased by CyberSource and it’s resellers are beginning to offer services to Canadian companies. The catch is that you must aquire an American merchant account through Authorize.Net’s resellers.

I would be interested to see where the Cyber Source Advanced and Essentials payment gateways fit in here, since they do business primarily with fortune 500 companies.

By: Levi Cooperman

Levi Cooperman — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:48:56 +0000

Hi Customer Focused Creative,

It’s good to know you are getting value out of these numbers. I will publish more statistics as they accumulate.

I did hear about PayPal’s purchase, and I was very nervous, here are a few posts about it:

http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2006/05/23/is-paypal-dropping-the-ball/

http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2006/06/27/paypal-has-dropped-the-ball/

Thanks,
Levi

By: The Customer Focused Creative

The Customer Focused Creative — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:40:38 +0000

I’ve been looking for someone to publish Payment Gateway Statistics. Thank you for posting this. Did you know that Paypal bought out Verisign? So now I wonder who is more popular? But I have to say, my clients on Verisign are having a few problems during Verisign’s transition — longer Tech Support time, not knowing which tech support email to contact, Errors connecting to the payment gateway and duplicate order entries. Hopefully, they’ll fix all these bugs ASAP!

By: Gotta Love PayPal

Gotta Love PayPal — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:19:38 +0000

[...] The fact of the matter is that PayPal is extremely popular, a quick look at all of the FreshBooks small business users shows that a whopping 30% of all active users are completing transactions with PayPal, compared with the next leading gateway Authorize.net at 6%. [...]