We switched from Braintree to Stripe: How we f*cked up & what we did to fix it.

9 points·blakenomad··4 comments

Full Article: https://www.deekit.com/braintree-to-stripe/

At Deekit we recently switched payment provider from Braintree to Stripe.

We messed up. And it was frustrating.

But here's our honest account of what happened and why we had to make the switch. Hopefully there are some learnings in there for you.

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The way this reads implies that Stripe was the problem when the article explains that initially going with Braintree without understanding your internal payment model completely and whether Braintree supported that model was the failure and that switching to Stripe fixed that issue. It's not so much a criticism of the services, just not doing enough requirements analysis before choosing a payment provider.

Totally agree with you! In the article we fully outline why it was purely our own fault. The issue we found was that the decision was made during a pretty formative time in Deekit's past - we weren't 100% convinced which model we were going to run with. We stuck to an initial decision to go with Braintree when we really should have re-evaulated.

Lesson learnt. Hopefully others can avoid the same mistake.

Maybe resubmit with a URL rather than a self post? https://www.deekit.com/braintree-to-stripe/

Ah have done so! Thanks Nailer.

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