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49/100
ALIGNAI SCORE
CONFIDENCE 55.1%
Mixed Reviews
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Adyen
Global payment platform for online, mobile, and in-store transactions.
MIXEDFinance
Pricing
Paid
Learning curve
Steep
Time to value
Weeks
BEST FORMedium
WORKS FOR

Large online retailers and enterprise businesses needing global payment processing across online, in-store, and mobile channels

KEY INSIGHT

Adyen is what enterprise companies use when they outgrow Stripe — unified global payments with one contract. Not for SMBs.

DOESN'T WORK FOR

Small businesses — Adyen has high minimum volume requirements and is overkill for anyone under $1M in annual revenue

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Community Reviews

Reviews from Reddit, Product Hunt, Hacker News & AlignAI members

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Adyen is much more bare metal. Think more like a modern Authorize.net.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Payment processing (compared to Stripe)

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Even eBay stopped using Paypal, and switched to Adyen consider how extreme things have to be if the company from which you were spun off... even they stop working with you

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Payment processing (mentioned as the service eBay switched to from PayPal)

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a quick check of https: www.adyen.com pricing full-list?navItem=northamerica says that visa cards only pay $0.12 + interchange (1 or 2%).

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Comparing payment processing fees for larger merchants

WORKED

The Adyen guys are smart, their technical platform is simple and robust, and unlike the Stripe/Square/Braintree guys, Adyen actually does the processing so they can offer better rates and are suitable for huge volume.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Payment processing for online payments in Europe

WORKED

I know that both Adyen and Braintree will capture into local currency, so you can avoid Fx fees by the payment processor themselves.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Payment processing with local currency capture to avoid FX fees

FAILED

Adyen and Braintree don't process payments there.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Processing payments in India

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go for something like Adyen or Chase which seem to still require some level of scale but not a million dollars a day or anything.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Payment processing for a larger, scaled business.

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Typically, these services integrate directly with a payment provider such as Adyen, Stripe, or Braintree.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Payment processing integration for services like billing, subscription, and checkout.

FAILED

What we found when talking with dozens of builders was that the DX is indeed much better than e.g. Adyen, Braintree, etc.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Payment processing

FAILED

Stripe, Braintree, Adyen, and other payment processors make it surprisingly hard to figure out what you’re actually paying after interchange, assessments, and markup.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Payment processing

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Adyen is good but can be strict with what businesses they support.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Payment processing

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Adyen is cleaner as a business but it's basically a payments rail.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Payments processing

FAILED

Adyen competes primarily on price with no feature differentiation, and doesn't have the same ease-of-use. We go to Adyen when we want to take a competing offer to Stripe for them to match.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Payment processing for large companies

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If all you need is to process credit card Adyen is probably going to outbid Stripe. They almost always did last time I checked.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Processing credit card payments, often at a more competitive price point.

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Has spooked investors but I understand that Adyen are pretty focused and they are scaling nicely their capital offering.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Payment processing

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...versus a large enterprise using Adyen along with a different provider for invoices, etc.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Used by large enterprises as a payment processor, likely in a more modular/unbundled setup.

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For a €10.00 product, it would be €1 of fee (1.00%). Much less than here in US, but still not negligible for small businesses that run on thin margins.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Processing Mastercard payments for a business

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