[alapshah]

Really quickly, this guy has clearly not researched the field. We (I do contract work for a large e-commerce business that does 8 figures USD a month and have a side recurring saas company that will do 5 figures a month in Jan). We looked at Litle, Braintree, Stripe, and Samurai. We quickly eliminated Stripe because it's expensive and then had an RFP for the other guys. For my contract job, Samurai ended up winning out over Litle and Braintree (Ended up being between Litle and Samurai in the end). I can't recommend the FeeFighters guys highly enough... I worked with them on my contract gig and ended up using them for my side project too. They have a fantastic API - http://samurai.feefighters.com/developers and were just great to work with. For my contract job (big bureaucratic company) we just tokenized ~a million credit cards with them and have shifted about half of our transactions that way.

Stripe is way better than paypal. It is also really expensive. Unless you are a hobby website, I wouldn't give it much thought, except for something to grow up out of. For real businesses, I think the flexibility afforded by a real merchant account plus gateway (Braintree, Litle, or Samurai) is worth a lot.

[Fuma]

Did the Samurai API have much weight in the decision making process? I understand if you can't share details here publically. I work for Litle and we are always interested in feedback we can use to improve our offerings.