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by zachanker
5121 days ago
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Started to use Stripe recently for a project and have used Braintree extensively for work. Your comparison is spot on. There are some small differences such as, Stripe can send credit card details through AJAX to their servers so they are never sent to yours. Whereas Braintree uses Javascript encryption to do it, so the encrypted values are sent to your server. But I haven't seen anything that only Braintree supports yet. Tradeoff with Stripe is that while you get a much simpler API, it (likely) will cost you more than Braintree depending on scale and what cards are commonly used. |
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The nice part of sending the data to your servers with client side encryption is that you can do validation before sending to the payment gateway. For example, if you want to ensure everyone enters a cardholder name, you can validate the non-encrypted fields before eating the cost of calling a payment gateway.
You can do some of these validations in javascript, but javascript is error-prone (firebug) and not as flexible (have access to a lot more data server side).