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by hirokitakeuchi 4904 days ago
Hey - one of the founders of GoCardless here.

We have found that conversion can be just as good, if not better than cards in the right cases. The biggest factor that affects this is transaction type.

We see really great conversion for repeat billing where Direct Debit is already a well known method of payment. Conversion is not as good for one-off payments where DD is less expected though.

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I appreciate the honesty and lack of 'spin'.

I was considering GoCardless but a survey of my customers stopped me.

We switched from PayPal to GoCardless for one off payments and we haven't found any problems amongst our customer base. We occasionally have to explain the mechanics behind it but generally people get it and prefer it to not having the faff of a PayPal login.