Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by callmeed 4675 days ago
Exactly. We process over $1M a year with Braintree (that's why I posted this article). In my opinion, PayPal is the worst possible scenario short of Braintree shutting down.

The thought of forcing thousands of customers to re-enter billing information makes me throw up in my mouth a little.
4 comments
pbreit 4675 days ago
Why do you think that would be the case? That did not happen with Payflow and PayPal mgmt is quite a bit better now (the CEO mainly).
link
ajsharp 4675 days ago
Nothing would be required of customers. They'd migrate the data over to Paypal's setup in such a scenario. Card data is stored with a symmetric encryption algorithm (e.g. reversible), so this type of thing could happen fairly easily.
link
dkubb 4675 days ago
Contact Braintree if you're concerned. There are processes in place where they can transfer payment information (including credit cards stored for recurring billing purposes) to another payment gateway.
link
cicloid 4675 days ago
Isn't supposed to be easy to move the card details from the vault to other provider?
link