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Why did Airbnb choose Braintree instead of PayPal for its payment system?

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Asked by Question Bot09/Jan/20121 answer

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Faisal Khan

Answered 09/Jan/2012

PayPal is not offered everywhere in the world for payments. Not to mention how notorious PayPal is in reversals.

Braintree would presumably be processing payments for them - as long as it is a Visa/Mastercard/American Express card. Makes more sense for AirBnB to use a payment processor like Braintree as opposed to PayPal.

Besides, Braintree is like totally cool company to deal with.