Accept Braintree
without building the integration
Braintree is PayPal's full-stack payment platform for merchants who want card processing and PayPal acceptance under one integration. It supports merchants across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Australia and can present prices in many currencies, though an account is configured for its home currency by default.
- USD
- EUR
- GBP
- AUD
- CAD
- Region
- US / Global
- Methods
- 4
- Credentials
- Server-side only
- PaymentHood fee
- None
- Status
- Live
What is Braintree?
- Coverage
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Merchant accounts are available across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Australia. Multi-currency acceptance has to be enabled explicitly — it is not on by default.
Among the markets Braintree serves — their own list is authoritative (opens in new tab).
- Currencies
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- USD
- EUR
- GBP
- AUD
- CAD
Among those supported. Which ones your account can charge in depends on its registered country.
- Fees
- Set and billed by Braintree, and published on their pricing page (opens in new tab). PaymentHood adds nothing on top, at any volume.
- Official resources
- Website (opens in new tab) · Developer docs (opens in new tab)
Written against Braintree's own documentation on . This page deliberately states no fees, no counts and no completeness claims, because those change without notice — for anything you are about to build on, Braintree's own documentation (opens in new tab) is the authority.
Braintree payment methods
Every method below runs through the same PaymentHood checkout. Turning one on or off is a dashboard setting, not a code change.
Cards
Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover and JCB
PayPal
PayPal acceptance under the same Braintree integration
Digital wallets
Apple Pay, Google Pay and Venmo in the US
Buy now, pay later
PayPal Pay Later where available
Braintree fees and pricing
Two separate bills, and only one of them exists.
- What PaymentHood charges
- Nothing on your Braintree transactions. No percentage and no per-transaction cut, at any volume. Every payment feature is free, and the optional Premium plan only adds white-label checkout branding.
- What Braintree charges
- Braintree sets its own rates and bills you directly. PaymentHood never sits between you and that invoice, so switching to or from Braintree changes what you pay Braintree and nothing else.
- What moves the rate
- Payment providers price per market and per method rather than as a single global figure. It settles in USD, EUR, GBP, AUD, CAD, and cross-currency transactions are not priced the same as domestic ones. It also accepts 4 different payment methods, and card, transfer and wallet rails each carry their own cost.
- Where to check the figure
- Braintree publishes current rates on their pricing page (opens in new tab). That is the authority, not this page. We deliberately quote no numbers here, because a rate that has quietly changed is worse than no rate at all.
How PaymentHood works with Braintree
A direct Braintree integration is not just an API call. These are the parts every team ends up rebuilding — and the parts PaymentHood ships already done.
- Credentials
- Merchant ID with public and private keys, held server-side in PaymentHood
- Webhook security
- Signed webhook payload, verified before an order is released
- Payment verification
- Server-side transaction status re-check against the Braintree API before fulfilment
- Idempotent charge creation, so a retried request never double-charges a customer
- Automatic failover to another configured provider when Braintree is unreachable
- One reconciliation view across Braintree and every other provider you run
- Provider credentials never reach the storefront or the customer's browser
- Adding or switching a provider later is a dashboard change, not a re-integration
Braintree integrations by platform
Install the free PaymentHood plugin for your store, then enable Braintree in your dashboard.
How to connect Braintree
Open your Braintree account
Register directly with Braintree and complete their onboarding. Funds settle from Braintree into your own bank account — PaymentHood never holds merchant money.
Add the credentials to PaymentHood
Paste your Braintree API credentials into the PaymentHood dashboard. They are stored server-side and never exposed to your storefront.
Enable it at checkout
Install the PaymentHood plugin for your platform, paste your PaymentHood API key, and Braintree appears as a payment option. Test in sandbox, then switch to live.