BlueSnap: The Better 2Checkout Alternative for Modern Global Payments

2Checkout is a traditional global merchant processor, offering reseller payment services for merchants around the world – particularly in under-served markets.  In many ways, their focus on serving countries where more established payment processors have not been available has been one of their primary advantages. For mature businesses looking to scale their international customer base, however, 2Checkout lacks some crucial capabilities.

Fortunately, if you are a merchant looking to grow your eCommerce business, BlueSnap can be a great 2Checkout alternative. BlueSnap offers merchants a global payments solution that provides all the tools you need to create a beautiful, frictionless payment experience while dramatically simplifying (and, often reducing the costs of) your payment operations.  The BlueSnap solution grows with you as you expand operations and acquire shoppers in the US, Canada, Israel, EU, UK and beyond.

Key highlights of the BlueSnap All-in-One Payment Platform that make it a strong 2Checkout alternative:

• A Single Integration — provides you with gateway, processing and merchant account services from a single provider. Importantly, this can include access to local processing around the world, with multiple banks connected to the All-in-One Payment Platform through that single integration – dramatically improving your conversion rates.
• RESTful APIs — that are built to support mobile-first and simplify the development of a beautiful, frictionless payment experience, with high quality documentation and developer tools to help reduce your PCI compliance burden
• Support of Emerging Payment Types — a heavy investment in new technology ensures emerging payment types are supported; including emerging digital wallets such as Click to Pay, Alipay, Apple Pay, Google Pay
• Best-in-Class Fraud Protection — built-in through our partnership with Kount

BlueSnap, the better 2Checkout alternative, will work with you to ensure simple onboarding, pricing transparency, greater global support and emerging payment functionality – allowing you to capitalize on today’s eCommerce opportunities.

Which Is the Better Choice for Your Business – BlueSnap or 2Checkout?

Integration

Features	BlueSnap	2Checkout
APIs	RESTful API with Hosted Payment Fields to reduce PCI scope, Platform plug-ins, SDKs in multiple languages, In-app payments	API
Hosted Pages	Dynamically localized Hosted Checkout pages with multi-currency and language, branding and layout customizable	Multi-currency, language Hosted pages, some customization
Virtual Terminal	Full Virtual Terminal with email and SMS support for one-time invoices	Full Virtual terminal and invoice support

Global Processing

Features	BlueSnap	2Checkout
Acquiring Banks	30+ globally, included with your merchant account to increase transaction approval rates worldwide	A single processing environment – not local processing.
# of Currencies Accepted?	100+	62
# of Payment Types Accepted?	110+	39
Mobile Wallets	Apple Pay, Google Pay, Click to Pay, PayPal, Masterpass, Visa Checkout, Skrill, Alipay	Apple Pay, Skrill, Alipay, PayPal

User Experience

Features	BlueSnap	2Checkout
# of Languages	29	31
Mobile Payments	Yes – including Mobile templates for Frictionless Checkout and a Commitment to support all Mobile Wallets	Yes

Subscriptions

Features	BlueSnap	2Checkout
Recurring Payments	Yes – plus a full subscription engine for more complex requirements	Yes
Tokenization and Vaulting	Yes. In addition, BlueSnap offers Hosted Fields for encrypting card data to enhance PCI protection	Yes

Security and Compliance

Features	BlueSnap	2Checkout
Fraud Protection	Yes – partnered with Kount for industry best-in-class fraud prevention	Yes – homegrown solution
PCI Compliance	PCI Level 1	PCI Level 1

Pricing and Support

Features	BlueSnap	2Checkout
Reporting	Sales Intelligence, Payment Conversion Reporting & Consolidated Reconciliation for all payment types & currencies / geo	Sales Intelligence and Reconciliation.
Customer Support	Global team with call-in support	Primarily US team with call-in support
Developer Support	Developers.Bluesnap.com Extensive tutorials and tools for developer, including API explorer	Simple documentation page
Rate	2.75% for US merchants (Visa/Mastercard); 1.25% to 4.9% for merchants outside the US (rate varies by country)	3.5%
Per Transaction Fee	no more than $0.30	$0.35

Processing

As your business grows, you need the power of multiple bank connections to ensure you are maximizing payment conversions. BlueSnap’s Intelligent Payment Routing leverages multiple global banks to ensure that every transaction that can be approved, is approved. 2Checkout is limited to a single acquiring bank.  This traditional approach severely hampers conversion success and increases the likelihood of payment processing declines.

BlueSnap’s All-in-One Payment Platform was designed to fight checkout abandonment and convert more shoppers to buyers, globally, which is why we also support payment processing in more than 100 currencies.

And with alternative payments accounting for more and more eComemrce sales, BlueSnap accepts a host of payment types ranging from cards to ACH and local bank transfers as well as local eCommerce payment options including global wallets such as Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal and AliPay.

User Experience and Integration

BlueSnap has invested heavily in developing a RESTful API that gives developers the control to build the right user experience while retaining the power and functionality of the All-in-One Payment Platform. The result is a world-class set of payment services accessible through an elegant API that allows you to design the best checkout experience for your business – on desktop, mobile and beyond to embedded payment experiences.  With the Platform, you get an elegant API to access the power of a global payments platform designed to solve checkout abandonment.

Subscriptions

BlueSnap offers recurring payment capabilities plus a full subscription engine for more complex requirements — something you won’t find with 2Checkout.

Security and Compliance

BlueSnap has the most robust implementation of Kount, the leading fraud and risk management solution in the eCommerce space. By leveraging the expertise and capabilities of Kount, the All-in-One Payment Platform gives you the most control over your fraud risk, with options allowing you to:

1. Leave complete oversight of your fraud management to the experts at BlueSnap
2. Customize rules through the Configurable Fraud module
3. Enable your in-house fraud agents with Kount Complete

BlueSnap is PCI Level 1 compliant. In addition, we offer tokenization and vaulting to add an extra layer of protection.

Pricing and Support

A huge benefit that BlueSnap offers its merchants is full global merchant support. With support staff located around the world, we are always available and ready to assist you with your payment gateway and merchant account questions.

At BlueSnap, we also offer the unique benefit of dedicated account management as well as consolidated reconciliation for all payment types and currencies.

So, if you are looking for a strong 2Checkout alternative that will prepare you for the future of eCommerce and help you grow your business, consider BlueSnap.

Contact us today to learn more.