Frankly about time. We evaluated Braintree and just couldn't get over the amount of information requested to get started as compared to Stripe. Secondarily, we reached out to a member of the sales team and got a fairly curt response about their 1,000 startup initiative. Mix it with disjointed API docs (that appears to be better than it was 3 months ago, but not by much), and it wasn't even a decision. (And this is coming from someone who had opened a merchant account in 2003 over the phone with a previous startup)
It's all really a bummer because we'd love to see some serious competition in this space, but at the moment no one appears to be up to the task.
It's all really a bummer because we'd love to see some serious competition in this space, but at the moment no one appears to be up to the task.