The Strawhecker Group (TSG) is pleased to announce its payment gateway winners for its annual ‘Developer/API Awards’. Read the press release.

Powered by TSG’s Gateway Enterprise Metrics (GEM) platform*, the firm is recognizing the following Payment Gateways due to their excellent API performance from a merchant’s and developer’s perspective. TSG assessed and integrated with many of the industry’s leading gateways to determine the winners in each category.

Overall API Assessment – Worldpay (VAP)

TSG evaluates payment gateway’s
total API offering for payment industry functionality and feasibility.
Worldpay’s VAP gateway is receiving this award due to their aggregate
score across the subsets of APIs, response codes, and versioning. Runner-Ups: CyberSource, a Visa payment management platform / Stripe

APIs Offered – Worldpay (Express) / Stripe

TSG evaluates a gateway’s
documentation for offering of competitive and standard APIs. Worldpay’s
Express gateway and Stripe are receiving this award due to their
competitive APIs offered, and descriptive and logical formatting. Runner-Ups: Authorize.Net, a Visa payment management platform / Elavon (Converge)

API Response Codes – Braintree

TSG evaluates a gateway’s
documentation for response codes that are self-explanatory of the
issue(s) presented and provides detail that gives a developer an easy
resolution. Braintree is receiving this award due to their excellent
response codes that are descriptive, self-explanatory, and categorized
appropriately. Runner-Up: EpicPay

API Integration – Authorize.Net, a Visa payment management platform

TSG evaluates and delivers an
assessment of API set, Developer Tools, sandbox/emulator by conducting
an integration of a gateway onto the GEM platform. Authorize.Net is
receiving this award due to their thorough documentation, robust test
environment, quick implementation, and the lack of a complex
certification process. Runner-Ups: Elavon (Converge) / EpicPay

Account Boarding Ease – EpicPay

TSG tracks and benchmarks access,
documentation, ease of integration, test merchant account setup,
certification, trouble shooting, and production launch. EpicPay is
receiving this award due to timely access to the sandbox, quick setup of
a test merchant account, and the overall speed of getting to production
without a need for troubleshooting. Runner-Ups: BluePay / Fluid Pay

*GEM is the only tool in the market that
benchmarks from the merchant, developer and gateway performance
perspective. Current subscribers account for an estimated 55% of all
payment gateway volume in the U.S. Learn more about GEM.

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