What do you like best about Adyen Payments?
- It's great that Adyen has lots of local payment methods globally
- The company feels modern to work with, nice account managers and such
- Decent built-in fraud protection Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike about Adyen Payments?
I have experience working with Adyen for over five years with three different companies. Unfortunatly I have to say, the Adyen platform is unnecessarily complicated and frustrating to use. As a senior technology manager, I want hassle-free platforms that are easy to use, and does not give me, my employees or colleagues any unnecessary headaches. Adyen, although a modern company, is not a hassle-free platform:
- For certain kinds of changes, you need to make changes in your test environment and then push them to your live environment. But if you have asked for and received credentials to the live platform from a teammate, you soon realise (when your teammate has switched context/is busy with something else) it's not enough to take actions the you need. You need to login to the test environment as well, which has separate auth credentials...
- Username+Password is not enough to loginm, you need to remember your account name as well, which sometimes will be your companys legal name, sometimes not.
- Integrating credit card payments is a convoluted bug-prone mess compared to other developer-friendly platforms like Stripe or Klarna.
- If you need to create API credentials for different use cases, the interface is confusing and poorly documented. There are different kinds of credentials, and it's unclear what you will need for your use case, and you can't name them. Instead the name of the credentials is auto-generated in a useless format for understanding for who or what use case you created the credentials.
- If you need to user their balance platform API, you have to log in to a separate platform to create those auth credentials, and for some reason my admin login credentials are not working in that platform. Now I have to contact the Adyen support, which is something I hate doing, so instead in pure frustration I go here and write this review, to warn others.
I would only recommend Adyen if you really need localised payment mehods. If you just want credit cards payments, I would look somewhere else. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.