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Adyen Overview

What is Adyen?

Adyen is the payments platform of choice for many of the world’s leading companies, providing a modern end-to-end infrastructure connecting directly to Visa, Mastercard, and consumers' globally preferred payment methods. Adyen delivers frictionless payments across online, mobile, and in-store channels. With offices across the world, Adyen serves customers including Facebook, Uber, Spotify and Brompton. Here's how we help medium and big brands: ✅Online, in-app and in-person payments ✅Preferred local payment methods (cards, wallets, transfers, payment certificates) ✅Local and cross-boarder acquiring ✅Modern payment optimizations and risk management ✅Payouts in all major currencies and effortless reconciliation Talk to us today.

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Product Description

Advanced payment technology via a single global platform


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Adyen
Year Founded
2006
HQ Location
Amsterdam
Twitter
@Adyen
21,279 Twitter followers
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4,769 employees on LinkedIn®
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AMS: ADYEN

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Recent Adyen Reviews

Oscar S.
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Oscar S.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Ayden is easy to use and help us to manage all payments seamesly"
Easy to use, and allow us to backdate look for payments If refunds are needed
Nurfazreen M.
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Nurfazreen M.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Simple and easy to use"
As a customer support agent, I use Adyen almost every day. One of my tasks is to check the refund and payment status of customers. I did not use th...
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Oscar S.
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Customer Support Representative
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Adyen?

Easy to use, and allow us to backdate look for payments If refunds are needed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adyen?

Pretty organized platform and most important, secure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Adyen solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ayden help us to confirm charge backs, payment and disputes. Also access to detailed payment history, ARN numbers, bank transaction and tracking and more Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nurfazreen M.
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Customer Service Specialist
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Adyen?

As a customer support agent, I use Adyen almost every day. One of my tasks is to check the refund and payment status of customers. I did not use the entire function as my role is set to be limited. I find that even in a limited access role, I still can find most of the information needed to assist with customers' inquiries. I like the simplicity of the interface which is easy to use and navigate. I also like the search results display if I am looking for certain transactions especially when a user reported fraudulent payment occurred from their card but they don't have much information. I can just search the payment using the last four-digit number of the card, their name, and the amount of transaction as well as use their User ID in our database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adyen?

If you activate pre-authorisation for your transaction, Adyen will show the fee of pre-authorisation at the search list instead of showing the final amount charged which kind of hassle to open up each transaction to find out more information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Adyen solving and how is that benefiting you?

Based on my role set in Adyen, I can assist in whitelisting or blocking a card if the user passes the verification in case Adyen blocks the card due to suspected fraud. Another thing it helps me to retrieve the refund letter which I can share with users if they need to locate a refund with the card issuer. Not only that, Adyen helps me to process full or partial refunds depending on the user's situation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

BD
Ecom manager
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Adyen?

it is very versatile, provides full visibility of transactions and is good with reporting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adyen?

to use the fraud module you need a fraud expert Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Adyen solving and how is that benefiting you?

consolidate all my payment methods Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

IK
Product evolution and deployment Manager
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What do you like best about Adyen?

Adyen is offering versatile connectivity on a global scale.

Their onboarding process is quick and simple.

They reacted well to the difficult periods of the past few years, by being flexible and understanding the environment.

As Chip shortages hit businesses globally, Adyen found a way to diversify their software capabilities and expand their partnerships to cover for delays in stocks for Payment machines (PDQ). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adyen?

It is difficult to identify their support contact as a partner.

They have an extensive FAQ page, however, would be great to see them being easier to contact.

On the other hand, once contacted - the service is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Adyen solving and how is that benefiting you?

Adyen is a payment merchant and as such is providing us with PDQ solutions and an online Gateway to process payments.

Their reaction to the environment and business difficulties has been pivotal.

They were flexible with their hardware technology and managed to react on time and support deliveries and stock for their onboarding partners.

Adyen is processing all transactions and provides all adequate security measures up to legislation.

With terminals on-site to secure payment links to clients.

While giving their partners the flexibility to control the security and the depth of data collected on each transaction. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ondřej W.
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Product Manager
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Adyen?

By implementing Adyen we can successfully provide local payment methods for our clients eshops all across the globe. Before Adyen we only had limited payment methods in our newly opened markets, but with Adyen, we can start with local payments which are important while eCommerce eshop enters a new country. It increases conversion rate, and trustworthiness which is extremely important! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adyen?

The whole implementing process took us literally weeks. Since we had to implement it into our "SaaS" eshop platform for more clients/eshops which is not a normal process, it took a long time implementing from our dev team and also paperwork was extremely painful. We have exchanged almost 80 mails before it was done, but it was worth it in the end Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Adyen:

If you struggle only with cash on delivery or PayPal in your foreign markets, Adyen is a way to go! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Adyen solving and how is that benefiting you?

Now when we enter a new market for our clients, we can provide them with local payments methods, which customers in the local market loves and it increases the first revenues! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Adyen?

There is not a lot to like. They should learn from the likes of Stripe. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adyen?

1) The interface is the worst there could ever be. For every single step that you might need to do on any other payment gateway, Adyen makes it very difficult overall.

2) Most of the times when we've spoken to their support team, someone who has no answers or any idea about the query is on the other end. This makes life very difficult and can be a pain (because money is involved and these matters require speed and accuracy)

3) They do not have a lot of basic features - a proper reporting tool is missing and they say that the feature is coming. Some secure payment features are also missing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Adyen solving and how is that benefiting you?

None Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Entertainment
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Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Adyen?

Literally nothing is sound about this company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adyen?

1) UI / Interface is the worst

2) Reporting / reconciliation is bad too

3) Lots of hidden fees and really high fees overall

4) Lack of support

5) Underwriting with Adyen is the worst experience to get yourself into, it might take a few months. They're really ineffective and high buroucracy.

6) They can shut down your account anytime without notice because their underwriting team changed their mind. It's really important to note that we didn't participate in any chargeback/fraud programs with MC/Visa.

7) Migrating your CC tokens from them would take months and they won't rush on this matter at all Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Adyen solving and how is that benefiting you?

Adyen didn't solve any of our issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
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What do you like best about Adyen?

It can act as a payment provider for your business Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adyen?

- UI is not very good

- Have found mistakes in important reports

- In general difficult to find good reports which give your transparency in your transactions, customers, patterns, issues etc.

- Despite referring several million of USD business through Adyen you are still not being given an Account Manager you can speak to

- Support is all handled through email so not possible to have a call with support to get things solved fast

- Slow response time in support

- They made fundamental changes to our account settings without asking for our consent and without even informing us about these changes. After incidental finding out that many transactions started to get rejected due to changes they made to our account we have now a week after not succeed in getting this resolved by them and responses take a long time - meanwhile, we are losing business and money from several of our customers due to this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Adyen solving and how is that benefiting you?

Acting as our payment provider but we will change to another provider due to very poor experience with them - AGAIN :-( Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Retail
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What do you like best about Adyen?

- 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?

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.

Recommendations to others considering Adyen:

Don't do it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Adyen solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are solving credit card payments. We have been able to sell stuff. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Axel H.
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What do you like best about Adyen?

Adyen displays all the information needed in order for you to manage your customers' transactions easily and without errors. The best thing about Adyen is how easy it is to process refunds directly to customers' credit cards, PayPal accounts, etc. through the interface. You are also able to delete payment info with one click of a button if needed. Adyen gives a great overview of the transaction and all the relevant information. You can also print receipts of purchase and of refunds when necessary conveniently as PDF files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adyen?

You don't immediately get an overview of multiple transactions from the same user or credit card - which in some instances would be helpful to solve support cases. The software logs you out automatically after 15 minutes due to security reasons - this can be annoying if your work is done over a multitude of platforms which causes you to be away from Adyen for longer than the time frame. However, this might be customizable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Adyen solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using Adyen to easily let users pay for our service through our website with their credit card or PayPal, etc. Adyen makes it easy to access the customers' information and process refunds, cancel future payments, and print out receipts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.