Your checkout is carrying a $1,200 decision
At that price, payment choice stops being a checkout detail. A shopper who cannot find the financing option they wanted does not come back later. A card that declines on a four thousand dollar order rarely gets retried.
A fraudulent order does not cost you a padded envelope. It costs you a sectional, a delivery crew, and a truck route.
Most platforms hand you a gateway and leave the rest to your developer. Blueport implements the full stack from both providers, configures the methods, and supports them.
Average online order value across the Blueport platform
Typical average order on general purpose ecommerce platforms
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Stripe Elements, built into your checkout
Stripe processes payments for millions of businesses worldwide. Blueport integrates Stripe Elements directly into your site, so the payment experience lives inside your checkout and matches your brand. No redirect. No generic payment page.
Cards ACH Debit Apple Pay Google Pay Amazon Pay Link Affirm Klarna Afterpay
Every method your shopper expects
Stripe surfaces the relevant methods using AI models, so your checkout shows the right options rather than a wall of logos.
Financing shown before checkout
Buy now, pay later options are promoted before checkout, while the shopper is still deciding. On a $1,200 sofa, a monthly number on the product page changes the decision.
Link, and the network behind it
Shoppers save their payment and shipping details at any Link supported site across the Stripe network, and Link fills those details in at your checkout. Someone who has never bought from you may already be a Link customer. Businesses with a large repeat base have seen returning user conversion rise 14% on average, with checkout running three times faster.
Fewer abandoned carts
Businesses using Stripe's Payment Element saw 11.9% more revenue on average. Built in validation, input masking and accessibility remove the friction that costs you the sale at the last step.
Fewer failed deliveries
Address validation reduces the risk of shipping to the wrong location and applies the correct sales tax. For a business that delivers by truck, a bad address is a wasted route, not a reprint.
Card numbers are encrypted with AES-256, solutions are SCA ready, and PCI validation is handled for you.
PayPal Expanded Checkout, on your terms
PayPal is the payment method most shoppers already have. Blueport integrates PayPal Expanded Checkout, the full merchant controlled version, not the hosted flow. Your checkout stays yours.
Choosing PayPal on its own does not narrow what you accept. Expanded Checkout still takes cards, wallets, Venmo and buy now, pay later.
Credit and debit cards PayPal Venmo PayPal Pay Later Apple Pay Google Pay
A complete checkout on its own
Run PayPal as your only platform and shoppers still pay by card, wallet, Venmo or installments. Venmo is part of PayPal, so it comes with the same integration rather than a separate one.
Your name on the statement
This is the difference between Expanded Checkout and standard PayPal Checkout. Fewer calls asking what the charge is. Fewer chargebacks filed by someone who did not recognize the line item.
Faster checkout both ways
Fastlane speeds up guest checkout and saved cards speed up returning shoppers, so a first time buyer and a repeat buyer both get through in fewer steps.
Trust you have not earned yet
PayPal research found 74% of its users are more likely to buy from a merchant they do not know when PayPal is available. A regional chain is exactly that merchant to a shopper one market over.
Risk controls you choose
Expanded Checkout puts risk management in your hands, with optional Chargeback Protection and Fraud Protection Advanced.
You do not have to pick one
Either platform can carry your checkout on its own, and both accept cards and wallets. Running both widens the overlap, because shoppers split by habit rather than logic. Some reach for Apple Pay, some for PayPal, some are already saved into Link or Venmo. Blueport maintains both integrations, so you are not managing two vendor relationships.
Fraud caught before the truck leaves
In most ecommerce a fraudulent order costs you a package. In furniture it costs you the product, the delivery crew, the route, and the recovery attempt. Blocking the order before it ships is worth more to you than to almost any other retailer.
Data points training Stripe Radar across the Stripe network
Of charges come from a card Stripe has already seen
Average reduction in fraud reported with Radar
Forrester score for Stripe fraud mitigation and management
Stripe Radar
Radar covers signup, payment and post purchase. Dispute management runs on Verifi and Ethoca, and Smart Disputes assembles and submits evidence on your behalf. Custom rules let a four thousand dollar order to a new out of state address be treated differently than a four hundred dollar accent chair.
PayPal protections
PayPal meets PCI DSS requirements, has its security policies and controls reviewed by independent third parties, and holds certifications including the Visa Cardholder Information Security Program, the Mastercard Site Data Protection Program and AICPA SSAE No. 18 SOC 1.
