Payment platform Braintree made a move to not only make merchants’ lives easier, but also to make it smoother for consumers to pay, which makes merchants happier. So no one was complaining today when the PayPal-owned company announced it will integrate with Samsung Pay.

Braintree merchants in the U.S. can now accept Samsung Pay for in-app payments. According to a study conducted by PYMNTS, the percentage of adult smartphone users that have used Samsung Pay to make a purchase rose from 4.3% in March of 2017 to 5.1% in December of 2017.

Braintree has simplified the process for merchants, requiring just a few lines of code to integrate Samsung Pay into their existing checkout process, making for a streamlined purchasing experience for end users. Online wholesale retailer Boxed is among the first to pilot the integration.

Today’s announcement is a continuation of Braintree’s relationship with Samsung. Earlier this year, the San Francisco-based company announced that U.S. PayPal users can transact using PayPal within Samsung Pay.

PayPal acquired Braintree in 2013 for $800 million. Braintree most recently showcased Venmo Touch at FinovateSpring 2013. Last month, Adobe announced it is launching Magento Payments with PayPal’s Braintree for payment processing. And in April, Braintree teamed up with Yahoo! to make its payment platform available to online sellers using Yahoo Merchant Solutions and Yahoo Stores.

PayPal-owned Braintree is stepping up its game this week. The company has launched Braintree Extend, a solution that allows merchants to offer a more integrated payment experience across multiple partners.

This means that merchants who want to partner with transaction services firms, rewards and loyalty providers, and contextual commerce companies can do so while maintaining a seamless user experience. And because Braintree Extend works with Braintree Vault, merchants can tokenize and store payment information without putting their clients’ data at risk.

In a blog post announcement, Azita Habibi Sr. Manager of Braintree Development described the new release as the “next phase” in the company’s mission “to become the Commerce Operating System for… merchants and partners.”

Braintree is already working with Yelp on its card-linked loyalty program, Yelp Cash Back, which is used by thousands of merchants. Leveraging Braintree Extend, Yelp is able to give users real-time cash rebates at the point of sale after making a purchase at a participating merchant. And Bandsintown, a music performance and discovery platform, is leveraging Braintree Extend for contextual commerce. The platform enables users to discover and select shows and purchase tickets without leaving the Bandsintown platform.

PayPal acquired Braintree in 2013 for $800 million. Braintree most recently showcased Venmo Touch at FinovateSpring 2013. Last week, the company unveiled Transaction-Level Fee Reports, a new reporting capability to help merchants understand and analyze processing fees at a per-transaction level. And last September, the company celebrated four years of operation under PayPal.

Now, that’s brain power.

Payment platform Braintree announced this week that it now processes more than one billion payment transactions per quarter.

“This is another significant milestone in the Braintree story as we continue to prove how uniquely well-positioned we are – in partnership with the power and reach of PayPal’s global two-sided network – to drive the future of commerce forward,” Braintree GM Juan Benitez wrote at the company blog. In a footnote, Benitez added that the volume represents PayPal transactions as well as others that are ineligible for inclusion in Braintree’s “stated transaction count” and not included in calculations to determine total payment volume (TPV).

Merchants in more than 40 countries around the world accept, split, and support payments in more than 130 currencies using Braintree’s platform. Braintree helps merchants build seamless online and mobile checkout experiences for their customers and provides both white-glove support and advanced fraud protection. From e-commerce businesses that want to accept direct payments to marketplace businesses with multiple payment services requirements, Braintree provides scalable, easy-to-integrate solutions that enable processing of a wide variety of payment options including PayPal, Venmo, Apple Pay, Android Pay, Visa Checkout, Masterpass, Amex Express Checkout, and ACH Direct Debit, as well as credit and debit cards.

Founded in 2007 in Chicago, Illinois, Braintree demonstrated Venmo Touch at FinovateSpring 2013. Also a veteran of our developer’s conference, Braintree discussed developer resources for building a better checkout experience at FinDEVr New York last spring in a presentation titled, “A Credit Card Form Walks into a Bar … Making Beautiful Credit Card Forms.” The company, which acquired Venmo for more than $26 million in 2012, was acquired by PayPal the following year for $800 million. In May, Braintree announced a remodel of its mobile Drop-in payments acceptance UI, launched a few months earlier. Braintree hired John MacIlwaine as CTO in February, and unveiled its commerce infrastructure tools back in December.