Which has better reviews, Chargent Payment Processing - Credit Card Payments, ACH, Recurring Billing or Align.ly Contact Role: Automatically Associate Contact Roles on Opportunities?

Chargent Payment Processing - Credit Card Payments, ACH, Recurring Billing (4.9★, 529 reviews) and Align.ly Contact Role: Automatically Associate Contact Roles on Opportunities (5.0★, 1 reviews) are essentially tied on rating. Look at review velocity and individual reviewer quotes — both visible on each app's detail page — to differentiate.

Should I choose Chargent Payment Processing - Credit Card Payments, ACH, Recurring Billing or Align.ly Contact Role: Automatically Associate Contact Roles on Opportunities?

Align.ly Contact Role: Automatically Associate Contact Roles on Opportunities holds the higher average rating (5.0★ vs 4.9★). That is the one dimension AppRanks can separate them on here — read both apps' detail pages for the feature breakdown and recent listing changes.

Which is faster to set up, Chargent Payment Processing - Credit Card Payments, ACH, Recurring Billing or Align.ly Contact Role: Automatically Associate Contact Roles on Opportunities?

Both apps are one-click installs from the Salesforce AppExchange. Chargent Payment Processing - Credit Card Payments, ACH, Recurring Billing has the deeper published review base (529 vs 1), which often — though not always — accompanies better-tested setup docs. AppRanks doesn't measure setup time directly: read the recent reviews on each app's detail page for user-reported install experience.

Which works better for small vs large Salesforce AppExchange admins?

Chargent Payment Processing - Credit Card Payments, ACH, Recurring Billing typically suits early-stage and growth-mode teams based on its published review base (529 reviews). Align.ly Contact Role: Automatically Associate Contact Roles on Opportunities typically suits early-stage and growth-mode teams based on its published review base (1 reviews). A larger review base generally means the app has been exercised at scale — relevant if you are processing high volume or handling enterprise compliance requirements.

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Chargent Payment vs Align.ly Contact — Salesforce

Chargent Payment Processing - Credit Card Payments, ACH, Recurring Billing vs Align.ly Contact Role

Side-by-side comparison · 24 data points

Chargent Payment Processing - Credit Card Payments, ACH, Recurring Billing

4.9·529reviews

• PCI Compliant Credit Card & ACH Payments • Automated & Compliant Card Surcharging • Recurring Billing, Subscriptions Payments, & Automatic Payment Recovery • Self-Service Payments in Experience Cloud • 30+ Direct Payment Gateway Integrations

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1. Listing metadata

Field-level data

	Chargent Payment Processing - Credit Card Payments, ACH, Recurring Billing	Align.ly Contact Role
Tagline	“• PCI Compliant Credit Card & ACH Payments • Automated & Compliant Card Surcharging • Recurring Billing, Subscriptions Payments, & Automatic Payment Recovery • Self-Service Payments in Experience Cloud • 30+ Direct Payment Gateway Integrations”243 chars	“Align.ly Contact Role enables you to automatically associate Contacts to Opportunities via the Contact Role. Create auto-association rules based on Tasks, Events, and Campaigns already logged to Contacts.”204 chars
Description	1193 / 2000 chars60% used	608 / 2000 chars30% used
Screenshots	—	—
Languages	en	en
Platforms	Salesforce	Salesforce
Developer	Chargent by AppFrontier LLC	Align.ly LLC
Listed	March 20, 2009

At a glance

8 metrics · auto-computed

Feature comparison between Chargent Payment Processing - Credit Card Payments, ACH, Recurring Billing and Align.ly Contact Role: Automatically Associate Contact Roles on Opportunities
Metric	Chargent Payment Processing - Credit Card Payments, ACH, Recurring Billing	Align.ly Contact Role: Automatically Associate Contact Roles on Opportunities
Rating	4.9 ★	★ 5.0 ★
Total reviews	★ 529	1
Free plan	—	★ Yes
Pricing	paid	free
Pricing tiers	3 tiers	—
Listed features	★ 9	6
Languages	1 supported	1 supported
Listed since	Mar 2009	Feb 2024

AppRanks verdict

Generated from live data on this page

The call

Chargent Payment Processing - Credit Card Payments, ACH, Recurring Billing and Align.ly Contact Role: Automatically Associate Contact Roles on Opportunities are evenly matched on rating (4.9★ vs 5.0★) — the differentiator comes down to pricing fit, feature breadth, and which app's interaction pattern suits your team's workflow.

Pricing

On pricing, Align.ly Contact Role: Automatically Associate Contact Roles on Opportunities offers a free tier (free) while Chargent Payment Processing - Credit Card Payments, ACH, Recurring Billing starts at paid. The free option meaningfully reduces evaluation cost, particularly at low usage volumes where the entry-paid tier can outpace the value delivered.

Review base

Chargent Payment Processing - Credit Card Payments, ACH, Recurring Billing has the larger user base (529 reviews vs 1), which usually maps to broader integration coverage, faster bug-fix cadence, and a deeper bench of community workflow patterns. Align.ly Contact Role: Automatically Associate Contact Roles on Opportunities's smaller cohort can be an advantage for niche workflows where the bigger app has accumulated bloat.

Who should pick what

Recommended evaluation path: install both apps' free tiers (where available) and run them in parallel on a small cohort for 7-14 days before committing. The data tables below show the per-feature breakdown — for most admins the deciding factor will be a single integration or workflow detail that's hard to compare from listing pages alone.

How this is generated

This verdict is generated from the live marketplace data on this page — rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position all refresh from the canonical Salesforce AppExchange listing every 24 hours. AppRanks does not accept payment to influence comparison outcomes; the methodology is documented on the About page and applies identically to every pair on the site.

Read each app's audit: Chargent Payment Processing - Credit Card Payments, ACH, Recurring Billing audit • Align.ly Contact Role: Automatically Associate Contact Roles on Opportunities audit

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3. Features

As listed by each developer

Chargent Payment Processing - Credit Card Payments, ACH, Recurring Billing

💳 Collect Payments in Salesforce Take PCI Compliant payments right where your customer data lives - in Salesforce. Payment-enable any page or app in your Salesforce org, and empower your team to be more efficient and to better serve customers.
💳 Collect Missed & Late Payments with Automation Improve cash flow, reduce Days Sales Outstanding (DSO), and automate manual AR tasks with a no-code solution. This allows you to free up valuable resources for other business critical tasks.
💳 Automate Recurring Subscription Billing Leverage set-and-forget recurring billing to enhance cash flow predictability and increase customer retention.
💳 Intelligent, Flexible Developer Toolbox Create customized payment solutions, integrate seamlessly with other systems, and enhance the reliability of your payment processes with our suite of powerful developer tools - including our REST API.
💳 Reduce Payment Collection Overhead Configure self-service payment options in your Experience Cloud or Site in just minutes. Send payment request links with the click of a button, empowering your customers to submit payments at their convenience.
💳 Complete your 360° Customer View Accelerate data-driven insights by removing data silos. Ensure a consistent and complete customer profile by improving customer payment visibility across all business units.
💳 Your Customers' Currencies and Countries Take payments in over 150 currencies, including but not limited to: USD, AUS, EUR, GBP, CAD, JPY. Countries supported: United States, Australia, Canada, UK, Singapore, and many others.
💳 Recover transaction fees and raise profit margins with Surcharging This set & forget feature automatically calculates and incorporates card surcharge fees into your payment processes, recouping revenue and improving cash flow.
💳 Accurate, actionable analytics Chargent is Salesforce-native, so your team has instant access to reporting and dashboards that provide deep insight into your payments activities.

Align.ly Contact Role

* Fully Configurable Dynamic Rules: Admins have full control of Task/Event/Campaign Member, Contact, and Opportunity criteria.
* Task, Event and Campaign Support: Use logged Task, Event, and Campaign Member records to auto-associate Contact Roles.
* Scheduled Updates: Schedule Align.ly Contact Role to run in the background at a preferred recurring start time each day.
* Robust Reporting: Pre-built dashboard to view the number of associations by date, rule, etc.
* Full Transparency: View a list of auto-associations, date/time, and the rule that associated them.
* Association Removals & Overrides: Easily remove an auto-associated Contact Role and prevent it from associating again.

Keyword	Chargent Payment Processing - Credit Card Payments, ACH, Recurring Billing	Align.ly Contact Role
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7. App details

Long-form description · keyword frequency

Chargent Payment Processing - Credit Card Payments, ACH, Recurring Billing

Take payments everywhere in Salesforce - with streamlined tools to help you collect more revenue. Automated AR, subscription billing, surcharging, & more. Compliant, secure payments in over 150 currencies, and over 100 countries, including the US, Australia, and UK. - Card, Debit, & ACH Payments - One-time, scheduled, & subscription payments - Self-service payments in Experience Cloud - Payment request email links - Automated Collections - Card Surcharging - PayPal Wallet Powerful developer tools: - REST API (Flow & Apex) - Multi-Gateway Tokenization - Smart Payment Routing - Chargent Custom Checkout Payment-enable: - Salesforce Billing / CPQ - Commerce Cloud - Revenue Cloud Billing / Advanced - Data 360 30+ Direct Payment Gateway Integrations: - Adyen - AstroPay - Authorize.net - Barclaycard - Bluepay / Clover - BlueSnap - Braintree - CSG Forte - Cybersource - Deluxe - eProcessingNetwork - eWay - Ezidebit - Fat Zebra - iATS Payments - Linked2Pay - MerchantE - Merchant Warrior - ModusLink - Moneris - NMI - Paya - PayPal / Payflow Pro - Paysafe - PayTrace - PayU - Realex / GlobalPayments - Rectangle Health - SecureCo - Stripe - Transact Pro - USAePay - VeriPay - WorldPay

Top keywords

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Align.ly Contact Role

Align.ly Contact Role is a simple, yet powerful native Salesforce application that automatically associates Contacts to Opportunities via the Contact Role. Is asking the sales team to update Contact Roles on Opportunities not the best use of their time? Want to make sure the full buying team is on every Opportunity? Align.ly Contact Role is the answer. Align.ly Contact Role gives you full control by allowing you to define granular contact role association rules. The average implementation of Align.ly Contact Role sees better than a 100% increase in their Contact Role coverage on their Opportunities.

Top keywords

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Chargent Payment Processing - Credit Card Payments, ACH, Recurring Billing vs Align.ly Contact Role

Chargent Payment Processing - Credit Card Payments, ACH, Recurring Billing

1. Listing metadata

Align.ly Contact Role

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AppRanks verdict

2. Pricing & plans

3. Features

4. Categories & rankings

5. Search rankings

6. Activity in the last 90 days

Chargent Payment Processing - Credit Card Payments, ACH, Recurring Billing · 1 changes

Align.ly Contact Role · 0 changes

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Should I choose Chargent Payment Processing - Credit Card Payments, ACH, Recurring Billing or Align.ly Contact Role: Automatically Associate Contact Roles on Opportunities?

Which is faster to set up, Chargent Payment Processing - Credit Card Payments, ACH, Recurring Billing or Align.ly Contact Role: Automatically Associate Contact Roles on Opportunities?

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