According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (July 13, 2026), PayPal Braintree is the SaaS sender for 572 domains — 0.09% of 617,702 SPF-publishing domains. Detection method: include: mechanisms in the SPF record.
PayPal Braintree is PayPal's payment processing platform that sends transactional emails—receipts, confirmations, alerts—on behalf of merchant domains. Merchants authorise Braintree to send these notifications, which is why Braintree's SPF includes appear in their SPF records.
Braintree's email footprint is concentrated amongst smaller and mid-market organisations rather than enterprise brands, predominates in the .com space, and frequently coexists with Google Workspace. This pattern reflects typical adoption: teams that consolidate infrastructure, delegating transactional mail to Braintree whilst using Google Workspace for corporate email.
| Tranco rank band | Domains | Share of its base |
|---|---|---|
| Top 1,000 | 4 | 0.7% |
| Top 10,000 | 25 | 4.4% |
| Top 100,000 | 128 | 22.4% |
| Top 1,000,000 | 393 | 68.7% |
| Unranked | 22 | 3.8% |
| TLD | Domains | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| .com | 394 | 68.9% | |
| .org | 36 | 6.3% | |
| .com.au | 18 | 3.1% | |
| .io | 17 | 3.0% | |
| .net | 15 | 2.6% | |
| .co.uk | 10 | 1.7% | |
| .it | 9 | 1.6% | |
| .co | 6 | 1.0% | |
| .edu | 4 | 0.7% | |
| .ca | 3 | 0.5% |
Cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot — the other email services seen on the same 572 domains.
| Type | Service | Domains | Share of PayPal Braintree users |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mailbox | Google Workspace | 299 | 52.3% |
| Mailbox | Microsoft 365 | 143 | 25.0% |
| Mailbox | Generic / unmatched (mx*.*) | 24 | 4.2% |
| Mailbox | Self-Hosted | 15 | 2.6% |
| Mailbox | Proofpoint | 14 | 2.4% |
| Mailbox | Mimecast | 13 | 2.3% |
Braintree's email capability is a transactional byproduct of its primary role as a payment processor—it sends receipts and confirmations on behalf of merchants rather than serving as a dedicated email infrastructure. This means organisations' Braintree SPF includes represent outsourced payment notifications rather than strategic email platform selection. The reputation profile tends to be clean and predictable, since transactional mail is typically lower-volume and less targeted for abuse than marketing or phishing-adjacent campaigns.
See the full PayPal Braintree data page (KPI cards, trend, sample domains) →
Braintree is PayPal's payment processing platform that sends transactional emails like receipts and confirmations on behalf of merchants. It appears in SPF records because those merchants have authorised it to send mail for them.
572 domains in the Tranco top-1M use PayPal Braintree as their SaaS sender as of July 13, 2026 (0.09% of SPF-publishing domains), according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.
PayPal Braintree accounts for 0.09% of SPF-publishing domains in the top 1M. Whether you should seed a test mailbox there depends on how much of your audience it represents — the co-usage table above shows the services it appears alongside most.
PayPal Braintree has been stable — its share moved +0.00 pp over the last 30 days (as of July 13, 2026).
PayPal Braintree's largest TLD is .com (68.9% of its domains); it appears across 52 TLDs in total.