Case Study: Fandango achieves 100x traffic scalability and faster, secure checkout with PayPal Braintree

How Fandango prepared for the ultimate endgame— PayPal’s ticket for success

Fandango, a 20-year leader in online movie ticketing, helps fans reserve tickets to avoid lines and sellouts. Facing massive ecommerce demand around major releases, the company needed faster, more convenient checkout options and secure handling of sensitive payment data to convert customers and maintain reliability at scale.

Leveraging its long PayPal relationship, Fandango implemented the PayPal Commerce Platform powered by Braintree to enable PayPal and Venmo split-pay, tokenized saved payment methods (reducing PCI scope), and high-volume scalability. Braintree handled Avengers: Endgame presales—sustaining a 100x traffic surge for 45+ minutes and supporting 100+ transactions-per-second—delivering smoother, more secure purchases and fewer barriers to conversion.

Fandango

Greg Ferris

SVP and Chief Product Officer