🆚 Afterpay vs. Scalapay
- 📈 Afterpay is four times more popular than Scalapay.
- 🌎 Afterpay is more popular in Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Scalapay is more popular in Italy, France, and Spain.
Afterpay
ScalapayType
About
Afterpay is a buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) payment service that lets shoppers split purchases into installment plans at checkout both online and in stores without interest if payments are made on time.
It offers "Pay in 4" plans generally over six weeks with automatic debit from a linked card, optional longer monthly plans for larger purchases, instant approval decisions without traditional credit checks, and app-based payment management with reminders.
Scalapay is a European "buy now, pay later" payment method that allows customers to split online and in-store purchases into three or four interest-free installments at checkout.
It supports instant approval, merchant upfront settlement of the full order amount, scheduled installment collection via card or direct debit, and in-store and online checkout integration through widget-based or API-based implementation, including plugins for platforms such as 
Shopify, 
WooCommerce, 
Magento, and 
VTEX.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥉 Third most popular in New Zealand in the Payments category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Australia in the Payments category.
- 🔥 16th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Payments category.
- 🔥 17th most popular in Canada in the Payments category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Italy in the Payments category.
- 🔥 15th most popular in France in the Payments category.
- 🔥 15th most popular in Spain in the Payments category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
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Satispay🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,531,795 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.