🆚 American Express vs. Shop Pay
- 📈 Shop Pay is five times more popular than American Express.
- 🌎 Shop Pay is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
- 🌎 American Express is more popular in Brazil, Argentina, and Austria.
Shop PayType
About
American Express is a global payment network and card issuer that provides charge, credit, and prepaid cards.
It enables contactless and mobile wallet payments, offers a membership rewards programm, provides purchase protection and extended warranty benefits, and supports a pay-in-installments feature called "Plan It".
Shop Pay is a 
Shopify-exclusive accelerated checkout and payment method that lets customers save their billing, shipping, and payment information to complete orders quickly on Shopify stores and in the Shop app.
It securely stores and encrypts user details, supports one-tap checkout across web and social channels, offers buy-now-pay-later options with flexible installments, real-time order tracking, optional pickup or local delivery choices, and works with multiple payment methods including cards, Apple Pay, iDEAL, and USDC.
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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
- 🥈 Second most popular in Uruguay in the Payments category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Serbia in the Payments category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Argentina in the Payments category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Israel in the Payments category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Nepal in the Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the Payments category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Payments category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United Kingdom in the Payments category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Australia 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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Mastercard
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Venmo
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Afterpay
Affirm🗃️ 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 3,406,701 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.