🆚 Bancontact vs. Mastercard

Bancontact is a Belgian payment method that enables real-time online bank transfers and card payments.

It offers redirection to the customer's banking interface or QR code scanning, supports contactless card and mobile payments, provides merchants with real-time confirmation and lower transaction fees than traditional cards, allows refunds for up to 365 days, and carries no chargeback risk.

Mastercard is a global payment-network processor that connects merchants, banks and card-holders for debit, credit and prepaid payments.

It supports payments in more than 210 countries and territories, offers contactless and mobile tap-to-pay transactions, provides layered security including tokenisation and real-time fraud monitoring, and gives card-holders travel insurance and extended warranty benefits depending on the card tier.

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

• ⭐ 5th most popular in Belgium in the Online Payments category.
• ⭐ 7th most popular in the Netherlands in the Online Payments category.
• 🔥 17th most popular in France in the Online Payments category.
• 🔥 18th most popular in Germany in the Online Payments category.

• 🥇 Most popular in Croatia in the Online Payments category.
• 🥈 Second most popular in Russia in the Online Payments category.
• 🥈 Second most popular in Brazil in the Online Payments category.
• 🥈 Second most popular in Ukraine in the Online Payments category.
• 🥈 Second most popular in Greece in the Online Payments category.

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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