🆚 Bancontact vs. Scalapay
- 📈 Bancontact is twice as popular as Scalapay.
- 🌍 Bancontact is more popular in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany.
- 🌍 Scalapay is more popular in Italy, France, and Spain.
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About
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.
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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Market share
Popularity by country
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Awards
- ⭐ 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.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Italy in the Online Payments category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in Spain in the Online Payments category.
- 🔥 15th most popular in France in the Online Payments category.
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🗃️ 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 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.