🆚 Bancontact vs. Stripe

Type

Online payment service
Online payment service

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.

Stripe is a payments processing platform that helps businesses accept online, mobile, and in-store payments with a single integration.

It supports over 135 currencies, enables direct bank debits and real-time payments, manages subscriptions with smart retry logic, includes machine learning–based fraud detection, and offers the Stripe Connect solution for marketplaces and platforms to route payouts in more than 45 countries.

Headquarters

Brussels, Belgium
San Francisco, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Payment processing, US accounts, per transaction
Domestic cards 2.9% + 30¢
Manually entered cards 3.4% + 30¢
International cards 4.4% + 30¢
Currency conversion 1%
Payment processing, EU accounts, per transaction
Standard EU cards 1.5% + €0.25
Premium EU cards 1.5% + €0.25
UK cards 2.5% + €0.25
International cards 3.25% + €0.25
Currency conversion 2%
Post-payment invoices 0.4% on transaction total, max $2
Identity $1.50/verification
Tax Basic 0.5%/transaction
Tax Complete $1,080+/year
Custom domain $10/month

Categories

Online Payments › Rank #25
Online Payments › Rank #4
Subscriptions › Rank #1

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Stripe online payment service is 22 times more popular than Bancontact.
Total websites

Market share

Online Payments

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Stripe is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while Bancontact is more popular in the Netherlands and Belgium.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Australia
France
Netherlands
Canada
Italy
Spain
Belgium

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Stripe is more popular than Bancontact in all market segments.
Online Shopping
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Travel
Entertainment
Sports

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#4,061
#17,621
#24,563
#28,048
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Name
Rank
#12
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See also

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