🆚 Mercado Pago vs. Shop Pay
- 📈 Shop Pay is much more popular than Mercado Pago.
- 🌎 Shop Pay is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
- 🌎 Mercado Pago is more popular in Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico.
Mercado Pago
Shop PayType
About
Mercado Pago is a Latin American digital payment platform developed by 
Mercado Libre that provides payment processing, digital wallet services, and checkout infrastructure for online stores, mobile apps, and physical merchants.
It offers multiple checkout models, including hosted Checkout Pro, customizable API-based checkout, and modular Checkout Bricks components. The platform also supports subscriptions and marketplace split payments, and provides developer SDKs and plugins for third-party platforms such as 
WooCommerce, 
Shopify, Adobe Commerce, and VTEX.
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
- 🥇 Most popular in Argentina in the Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Colombia in the Payments category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Mexico in the Payments category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Chile in the Payments category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Peru 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.
PayPal
Stripe
PagSeguro
Kueski Pay
Openpay
Klarna
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.