🆚 PayPal vs. Scalapay
- 📈 PayPal is much more popular than Scalapay.
- 🌍 PayPal is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ Scalapay is particularly popular in Italy.
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About
PayPal is an online payment service that allows users to send funds from a credit card, bank account, or PayPal balance to merchants without sharing their financial details.
It includes a digital wallet that links to bank accounts and cards, supports transactions in more than 200 countries and regions and 25 currencies, offers buyer protection on eligible purchases, and enables guest checkout for non-account holders.
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.
Headquarters
Pricing
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 the United States in the Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Australia in the Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Italy in the Payments category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Italy in the Payments category.
- 🔥 15th most popular in France in the Payments category.
- 🔥 15th most popular in Spain 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.
See also
🗃️ 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 3,531,795 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.


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