⚡ Payments

Online payment services allow businesses to securely accept and process transactions by supporting a variety of payment methods such as credit and debit cards, digital wallets, and Buy Now, Pay Later options.

They also provide payment gateway and processor functionality, multi-currency support, fraud detection mechanisms, subscription and recurring billing tools, and integration APIs and SDKs for custom checkout experiences.

According to our data, payment services are detected on 5% of all websites.
57.1% of these sites use only one payment service, 25.8% use two, and 17.1% use three or more of them.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the leading payment services on the web in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is PayPal, which dominates the market with a substantial 57.5% share.
It is followed by Shop Pay with 22.3% and Stripe with 16.7%.

PayPal 57.5%
Shop Pay 22.3%
Stripe 16.7%
Visa 13.2%
Mastercard 12.8%
Google Pay 6.2%
Klarna 5.6%
American Express 5.1%
Apple Pay 4.8%
PayPal Enterprise Payments 4.5%
Authorize.net 2.7%
Worldline 2.6%
Arcot 2.3%
Wirecard 2.2%
Amazon Pay 2.1%

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🚀 Country Highlights

Here is a list of services that are especially popular in certain countries.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

Shop Pay is #1 in Japan ^(-1)
Visa is #1 in Russia ^(-3)
Mastercard is #1 in the Czech Republic ^(-4)
Klarna is #1 in Sweden ^(-6)
Mercado Pago is #1 in Argentina ^(-18)
Stripe is #2 in the United States ^(-1)
Bancontact is #2 in Belgium ^(-23)
Apple Pay is #4 in Germany ^(-5)
Afterpay is #4 in Australia ^(-13)
Mollie is #7 in the Netherlands ^(-17)

✨ Best Payment Services

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 132 payment services we track, ranked by their market share.

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Rank	Name	Market share
1	PayPal San Jose, California, United States 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. $$$	57.5%
2	Shop Pay Ottawa, Ontario, Canada A one-tap checkout and payment method developed by Shopify. Free$$$	22.3%
3	Stripe San Francisco, California, United States A payments processing platform that helps businesses accept online, mobile, and in-store payments with a single integration. $$$	16.7%
4	Visa San Francisco, California, United States A global payment network processor that enables banks, merchants, and cardholders to conduct debit, credit, and prepaid transactions across more than 200 countries and territories.	13.2%
5	Mastercard Purchase, New York, United States A global payment-network processor that connects merchants, banks and card-holders for debit, credit and prepaid payments.	12.8%
6	Google Pay Mountain View, California, United States A mobile payment service developed by Google that allows users to make payments using Android phones, tablets, or watches. Free	6.2%
7	Klarna Stockholm, Sweden A Swedish payment service provider and licensed bank that specializes in Buy Now, Pay Later options for online and in-store purchases. $$$	5.6%
8	American Express New York, United States A global payment network and card issuer that provides charge, credit, and prepaid cards.	5.1%
9	Apple Pay Cupertino, California, United States A mobile payment service by Apple that is supported on iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro. Free	4.8%
10	PayPal Enterprise Payments San Jose, California, United States A full-stack payments platform that makes it easy for businesses to accept payments in their apps or websites. $$$	4.5%
11	Authorize.net San Francisco, California, United States A payment gateway that facilitates the submission and routing of credit card and electronic check payment transactions to the processing networks on behalf of its client merchants. $25+/month	2.7%
12	Worldline La Défense, France A European provider of payment and transaction services.	2.6%
13	Arcot Palo Alto, United States A payment authentication network powered by 3-D Secure (3DS).	2.3%
14	Wirecard Aschheim, Bavaria, Germany A full-service provider for merchants, offering POS infrastructure, payment processing and acquiring services.	2.2%
15	Amazon Pay Seattle, Washington, United States Lets Amazon customers to pay on your website using the information already stored in their Amazon accounts. Free$0.30+	2.1%
16	Discover Riverwoods, Illinois, United States A global payment network and card issuer offering credit and debit cards as well as processing services.	2%
17	Afterpay Melbourne, Victoria, Australia A buy-now-pay-later payment service that lets shoppers split purchases into installment plans at checkout both online and in stores without interest if payments are made on time. $$$	1.7%
18	Recharge Santa Monica, California, United States A subscription payment solution with Shopify and BigCommerce integration and powerful APIs. $99+/month	1.4%
19	Mercado Pago Montevideo, Uruguay A Latin American digital payment platform from Mercado Libre.	1.4%
20	Adyen Amsterdam, Netherlands A payment gateway, processor, and acquirer in one financial technology platform. $0.13+/transaction	1.4%
21	Square Oakland, California, United States A payment processor that enables businesses to accept cards from customers to pay for goods and services. Free$49+/month	1.3%
22	Link San Francisco, California, United States A one-click checkout feature from Stripe that allows shoppers to securely save and reuse their payment and shipping information across participating online merchants. $$$	1.1%
23	Affirm San Francisco, California, United States A Buy Now, Pay Later financial services tool that allows consumers to purchase goods and services with full transparency and with no hidden fees. $$$	1%
24	Mollie Ansterdam, Netherlands A Netherlands-based payment platform for in-person payments, subscriptions, and financing.	0.8%
25	Bancontact Brussels, Belgium A Belgium-based real-time online bank transfer payment method.	0.8%

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Data is based on the analysis of 3,040,870 websites.
Statistics were last calculated on February 3, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.