⚡ 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.

According to our data, payment systems are detected on 4.5% of all websites.
65.2% of these sites use only one payment system, 19.1% use two, and 15.7% use three or more of them.

⭐ Most Popular in 2025

The following chart shows the leading payment systems on the web in 2025, based on market share.

The most popular is PayPal, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 59.3% share.
It is followed by Stripe with 18.5% and Visa with 13.1%.

PayPal 59.3%
Stripe 18.5%
Visa 13.1%
Mastercard 12.9%
Shop Pay 8.4%
Google Pay 6%
Klarna 5.4%
American Express 5.2%
Apple Pay 4.6%
PayPal Enterprise Payments 4.6%
Authorize.net 3.1%
Worldline 2.6%
Arcot 2.3%
Wirecard 2.2%
Amazon Pay 2%

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🚀 Country Highlights

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

Stripe is #1 in Taiwan ^(-1)
Visa is #1 in Russia ^(-2)
Mastercard is #1 in the Czech Republic ^(-3)
Klarna is #1 in Sweden ^(-6)
Mercado Pago is #1 in Brazil ^(-18)
Bancontact is #2 in Belgium ^(-23)
American Express is #3 in Serbia ^(-5)
Amazon Pay is #3 in Japan ^(-12)
Afterpay is #3 in Australia ^(-13)
Apple Pay is #4 in Germany ^(-5)

✨ Best Payment Systems

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 128 payment systems we track, ranked by their market share.

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. $$$	59.3%
2	Stripe San Francisco, California, United States A payments processing platform that helps businesses accept online, mobile, and in-store payments with a single integration. $$$	18.5%
3	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.	13.1%
4	Mastercard Purchase, New York, United States A global payment-network processor that connects merchants, banks and card-holders for debit, credit and prepaid payments.	12.9%
-	Shop Pay Ottawa, Ontario, Canada A one-tap checkout and payment method developed by Shopify. Free$$$	8.4%
6	Google Pay Mountain View, California, United States A mobile payment service developed by Google that allows users to make payments using Android phones, tablets, or watches. Free	6%
7	Klarna Stockholm, Sweden A Swedish payment service provider and licensed bank that specializes in Buy Now, Pay Later options for online and in-store purchases. $$$	5.4%
8	American Express New York, United States A global payment network and card issuer that provides charge, credit, and prepaid cards.	5.2%
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	4.6%
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. $$$	4.6%
11	Authorize.net San Francisco, California, United States A payment gateway that facilitates the submission and routing of credit card and electronic check payment transactions to the processing networks on behalf of its client merchants. $25+/month	3.1%
12	Worldline La Défense, France A European provider of payment and transaction services.	2.6%
13	Arcot Palo Alto, United States A payment authentication network powered by 3-D Secure (3DS).	2.3%
14	Wirecard Aschheim, Bavaria, Germany A full-service provider for merchants, offering POS infrastructure, payment processing and acquiring services.	2.2%
15	Amazon Pay Seattle, Washington, United States Lets Amazon customers to pay on your website using the information already stored in their Amazon accounts. Free$0.30+	2%
16	Afterpay Melbourne, Victoria, Australia A buy-now-pay-later payment service. $$$	1.6%
17	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	1.5%
18	Adyen Amsterdam, Netherlands A payment gateway, processor, and acquirer in one financial technology platform. $0.13+/transaction	1.4%
19	Mercado Pago Montevideo, Uruguay A Latin American digital payment platform from Mercado Libre.	1.4%
20	Recharge Santa Monica, California, United States A subscription payment solution with Shopify and BigCommerce integration and powerful APIs. $99+/month	1.3%
21	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. $$$	1.3%
22	Affirm San Francisco, California, United States A Buy Now, Pay Later financial services tool that allows consumers to purchase goods and services with full transparency and with no hidden fees. $$$	1.1%
-	Discover Riverwoods, Illinois, United States A global payment network and card issuer offering credit and debit cards as well as processing services.	0.9%
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 2,611,154 websites.
Statistics were last calculated on December 12, 2025.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.