⚡ Payments in Austria

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.

Austria is a Central European country with a population of over 9 million people.

According to our data, payment services are detected on 4.5% of websites from Austria.

Statistics based on 29K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top payment services on websites in Austria in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is PayPal, which dominates the market with a substantial 71.2% share.
It is followed by Mastercard with 25.3% and Visa with 24.2%.

PayPal 71.2%
Mastercard 25.3%
Visa 24.2%
Klarna 18.2%
Stripe 15.7%
Apple Pay 15.2%
Google Pay 11.8%
Amazon Pay 7.7%
American Express 7.6%
Shop Pay 7.2%
PayPal Enterprise Payments 5.3%
Worldline 3.6%
Wirecard 3%
Mollie 2.9%
Arcot 2.5%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top services that are more popular in Austria than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

2. Mastercard ^(-3)
3. Visa ^(-1)
4. Klarna ^(-3)
6. Apple Pay ^(-3)
8. Amazon Pay ^(-7)
13. Wirecard ^(-1)
14. Mollie ^(-11)
16. Adyen ^(-4)
17. PaysafeCard ^(-30)
18. Skrill ^(-11)

✨ Best Payment Services

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 61 payment services used on sites from Austria, 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. $$$	71.2%
2	Mastercard Purchase, New York, United States A global payment-network processor that connects merchants, banks and card-holders for debit, credit and prepaid payments.	25.3%
3	Visa San Francisco, California, United States A global payment network processor that enables banks, merchants, and cardholders to conduct debit, credit, and prepaid transactions across more than 200 countries and territories.	24.2%
4	Klarna Stockholm, Sweden A Swedish payment service provider and licensed bank that specializes in Buy Now, Pay Later options for online and in-store purchases. $$$	18.2%
5	Stripe San Francisco, California, United States A payments processing platform that helps businesses accept online, mobile, and in-store payments with a single integration. $$$	15.7%
6	Apple Pay Cupertino, California, United States A mobile payment and digital wallet service by Apple that lets users make secure contactless and online payments with iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro devices. Free	15.2%
7	Google Pay Mountain View, California, United States A mobile payment and digital wallet service developed by Google that enables users to make contactless and online payments using supported Android phones, tablets, and wearable devices. Free	11.8%
8	Amazon Pay Seattle, Washington, United States Lets Amazon customers to pay on your website using the information already stored in their Amazon accounts. Free$0.30+	7.7%
9	American Express New York, United States A global payment network and card issuer that provides charge, credit, and prepaid cards.	7.6%
10	Shop Pay Ottawa, Ontario, Canada A Shopify-exclusive accelerated checkout and payment method that lets customers save their billing, shipping, and payment information to complete orders quickly on Shopify stores and in the Shop app. Free$$$	7.2%
11	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. $$$	5.3%
12	Worldline La Défense, France A European provider of payment and transaction services.	3.6%
13	Wirecard Aschheim, Bavaria, Germany A full-service provider for merchants, offering POS infrastructure, payment processing and acquiring services.	3%
14	Mollie Ansterdam, Netherlands A Netherlands-based payment platform for in-person payments, subscriptions, and financing.	2.9%
15	Arcot Palo Alto, United States A payment authentication network powered by 3-D Secure (3DS).	2.5%
16	Adyen Amsterdam, Netherlands A payment gateway, processor, and acquirer in one financial technology platform. $0.13+/transaction	2.2%
17	PaysafeCard London, United Kingdom A prepaid code payment method that allows you to pay online with cash without a bank account or registration. £3+/month	2.2%
18	Skrill London, United Kingdom A digital wallet that offers you the safety and convenience of paying online just with your email address and password. Free$5.50+	1.9%
19	Neteller London, United Kingdom A global payments platform and digital wallet used to transfer money to and from merchants, such as forex trading brokers, social networks, and gambling websites.	1.5%
20	Unzer Berlin, Germany	1.4%
21	Link San Francisco, California, United States A one-click checkout feature from Stripe that allows shoppers to securely save and reuse their payment and shipping information across participating online merchants. $$$	1.3%
22	Sofort Stockholm, Sweden An online banking payment service from Germany, now part of Klarna.	1.3%
23	Bancontact Brussels, Belgium A Belgium-based real-time online bank transfer payment method.	1.2%
24	Wero Brussels, Belgium A European GDPR-compliant mobile payment system operating in Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands, designed for instant account-based payments across borders. Free	1.1%
25	Payone Frankfurt, Germany A German full-service provider for the processing of cashless payment transactions.	1%

👉 See Also

🌎 Payments in other countries

🗃️ 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 29,629 websites from Austria.
We currently track the presence of 136 payment services across the web.
Of these, 61 were detected on websites from Austria.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.