⚡ Payments in Australia

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.

Australia is an Oceanian country with a population of over 27 million people.

According to our data, payment services are detected on 9.7% of websites from Australia.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is PayPal with a substantial share of 63.3%, followed by Shop Pay with 40.3% and Stripe with 17.9%.

🚀 Highlights

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

✨ Best Payment Services

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 70 payment services used on sites from Australia, ranked by their market share.

RankNameMarket 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.

$$$
2
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$$$
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.

$$$
4
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.

$$$
5
Zip
Sydney, Australia

A "buy now, pay later" payment service that operates in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States.

6
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.

7
Mastercard
Purchase, New York, United States

A global payment-network processor that connects merchants, banks and card-holders for debit, credit and prepaid payments.

8
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
9
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.

$$$
10
American Express
New York, United States

A global payment network and card issuer that provides charge, credit, and prepaid cards.

11
Eway
Bowen Hills, Queensland, Australia

A global online credit card payment gateway provider, allowing businesses to accept secure credit card payments online 24/7 from customers around the world.

$$$
12
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
13
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
14
Arcot
Palo Alto, United States

A payment authentication network powered by 3-D Secure (3DS).

15
Worldline
La Défense, France

A European provider of payment and transaction services.

16
Wirecard
Aschheim, Bavaria, Germany

A full-service provider for merchants, offering POS infrastructure, payment processing and acquiring services.

17
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
Recharge
Santa Monica, California, United States

A subscription payment solution with Shopify and BigCommerce integration and powerful APIs.

$99+/month
19
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
20
Adyen
Amsterdam, Netherlands

A payment gateway, processor, and acquirer in one financial technology platform.

$0.13+/transaction
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.

$$$
22
Discover
Riverwoods, Illinois, United States

A global payment network and card issuer offering credit and debit cards as well as processing services.

23
SecurePay
Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia

An Australian online payments provider offering end-to-end transaction processing and reliable service to merchants across all industries.

24
Clearpay
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

A payment service that lends customers a fixed amount of credit to make purchases instantly and then pay for them in 4 automatic, interest-free installments.

25
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+

👉 See Also

Data is based on the analysis of 73,682 websites from Australia.
Statistics were last calculated on .
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.