⚡ Payments in Canada

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.

Canada is a North American country with a population of over 40 million people.

According to our data, payment services are detected on 7.1% of websites from Canada.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is PayPal with an impressive share of 60.4%, followed by Shop Pay with 40.8% and Stripe with 16.9%.

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top services that are more popular in Canada 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 73 payment services used on sites from Canada, 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
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.

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.

6
Worldline
La Défense, France

A European provider of payment and transaction services.

7
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.

$$$
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
American Express
New York, United States

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

10
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
11
Affirm
San Francisco, California, United States

A Buy Now, Pay Later financial services platform that lets consumers split online and in-store purchases into scheduled installments.

$$$
12
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.

$$$
13
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
14
Sezzle
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

A payment processing platform that enables shoppers to "Buy Now, Pay Later" with interest-free installment plans.

15
Recharge
Santa Monica, California, United States

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

$99+/month
16
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
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.

$$$
18
Arcot
Palo Alto, United States

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

19
Wirecard
Aschheim, Bavaria, Germany

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

20
Discover
Riverwoods, Illinois, United States

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

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
Adyen
Amsterdam, Netherlands

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

$0.13+/transaction
23
Gumroad
San Francisco, California, United States

An e-commerce platform serving as a merchant of record that enables creators and digital entrepreneurs to sell digital products, memberships, and other goods directly to their audience.

$$$
24
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+
25
Global Payments
Atlanta, Georgia, United States

An American payment service that enables businesses to process payments made through credit cards, debit cards, and digital and contactless payments.

👉 See Also

Data is based on the analysis of 66,600 websites from Canada.
Statistics were last calculated on .
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.