⚡ Payments in China

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.

China is an East Asian country with a population of around 1.4 billion people.

According to our data, payment services are detected on 1.1% of websites from China.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is PayPal, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 79.1% share.
It is followed by Shop Pay with 18.5% and Visa with 11%.

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top services that are more popular in China 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 48 payment services used on sites from China, 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
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.

4
Stripe
San Francisco, California, United States

A payments processing platform that helps businesses accept online, mobile, and in-store payments with a single integration.

$$$
5
Alipay
Hangzhou, China

A Chinese mobile payment app and digital wallet from used to make cashless payments.

6
American Express
New York, United States

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

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
8
Mastercard
Purchase, New York, United States

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

9
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
10
Discover
Riverwoods, Illinois, United States

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

11
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.

$$$
12
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.

$$$
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Payoneer
New York, United States

A global payment platform that enables businesses and professionals to send, receive and manage cross-border payments, hold multi-currency balances, and use physical or virtual Mastercard-branded cards.

14
Arcot
Palo Alto, United States

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

15
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.

$$$
16
Wirecard
Aschheim, Bavaria, Germany

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

17
Worldline
La Défense, France

A European provider of payment and transaction services.

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+
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
WebMoney
Moscow, Russia

A Russian online payment system.

23
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+
24
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.

$$$
25
FastSpring
Santa Barbara, California, United States

A merchant-of-record e-commerce platform that provides an all-in-one payment and subscription infrastructure for SaaS, software, and digital-goods businesses.

$$$

👉 See Also

Data is based on the analysis of 82,655 websites from China.
Statistics were last calculated on .
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.