⚡ 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 1.2% of websites from China.

Statistics based on 83K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ 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 80% share.
It is followed by Shop Pay with 17.7% and Visa with 10.1%.

PayPal 80%
Shop Pay 17.7%
Visa 10.1%
Stripe 7%
Alipay 6.5%
American Express 6.2%
Google Pay 5.8%
Mastercard 5.6%
Apple Pay 5.2%
Discover 5.1%
Klarna 4.5%
PayPal Enterprise Payments 1.8%
Payoneer 1.5%
Afterpay 1.1%
Arcot 1.1%

🚀 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.

3. Visa ^(-1)
5. Alipay ^(-41)
6. American Express ^(-2)
10. Discover ^(-6)
13. Payoneer ^(-54)
14. Afterpay ^(-3)
18. Adyen ^(-2)
19. Skrill ^(-10)
21. Affirm ^(-2)
22. WebMoney ^(-9)

✨ Best Payment Services

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 50 payment services used on sites from China, 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. $$$	80%
2	Shop Pay Ottawa, Ontario, Canada A Shopify-exclusive accelerated checkout and payment method that lets customers save their billing, shipping, and payment information to complete orders quickly on Shopify stores and in the Shop app. Free$$$	17.7%
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.	10.1%
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. $$$	7%
5	Alipay Hangzhou, China A Chinese mobile payment app and digital wallet from used to make cashless payments.	6.5%
6	American Express New York, United States A global payment network and card issuer that provides charge, credit, and prepaid cards.	6.2%
7	Google Pay Mountain View, California, United States A mobile payment and digital wallet service developed by Google that enables users to make contactless and online payments using supported Android phones, tablets, and wearable devices. Free	5.8%
8	Mastercard Purchase, New York, United States A global payment-network processor that connects merchants, banks and card-holders for debit, credit and prepaid payments.	5.6%
9	Apple Pay Cupertino, California, United States A mobile payment and digital wallet service by Apple that lets users make secure contactless and online payments with iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro devices. Free	5.2%
10	Discover Riverwoods, Illinois, United States A global payment network and card issuer offering credit and debit cards as well as processing services.	5.1%
11	Klarna Stockholm, Sweden A Swedish payment service provider and licensed bank that specializes in Buy Now, Pay Later options for online and in-store purchases. $$$	4.5%
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. $$$	1.8%
13	Payoneer New York, United States A global payment platform that enables businesses and professionals to send, receive and manage cross-border payments, hold multi-currency balances, and use physical or virtual Mastercard-branded cards.	1.5%
14	Afterpay Melbourne, Victoria, Australia A buy-now-pay-later payment service that lets shoppers split purchases into installment plans at checkout both online and in stores without interest if payments are made on time. $$$	1.1%
15	Arcot Palo Alto, United States A payment authentication network powered by 3-D Secure (3DS).	1.1%
16	Worldline La Défense, France A European provider of payment and transaction services.	1%
17	Wirecard Aschheim, Bavaria, Germany A full-service provider for merchants, offering POS infrastructure, payment processing and acquiring services.	1%
18	Adyen Amsterdam, Netherlands A payment gateway, processor, and acquirer in one financial technology platform. $0.13+/transaction	0.8%
19	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+	0.6%
20	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	0.6%
21	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. $$$	0.5%
22	WebMoney Moscow, Russia A Russian online payment system.	0.4%
23	Link San Francisco, California, United States A one-click checkout feature from Stripe that allows shoppers to securely save and reuse their payment and shipping information across participating online merchants. $$$	0.4%
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+	0.4%
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. $$$	0.3%

👉 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 83,408 websites from China.
We currently track the presence of 136 payment services across the web.
Of these, 50 were detected on websites from China.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.