⚡ Payments in Colombia

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.

Colombia is a South American country with a population of over 52 million people.

According to our data, payment services are detected on 6.1% of websites from Colombia.

Statistics based on 6K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Mercado Pago with a substantial share of 51.7%, followed by PayPal with 29.5% and Mastercard with 15%.

Mercado Pago 51.7%
PayPal 29.5%
Mastercard 15%
Visa 14.7%
American Express 9%
Shop Pay 7.5%
Stripe 7.2%
Klarna 2.8%
Link 1.8%
Apple Pay 1.6%
PayPal Enterprise Payments 1.6%
Google Pay 1.3%
Authorize.net 1%
Discover 0.8%
Worldline 0.5%

🚀 Highlights

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

1. Mercado Pago ^(-18)
3. Mastercard ^(-2)
5. American Express ^(-3)
9. Link ^(-13)
14. Discover ^(-2)
19. Openpay ^(-64)
20. Nuvei ^(-68)
21. Memberstack ^(-44)
22. Affirm ^(-1)
24. WebMoney ^(-7)

✨ Best Payment Services

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 27 payment services used on sites from Colombia, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Mercado Pago Montevideo, Uruguay A Latin American digital payment platform developed by Mercado Libre that provides payment processing, digital wallet services, and checkout infrastructure for online stores, mobile apps, and physical merchants.	51.7%
2	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. $$$	29.5%
3	Mastercard Purchase, New York, United States A global payment-network processor that connects merchants, banks and card-holders for debit, credit and prepaid payments.	15%
4	Visa San Francisco, California, United States A global payment network processor that enables banks, merchants, and cardholders to conduct debit, credit, and prepaid transactions across more than 200 countries and territories.	14.7%
5	American Express New York, United States A global payment network and card issuer that provides charge, credit, and prepaid cards.	9%
6	Shop Pay Ottawa, Ontario, Canada A Shopify-exclusive accelerated checkout and payment method that lets customers save their billing, shipping, and payment information to complete orders quickly on Shopify stores and in the Shop app. Free$$$	7.5%
7	Stripe San Francisco, California, United States A payments processing platform that helps businesses accept online, mobile, and in-store payments with a single integration. $$$	7.2%
8	Klarna Stockholm, Sweden A Swedish payment service provider and licensed bank that specializes in Buy Now, Pay Later options for online and in-store purchases. $$$	2.8%
9	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. $$$	1.8%
10	Apple Pay Cupertino, California, United States A mobile payment and digital wallet service by Apple that lets users make secure contactless and online payments with iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro devices. Free	1.6%
11	PayPal Enterprise Payments San Jose, California, United States A full-stack payments platform that makes it easy for businesses to accept payments in their apps or websites. $$$	1.6%
12	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	1.3%
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	1%
14	Discover Riverwoods, Illinois, United States A global payment network and card issuer offering credit and debit cards as well as processing services.	0.8%
15	Worldline La Défense, France A European provider of payment and transaction services.	0.5%
16	Arcot Palo Alto, United States A payment authentication network powered by 3-D Secure (3DS).	0.5%
17	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+	0.5%
18	Wirecard Aschheim, Bavaria, Germany A full-service provider for merchants, offering POS infrastructure, payment processing and acquiring services.	0.5%
19	Openpay Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico A Mexican payment gateway that enables businesses to accept and manage online and in-app payments through a unified API and merchant dashboard.	0.5%
20	Nuvei Montreal, Quebec, Canada A B2B payment processor that helps clients accept payments and provides payout options.	0.3%
21	Memberstack Wilmington, Delaware, United States A platform that allows you to add user authentication, gated content, and payments to your website with a single line of code. Free$29+/month	0.3%
22	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. $$$	0.3%
23	Adyen Amsterdam, Netherlands A payment gateway, processor, and acquirer in one financial technology platform. $0.13+/transaction	0.3%
24	WebMoney Moscow, Russia A Russian online payment system.	0.3%
25	Gumroad San Francisco, California, United States An e-commerce platform serving as a merchant of record that enables creators and digital entrepreneurs to sell digital products, memberships, and other goods directly to their audience. $$$	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 6,320 websites from Colombia.
We currently track the presence of 136 payment services across the web.
Of these, 27 were detected on websites from Colombia.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.