⚡ Payments in France

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.

France is a Western European country with a population of around 69 million people.

According to our data, payment services are detected on 5.3% of websites from France.

Statistics based on 114K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is PayPal, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 71.9% share.
It is followed by Stripe with 18.3% and Shop Pay with 14.6%.

PayPal 71.9%
Stripe 18.3%
Shop Pay 14.6%
Visa 14.4%
Mastercard 13.8%
Google Pay 6.6%
Apple Pay 6.2%
American Express 5.6%
PayPal Enterprise Payments 5.3%
Klarna 4.7%
Worldline 4%
Arcot 3.1%
Wirecard 3%
Adyen 2.1%
Amazon Pay 2%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. Stripe ^(-1)
7. Apple Pay ^(-2)
9. PayPal Enterprise Payments ^(-1)
12. Arcot ^(-1)
13. Wirecard ^(-1)
14. Adyen ^(-5)
16. Scalapay ^(-16)
17. Bancontact ^(-7)
19. Mollie ^(-6)
22. Checkout.com ^(-35)

✨ Best Payment Services

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 84 payment services used on sites from France, 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. $$$	71.9%
2	Stripe San Francisco, California, United States A payments processing platform that helps businesses accept online, mobile, and in-store payments with a single integration. $$$	18.3%
3	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$$$	14.6%
4	Visa San Francisco, California, United States A global payment network processor that enables banks, merchants, and cardholders to conduct debit, credit, and prepaid transactions across more than 200 countries and territories.	14.4%
5	Mastercard Purchase, New York, United States A global payment-network processor that connects merchants, banks and card-holders for debit, credit and prepaid payments.	13.8%
6	Google Pay Mountain View, California, United States A mobile payment and digital wallet service developed by Google that enables users to make contactless and online payments using supported Android phones, tablets, and wearable devices. Free	6.6%
7	Apple Pay Cupertino, California, United States A mobile payment and digital wallet service by Apple that lets users make secure contactless and online payments with iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro devices. Free	6.2%
8	American Express New York, United States A global payment network and card issuer that provides charge, credit, and prepaid cards.	5.6%
9	PayPal Enterprise Payments San Jose, California, United States A full-stack payments platform that makes it easy for businesses to accept payments in their apps or websites. $$$	5.3%
10	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. $$$	4.7%
11	Worldline La Défense, France A European provider of payment and transaction services.	4%
12	Arcot Palo Alto, United States A payment authentication network powered by 3-D Secure (3DS).	3.1%
13	Wirecard Aschheim, Bavaria, Germany A full-service provider for merchants, offering POS infrastructure, payment processing and acquiring services.	3%
14	Adyen Amsterdam, Netherlands A payment gateway, processor, and acquirer in one financial technology platform. $0.13+/transaction	2.1%
15	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+	2%
16	Scalapay Milan, Italy A payment method that allows customers to pay their order in 3 or 4 installments, interests-free.	1.9%
17	Bancontact Brussels, Belgium A Belgium-based real-time online bank transfer payment method.	1.3%
18	Discover Riverwoods, Illinois, United States A global payment network and card issuer offering credit and debit cards as well as processing services.	1.1%
19	Mollie Ansterdam, Netherlands A Netherlands-based payment platform for in-person payments, subscriptions, and financing.	1.1%
20	Recharge Santa Monica, California, United States A subscription payment solution with Shopify and BigCommerce integration and powerful APIs. $99+/month	1.1%
21	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	1.1%
22	Checkout.com London, United Kingdom A global payments platform that includes a gateway, acquirer, and processor.	0.6%
23	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	0.5%
24	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%
25	Wero Brussels, Belgium A European GDPR-compliant mobile payment system operating in Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands, designed for instant account-based payments across borders. Free	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 114,483 websites from France.
We currently track the presence of 136 payment services across the web.
Of these, 84 were detected on websites from France.
Statistics were last calculated on May 6, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.