⚡ Payments in the United Kingdom

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.

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) is a Western European country with a population of over 67 million people.

According to our data, payment services are detected on 9.1% of websites from the United Kingdom.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is PayPal, which dominates the market with a substantial 64.6% share.
It is followed by Shop Pay with 30.3% and Stripe with 21.4%.

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top services that are more popular in the United Kingdom 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 97 payment services used on sites from the United Kingdom, 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
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.

$$$
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
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.

$$$
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
American Express
New York, United States

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

11
Arcot
Palo Alto, United States

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

12
Worldline
La Défense, France

A European provider of payment and transaction services.

13
Wirecard
Aschheim, Bavaria, Germany

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

14
Opayo
Atlanta, Georgia, United States

A payment gateway serving merchants in the UK and Ireland.

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
Recharge
Santa Monica, California, United States

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

$99+/month
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+
18
Adyen
Amsterdam, Netherlands

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

$0.13+/transaction
19
Worldpay
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

A merchant services and payment processing provider serving over one million merchants globally.

20
Discover
Riverwoods, Illinois, United States

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

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
22
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
23
Clearpay
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

A payment service that lends customers a fixed amount of credit to make purchases instantly and then pay for them in 4 automatic, interest-free installments.

24
Revolut
London, United Kingdom

A digital financial platform that offers personal and business accounts, multi-currency spending, debit cards, international transfers, and investment options.

25
Mollie
Ansterdam, Netherlands

A Netherlands-based payment platform for in-person payments, subscriptions, and financing.

👉 See Also

Data is based on the analysis of 157,370 websites from the United Kingdom.
Statistics were last calculated on .
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.