⚡ Payments in Ireland

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.

Ireland is a Western European country with a population of over 5.1 million people.

According to our data, payment services are detected on 9.3% of websites from Ireland.

Statistics based on 13K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is PayPal with a substantial share of 52.4%, followed by Stripe with 27.7% and Shop Pay with 24.7%.

PayPal 52.4%
Stripe 27.7%
Shop Pay 24.7%
Visa 14%
Mastercard 13.4%
Google Pay 8.4%
Klarna 7.4%
Apple Pay 6.5%
PayPal Enterprise Payments 4.8%
American Express 4.5%
Arcot 3.3%
Worldline 2.9%
Global Payments 2.6%
Wirecard 2.5%
Adyen 1.9%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. Stripe ^(-1)
8. Apple Pay ^(-1)
9. PayPal Enterprise Payments ^(-1)
11. Arcot ^(-2)
13. Global Payments ^(-55)
15. Adyen ^(-5)
17. Revolut ^(-25)
19. Square ^(-2)
21. Worldpay ^(-24)
22. Opayo ^(-19)

✨ Best Payment Services

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 63 payment services used on sites from Ireland, 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. $$$	52.4%
2	Stripe San Francisco, California, United States A payments processing platform that helps businesses accept online, mobile, and in-store payments with a single integration. $$$	27.7%
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$$$	24.7%
4	Visa San Francisco, California, United States A global payment network processor that enables banks, merchants, and cardholders to conduct debit, credit, and prepaid transactions across more than 200 countries and territories.	14%
5	Mastercard Purchase, New York, United States A global payment-network processor that connects merchants, banks and card-holders for debit, credit and prepaid payments.	13.4%
6	Google Pay Mountain View, California, United States A mobile payment and digital wallet service developed by Google that enables users to make contactless and online payments using supported Android phones, tablets, and wearable devices. Free	8.4%
7	Klarna Stockholm, Sweden A Swedish payment service provider and licensed bank that specializes in Buy Now, Pay Later options for online and in-store purchases. $$$	7.4%
8	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	6.5%
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. $$$	4.8%
10	American Express New York, United States A global payment network and card issuer that provides charge, credit, and prepaid cards.	4.5%
11	Arcot Palo Alto, United States A payment authentication network powered by 3-D Secure (3DS).	3.3%
12	Worldline La Défense, France A European provider of payment and transaction services.	2.9%
13	Global Payments Atlanta, Georgia, United States An American payment service that enables businesses to process payments made through credit cards, debit cards, and digital and contactless payments.	2.6%
14	Wirecard Aschheim, Bavaria, Germany A full-service provider for merchants, offering POS infrastructure, payment processing and acquiring services.	2.5%
15	Adyen Amsterdam, Netherlands A payment gateway, processor, and acquirer in one financial technology platform. $0.13+/transaction	1.9%
16	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+	1.9%
17	Revolut London, United Kingdom A digital financial platform that offers personal and business accounts, multi-currency spending, debit cards, international transfers, and investment options.	1.4%
18	Discover Riverwoods, Illinois, United States A global payment network and card issuer offering credit and debit cards as well as processing services.	1.3%
19	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	1.3%
20	Recharge Santa Monica, California, United States A subscription payment solution with Shopify and BigCommerce integration and powerful APIs. $99+/month	1.2%
21	Worldpay Cincinnati, Ohio, United States A merchant services and payment processing provider serving over one million merchants globally.	1%
22	Opayo Atlanta, Georgia, United States A payment gateway serving merchants in the UK and Ireland.	0.8%
23	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+	0.7%
24	Mollie Ansterdam, Netherlands A Netherlands-based payment platform for in-person payments, subscriptions, and financing.	0.7%
25	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. $$$	0.7%

👉 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 13,844 websites from Ireland.
We currently track the presence of 136 payment services across the web.
Of these, 63 were detected on websites from Ireland.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.