⚡ Payments in Nepal

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.

Nepal is a South Asian country with a population of over 31 million people.

According to our data, payment services are detected on 3.4% of websites from Nepal.

Statistics based on 2K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is PayPal with an impressive share of 50%, followed by Visa with 45.3% and Mastercard with 40.7%.

PayPal 50%
Visa 45.3%
Mastercard 40.7%
American Express 26.7%
Stripe 7%
Discover 5.8%
Shop Pay 3.5%
FastSpring 2.3%
Skrill 2.3%
Payoneer 2.3%
PayPal Enterprise Payments 1.2%
Arcot 1.2%
Google Pay 1.2%
Worldline 1.2%
Wirecard 1.2%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. Visa ^(-2)
3. Mastercard ^(-2)
4. American Express ^(-4)
6. Discover ^(-10)
8. FastSpring ^(-42)
9. Skrill ^(-20)
10. Payoneer ^(-57)
12. Arcot ^(-1)
16. Wise ^(-48)
17. Mercado Pago ^(-3)

✨ Best Payment Services

Below is a more detailed list of 17 payment services used on sites from Nepal, 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. $$$	50%
2	Visa San Francisco, California, United States A global payment network processor that enables banks, merchants, and cardholders to conduct debit, credit, and prepaid transactions across more than 200 countries and territories.	45.3%
3	Mastercard Purchase, New York, United States A global payment-network processor that connects merchants, banks and card-holders for debit, credit and prepaid payments.	40.7%
4	American Express New York, United States A global payment network and card issuer that provides charge, credit, and prepaid cards.	26.7%
5	Stripe San Francisco, California, United States A payments processing platform that helps businesses accept online, mobile, and in-store payments with a single integration. $$$	7%
6	Discover Riverwoods, Illinois, United States A global payment network and card issuer offering credit and debit cards as well as processing services.	5.8%
7	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$$$	3.5%
8	FastSpring Santa Barbara, California, United States A merchant-of-record e-commerce platform that provides an all-in-one payment and subscription infrastructure for SaaS, software, and digital-goods businesses. $$$	2.3%
9	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+	2.3%
10	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.	2.3%
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. $$$	1.2%
12	Arcot Palo Alto, United States A payment authentication network powered by 3-D Secure (3DS).	1.2%
13	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	1.2%
14	Worldline La Défense, France A European provider of payment and transaction services.	1.2%
15	Wirecard Aschheim, Bavaria, Germany A full-service provider for merchants, offering POS infrastructure, payment processing and acquiring services.	1.2%
16	Wise London, United Kingdom A money services business provider that specializes in international payments, currency conversion, and multi-currency account services for individuals and businesses, using exchange rates based on the mid-market rate and clearly disclosed fees.	1.2%
17	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.	1.2%

🗃️ 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 2,497 websites from Nepal.
We currently track the presence of 136 payment services across the web.
Of these, 17 were detected on websites from Nepal.
Statistics were last calculated on May 6, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.