⚡ Payments in Tanzania

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.

Tanzania is an East African country with a population of over 67 million people.

According to our data, payment services are detected on 2.1% of websites from Tanzania.

Statistics based on 776 analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is PayPal with a substantial share of 62.5%, followed by Visa with 31.3% and Mastercard with 25%.

PayPal 62.5%
Visa 31.3%
Mastercard 25%
Stripe 18.8%
Shop Pay 12.5%
Klarna 6.3%
American Express 6.3%
Razorpay 6.3%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. Visa ^(-2)
3. Mastercard ^(-2)
6. Klarna ^(-1)
7. American Express ^(-1)
8. Razorpay ^(-18)

✨ Best Payment Services

Below is a more detailed list of 8 payment services used on sites from Tanzania, 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. $$$	62.5%
2	Visa San Francisco, California, United States A global payment network processor that enables banks, merchants, and cardholders to conduct debit, credit, and prepaid transactions across more than 200 countries and territories.	31.3%
3	Mastercard Purchase, New York, United States A global payment-network processor that connects merchants, banks and card-holders for debit, credit and prepaid payments.	25%
4	Stripe San Francisco, California, United States A payments processing platform that helps businesses accept online, mobile, and in-store payments with a single integration. $$$	18.8%
5	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$$$	12.5%
6	Klarna Stockholm, Sweden A Swedish payment service provider and licensed bank that specializes in Buy Now, Pay Later options for online and in-store purchases. $$$	6.3%
7	American Express New York, United States A global payment network and card issuer that provides charge, credit, and prepaid cards.	6.3%
8	Razorpay Bengaluru, India A full-stack payment solution that allows businesses to collect payments, automate payouts and take control of their cash flow. $$$	6.3%

👉 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 776 websites from Tanzania.
We currently track the presence of 136 payment services across the web.
Of these, 8 were detected on websites from Tanzania.
Statistics were last calculated on June 20, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.