⚡ Online Payment Services in South Africa
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.
South Africa is an African country with a population of over 60 million people.
According to our data, online payment services are detected on 2.8% of websites from South Africa.
⭐ Most Popular in 2026
The following chart shows the top online payment services on websites in South Africa in 2026, based on market share.
The most popular is PayPal, which dominates the market with a substantial 53.5% share.
It is followed by Visa with 25% and
Mastercard with 22.9%.
🚀 Highlights
Here is a list of the top services that are more popular in South Africa than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.
- 2.
Visa (-3)
- 3.
Mastercard (-3)
- 6.
Google Pay (-1)
- 7.
PayPal Enterprise Payments (-3)
- 8.
Arcot (-6)
- 9.
Worldline (-2)
- 10.
Wirecard (-5) - 14.
Samsung Pay (-73) - 15.
Skrill (-12)
- 17.
Link (-6)
✨ Best Online Payment Services
Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 37 online payment services used on sites from South Africa, ranked by their market share.
🗃️ 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 20,818 websites from South Africa.
- We currently track the presence of 138 online payment services across the web.
- Of these, 37 were detected on websites from South Africa.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.




