{"id":26478,"date":"2025-07-27T04:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T04:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/26478\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T04:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T04:28:10","slug":"paypal-dominates-web-store-payments-in-germany-but-apple-pay-reigns-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/26478\/","title":{"rendered":"PayPal dominates web store payments in Germany, but Apple Pay reigns in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"

Appcharge, the direct-to-consumer payment platform for mobile game publishers, has analysed data from $500 million in web store transactions, revealing a complex variation in payment preferences from country to country.<\/p>\n

The report has found that credit cards account for around 35% of web store transactions overall, but there is considerable regional variation in their use. Credit cards are used in 55% of transactions in Canada, for example, but in only 6% of transactions in Poland.<\/p>\n

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\nImage credit: Appcharge<\/p>\n

Germany, meanwhile, has a preference for PayPal, which accounts for 64% of web store transactions in the country, but it’s used in only 20% of transactions in the United States, and 14% in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

The UK, however, is a strong market for Apple Pay, which is used in 37% of transactions, making it one of the few markets where Apple Pay is used more than credit cards \u2013 which account for 27% of transactions in the country.<\/p>\n

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\nImage credit: Appcharge<\/p>\n

Google Pay is strongest in Spain, where it is used in 43% of transactions \u2013 compared with just 21% in the UK.<\/p>\n

In the Netherlands, however, the iDEAL payment system accounts for a huge 68% of web store transactions.<\/p>\n

The full Appcharge report can be found here<\/a>. It comes as Apple is making changes to allow third-party payments on iOS in the wake of being fined<\/a> $568.6 million (\u20ac500m) for violating the EU’s Digital Markets Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Appcharge, the direct-to-consumer payment platform for mobile game publishers, has analysed data from $500 million in web store…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2306,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-26478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-mobile","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}