Alternative Payments® Information

Alternative Payments is the leading local payment methods service provider processing for 18.000+ active e-commerce merchants offering the most comprehensive portfolio of local payment methods and Open Banking. The portfolio includes the most popular local payment methods such as SEPA DirectDebit, iDEAL, giropay, Sofort, eps, Przelewy24, Teleingreso, POLi, SafetyPay, Bancontact, TrustPay, Verkkopankki, Alipay, UnionPay, Paysafecard, and more. Alternative Payments offer the most innovative solutions on the market with only one integration, one contract, and multiple payment methods and automated and fast boarding. The solution is supported by the most powerful eCommerce platforms like Shopify, WooCommerce, OpenCart, OsCommerce and Magento, via the Hosted Checkout Page or Payment Widget. The robust RESTful API enables merchants to avoid complex integrations and offer the complete payments portfolio under one infrastructure. Established in 1999, Alternative Payments understands the need to accept consumer preferred payments and the company remains the only provider focused entirely on increasing merchants’ reach by offering only the local payment methods to consumers and converting sales merchants would have missed out on by relying only on credit cards.