Payment methods & local coverage
How this is scored
Which methods a European customer can actually pay with — cards and wallets, SEPA Direct Debit, and the local methods that decide conversion per country — judged on the named list per market rather than on a method count.
0 — Cards only, or a method list with no statement of which countries and currencies each one covers.
3 — Major cards and wallets plus one or two European methods, with local coverage stated vaguely ("many local methods") and no SEPA Direct Debit.
5 — Cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay, SEPA Direct Debit, and the main local methods for DACH and Benelux (iDEAL or Wero, Bancontact, Klarna or invoice) listed by name with the countries they serve.
8 — Broad EU coverage named per country — including methods such as BLIK, TWINT, Przelewy24, EPS and Wero — multi-currency acceptance with settlement currencies stated, and which methods support refunds and recurring charges documented per method.
10 — Coverage is documented as a matrix a merchant can plan against: every method with its countries, currencies, refund, partial-capture and recurring support, and the provider's own acquiring versus third-party routing stated per method.
The Finance Lead
Cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, SEPA Direct Debit and the Benelux names are all there — iDEAL|Wero for the Netherlands, Bancontact for Belgium, Klarna and the in3/Billink instalment options — and the reach beyond is genuinely broad, with EPS, Przelewy24, Multibanco, MB Way, Bizum and Cartes Bancaires listed. But countries are stated for only some methods, and we found no public information on settlement currencies or on refund and recurring support per method outside the SEPA page, so I cannot plan a market entry against it. 5 6 8