Payment · Alternatives
PostFinance Checkout alternatives
As of 3 Nov 2026, the panel rates Adyen (3/5), Mollie (3/5) and Novalnet (3/5) highest among the other 35 Payment products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is Adyen (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made.
European alternatives to PostFinance Checkout
European by provenance (EU-made, EU origin with foreign ownership, or UK and wider Europe). Data hosting is stated only where the vendor’s own pages prove it.
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Adyen
EU-MadePanel rating
Adyen's evidence is strongest in recurring billing and settlement and reconciliation, where scores reach 8; payment methods and checkout and SCA sit at a uniform 7, with named local methods and an Authentication Engine that applies PSD2 SCA exemptions automatically.
- Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
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Mollie
EU-MadePanel rating
Mollie, a Dutch e-money institution licensed by De Nederlandsche Bank, scores strongest where a buyer can check numbers: pricing transparency at 7-8, with payment methods and settlement and reconciliation clustered at 7.
- Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
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Novalnet
EU-MadePanel rating
Novalnet AG, a BaFin-supervised German payment institution, is scored highest on settlement and reconciliation, 6 to 8, and lowest on checkout and SCA, 4 to 5.
- Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
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Checkout.com
UK / wider EuropePanel rating
Checkout.com lands mid-range on this bench, with persona-weighted verdicts between 5.8 and 6.3.
- Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
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Paddle
UK / wider EuropePanel rating
Paddle, a merchant-of-record payments platform, scores best where money is counted: settlement and reconciliation clusters at 7, on payout reports that itemise Paddle fee, FX fee, chargeback fee, retained fee and tax so rows sum to the remittance advice, across a stated monthly cycle — created the 1st, sent by the 15th, above $100, €100 or £100 — and thirteen payout currencies.
- Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
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Pay.
EU-MadePanel rating
Pay., operated by TinTel B.V., is a Dutch payment institution licensed by De Nederlandsche Bank since 29 July 2013.
- Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
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GoCardless
UK / wider EuropePanel rating
GoCardless is a bank-debit specialist: SEPA Direct Debit named across a 36-country zone, Instant Bank Pay in GBP and EUR, Pay By Bank and Commercial VRP.
- Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
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Unzer
EU origin, foreign-ownedPanel rating
Unzer's public pages are strongest on licence and account terms, scored 5-6: three supervised payment institutions — BaFin register number 122914, CSSF Z00000009, Danish FSA no.
- Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
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MultiSafepay
EU-MadePanel rating
MultiSafepay is a Dutch collecting payments provider — MultiSafepay B.V.
- Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
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PAYONE
EU-MadePanel rating
PAYONE's public documentation is strongest on checkout and SCA, where five of six judges scored 7 to 8: four integration modes including hosted checkout, 3-D Secure handled automatically, and an exemption engine whose low-value rules — below 30 €, capped at five unauthenticated transactions or 100 € — sit beside acquirer risk analysis and automatic soft-decline recovery.
- Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
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Nexi Checkout
EU-MadePanel rating
Nexi Checkout — the former Nets Easy, from Nexi Germany GmbH of Eschborn under a BaFin e-money licence — scores highest on payment methods at 5–6 and pricing transparency at a flat 4.
- Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
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Payplug
EU-MadePanel rating
Payplug is a payment institution — PAYPLUG ENTERPRISE SAS, approved by the Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution under bank code CIB 16378 — offering online and in-store card acceptance (over 20,000 merchants; €10,9 billion processed in 2025) through Starter (€10 / month) and Pro (€30 / month, 3 months free) plans priced by card tier and market group.
- Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
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wallee
UK / wider EuropePanel rating
wallee is a payment platform of Wallee Group AG, Winterthur, Switzerland, with entities also registered in Hamburg, Vilnius and Luxembourg.
- Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
Other alternatives
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PayPal
Rest of worldPanel rating
PayPal is a payment provider whose evidence is strongest on published pricing and weakest on the data layer.
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Stripe
Rest of worldPanel rating
Stripe's strongest scores sit in checkout and strong customer authentication (flat 7s) and recurring billing (flat 7s), with settlement and reconciliation and pricing transparency at 7-8.
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Nuvei
Provenance unknownPanel rating
Nuvei is a payments platform whose public documentation is strongest where card acceptance gets technical: checkout and SCA scores sit at 7, with the judges crediting 3-D Secure coverage that enumerates fifteen challenge-preference reasons, per-transaction exemption control, soft-decline resubmission and a plainly stated liability shift.
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Worldpay
Provenance unknownPanel rating
Worldpay, LLC, now part of Global Payments, earns its best scores on checkout and SCA at 7-8: 3-D Secure 2 with device data collection, exemptions for low value under €30, transaction risk analysis and merchant-initiated transactions, liability shift explained per flow, and a PCI-compliant Checkout SDK with hosted card fields.
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SlimPay
Provenance unknownPanel rating
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Ratepay
Provenance unknownPanel rating
Ratepay, from the BaFin-regulated Ratepay GmbH of Berlin, is a buy-now-pay-later and direct-debit specialist whose evidence is strongest in settlement and reconciliation, scored a flat 6: a CSV report generated with every payout, itemising amounts and fee types per transaction — disagio, transaction fee, service charge, VAT, interest cost, chargebacks — delivered each working day via the ORCA portal and SFTP, carrying a merchant ERP accounting reference.
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Saferpay
Provenance unknownPanel rating
Saferpay, the payment platform of Saferpay AG (Worldline), is strongest on checkout and SCA with scores of 7-8 and on payment methods at 7: the acquirer directory names local rails market by market — iDEAL, Bancontact, TWINT, Blik, Przelewy24, eps, Wero, Klarna, SEPA Direct Debit — with the acquirer behind each, and the PSD2 pages set out exemptions with their limits, liability shift per flow, soft-decline recovery and test cards to rehearse it.
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SumUp
Provenance unknownPanel rating
SumUp is strongest on checkout and SCA and settlement and reconciliation: judges credit a documented hosted checkout and payment widget with EMV 3-D Secure frictionless and challenge flows, SCA exemption categories and a sandbox with test cards, plus a payouts API returning dates, fees, references and statuses with deduction records for refunds, chargebacks and direct-debit returns, in JSON or CSV, with webhooks and stated next-day funds availability.
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Paytrail
Provenance unknownPanel rating
Paytrail Oyj is a Finnish payment institution in the Nexi/Nets group, with Finanssivalvonta named as the supervisory authority.
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Ecommpay
Provenance unknownPanel rating
Ecommpay is a payment provider whose captured public pages are strongest on recurring billing and payment-method breadth, weakest on data-location and account-term disclosure.
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Paysafe
Provenance unknownPanel rating
Paysafe, a payment provider held under Paysafe Holdings UK Limited, scores highest on recurring billing at 5: card recurring through Skrill Quick Checkout, SEPA mandates via a Mandate API with pre-notification and merchant-initiated debits, per-payment status callbacks and a query interface to check, cancel or extend a payment are all documented.
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Trustly
Provenance unknownPanel rating
Trustly sells Pay by Bank: acceptance is by direct bank transfer, and its recurring product runs North American merchants' subscriptions on UK BACS Direct Debit (United Kingdom, Guernsey, Jersey, Gibraltar).
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Przelewy24
Provenance unknownPanel rating
Przelewy24 is the payment service of PayPro S.A., a domestic payment institution supervised by the Polish Financial Supervisory Authority.
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Trust Payments
Provenance unknownPanel rating
Trust Payments is a payment provider whose public pages earn their highest marks on payment methods, 4 to 6, and licence and account terms, 4 to 6: six card schemes, Google Pay, Apple Pay and PayPal, a named European local list from iDEAL to Przelewy24, and both regulated entities disclosed with register numbers — TrustUK Payments Ltd under the FCA, reference 932557, and Trust Payments (Malta) Limited under the MFSA, C56013 — plus PCI DSS Level 1 published.
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Paysera
Provenance unknownPanel rating
The evidence is developer documentation for Paysera LT, UAB's checkout and recurring billing APIs.
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Billie
Provenance unknownPanel rating
Billie is a Berlin-based B2B buy-now-pay-later provider: the contracting entity is Billie GmbH, registered in Berlin Charlottenburg, with BaFin named as supervisory authority and claims assigned via Klarna Bank AB.
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Payoneer
Provenance unknownPanel rating
Payoneer Checkout is documented as end-to-end payment processing for small and medium-sized ecommerce businesses.
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Scalapay
Provenance unknownPanel rating
Scalapay S.p.A.'s public pages describe one consumer payment method: pay in 3 interest-free installments, online and in-store, on a connected Visa, Mastercard or AMEX card.
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Tpay
Provenance unknownPanel rating
Tpay is a payment service from Krajowy Integrator Płatności S.A., seated in Poznań, and the bench's marks are low and narrow, with persona-weighted totals of 2.3 to 2.4.
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Worldline Online Payments
Provenance unknownPanel rating
Worldline Online Payments is an online payments offering from Worldline S.A., headquartered at Tour Voltaire, 1 Place des Degrés, 92059 Paris la Défense Cedex, France.
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Alma
Provenance unknownPanel rating Not rated — too little public evidence
This verdict rests on a single captured page — Alma's homepage on its French domain, captured 20 Oct 2026 — whose entire substance is a one-line self-description: "Éditeur de logiciels métier et facilitateur numérique" (publisher of business software and digital facilitator).
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Klarna
Provenance unknownPanel rating Not rated — too little public evidence
Klarna Bank AB was judged on developer documentation that, by the vendor's confirmed statement, serves payment providers — for example Stripe or Adyen — that process payments and distribute Klarna, rather than merchants choosing acceptance per market.