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by PostFinance AG · postfinance.ch

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PostFinance Checkout at a glance

Vendor
PostFinance AG
Headquarters
Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 3 Nov 2026
Data hosting
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Free plan
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Panel verdict
The AI panel rates PostFinance Checkout 1/5, the mean of 6 judges. PostFinance Checkout is PostFinance AG's card-acquiring offer, run through a back office tool, PAX card terminals and shop plug-ins. how scores are made
As of
Vendor pages captured 3 Nov 2026; evaluated by the panel 3 Nov 2026. all sources

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Read this page as one judge. Each weighs the same scores by what they care about.

The SaaS Founder

Weighted verdict

Runs a B2B subscription business where every failed renewal is churn nobody chose. Wants SEPA mandates as well as cards, dunning that recovers, proration that is correct, and the payment tokens exportable — because a provider that keeps the tokens keeps the customer base hostage.

Same scores as the panel view — this lens weights them the way this judge cares.

Scored by The SaaS Founder

Panel median The SaaS Founder This judge’s scores over the panel median. Each label opens its reasoning below.
Scores per criterion, in stars out of 5
Criterion Panel median The SaaS Founder
Payment methods & local coverage 1.5 of 5 1.5 of 5
Checkout, SCA & fraud 1 of 5 1 of 5
Subscriptions & recurring payments 0.5 of 5 0.5 of 5
Settlement, reconciliation & API 2 of 5 2 of 5
Licence, risk & account terms 1 of 5 1 of 5
European sovereignty 1 of 5 1 of 5
Pricing transparency 0.5 of 5 0.5 of 5

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 — Not a payment acceptance product; customers cannot pay through it.

3 — Card payments with the major schemes, plus wallets such as Apple Pay or Google Pay.

5 — Cards and wallets plus SEPA Direct Debit and several European local methods (for example iDEAL or Wero, Bancontact, Klarna, EPS) listed by name.

8 — Broad EU coverage named per country with the countries and currencies each method serves — 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.

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The SaaS Founder

Card acceptance is documented — a single acquiring agreement covering the most common cashless payment methods including PostFinance Card, taken through PAX card terminals and shop plug-ins for systems like WooCommerce and Shopify. The captured pages name no wallets, no SEPA Direct Debit and no local methods with their countries, and we found no public information on refunds or recurring support per method, so there is nothing here to plan cross-border billing on. 2 3 4

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Checkout, SCA & fraud

How this is scored

The path from basket to authorised payment under PSD2: hosted and embedded checkout options, 3-D Secure and SCA exemption handling, fraud screening, and what the provider documents about keeping legitimate payments from failing.

0 — No checkout or payment form; the product does not take a payment to authorisation itself.

3 — A hosted payment page or payment links with 3-D Secure.

5 — Hosted and embedded checkout options, 3-D Secure 2 with SCA handled by the provider, and fraud screening with configurable rules.

8 — SCA exemptions (low value, transaction risk analysis, merchant-initiated) applied and documented, the PCI DSS scope of each integration type stated, fraud tooling with rules and risk scores exposed to the merchant, network tokens or account updater, and liability shift explained per flow.

10 — Authorisation is engineered and shown: exemption strategy documented, soft-decline retry handled, authorisation-rate reporting by method and issuer country, and a checkout the merchant can run in their own domain while staying at the lowest PCI scope.

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The SaaS Founder

There is a real e-commerce path — shop plug-ins plus a back office tool, with free registration and a simulation mode for testing. But 3-D Secure appears only as a cardholder self-service tool on the bank homepage, and we found no public information on SCA exemptions, fraud screening or authorisation handling for the merchant flow. 4 1

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Subscriptions & recurring payments

How this is scored

Charging the same customer again: card-on-file and merchant-initiated transactions, SEPA mandates, subscription logic and dunning — and whether the stored payment credentials can leave with the merchant.

0 — One-off payments only; the product stores no payment method for a later charge.

3 — Saved cards (card-on-file) charged again for repeat or recurring payments.

5 — Stored cards and SEPA Direct Debit mandates for recurring charges, merchant-initiated transactions, and subscriptions or scheduled payments with notification of failed payments.

8 — Subscription billing with trials, proration and plan changes, smart retries and dunning, card account updater, mandate management with pre-notification, and a documented process for exporting payment tokens to another provider.

10 — Recurring revenue is a first-class product: usage-based and invoice-based billing, dunning with measurable recovery, token migration in and out documented with a stated timeline and format, and recurring support stated for every local method that allows it.

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The SaaS Founder

The billing pages describe an e-invoicing portal for creating, sending and managing invoices — document dispatch, not charges. We found no public information on card-on-file charging, SEPA mandates, dunning, proration or any process for exporting payment tokens, which is exactly what I need before trusting anyone with renewal revenue. 5 6

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Settlement, reconciliation & API

How this is scored

Getting the money and knowing what it was: payout cadence and currencies, fee itemisation per transaction, reports that match a bank statement, and an API and webhooks a team can build finance processes on.

0 — No merchant reporting: the product is a payment button or link with no dashboard, report or API.

3 — A dashboard of transactions and payouts, a stated payout schedule, and CSV export.

5 — The payout schedule stated, reports or exports that link each payout to its transactions and fees, and a documented API with webhooks and a test mode.

8 — Configurable payout schedules and settlement currencies, reconciliation reports that match bank lines, accounting integrations or exports named, a versioned API with idempotency and published rate limits, and a public status page with incident history.

10 — Finance can close the month from the provider's data: interchange and scheme fees itemised per transaction, automated reconciliation to the ledger, a deprecation policy for the API, and full historical data exportable after the contract ends.

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The SaaS Founder

Outpayment within two working days is stated, all payment methods settle centrally in a single reconciliation file, and there is a validation environment for payment files. No merchant API, webhooks, fee itemisation or accounting export is documented in the captured pages, so a finance team cannot build a process on it. 2 3 6

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Licence, risk & account terms

How this is scored

Who holds the merchant's money under which licence, and what the contract lets the provider do on a bad day: freezes, reserves, termination, chargebacks. Scored on what the terms and the imprint state, not on reputation.

0 — The terms let the provider freeze funds or close the account at any time with no notice, reason or timeline.

3 — The regulated entity or the licensed partner behind the payments named, and a chargeback or dispute process described.

5 — The regulated entity named with its supervisor or licence type, the dispute process and chargeback fee published, and either safeguarding of merchant funds or a notice period for ordinary termination stated.

8 — Entity, supervisor, register number and passporting stated per country; safeguarding stated; reserve and rolling-hold conditions defined with limits and release timelines; freeze and termination terms with reasons and a route to appeal; PCI DSS level and attestation published.

10 — The bad day is written down: every regulated entity in the chain named with register links, reserve calculation disclosed, funds release timelines after termination committed, a documented complaint route to the supervisor, and exit terms that include handing back payment tokens and transaction history.

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The SaaS Founder

PostFinance describes itself as the only bank in Switzerland offering the entire payment process from A to Z, and the merchant terminates the contract themselves, with excluded methods such as American Express listed up front. We found no public information on the supervisor or licence register, a chargeback or dispute process, reserves, or what happens to funds on a bad day. 3 2

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Who the contracting and regulated entity is, and where transaction and cardholder data are processed and stored. Independently sourced by the sovereignty pipeline. The card schemes are US-based for every provider, so the scheme layer is not held against any one vendor; the part the vendor controls is.

0 — Contracting entity and processing of payment data both shown to be outside the EU, with no transfer safeguard stated.

3 — A named contracting entity and a privacy policy or data processing agreement; the processing location of payment data not stated or partly outside the EU.

5 — An EU contracting or regulated entity, with EU processing of core payment data stated or a subprocessor list published, and a data processing agreement offered.

8 — EU entity and EU licence, payment and cardholder data processed and stored in the EU on named infrastructure, subprocessor list published with locations, and a DPA covering the processing the provider does as processor versus as controller.

10 — Sovereign end to end and evidenced: European ownership, EU entity and licence, every processing location and subprocessor European, European rails (SEPA, Wero or national schemes) offered alongside cards, and certifications published.

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The SaaS Founder

The contracting entity is PostFinance, a Swiss bank outside the EU — the pages prove that much and nothing more. We found no public information on where transaction and cardholder data are processed or stored, and no subprocessor list or data processing agreement in the captured pages. 3

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Pricing transparency

How this is scored

Whether a merchant can compute the effective fee for their own mix of cards, countries and methods — including cross-border and currency conversion markups, chargebacks, refunds, payouts and monthly fees — from public pages alone.

0 — No public prices at all; every rate is a sales conversation.

3 — A headline rate published for one method or card type, or a "from" percentage.

5 — Rates published per main method with domestic and international cards distinguished, and any monthly or plan fee stated with its billing period; ancillary fees (currency conversion, chargeback, payout) may still be missing or "on request".

8 — Every method priced publicly, cross-border and currency conversion markups stated, chargeback, refund and payout fees listed, minimum monthly fees and contract term given, and whether the model is blended or interchange++ said plainly.

10 — Complete fee computability: the effective rate derivable for a given volume, card mix and country mix — interchange++ with the markup published or a blended rate with every exception listed — plus volume tiers, reserves and every ancillary fee on a public page.

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The SaaS Founder

The only public price facts are free registration with simulation mode, a 50 percent discount on a PAX card terminal in the POS bundle, and account fees waived for three years. No transaction rate, conversion markup, chargeback fee or payout fee is published in the captured pages, so no merchant can compute an effective rate for their own mix. 3 4

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Questions about PostFinance Checkout

Is PostFinance Checkout European?

Not determined: the vendor’s pages as captured do not say where PostFinance Checkout is based.

Where does PostFinance Checkout store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 3 Nov 2026.

Does PostFinance Checkout have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 3 Nov 2026.

What are the best alternatives to PostFinance Checkout?

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. The full list, with European products first: PostFinance Checkout alternatives.

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What we left out

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Sources (6)

The pages every claim on this page was read from — each one checked, dated, and kept verifiable.

  1. 1 Vendor page postfinance.ch Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Payment methods & local coverage — found from sitemap www.postfinance.ch Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Payment methods & local coverage — found from sitemap www.postfinance.ch Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Checkout, SCA & fraud — found from sitemap www.postfinance.ch Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Subscriptions & recurring payments — found from sitemap www.postfinance.ch Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Subscriptions & recurring payments — found from sitemap www.postfinance.ch Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →