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Mobile payment methods accepted by global online merchants 2018

Most popular mobile payment methods accepted by online merchants worldwide in 2017 and 2018

The data describes the share of mobile payment methods accepted by merchants worldwide as of March 2018, by payment type and year. According to the findings, in 2017, 79% of merchants worldwide accepted debit card as a viable method of mobile payment, however, by 2018, this had decreased by four percentage points to 75%.

Credit card 97 92
Debit card 79 75
PayPal 56 61
Prepaid card 33 36
ACH/Bank transfer payments 8 33
Mobile wallets (ApplePay, etc) 22 29
Cryptocurrency (Bitcoin, etc) 2 3
Bill2Phone 1 1
Other 4 4