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PayPal Market Share Statistics And Its History of Dominating Online Payment Processing

While I’m a huge fan of Amazon, an Amazon Affiliate, and a Prime Addict, I also like PayPal. I have a great credit account with PayPal, get cash back on expenditures, and I can setup alternative payments for my PayPal Debit Card – very convenient for the business. Just today I was on Sweetwater and wanted to purchase some new headphones via PayPal. I honestly purchased them via Sweetwater because of their PayPal Credit integration. (I’d add that the folks at Sweetwater are absolutely amazing – I even received a phone call from my assigned sales engineer after the purchase congratulating me).

PayPal is an incredible option for e-commerce because it doesn’t require that your store record any of the credit card data. That’s a beautiful security feature. I’d add that there is a downside to PayPal, though, and that’s their system in dealing with challenged charges. I have a colleague who paid their bill, then challenged it, and without any notice – PayPal just pulled the money back out of the colleague’s bank account. What transpired next was a terrible back and forth between the two parties. Since he didn’t have a bullet-proof contract, he eventually lost despite having delivered the work.

PayPal Market Share

As of 2020, PayPal’s dominates online with over half of the market share. Here’s a breakdown of PayPal and its competitors:

Payment ProcessorNumber of SitesMarket Share
Paypal426,95454.48%
Stripe145,565 18.57% 
Amazon Pay29,305 3.74% 
Square Payments18,015 2.30% 
Braintree (Owned by PayPal)17,400 2.22% 
Stripe Checkout15,444 1.97% 
Authorize.net13,150 1.68% 
Afterpay11,267 1.44% 
Klarna9,388 1.20% 
Vanco Payment Solutions8,977 1.15% 
LawPay6,295 0.80% 
Affirm4,261 0.49% 
Worldpay3,518 0.45% 
Sezzle3,471 0.44% 
Source: Datanyze

Back to my point… PayPal isn’t simply a payment gateway anymore, it has its own ecosystem online. With 200 million active users, 16 million merchant accounts, and 1.7 billion transactions, #PayPal is the largest online payment system. There’s PayPal community that’s vibrant and both sells exclusively through PayPal and buys exclusively with PayPal. If you’re an e-commerce site, PayPal should surely be part of your payment options to capitalize on this community.

PayPal is a Revolutionary platform transformed the world of money service business. This infographic, The Success Story of The Biggest Online Payment System, takes a look at how Paypal made its way to the top of the online payments world and how it continues to grow bigger.

Here are some notable statistics on PayPal:

  • In 1999, PayPal was voted one of the year’s 10 worst business ideas
  • PayPal has 10% growth per annum compared to the industry average 3% growth
  • 18% of all e-commerce is processed by PayPal
  • On CyberMonday of 2015, Paypal hit a record 450 transactions per second
PayPal Statistics Infographic

Douglas Karr

Douglas Karr is CMO of OpenINSIGHTS and the founder of the Martech Zone. Douglas has helped dozens of successful MarTech startups, has assisted in the due diligence of over $5 bil in Martech acquisitions and investments, and continues to assist companies in implementing and automating their sales and marketing strategies. Douglas is an internationally recognized digital transformation and MarTech expert and speaker. Douglas is also a published author of a Dummie's guide and a business leadership book.

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