Companies Using PayU in Edinburgh: 60 Active Firms (2026)
Companies running online payment gateway technology take card and digital payments through their websites across the Edinburgh area.
A third-party checkout stack sits between the web front end, merchant acquirer and finance ledger, so adoption usually signals more than a basic brochure site. In this Edinburgh cohort, buying centres tend to be owners, finance teams, operations managers and outsourced web developers rather than separate payments departments. These payment-gateway users sell bookings, services, memberships or goods through self-service journeys, with enough transaction volume to care about fraud controls, failed-payment handling and reconciliation, but usually without enterprise procurement layers.
Read more
Across Edinburgh, 60 actively trading companies are running this gateway on public websites. The reported employment footprint is 133 people, and all 16 firms with employment reporting show some headcount, which gives a usable, though still narrow, staffing anchor. Adoption skews towards operational services: field services and trades are prominent, with construction, logistics, travel and hospitality and land-based businesses also present. That mix points to checkout use cases around deposits, job booking, recurring service payments and customer account settlement.
Checkout procurement tends to be less about standalone software choice and more about the web agency, acquirer relationship and accounting workflow already in place. Running a hosted gateway still leaves the merchant with decisions on refund authority, chargeback evidence, fraud rules, accessibility of checkout pages and retention of customer-payment metadata. The surrounding stack suggests many adopters pair payments with marketing automation, workforce administration, customer-feedback capture and learning tools, while analytics and cookie-consent tooling appears at the fringe. That combination makes governance a shared issue between finance, operations and whoever maintains the public website.
Payment-gateway adoption in this cohort appears tied to operational digitisation rather than pure ecommerce expansion. Many firms seem likely to keep outsourced or part-time web support, so switching costs will sit in templates, reconciliation routines and staff habits as much as in transaction pricing. Bundled checkout, invoicing and customer-communications tools may pull some users away from standalone gateway decisions, while vertical software for trades, bookings and memberships may embed payments deeper into workflow. The scarce scale-up layer also suggests consolidation pressure will come through supplier bundling and agency-led migration rather than large in-house payments teams.
What’s in the file
One row per company, 50+ columns — everything below plus each company’s verified directors, from Companies House filings.
Company data
Verified directors — included
Adoption by company size
Adoption of PayU rises with company size across the trading companies in this cohort. 0.2% of the 18,157 companies with under 10 employees run PayU (45 detected). 1.3% of the 1,108 companies with 10–50 employees run PayU (14 detected). 0.9% of the 109 companies with over 50 employees run PayU (1 detected). That is a 0.7% gap between the over 50 employees and under 10 employees bands.
60
Active firms
2026
0
Above £5M turnover
Trading firms
6
Median headcount
Filed accounts
96
Verified directors
Across this cohort
Top companies using PayU in Edinburgh
Ranked by sales-readiness score: an AI model assesses what each company does, its sector and size, and scores its overall fit. Best-fit prospects appear first.
Financial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsFinancial Health
WeakWeak · 0% CAGR over 4y
Location
Buy this list of 83 companies
The complete list in one Excel/CSV file — company details, websites and key data. Yours to download and use.
Financial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsFinancial Health
StableStable · -11% CAGR over 4y
Location
Buy this list of 83 companies
The complete list in one Excel/CSV file — company details, websites and key data. Yours to download and use.
Financial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsProvides domestic plumbing and heating services including boiler installation, servicing and repair, central heating maintenance, radiator and pipework repairs, hot and cold water tank work, gas fire…
Serves homeowners, private landlords, property management and letting agencies, and Airbnb/short-term let hosts in Edinburgh and the Lothians needing plumbing, heating and gas support.
Financial Health
DistressedDistressed · Hiring · 4% CAGR over 4y
Location
Buy this list of 83 companies
The complete list in one Excel/CSV file — company details, websites and key data. Yours to download and use.
Financial sub-scores
Computed from 2 filingsFinancial Health
WeakWeak · 0% CAGR over 1y
Location
Buy this list of 83 companies
The complete list in one Excel/CSV file — company details, websites and key data. Yours to download and use.
Financial sub-scores
Computed from 4 filingsProvides daytime care for dogs, supervising and looking after pets while owners are at work or away. Services typically include feeding, exercise, play, and socialisation in a managed day care…
Financial Health
StrongStrong · Hiring · 46% CAGR over 4y
Location
Buy this list of 83 companies
The complete list in one Excel/CSV file — company details, websites and key data. Yours to download and use.
Financial Health
N/AN/A
Location
Buy this list of 83 companies
The complete list in one Excel/CSV file — company details, websites and key data. Yours to download and use.
Financial sub-scores
Computed from 2 filingsFinancial Health
StableStable · Hiring · 17% CAGR over 1y
Location
Buy this list of 83 companies
The complete list in one Excel/CSV file — company details, websites and key data. Yours to download and use.
Financial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsFinancial Health
DistressedDistressed · -5% CAGR over 4y
Location
Buy this list of 83 companies
The complete list in one Excel/CSV file — company details, websites and key data. Yours to download and use.
Financial sub-scores
Computed from 4 filingsFinancial Health
StableStable · -81% CAGR over 3y
Location
Buy this list of 83 companies
The complete list in one Excel/CSV file — company details, websites and key data. Yours to download and use.
Financial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsFinancial Health
HealthyHealthy · -61% CAGR over 4y
Location
Buy this list of 83 companies
The complete list in one Excel/CSV file — company details, websites and key data. Yours to download and use.
Financial Health
N/AN/A
Location
Buy this list of 83 companies
The complete list in one Excel/CSV file — company details, websites and key data. Yours to download and use.
Financial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsFinancial Health
WeakWeak · -16% CAGR over 4y
Location
Buy this list of 83 companies
The complete list in one Excel/CSV file — company details, websites and key data. Yours to download and use.
Financial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsFinancial Health
HealthyHealthy · -66% CAGR over 4y
Location
Buy this list of 83 companies
The complete list in one Excel/CSV file — company details, websites and key data. Yours to download and use.
Financial sub-scores
Computed from 4 filingsFinancial Health
StrongStrong · Hiring · 26% CAGR over 3y
Location
Buy this list of 83 companies
The complete list in one Excel/CSV file — company details, websites and key data. Yours to download and use.
Financial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsFinancial Health
StableStable · Hiring · 50% CAGR over 4y
Location
Buy this list of 83 companies
The complete list in one Excel/CSV file — company details, websites and key data. Yours to download and use.
68 more companies and their verified directors are in the file
You’re seeing the top 15. Buy the list to get all 83 with directors, websites and financials.
Key facts
15% of the cohort was incorporated since 2022 (9 firms), so a sizeable share is in its first few filing cycles.
Field Services & Trades account for 53.3% of the Edinburgh-area payment-gateway cohort, with Construction at 16.7%; sector tags overlap.
Two other detected technologies appear across 100.0% of the cohort, and two more appear across 98.3%, pointing to a uniform visible website stack.
Analytics, tag-management and consent tooling each appear on only 1.7% of the cohort’s detected stack.
Median reported turnover is £442,805 and median headcount is 6, consistent with a small-company payments cohort.
Financial-health classifications include 21.7% stable, 13.3% weak, 6.7% distressed and 11.7% insufficient history, with the balance in higher-rated bands.
What else do PayU users run?
Share of the 60 PayU-running UK companies where each technology was also detected. As of June 2026.
Who runs PayU in the UK?
By sector
Sectors overlap, so shares need not sum to 100%.
By financial health
From filed accounts; firms with fewer than two filings show as insufficient history.
6
Median headcount
£442.8K
Median UK turnover
0%
Above £5M turnover
9
Incorporated since 2022
Verified directors — included in the file
Director names and roles for these 83 companies, alongside financials and websites, in one Excel + CSV file.
How PayU usage is detected
Company data
Detected companies are joined to UK Companies House records and XBRL accounts data. Revenue and headcount figures come from the most recent filed accounts; where the company has not filed, values are estimated using a model trained on filed history and peer benchmarks and are labelled as estimates.
Detection
Firmbase crawls the public website of actively-trading UK companies and fingerprints the technologies present: tracking scripts, embedded forms, chat widgets, CMS markers and similar signatures. A company is included in this list when one or more of the technology's signatures are found on its site; closely-related variants of the same product are grouped under one name. Detection covers what is visible on the public web — a company using the technology purely internally, with no website footprint, will not appear. Counts are therefore a conservative floor, not a ceiling.
Freshness
Websites are re-crawled on a rolling basis and the underlying company data is refreshed from Companies House continuously; filings appear within days of submission. The list and its statistics are regenerated when the detected cohort moves meaningfully. You can see the last-updated timestamp near the top of the page.
PayU is a trademark of its respective owner. Firmbase is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by the trademark owner.
PayU elsewhere
Frequently asked questions
How many companies in Edinburgh use PayU?
How is PayU usage detected?
What kinds of companies use PayU in Edinburgh?
What do PayU users in Edinburgh also run?
How fresh is this data?
Can I get contact details for these companies?
Buy all 83 companies as a spreadsheet.
One Excel/CSV file with company details, websites and key data — yours to download and use.