Payments Used by UK B2B Companies: Market Share (2026)
Detected Payments usage across 6,170 UK B2B companies covers 19 systems, with Stripe ahead on 37.3% market share (2,301 companies).
Among 112,345 trading UK B2B companies, 6,170 have a detectable Payments system, with 19 systems identified. Stripe is the most common at 37.3% (2,301), followed by PayPal at 32.3% (1,991) and PayU at 24.5% (1,511).
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Size bands split the market in two. Stripe leads Under 10 employees with 35.6% of 4,100 companies and 10–50 employees with 40.9% of 1,895, while PayPal leads Over 50 employees with 40.0% of 175.
Behind the first three systems, adoption is fragmented. GoCardless has 3.4% (212), Worldpay 2.8% (173), Klarna 2.7% (168), Authorize.net 2.6% (159), Square 2.0% (125), and 11 further systems cover 205 companies.
6,170
B2B with detected Payments
Of 112,345 UK B2B
5.5%
Detection rate
2026
19
Systems detected
In this category
37.3%
Leader share
Stripe
UK B2B Payments market share
Share of the 6,170 UK B2B with a detectable system. As of June 2026.
Payments compared
| System | UK B2B | Share | Median headcount | London share | Typical profile |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stripe | 2,301 | 37.3% | 7 | 20.4% | Small employers, 7 median headcount |
| PayPal | 1,991 | 32.3% | 6 | 20% | Small employers, 6 median headcount |
| PayU | 1,511 | 24.5% | 6 | 9.9% | Small employers, 6 median headcount |
| GoCardless | 212 | 3.4% | 7 | 16.5% | Small employers, 7 median headcount |
| Worldpay | 173 | 2.8% | 8 | 18.5% | Larger small firms, 8 median headcount |
| Klarna | 168 | 2.7% | 7 | 13.1% | Small employers, 7 median headcount |
| Authorize.net | 159 | 2.6% | 7 | 28.3% | Small employers, 7 median headcount |
| Square | 125 | 2% | 9 | 24% | Larger small firms, 9 median headcount |
| Opayo | 61 | 1% | 8 | 8.2% | Larger small firms, 8 median headcount |
| Plaid | 57 | 0.9% | 6 | 22.8% | Small employers, 6 median headcount |
| Ideal4Finance | 47 | 0.8% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| Codeweavers | 31 | 0.5% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| Recharge | 24 | 0.4% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| Afterpay | 17 | 0.3% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| PFP | 17 | 0.3% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| Google Pay | 13 | 0.2% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| Tabeo | 2 | 0% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| Denplan | 1 | 0% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| Chrysalis Finance | 1 | 0% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
Systems detected below the page threshold appear with counts only; their full lists are available in the Firmbase app.
Market leader by size
The leading Payments system shifts with company size: among UK B2B with under 10 employees, Stripe leads at 35.6% of the 4,100 with a detectable system; among UK B2B with 10–50 employees, Stripe leads at 40.9% of the 1,895 with a detectable system; and among UK B2B with over 50 employees, PayPal leads at 40% of the 175 with a detectable system.
Under 10 employees
35.6% of band
Under 10 employees is the largest detected band, with 4,100 companies. Stripe leads at 35.6%, with PayPal and PayU acting as the main alternatives among smaller employers.
10–50 employees
40.9% of band
10–50 employees covers 1,895 companies. Stripe leads this band with 40.9%, the highest leader share among the three size cuts.
Over 50 employees
40% of band
Over 50 employees is the smallest detected band, with 175 companies. PayPal leads at 40.0%, making it the only size band where Stripe is not the named leader.
How Payments 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.
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