Wholesale Companies Using PayU in the UK: 371 Active Firms (2026)
UK wholesale companies using online payment gateways sell goods in bulk while taking website payments from trade buyers.
For wholesale adopters, the gateway sits at the point where trade customers move from browsing a catalogue to paying for stock, settling invoices or reordering standard lines. Use of this kind of processor usually signals a distributor with a direct digital channel, enough checkout volume to care about authorisation rates and reconciliation, and a finance team that wants card or wallet payments visible beside account terms. The buying centre tends to span ecommerce, finance and operations, not marketing alone. Engagements are typically mid-market in feel: low-friction checkout is useful, but integration with product catalogues, trade pricing and fulfilment systems matters more.
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The UK adoption cohort contains 371 actively trading wholesale and distribution firms running the gateway. Reported headcount totals 993 people. In payment-processor adoption across wholesale and distribution, the gateway ranks third, appearing on 18.8% of the 1,972-business sector category. Registered offices lean towards London (15.4%) and the North West (12.9%), with Northern Ireland (10.5%), Yorkshire and The Humber (10.2%) and the West Midlands (9.7%) also visible. That mix points to trade ecommerce adoption beyond the usual London software buyer base, particularly among distributors with regional warehousing, sales desks and repeat-order customers.
Wholesale checkout procurement is usually a finance-and-operations decision. The same stack has to support trade pricing, repeat orders, partial shipments, refunds, invoice references and reconciliation with stock and accounts systems. Card payments bring chargeback, fraud-screening and customer-notification processes; account-based trade buyers add credit-limit and authorisation questions. Because the gateway sits close to personal contact details, billing addresses and order histories, privacy review tends to sit alongside commercial evaluation. For distributors selling regulated goods, checkout controls may also need to align with age, licence or restricted-product checks, although that depends on product category rather than the gateway itself.
Adoption appears likely to track the continued shift from phone-and-email ordering towards authenticated trade portals, where buyers expect saved baskets, repeat purchasing and clearer payment status. Gateway choice also tends to be bundled with ecommerce platform, accounting and customer-service decisions, so switching may be tied to wider replatforming rather than checkout alone. Mature wholesalers are likely to press for better reconciliation, authorisation workflows and settlement visibility. Smaller distributors may keep lighter gateway arrangements until repeat-order volume or trade-credit complexity makes manual processes too costly. The category therefore appears more migration-led than greenfield, with churn shaped by integration pain and procurement timing.
Adoption by company size
Adoption of PayU rises with company size across the trading UK wholesale companies in this cohort. 0.4% of the 69,735 companies with under 10 employees run PayU (268 detected). 1.4% of the 6,677 companies with 10–50 employees run PayU (94 detected). 1% of the 602 companies with over 50 employees run PayU (6 detected). That is a 0.6% gap between the over 50 employees and under 10 employees bands.
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2026
18.8%
Of detected Payment processors share
UK wholesale
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Key facts
About 3% of the trading cohort reports turnover above £5M (14 of 371 firms) — the rest sits below that revenue band.
4% of the cohort was incorporated since 2022 (18 firms), so a sizeable share is in its first few filing cycles.
Within wholesale and distribution firms with a detectable payment processor, this gateway ranks third by detected share at 18.8% (371), behind two larger gateway cohorts at 42.6% (840) and 39.1% (772).
Registered offices are spread across several UK regions, with London at 15.4% (57), the North West at 12.9% (48), Northern Ireland at 10.5% (39), Yorkshire and The Humber at 10.2% (38), and the West Midlands at 9.7% (36).
The median PayU-running wholesale firm has turnover of £704,929 and 6 employees, pointing to a long tail of smaller trade sellers alongside larger distributors.
Payment-gateway adoption in wholesale tends to sit alongside repeat trade accounts, catalogue ordering and bulk fulfilment, rather than purely consumer-facing retail checkout.
Payments market share among UK Wholesale
Share of the 1,972 UK Wholesale with a detectable system. As of June 2026.
What else do PayU-running Wholesale run?
Share of the 371 PayU-running UK companies where each technology was also detected. As of June 2026.
Where PayU Wholesale are, and how healthy they look
By region
By registered-office region; companies without a regional match count toward Rest of UK.
By financial health
From filed accounts; firms with fewer than two filings show as insufficient history.
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Median UK turnover
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Computed from 3 filingsSupplies Middle Eastern and Kurdish food products wholesale to retail shops and restaurants, including spices, herbs, rice, pulses, oils, pickles, confectionery, tea and drinks. Operates an online…
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Computed from 4 filingsWholesales tyres for commercial vehicles, supplying truck and van tyres to trade customers and automotive businesses, and distributing tyre products for use in commercial transport and vehicle…
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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. wholesale companies are identified using Firmbase's semantic classification of company activity, built from filings, websites and registered SIC codes rather than SIC codes alone. The detected counts and share figures on this page are computed within that sector cohort, so "share" always means share of wholesale companies with a detectable system — not of all UK companies.
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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