Malta is a two-provider market: PayPal first, Stripe second, nothing else offered widely.
Malta · payments
Most used payment providers in Maltese online shops
PayPal is offered by most online shops in Malta that name a payment provider, and Stripe is the only other provider that stands out.
- Online shops
- ~3,400
- Leader
- PayPal
- Then
- Stripe
- Cash on delivery
- Rare
September 2026
No buy now, pay later provider and no local gateway stand out in Malta, so that slot is open.
Few Maltese shops offer cash on delivery, so the online checkout is where the sale happens.
Payment providers ranked by online shops
A shop can offer several payment providers.
- 01PayPal · digital wallet~800
- 02Stripe~440
On WooCommerce shops
On Shopify shops
What this means
What to do with it.
With only PayPal and Stripe standing out, work Malta in full rather than by filter, and use Stripe as the marker of a shop that went beyond PayPal. PayPal shops run on Shopify first, then WooCommerce and PrestaShop, and fewer than half of them advertise.
Target every Maltese shop offering PayPal without Stripe; with no instalment provider standing out, the first mover gets an open market.
Reach Maltese sellers that offer Stripe; it marks a shop with a working card checkout beyond PayPal, and the group is small enough to work in full.
Work Shopify shops first in Malta, then WooCommerce and PrestaShop, the platform order behind PayPal, and cover the whole list rather than sampling.
Common questions
- Which payment provider do most online shops in Malta offer?
- PayPal, offered by ~800 Maltese online shops. Stripe is second with ~440.
- How many Maltese online shops offer Stripe?
- ~440 online shops in Malta offer Stripe, the second most common payment provider in the country.
- Can I get the list of Maltese online shops by payment provider?
- Yes. Pick the payment provider and the cut you want, for example shops that advertise now or sit above a turnover line, and we return the matched companies with the people to reach.
Keep in mind
- PayPal named on a shop's site does not show whether buyers use it, or how much passes through it.
- A shop with no identified provider may still take cards; in a market this small, a missing name is a gap, not a finding.
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