Payments adoption 2026
Last updated 2026-09-03
Key findings
- Stripe runs on 0.3% of the 8,130 company websites crawled, the most of any Payments tool.
- Stripe is most common at 11-50 employees, on 0.3% of sites in that band.
- Stripe share is highest in the United Kingdom, at 0.6% of crawled sites there.
- In Biotechnology, Stripe is the most used Payments tool, on 0.4% of crawled sites.
- Stripe, Paddle, PayPal hold 96% of all Payments installs counted.
- Adyen share is flat across employee bands, from 0.0% to 0.0%, a null result.
Stripe runs on 0.3% of the 8,130 company websites crawled, the most of any Payments tool.
Stripe was found on 21 sites. Paddle came second with 3. Shares are of the whole sample, and a site can run more than one tool, so the bars do not add up to 100.
Stripe is most common at 11-50 employees, on 0.3% of sites in that band.
18 of the 6,249 crawled sites with 11-50 employees run Stripe. At 51-200 employees the share is 0.2%.
Stripe share is highest in the United Kingdom, at 0.6% of crawled sites there.
5 of the 783 crawled United Kingdom sites run Stripe, against 0.3% across all countries. Countries with fewer than 150 crawled sites are not compared.
In Biotechnology, Stripe is the most used Payments tool, on 0.4% of crawled sites.
521 crawled sites are labelled Biotechnology, and 2 of them run Stripe. PayPal follows at 0.2%.
Stripe, Paddle, PayPal hold 96% of all Payments installs counted.
28 installs were counted across 14 Payments tools. This chart divides by that total, so the bars add up to 100.
Adyen share is flat across employee bands, from 0.0% to 0.0%, a null result.
Company size does not separate Adyen adoption in this sample. The cut is reported because it found nothing.
Attrition funnel
| Step | Count |
|---|---|
| Domains selected for the sample Company domains drawn from the source universe. |
30,000 |
| Homepage fetched A response was returned for the request. |
8,948 |
| Fetch succeeded A 200 response with a readable HTML body. |
8,130 |
| Firmographics joined Industry, country and employee band all present. The base every share on this site is divided by. |
8,130 |
Named failures
| Reason | Count | Share of attempted |
|---|---|---|
| HTTP 502 | 249 | 2.8% |
| HTTP 403 | 243 | 2.7% |
| Connection timeout | 205 | 2.3% |
| SSL error | 55 | 0.6% |
| HTTP 429 (rate limited) | 20 | 0.2% |
| HTTP 503 | 11 | 0.1% |
| HTTP 500 | 9 | 0.1% |
| Connect | 5 | 0.1% |
| Proxy error | 4 | 0.0% |
| HTTP 401 | 4 | 0.0% |
| HTTP 526 | 3 | 0.0% |
| HTTP 530 | 2 | 0.0% |
| HTTP 521 | 2 | 0.0% |
| HTTP 525 | 2 | 0.0% |
| Too many redirects | 2 | 0.0% |
| HTTP 523 | 1 | 0.0% |
| Http520 | 1 | 0.0% |
Null result
Adyen share is flat across employee bands, from 0.0% to 0.0%, a null result. Company size does not separate Adyen adoption in this sample. The cut is reported because it found nothing.
Cite this
Stripe runs on 0.3% of the 8,130 company websites crawled, the most of any Payments tool. , https://installmap.com/stats/payments, Installmap, September 2026.
Last updated 2026-09-03