Payment types accepted by e-commerce vendors in Australia, New Zealand in 2022, 2024

Although credit cards were the most accepted online payment in Australia and New Zealand, two out of 10 merchants still hoped to offer these in the next years. This is according to a survey held in February 2022 which asked e-commerce vendors about what digital payment methods they already accepted and which ones they either plan or do not plan to implement between 2022 and 2024. These merchants were found in both the B2B and B2C business environment, although the source does not separate between them. Australia and New Zealand - which the source put together, under the label "ANZ" - have a few stand-outs. First, there is a relatively high acceptance of buy now, pay later (BNPL), likely due to the popularity of Australian initiatives like AfterPay. Second, cryptocurrency attracts both the highest share of respondents who want to implement it in the future as well as the highest share who do not want do to that. Third, and noticeably, the survey does not ask about debit cards - a payment method that Australians use relatively often for e-commerce payments when compared to other countries in Asia-Pacific.