Checkout.com

United Kingdom

Global payments platform — Unified Payments API, AI-driven acceptance optimisation, and 150+ processing currencies worldwide.

Boost payment acceptance, cut costs, combat fraud, and elevate customer experiences with global solutions via a single API. Optimize money movement worldwide.

Checkout.com is a global end-to-end payment services provider processing transactions for enterprise merchants across 150+ currencies and a broad range of local payment methods. Its Unified Payments API covers online acceptance, payout disbursement, card issuing, fraud detection, and identity verification — replacing a fragmented stack with a single integration.

The Intelligent Acceptance module applies machine learning to maximise transaction approval rates in real time, while Flow provides customisable checkout UI blocks optimised across devices. Risk management and 3D Secure authentication operate simultaneously, reducing both fraud and friction at checkout.

Key benefits:

  • Unified Payments API for acceptance, payouts, issuing, and verification
  • Intelligent Acceptance — AI-driven optimisation of transaction approval rates
  • Custom Flow checkout blocks for branded, conversion-optimised UIs
  • Fraud detection and 3DS authentication in a single integrated layer
  • Card issuing and payouts for embedded financial product use cases
  • 150+ processing currencies with global local payment method coverage

Checkout.com is headquartered in London, UK, with offices across 19 global locations, and was named a Leader in the Forrester Wave for Merchant Payment Providers (Q1 2026). European merchant data is processed in compliant infrastructure across its global data centre network.

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