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French payment gateway with native Cartes Bancaires support — 92.5% acceptance rate, frictionless 3DS, omnichannel dashboard.
French payment gateway with native Cartes Bancaires connectivity through Groupe BPCE, delivering 92.5% average acceptance for 18,000+ merchants.
Payplug is a French payment gateway trusted by 18,000+ merchants for online and in-store payment acceptance across France and Europe. With native connectivity to Cartes Bancaires through parent company Groupe BPCE, it delivers 92.5% average net acceptance rates that international processors struggle to match on French card schemes.
The platform processes over €10.9 billion annually and provides a unified Cockpit dashboard for managing financial flows, fraud prevention, and omnichannel commerce. Its 3D Secure 2 implementation achieves 83% frictionless authentication across issuers, which reduces cart abandonment while maintaining PSD2 compliance.
Key benefits:
- Cartes Bancaires native support via Groupe BPCE for superior French card acceptance
- 92.5% net acceptance rate across the merchant base
- Unified Cockpit dashboard centralising online and in-store financial flows
- Frictionless 3DS2 achieving 83% passwordless authentication
- Fraud prevention with adaptive scoring and chargeback management
- Omnichannel integration across e-commerce, in-store, and mobile channels
Payplug is headquartered in Paris, France, and is a subsidiary of Groupe BPCE, one of France's two largest banking groups. All payment data is processed under French and EU financial regulation with GDPR-compliant infrastructure and dedicated French customer support.
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