Checkout.com brings online acquiring to the shop counter with Mollie
The London-based acquirer says merchants want one supplier for the till and the website, and that Mollie will run Checkout.com’s acquiring beneath its own terminals and software
- Rollout: Checkout.com’s home market and the European Economic Area first, then the US
- More card schemes, markets and capabilities are due in 2027, Checkout.com says
- Checkout.com says it launched more than 150 merchant-facing features in the past 12 months
- The company says it operates in 56 countries, holds 10 acquiring licenses and serves more than 1,700 enterprise merchants
Retailers that already use Checkout.com online now have the option of putting their stores with the same acquirer, which removes a second contract and a second settlement stream from the finance function. Because the service runs on terminals merchants already own or source elsewhere, a change of acquirer no longer has to mean a change of hardware.
Smaller merchants are more likely to meet the service through Mollie, since Checkout.com pitches its own offer at enterprise accounts.
“Our merchants know Checkout.com for our speed, reliability and pace of innovation, and they asked us to bring that to in-person payments. Our job is to go where they need us most.”Antoine Nougué, chief revenue officer, Checkout.com
Checkout.com announced on 20 October that it is moving into in-person payments, in a year in which it expects to process $480bn (£358bn) in global ecommerce payments. Mollie, a European payments platform with more than 350,000 business customers according to Checkout.com, is working with it on the launch.
The company built its business on online acquiring and says the move answers demand from enterprise merchants that want the same platform in their stores. Checkout.com says the service is not tied to one terminal maker, so merchants can keep the terminals they already use or pick other hardware.
A merchant selling in both channels deals with a single acquirer for both, the company says: one contract, one API, one settlement process and one dashboard.
Under what Checkout.com calls a long-term partnership, Mollie keeps control of its hardware and customer experience, with Checkout.com’s acquiring running underneath its offering. Rogier Schoute, chief product officer at Mollie, said in-person payments was one of the fastest-growing areas of its business.
The launch follows Checkout.com’s 29 September trading update, in which it reported $750m (£560m) in annualized net revenue, up 28% on a trailing 12-month basis, and said it expected about $150m (£112m) in adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) for 2026.
Sources
- Checkout.com, “Checkout.com expands into in-person payments”, press release, 20 October 2026. https://www.checkout.com/newsroom/checkout-com-expands-into-in-person-payments
- Checkout.com, “Checkout.com reaches $750m in annualised net revenue for 2026 and increases profitability”, press release, 29 September 2026. https://www.checkout.com/newsroom/checkout-com-reaches-750m-in-annualised-net-revenue-for-2026-and-increases-profitability
- Electronic Payments International, “Checkout.com moves into in-person payments with Mollie”, 21 October 2026. https://www.electronicpaymentsinternational.com/news/checkout-com-moves-into-in-person-payments-with-mollie/
- European Central Bank, euro foreign exchange reference rates, 21 October 2026. https://data-api.ecb.europa.eu/service/data/EXR/D.USD+GBP.EUR.SP00.A?lastNObservations=3&format=csvdata
