Pay by bank
Add a lower-cost payment method to your platform via open banking

Make payments faster and more secure, by allowing end-users to initiate them straight from their bank accounts.

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Pay with any bank from Europe

Enable your customers to initiate instant payments and transfers from any account in any EU bank, without leaving your platform. Salt Edge provides access to more than 2,000 banks across Europe through a single seamless connection.

We keep testing and adding new bank and EMI channels, granting businesses the finest coverage.

    Mobile checkout screen showing a summary of an €89.00 order with free standard shipping. The interface displays 'Pay by bank account' as the selected payment method, with a note indicating redirection to the user's bank for confirmation. A tooltip reads 'Pay securely in seconds using your bank app – Instant and card-free payment.' Supported bank logos like HSBC are shown. The design emphasizes seamless and secure digital payments within a familiar mobile interface.

    How it works

    Building great payment experience

    Enable your customers to make instant payments from the account of their choice, using their familiar banking authentication methods. Besides being fully open banking compliant and secure, Salt Edge solution guarantees that end-users feel comfortable from the first click.

    Seamless payment experience encourages your customers to complete the payment process and choose your service again and again.

      Use cases
      Instant payments
      for
       
      Travelling
      eCommerce
      eWallets
      Lenders
      Corporate payments
      Travelling
      Quick and secure refunds and transaction settlements
      • Supporting open banking-based payments is in every airline, travel agency, or any other tourism company's best interest. Embrace open banking to enjoy secure and affordable transaction settlements and refunds at lightning fast speeds.
      eCommerce
      Lower-cost and fraudless payments
      • Upgrade your checkout page by adding a new instant payment method so that customers can enjoy secure payments due to strong customer authentication. Compared to credit or debit card payments, open banking brings in lower transaction fees and faster payment settlements, resulting in better liquidity for merchants.
      eWallets
      Seamless transfers and top ups
      • Save money on transfers. With open banking your customers can top up the eWallet account straight from their bank account without any additional fees.
      Lenders
      Loan repayment via open banking
      • Discover the open banking payment potential. Now your borrowers can securely initiate loan repayments directly from their bank accounts without leaving your lending app. Seamless user experience increases loyalty and boosts revenues.
      Corporate payments
      Lower-cost payments - any time, from any place
      • Using the Payment Initiation API, corporates can pay for taxes, utilities, salaries from their business accounts in any EU bank - directly from accounting, enterprise or government softwares. The API is flexible and supports recurrent, scheduled, bulk, and batch payments.

      Benefits

      Payments reinvented

      New lower-cost payment method
      Give your customers an affordable and faster payment option. Eliminating the expensive card processing fees from payments, you save money that can be invested smarter
      Mitigate risk of fraud
      Strong customer authentication adds one more security layer to transactions, reducing the risk of fraud & security breaches nearly to zero
      Unrivalled API coverage
      Enable payments from 2,000+ banks across Europe, via one simple integration. Availability of bank channels is monitored 24/7, so you can offer seamless payment experience without interruptions
      Highly secure technology
      Salt Edge is ISO 27001 certified and adheres to the highest international standards of privacy and security: transaction monitoring, business continuity plan, 24/7 incident monitoring
      Flexible approach
      We support standardised payment templates, so you don't have to worry about bank or region specifics anymore
      We’ve got you covered
      Salt Edge handles all the technical, security, compliance matters so that you can focus on providing great services based on real-time customers' data
      Add faster, more secure account-to-account payments to your platform
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