Payment Gateway Market Size (2024 - 2029)

Payment Gateway Market Analysis

The Payment Gateway Market size is estimated at USD 16.27 billion in 2024, and is expected to reach USD 34.80 billion by 2029, growing at a CAGR of 16.43% during the forecast period (2024-2029).

Additionally, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, online sales of goods, services, and entertainment grew globally due to millions of people being quarantined worldwide. According to a study by ACI Worldwide of hundreds of transactions from global online retailers, transaction volumes in most retail sectors witnessed a 74% rise in current year compared to the same period last few years, driving the market growth.

• The payment method has evolved at a dizzying pace in the past few years, from the token system to cash pooling and cashless payments. A payment gateway allows any business, such as brick-and-mortar or online retailing, to collect money through the customer's preferred bank without compromising sensitive data. In every industry, integrating a payment gateway has emerged as one of the essential components of every organization. Additionally, rising online transactions are anticipated throughout the forecast period to fuel market expansion.
• Financial service companies have been able to offer unique digital services to customers due to increased e-commerce sales and the high rate of internet penetration around the world, which helps the growth of the payment gateway market. High-speed internet's rising popularity and availability will continue to fuel the market's expansion for payment gateways.
• The market for payment gateways is also driven by the increasing global demand for mobile-based payments. The use of mobile payments for various transactions, such as purchasing takeout, purchasing cinema tickets, and upgrading smartphone games, is anticipated to fuel the market's expansion over the forecast period. Also, developed and developing nations use debit or credit cards to make these payments. This aspect is anticipated to help the market under study grow even more. This is due to the ease with which payments may be made on smartphones and the ability to save card information on them.
• As most customers save their card details, there is a prone for the rising number of cyber attack cases that steal data which is a restraint. Also, other factors, such as lack of internet access in remote areas, no international standards for cross-border payments, and varying government restrictions in different countries, could restrain the market over the study period.
• Due to a global shift towards e-commerce caused by lockdowns, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the ensuing lockdowns negatively impact the payment gateway market, which has led to the launch of many payment gateways that facilitate online payments for online purchases from e-commerce websites. Due to this, the market has expanded despite the pandemic crisis. Due to UPI's growing importance in the combined post-pandemic environment, the market would experience growth in the digital sector over the projection period.

Payment Gateway Industry Segmentation

A payment gateway is a software and a server that shares all information relevant to an online transaction involving a specific bank account and responds to customers about the success or failure of their transaction. The payments industry continues to expand and evolve, with digital payment and transaction volumes growing across the globe. Increased competition between established providers of open and closed payment platforms is expected to increase as they compete for a larger share of the payment industry.

The Payment Gateway Market is Segmented by Type (Hosted, Non-hosted), Enterprise Type (Small and Medium Enterprise (SME), Large Enterprise), End User Vertical (Travel, Retail, BFSI, Media and Entertainment), Geography (North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and Middle East and Africa).

The market sizes and forecasts are provided in terms of value (USD billion) for all the above segments.