

According to the latest MNB payment statistics release, card purchase value in Hungary grew by 19% year-on-year in Q4 2025, while transaction count increased by 7.7%. This is not a sudden shift, but the latest data point in a long-running payment trend: merchants now need to optimise cost, online wallet payments and checkout conversion.

Pay-by-Link lets you accept card payments without a webshop — simply send a payment link to your customer. Learn how it works, who it's for, and which providers offer it.

Looking for online payment for your webshop? We compare 10 providers and bank VPOS solutions with fresh Starter Webshop Arena 4-year costs — Barion, SimplePay, Stripe, Revolut, SumUp, PayPal and more.

Barion is one of the best-known Hungarian payment gateways for webshops. This article reviews Barion's 2026 pricing, the difference between Fixed and IC++ plans, its strengths, trade-offs, and the types of merchants it fits best.

This article separates the physical and online sales channels. For physical payments it compares POS terminals vs. SoftPOS, and for online payments it contrasts card payments, qvik and EP card acceptance to show when each option makes sense.