Payment methods by country · Payment methods
How do shoppers in Taiwan pay online?
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Shoppers in Taiwan pay online by card and with local e-payment apps. JKOPay presents itself as the e-payment most people in Taiwan use. LINE Pay Taiwan lists both online-store and in-person payment among its features. Taiwan Pay is promoted by the Financial Information Service Co. (FISC), which runs interbank transfers and ATM services, with Taiwan Pay bank cards and fee-free interbank transfers. PayPal also charges in New Taiwan dollars.
- Currency
- New Taiwan dollar (TWD)
- E-payment apps
- JKOPay, LINE Pay
- Bank scheme
- Taiwan Pay (FISC)
- Wallets
- Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal
- PlatformDTC offers
- Cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal
What PlatformDTC does
PlatformDTC checkout does not offer JKOPay, LINE Pay or Taiwan Pay today. Shoppers in Taiwan can pay by card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, or the store's PayPal in New Taiwan dollars.
Local apps
JKOPay serves both shoppers and merchants. LINE Pay Taiwan offers merchants fixed QR codes, website and app checkout and point-of-sale integration. FISC runs interbank transfers, ATM services and national bill payments and promotes Taiwan Pay among its card services.
What a foreign store can offer
A store selling into Taiwan from abroad can show cards, phone wallets and PayPal. TWD is one of the 22 currencies PlatformDTC's PayPal button charges in.
Frequently asked questions
- Does PayPal work in New Taiwan dollars on PlatformDTC?
- Yes. TWD is one of PayPal's 22 currencies on PlatformDTC checkout.
- Can shoppers use JKOPay on PlatformDTC?
- Not today. Cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay and PayPal are available.
Sources
- JKOPay — JKOPay
- LINE Pay Taiwan — LINE Pay Taiwan
- Financial Information Service Co. — Financial Information Service Co. (FISC)
Related
- Hong Kong — Cards and wallets, plus the 24/7 Faster Payment System for bank and e-wallet transfers.
- Japan — Cards including JCB, cash at convenience stores (konbini) and the PayPay phone wallet.
- China — Alipay and WeChat Pay wallets dominate; UnionPay is the domestic card network.
- Australia — Cards, most co-branded with the local eftpos network, plus Afterpay, Zip and PayTo bank payments.
- New Zealand — Cards and wallets, Afterpay and Klarna pay later, and BECS direct debit from NZ bank accounts.
- India — UPI real-time bank payments from any banking or wallet app, alongside cards.
- Singapore — Cards and wallets, PayNow instant transfers from bank apps, and the GrabPay wallet.
- Malaysia — FPX online banking payments run by PayNet, the GrabPay wallet, and cards.