SOFORT Banking (now part of Klarna) is a variant of paying by bank and allows you to pay from different countries through your own familiar banking environment.
SOFORT can no longer be activated as a payment option for new merchants from January 1, 2024.
*Contact Pay's Merchant Support Desk for more information on alternative payment options in Germany.
Risk
Account holders of these banks can use the payment service through their own bank. SOFORT is a good choice if you offer your products or services outside the Netherlands. Especially in Germany, this payment solution is widely used. But also in Austria and Belgium this payment method is increasingly favored by customers.
Why SOFORT?
This payment option meets high security standards. Not for nothing have several certificates been obtained such as the "Approved Payment System" certificate (also known as TÜV).
To use the SOFORT Banking payment method, no registration of your customers is required. Even as an entrepreneur, you don't need to do a separate registration. You arrange it easily and quickly.
SOFORT Banking is a SEPA bank transfer payment. It may happen that the payment is not actually received. Especially with sought-after products such as cell phones, computer equipment and tickets with a high conversion value, it frequently happens that payments go wrong. So be careful about when to deliver.
Possibility to delay the moment of delivery until the amount is actually received. At that moment the order is credited in your statistics and you can be sure that the SOFORT payment is actually received on your business account. In the Admin Panel you can set your service from which amount you want to delay the delivery.
SOFORT
Payment methods
Discover local payment solutions perfectly suited to your market. With our payment methods you offer your customers familiar and easy ways to pay. This will increase the conversion of your webshop.
Online banking
Online
Germany
Austria
Switzerland
Poland
Belgium
France
Italy
Spain
Available in 8 different European countries
For business and private customers
Customer pays from their own familiar banking environment
Approachable and safe (has a TÜV certificate)
Implementation
Register directly
1-platform
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Advantageous
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Prompt payment
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FAQ
SOFORT Banking is a European payment method. Customers do not need to create an account; they simply use their own digital banking environment to make the payment.
With a SOFORT payment, the money is transferred directly from the customer's online bank account, to your webshop's bank account.
Yes, paying with SOFORT is safe and secure. This is because it works with a verification process set up with the bank, which ensures that all payments are legitimate.