“Can an in-house Dutch acquirer/PSP with its own licenses become the go-to white-label omnichannel payment platform for European merchants and financial institutions?”
Founded 2011 in Spijkenisse as a Dutch PSP under TinTel B.V., Pay. has grown into a full-stack, DNB-regulated payment institution serving 35,000+ merchants across Europe. The company has expanded from online-only into omnichannel — combining acquiring, POS hardware, SoftPOS, BNPL, gift cards and white-label fintech infrastructure — and now positions itself as an in-house acquirer/processor for card networks and a white-label 'fintech partner' for financial institutions.
Pay.nl discloses Pay. (in-house) as its banking provider, according to the Embedded Finance Index 2026.
Pay.nl does not disclose a bank charter of its own; its banking services are provided through Pay. (in-house).
Pay.nl processes payments through Pay. (self-operated) and checkout. Disclosed money-movement rails: SEPA Instant and SEPA.
Pay.nl's cards run on Visa, Mastercard and American Express.
Pay.nl's lending and capital products are provided by YouLend and WEB Voorschot.
Pay.nl connects to bank accounts through Pay. (in-house, PSD2 AISP/PISP).
Pay.nl uses Pay. (in-house) for FX and cross-border payouts.
Pay.nl integrates with e-Boekhouden.nl, Exact Online, Exact Globe, Moneybird, Minox and Asperion.
The Embedded Finance Index 2026 maps 8 layers in Pay.nl's stack: Payments / PSP (Pay. (self-operated) and checkout); Money movement (SEPA Instant and SEPA); Banking / BaaS (Pay. (in-house)); Card network (Visa, Mastercard and American Express); Lending (YouLend, WEB Voorschot, Pay. Merchant Financing (with YouLend) and WEB Voorschot (SME credit)); Open banking (Pay. (in-house, PSD2 AISP/PISP)); FX & payouts (Pay. (in-house)); Accounting (e-Boekhouden.nl, Exact Online, Exact Globe, Moneybird and 2 others).
Pay.nl is founded in 2011 and headquartered in Spijkenisse, Netherlands.
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