Checkout.com enters in-person acceptance across the UK and EEA with Mollie supplying the hardware side

Checkout.com announced on 20 October 2026 that it is extending its platform into in-person payments, launching first in the UK and EEA and then in the US, with more schemes, markets and capabilities planned for next year. The offering is software-led and device-agnostic, so merchants can keep terminals they already own, and it puts in-store and online transactions through one acquiring relationship, one contract, one Unified Payments API and one settlement and reconciliation view.

Alongside it, Mollie, which serves more than 350,000 businesses, enters a long-term partnership in which Checkout.com's acquiring platform runs directly on Mollie's in-person offering while Mollie keeps control of its customer experience and hardware strategy. No merchants, schemes or commercial terms were named.

Checkout.com has been an e-commerce-only acquirer, processing a stated 480 billion dollars of global online payments in 2026, and in-person acceptance is the half of the European market it could not bid for. Entering it turns the company into a competitor for unified online and in-store estates, the ground Adyen, Stripe, Nexi and Global Payments contest.

The Mollie leg is the more immediate change on the supply side: a European acquirer with 350,000 merchants putting a rival's acquiring platform behind its own terminals is a realignment of who processes that volume, not a reseller deal.

Which merchants and terminal vendors appear first in the UK and EEA, which schemes are added next year, and whether the Mollie arrangement moves existing Mollie card volume onto Checkout.com's acquiring licence.

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