# PayLens

> Market and competitive intelligence for European acquiring: news, competitor launches,
> terminal market data and the people behind it, filterable by country.

PayLens is operated by SmallBiz Guide GmbH, Nachtigallenweg 17, 65779 Kelkheim, Germany.
Contact: info@smallbizguide.de. The site is published in en and de; every page
exists under both language prefixes (for example https://paylens.io/en/pricing and
https://paylens.io/de/pricing).

## Dataset coverage

As of 2026-08-12, compiled from public primary sources:

- Companies: 264
- Payment providers: 177
- Payment devices: 210
- Markets with a sourced POS terminal time series: 22
- POS terminals deployed in covered markets: 24.7 million

## Public pages

- [Home](https://paylens.io/en): What PayLens covers, with the current dataset counts.
- [PayLens Radar](https://paylens.io/en/radar): Free weekly email on European payments, sent every Tuesday.
- [Radar archive](https://paylens.io/en/radar/archive): Every issue that has been sent, in full.
- [European payment markets](https://paylens.io/en/markets): One page per tracked market: cash's share of the counter, the average card payment, the POS terminal base, accepted methods, the supervisor and the national surcharging rule, each from primary sources.
- [Terminal catalogue](https://paylens.io/en/devices): Every payment terminal we track, by brand, each with its own page: specifications, form factor, launch year and the company that actually builds it.
- [Companies](https://paylens.io/en/companies): The companies behind European payment acceptance, by role in the supply chain: acquirers, terminal manufacturers, software, networks and investors, each with its terminals, ownership, deals and funding.
- [About us](https://paylens.io/en/about): Who runs PayLens, where the data comes from, the refresh cadence, the team, and how to cite a figure.
- [Pricing](https://paylens.io/en/pricing): Radar is free; dashboard access is quoted per team.
- [Contact](https://paylens.io/en/contact): Request access, book a demo, ask a question.
- [Legal notice](https://paylens.io/en/legal-notice): Imprint under § 5 DDG.
- [Privacy](https://paylens.io/en/privacy): What we store and why.

The whole free layer — every market, terminal and company page as plain text —
is one fetch at https://paylens.io/llms-full.txt.

## Radar issues

- [PayLens Radar: Visa buys BioCatch for $2.4bn, Wero lands in Amazon's German checkout](https://paylens.io/en/radar/archive/2026-08-11): sent 2026-08-11
- [PayLens Radar: Stripe and Advent bid $53bn for PayPal, UK BNPL enters FCA regulation](https://paylens.io/en/radar/archive/2026-08-04): sent 2026-08-04
- [PayLens Radar: The UK rewrites its payments rulebook, Bizum Pay reaches the till](https://paylens.io/en/radar/archive/2026-07-28): sent 2026-07-28
- [PayLens Radar: Worldline lands a digital euro role, first charges in Operation Chargeback](https://paylens.io/en/radar/archive/2026-07-20): sent 2026-07-20

## Not public

- The PayLens dashboard (/app) is behind a login and is excluded in robots.txt.
  Its contents are not available to crawlers and are not described here.