Payments solution comparison
Last updated: October 15, 2025
Checkout.com offers the following front-end payment solutions to help simplify your payment acceptance process:
| Solution | Description |
|---|---|
Recommended | Embed card payments and alternative payment methods (APMs) directly on your website with a fully customizable payment interface. |
Accept payments through a payment page hosted by Checkout.com. | |
Accept payments across multiple channels through a shareable link. |
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If you do not require a front-end solution, use the Unified Payments API.
To help you determine which solution best meets your needs, compare the following features:
| Flow | Hosted Payments Page | Payment Links | |
|---|---|---|---|
Customer experience | Customers enter their payment details and complete the purchase on your website. Customers can save their details with Checkout.com for faster checkouts in future. | Customers are redirected from your website to a Checkout.com-hosted payment page to complete the purchase. Customers can save their details with us for faster checkouts in future. | Customers click a link that has been shared with them, which takes them to a Checkout.com-hosted payment page to complete the purchase. Customers can save their details with us for faster checkouts in future. |
Embed on your website | |||
Integration type | More code | Low code | No code |
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Store payment details | |||
Integration type | More code | Low code | No code |
Mobile support | Responsive | Responsive | Responsive |
Customization | |||
UI customization | Fully customizable styling, including fonts, colors and borders | Limited customization, including brand logo and brand color | Limited customization, including brand logo and brand color |
Localization |
| Built-in support for 23 languages, including right-to-left (RTL) languages | Built-in support for 23 languages, including right-to-left (RTL) languages |
Custom translations | |||
Compliance | |||
PCI compliance | SAQ-A | SAQ-A | SAQ-A |
The Flow, Hosted Payments Page, and Payment Link solutions all support the following payment methods:
- Card payments
- Apple Pay
- Google Pay
- AlipayCN
- AlipayHK
- Alma
- Bancontact
- Benefit Payment Gateway
- Bizum
- Dana
- EPS
- GCash
- iDEAL
- Klarna
- Kakao Pay
- KNET
- MB WAY
- MobilePay
- Multibanco
- PayPal (Pay Now and Pay Later)
- Przelewy24
- QPay
- SEPA Direct Debit
- STC Pay
- Tabby
- Tamara
- Touch 'n Go
- TrueMoney
- TWINT
- Venmo
- Vipps
The Flow, Hosted Payments Page, and Payment Link solutions all support the following left-to-right (LTR) and right-to-left (RTL) languages:
- Arabic
- Chinese (Simplified, Hong Kong, Taiwan)
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- Filipino
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Greek
- Hindi
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Malay
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Portuguese
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Thai
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With Flow, you can manually add support for additional languages.