Sources: National Bank of Moldova and provider disclosures, 2024–2025.
How Moldova pays
Moldova is a small market that is digitizing quickly. Online, Moldovans pay mostly by Visa and Mastercard cards from local banks, with Apple Pay and Google Pay now supported by the main banks, while cash and cash on delivery remain common outside the cities.
The new local rail is MIA, the instant payment system launched by the National Bank of Moldova, which lets people pay between banks in seconds. For a merchant, the value is a clear starting point: international cards and express wallets behind one integration, 3DS on card-not-present payments, and retries across acquirers, with leu pricing and FX handled for you.
Why merchants run on us here
Cards and wallets live today
International card acquiring and the express wallets, available now.
MIA on the radar
MIA, the central bank's instant payment system, is how Moldovans pay bank to bank.
Leu pricing and FX
Price in MDL and settle in your base currency, with FX handled for you.
3DS, tuned
Authentication on card-not-present payments, with Romanian-language checkout.
Payment methods
Cards
Visa
Mastercard
American Express
Discover
Diners Club
JCB
UnionPayBuy Now, Pay Later
Sandbox BNPLDigital wallets
PayPalExpress checkout
Apple Pay
Google PayGateways
Sandbox BNPLPayPal
Airwallex
Stripe
Adyen
Unlimit
Worldpay
Checkout.com
Authorize.net
MPGS
Cybersource
Sandbox GatewayAirwallex (Enterprise)
Braintree
CommerceHub
Fiserve
NMI
Nuvei
OrbitalBuilt for enterprise
Everything it takes to run payments in Moldova
Local payment methods are only half the job. We carry the operational weight — acquiring, settlement, FX, licensing and reconciliation — so you can treat Moldova like any other market in your stack.
One integration, growing local coverage
Connect once for what's live in Moldova today — including international card acquiring — and add local wallets and bank rails through the same integration as we bring them online.
Local acquiring, higher approvals
We route to local acquirers and retry failed payments across alternate rails, so domestic cards and wallets authorize at local rates instead of being declined as cross-border traffic.
Settlement, FX & repatriation
Collect in the Moldovan leu (MDL) and settle in your base currency. We handle the FX conversion and the local rules for moving funds out of the country — the part most global merchants underestimate.
Licensing handled locally
We're establishing locally licensed partners so you can process in-country as we expand local coverage — without standing up your own entity or chasing a license.
Payouts & reconciliation
Pay out to sellers and process refunds on the same rails you collect on, and reconcile every flow — pay-in, payout, refund — in one ledger, in local or base currency.
Fraud, disputes & compliance
Real-time screening, chargeback and dispute handling, and KYC/AML that matches local regulator expectations — built in, not bolted on.
Ready to launch in Moldova?
Talk to our payments team about going live in Moldova — coverage, local acquiring, settlement and timelines for your business.