Sources: central bank and provider disclosures, 2024–2025.
How Jamaica pays
Jamaica pays by card and cash. Visa and Mastercard debit and credit cards from local banks are widely used, especially online, while cash remains common in everyday spending. The Bank of Jamaica issued JAM-DEX, its central bank digital currency, in 2022, used through wallets such as Lynk.
Remittances from Jamaicans in the United States, Canada and the UK are a major source of income, and tourism brings large card spend from visitors. For a merchant, the value is a clear starting point: cards and express wallets behind one integration, 3DS on card-not-present payments and retries across acquirers, with Jamaican dollar pricing and FX handled for you.
Why merchants run on us here
Cards and wallets live today
Card acquiring and the express wallets behind one integration, available now.
Ready for visitors and diaspora
Tourists and Jamaicans abroad pay with foreign-issued cards, so routing by card origin matters.
Approvals across acquirers
3DS on card-not-present and retries across acquirers to protect approvals.
Jamaican dollar pricing and FX
Price in JMD and settle in your base currency, with FX handled for you.
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 Jamaica
Local payment methods are only half the job. We carry the operational weight — acquiring, settlement, FX, licensing and reconciliation — so you can treat Jamaica like any other market in your stack.
One integration, every local method
Connect once and reach every card scheme, wallet, bank rail and installment provider in Jamaica through a single API — no separate contract or integration per provider.
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 Jamaican dollar (JMD) 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
Process through our locally licensed partner entities. You launch without standing up a local entity or chasing a payments license of your own.
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 Jamaica?
Talk to our payments team about going live in Jamaica — coverage, local acquiring, settlement and timelines for your business.