Sources: Bank of Israel and provider disclosures, 2024–2025.
How Israel pays
Israel is a card-first market. Credit cards from local issuers carry most online spend: Isracard, a domestic card brand, sits alongside Visa and Mastercard cards from the local issuers. A local habit sets Israel apart: shoppers expect to split larger purchases into payments (tashlumim) on a credit card, and checkouts that offer installments are the norm rather than the exception.
Phones are the other half of the story. Bit and PayBox are the everyday payment apps for person to person and small merchant payments, and Apple Pay and Google Pay are widely used. For an enterprise merchant, the value is a strong card checkout: international and locally issued cards and the express wallets behind one integration, 3DS on card-not-present payments, and retries across acquirers to protect approvals, with shekel pricing and FX handled for you.
Why merchants run on us here
Cards and wallets live today
International card acquiring and Apple Pay and Google Pay, behind one integration.
Built for local cards
Isracard and the other locally issued cards are how Israel pays online, so routing by card origin matters.
Installments are expected
Israeli buyers look for tashlumim on larger baskets, and a checkout that respects the habit converts better.
Shekel pricing and FX
Price in ILS and settle in your base currency, with 3DS and retries across acquirers.
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 Israel
Local payment methods are only half the job. We carry the operational weight — acquiring, settlement, FX, licensing and reconciliation — so you can treat Israel 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 Israel 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 Israeli new shekel (ILS) 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 Israel?
Talk to our payments team about going live in Israel — coverage, local acquiring, settlement and timelines for your business.