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Paytab Connect
What Paytab Connect is
Paytab Connect is a web-based payments service for marketplaces. It supports seller onboarding, split payments, and KYC/KYB processes. Payment methods listed include Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal, Klarna, Clearpay, SEPA Direct Debit, Faster Payments, and Open Banking. The Standard plan has no monthly fee or setup cost and charges 1.4% + 20p per UK and EEA card payment. It includes next-business-day payouts, hosted checkout, Payment Links, and invoicing. Growth is listed for £50,000 monthly volume, while Enterprise uses custom pricing and includes Interchange++ pricing, custom contracts and MSA, dedicated infrastructure, custom SLAs, and bespoke fraud modelling. Paytab Connect is paid and has no free plan. It was founded in 2024 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.
Who it suits
It suits marketplaces that need seller onboarding, split payments, and identity or business verification support. Its listed payment methods and plan structures address businesses with different payment volumes and infrastructure requirements.
What it does well
- Seller onboarding and split payments
- KYC/KYB support
- Wide range of payment methods
- Standard has no monthly fee
- Next-business-day payouts on Standard
What to know first
- No free plan
- Standard charges 1.4% + 20p per card payment
- Growth references £50,000 monthly volume
- Enterprise pricing is custom
Plans
| Plan | Billed and limits | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Enterprise | custom pricing for high-volume and complex needs · Interchange++ · custom contracts · dedicated infrastructure · white-glove onboarding · custom SLAs · staging endpoints · bespoke fraud modelling · multi-currency settlement | On request |
| Growth | for £50k+ monthly volume; no monthly fee · Volume pricing · instant payouts within 30 minutes · priority routing and retries · account manager · SLA-backed uptime · custom reporting · 24/7 phone support | £1.22 a month |
| Standard | per UK/EEA card payment; no monthly fee · All payment methods · hosted checkout · payment links and invoicing · subscriptions · analytics · next-business-day payouts · 24/7 email support | £1.42 a month |
As paytab.co.uk lists them, read 15 Oct 2026. The maker's own page has the final word.
Verdict
Paytab Connect combines marketplace payment operations with onboarding, split payments, and verification support. Review the Standard transaction charge and the custom arrangements for Growth or Enterprise before choosing a plan.
Facts from Paytab Connect's own pages
- API extensibility
- The API offers idempotency keys, HMAC-SHA256 signed webhooks, more than 80 event types, typed SDK generation from OpenAPI and live request logs. · paytab.co.uk, 15 Oct 2026
- API limits
- The stated default rate limit is 100 read and 100 write requests per second per workspace, with higher limits available on request. · paytab.co.uk, 15 Oct 2026
- API style
- Paytab describes its developer interface as a REST API using resource-oriented URLs, JSON bodies and standard HTTP status codes. · paytab.co.uk, 15 Oct 2026
- App-store identity warning
- An Apple App Store listing named PAYTAP-APP is published by Drivetap Innovation India, not Paytab Ltd, and shows 5.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings. · apps.apple.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Checkout performance
- The marketplace page reports a 0.4-second median checkout render and 99.999% API uptime over a rolling 90-day period. · paytab.co.uk, 15 Oct 2026
- Company founding
- Paytab's press page lists the company as founded in 2022. · paytab.co.uk, 15 Oct 2026
- Company size
- The press page lists more than 180 employees as of July 2026. · paytab.co.uk, 15 Oct 2026
- Documentation
- Paytab advertises endpoint-level API references, curl and SDK examples, quickstarts, tutorials for Shopify, WooCommerce, Xero, Zapier and Next.js, a CLI, and a dated changelog. · paytab.co.uk, 15 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 2024 · paytab.co.uk, 4 Oct 2026
- Funding
- The about page says Paytab raised a £4 million seed round from Northzone and UK fintech founders, followed by a £22 million Series A led by Accel. · paytab.co.uk, 15 Oct 2026
- Geographic reach
- Paytab says it supports payments in more than 180 countries. · paytab.co.uk, 15 Oct 2026
- Headquarters
- The company identifies London, United Kingdom as its headquarters. · paytab.co.uk, 15 Oct 2026
- Independent directory context
- Gartner Peer Insights' digital-commerce payment-vendor category lists 31 products and shows vendors such as Stripe, PayPal, Adyen, CSG and Nuvei. · gartner.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Listed native integrations include Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, BigCommerce, Xero, QuickBooks, Sage, HubSpot, Salesforce, Zapier, Make, Webflow, Framer, Wix, Squarespace and Notion. · paytab.co.uk, 15 Oct 2026
- Legal-record identity
- UK Companies House lists a company named PAYTAB LIMITED under company number 10063497. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk, 15 Oct 2026
- Legal-record officers
- The Companies House page lists Shahryar Zahid Sheikh as a current director and Waqas Zafar as a resigned director. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk, 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: communication
- Trustpilot reviewers of the separate PayTabs company repeatedly complain about slow email responses, lack of phone access and unresolved support requests. · trustpilot.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: payout delays
- Multiple Trustpilot reviews of the separate PayTabs company describe delayed settlements, including waits of several days or more than a week. · trustpilot.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Marketplace controls
- Connect includes white-labelled seller dashboards, automated tax forms, escrow-style holds, reserve balances, seller-routed refunds and chargebacks, multi-currency payouts, balance APIs and seller-specific webhooks. · paytab.co.uk, 15 Oct 2026
- News: Faster Payments
- On 1 July 2026 Paytab announced Faster Payments payouts targeted to settle in under one minute, 24/7, without an additional fee for UK merchants. · paytab.co.uk, 15 Oct 2026
- News: volume milestone
- On 12 May 2026 Paytab announced more than £4 billion in annualised UK payment volume and more than 12,000 UK businesses served. · paytab.co.uk, 15 Oct 2026
- Payment methods
- The platform supports cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal, Klarna, Clearpay, SEPA Direct Debit, Faster Payments and Open Banking. · paytab.co.uk, 15 Oct 2026
- Payment splits
- A marketplace payment can be split among as many as 100 recipients while automatically taking the platform fee. · paytab.co.uk, 15 Oct 2026
- Payout scheduling
- Marketplace operators can choose daily, weekly, on-demand or hold-and-release payout policies. · paytab.co.uk, 15 Oct 2026
Where Paytab Connect stands on Freedom251
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