PayPal Zettle
Mobile point-of-sale app for accepting payments
- Also known as
- paypal-zettle
Available in: GB · Popular in: GB
What is PayPal Zettle?
A payment acceptance system combining a free mobile app with optional hardware. Charges a percentage fee on each transaction with no monthly subscriptions or long-term contracts.
PayPal Zettle pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
1.75% per transaction. Free app. Hardware from £29.
Card Payments
- Card and contactless payments
- Cash payments
- Gift card management
- Inventory management
- Sales reporting
- Receipt options
Add-ons
- PayPal Reader£29 one-time
- Additional PayPal Reader£69 one-time
What PayPal Zettle does
The capabilities that matter for retail pos, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Deployment model
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- Offline mode transaction queuing
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- Hardware and payment processor agnostic
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- Matrix inventory variant support size color
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- Barcode scanner and thermal receipt printer sync
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- Customer CRM profiles and purchase history
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- Integrated gift cards and store credit
- ✓
- Omnichannel bopis buy online pickup in store
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- Employee time clock and commission tracking
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- Multi location store transfers and lookups
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- SOC2 type ii
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- ISO 27001
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- Pricing model
- Saas plus mandatory payment processing rake
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- iOS
- Web
- Android
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (16)
Independently observed- Adobe Commerce
- BigCommerce
- ePages
- ExtendaGO
- HIOPOS
- JTL-POS
- Lightspeed
- modified-shop
- nopCommerce
- Pickware
- plentyPOS
- PrestaShop
- roc.Kasse
- Shopify
- Shopware
- WooCommerce
PayPal Zettle alternatives
Other retail pos we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- Hike POSCloud-based point of sale and commerce platform for multi-location retail operationslow · 37%
- Square for RetailPoint-of-sale platform combining hardware and software for retail businesseslow · 36%
- Shopify POSCloud-based point-of-sale system that unifies in-store and online retail operationslow · 42%
- Cegid RetailCloud-based point-of-sale and unified commerce platform for omnichannel retail operationslow · 14%
- Lightspeed RetailCloud-based point-of-sale and payment platform for retail and hospitality businesseslow · 21%
- ErplyCloud-based retail point-of-sale and inventory system designed for multi-location operatorslow · 25%
Compare PayPal Zettle
Side by side against other retail pos, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for PayPal Zettle, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing transparency | 80 | 0.08 | 6.7 | ✓ |
| Price level | 80 | 0.05 | 4.2 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 29 | 0.05 | 1.4 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 35 | 0.04 | 1.4 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
| Security posture | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
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All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Pricing model: saas_plus_mandatory_payment_processing_rake · Integrated gift cards and store credit: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-24 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 16 | mediumsource · 2026-08-24 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: regional · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-08-24 · 75% |