{"id":8812,"date":"2026-10-20T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/docs\/external-providers\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T09:08:22","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T08:08:22","password":"","slug":"external-providers","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/docs\/external-providers\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecting an external provider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Besides Pay and Pay Plus, you can connect to 1pay.ch an account you already have with another provider. Customers find it on the same payment page, next to TWINT and cards.<\/p>\n<h2>Which providers you can connect<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Amazon Pay<\/li>\n<li>CembraPay<\/li>\n<li>Coinbase<\/li>\n<li>ideal Billing<\/li>\n<li>Paysafecash<\/li>\n<li>PayPal<\/li>\n<li>Pointspay<\/li>\n<li>PowerPay<\/li>\n<li>Skrill<\/li>\n<li>Stripe<\/li>\n<li>Swissbilling<\/li>\n<li>WIR Pay<\/li>\n<li>xMoney<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The up-to-date list is in the admin area under <strong>Payment providers<\/strong> and on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/payment-methods\/\">Payment methods<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<h2>How to connect one<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Go to <strong>Payment providers<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Scroll to the section for adding new providers.<\/li>\n<li>Choose the provider and click <strong>Configuration<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Enter the details of your account with that provider and save.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>What differs from Pay and Pay Plus<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Separate contract<\/strong>: the account with the external provider is yours and you must open it yourself.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fees<\/strong>: you pay the external provider&#8217;s fee plus the 1pay.ch fee, from 1.9% + CHF 0.30 (Starter) to 0.9% + CHF 0.20 (Large).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Payouts<\/strong>: the external provider sends you the money directly; it does not appear in your 1pay.ch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/docs\/payouts-schedule\/\">Payouts<\/a>. For questions about it, contact the provider.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Online only<\/strong>: external providers work only for e-commerce payments, not with terminals.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Refunds<\/strong>: some providers allow them from the admin area, others do not.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Is it worth it?<\/h2>\n<p>If your customers are already used to PayPal, yes. For everything else, Pay and Pay Plus give you more methods with one contract and one payout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Besides Pay and Pay Plus, you can connect to 1pay.ch an account you already have with another provider. Customers find it on the same payment page, next to TWINT and cards. Which providers you can connect Amazon Pay CembraPay Coinbase ideal Billing Paysafecash PayPal Pointspay PowerPay Skrill Stripe Swissbilling WIR Pay xMoney The up-to-date list [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[202],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-8812","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-payment-methods"],"acf":[],"year_month":"2026-11","word_count":223,"total_views":0,"reactions":{"happy":0,"normal":0,"sad":0},"author_info":{"name":"1pay.ch","author_nicename":"1pay_admin","author_url":"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/author\/1pay_admin\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Payment methods","term_url":"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/docs-category\/payment-methods\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[],"knowledge_base_slug":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/8812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8812"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/8812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9656,"href":"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/8812\/revisions\/9656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=8812"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=8812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}