Bank payments · Bancontact
Accept Bancontact on your website and sell across Belgium
Belgians know Bancontact from their bank card and their phone. Turn it on in Stripe and your Cornerrr website’s checkout offers it, so customers in Belgium scan a QR code with the Bancontact app or use their card, then come straight back to your shop.
- Free to build and preview
- Payments by Stripe
- No transaction fees from Cornerrr
Bancontact
- Type
- Bank payments
- Customers in
- Belgium
- Currencies
- EUR
- Subscriptions
- One-off payments only
- Fees
- Stripe’s; none added by Cornerrr
- Checkout
- Stripe Checkout, built in
Bank payments
What is Bancontact?
Bancontact is Belgium’s own payment scheme: the Bancontact card issued by Belgian banks, and the Bancontact app linked to the same account. Online, the customer approves a payment with either one, and Stripe tells you immediately whether it went through. It takes euros only.
How your customers pay
Select Bancontact
At your Stripe checkout, for an order in euros, the customer chooses Bancontact and lands on a Bancontact page.
Card or app
On a computer, they type their Bancontact card details or scan a QR code with the app. On a phone, a button opens the app directly.
Authorize
They confirm the payment with their card or in the app. They have up to an hour, so a phone call in the middle doesn’t lose the sale.
Paid and back
Bancontact confirms straight away and the customer returns to your website, where the order already shows as paid.
Why offer it
Why businesses take Bancontact
A checkout Belgians recognize
The Bancontact logo is on Belgian bank cards, so customers in Belgium see a familiar name instead of having to use a credit card.
No chargebacks
Customers authenticate with their bank, so Bancontact has no chargeback process. If someone asks their bank about a payment, the bank sends them back to you.
Two years to refund
You can refund a Bancontact payment in full or in part for up to 730 days, handy for warranty returns on bigger items.
Works for trade orders too
Through Stripe, Bancontact can be used for sales to other businesses as well as to consumers, which suits wholesale customers in Belgium.
Set up
Turn on Bancontact in three steps.
Connect your Stripe account
Link the Stripe account you already have, or create one in a few minutes from Cornerrr. Payments go straight to it; Cornerrr adds no transaction fee.
Turn the method on in Stripe
In your Stripe Dashboard, open the payment method settings and turn it on. Stripe may ask a few questions about your business first.
It shows at checkout
Your Cornerrr checkout is Stripe Checkout, so customers who can use the method see it automatically when their country and your currency match.
Questions
Good to know
How do I start accepting Bancontact on Cornerrr?
Connect your Stripe account, turn on Bancontact in the payment method settings of your Stripe Dashboard, and price your store in euros. Cornerrr’s Stripe Checkout then offers Bancontact on its own to eligible customers in Belgium.
Can Belgian customers pay a subscription with Bancontact?
Not with Bancontact itself. Stripe’s Checkout takes Bancontact for one-time payments only, so for a subscription on the Growth plan, Belgian customers pay by card or by SEPA Direct Debit, which works from Belgian bank accounts.
How do Bancontact refunds reach the customer?
As a separate credit to their bank account, usually within two to five days. It isn’t labelled as a refund on their statement, so send the customer a short note when you refund.
Is Bancontact only for Belgian businesses?
No. Stripe accounts in the EU, the UK, Switzerland, the US and several other countries can accept it, as long as the customer is in Belgium and the order is in euros.
Do I need any technical skills?
No. You describe your business in your own words and Cornerrr builds the website. Afterwards you change things by clicking, or by asking the assistant in plain words.
How much does it cost?
Building and previewing your website is free, with no card needed. To go live and take payments, choose a plan from $19 a month. Every paid plan starts with a 14-day free trial; a card is needed to start it.
Bancontact works well for
- Chocolate shop website builder
- Brewery website builder
- Bakery website builder
- Florist website builder
- Wholesale business website builder
- Bookstore website builder
Countries where people pay with Bancontact
Other ways to get paid
All payment methodsTake Bancontact on your own website.
Describe your business, connect Stripe and start taking payments. It’s free to build and preview.