SME-focused acceptance: online checkout, payment links and POS terminals under a CBUAE Retail Payment Services licence. Rates auto-improve with volume.
Payment linksIn-person / POS
- Card rate
- 2.9%
- + per txn
- AED 1
- Monthly fee
- Confirm contract
- Settlement
- Weekly
Paymob’s published Standard online pricing is 2.9% + AED 1 per transaction, with weekly bank settlement and no monthly subscription advertised. Separately, merchant terms clause 4.5 says Paymob may impose AED 110 per month when monthly volume is below AED 10,000. Confirm the applicable product and signed agreement; neither a universal zero monthly cost nor an automatic AED 110 charge is established for every merchant.
Smart POS terminals and omnichannel acceptance for retail, F&B and hospitality; entered the UAE via a partnership with Magnati.
Payment linksIn-person / POS
- Card rate
- —
- + per txn
- —
- Monthly fee
- —
- Settlement
- —
No public UAE rate card — terminal and transaction fees are quoted per merchant.
The UAE’s largest acquirer — best negotiated rates and enterprise-grade processing, but onboarding is slower and geared to established businesses.
In-person / POSMulti-currency: AED + regional currencies
- Card rate
- 1.5–3.5%
- + per txn
- —
- Monthly fee
- —
- Settlement
- T+1–2
Rates are custom-quoted (~1.5–3.5% observed range) plus monthly/terminal fees. Best economics at real volume.
FAB’s payments arm — online acquiring, POS terminals and government-sector acceptance, backed by the UAE’s largest bank.
Payment linksIn-person / POS
- Card rate
- —
- + per txn
- —
- Monthly fee
- —
- Settlement
- —
No public rate card — acquiring and POS fees are quoted per merchant.
Former PayFort — one of the largest MENA PSPs: cards, installments, payment links and local methods with deep regional bank integrations.
Payment links
- Card rate
- —
- + per txn
- —
- Monthly fee
- —
- Settlement
- —
Pricing is plan-based/custom and not publicly listed; PayTabs announced acquisition of APS MENA in 2026 — confirm contracting entity.
Local UAE acquirer with strong SME track record — among the lowest local-card rates on a modest monthly plan.
Payment links
- Card rate
- 2.35%
- + per txn
- AED 0.5
- Monthly fee
- AED 99
- Settlement
- T+1–3
Bands by monthly volume: AED 0–9,999 → AED 249/mo at 0%; AED 10,000–24,999 → AED 199/mo at 2.45% + AED 1; AED 25,000–49,999 → AED 99/mo at 2.35% + AED 0.50; AED 50,000+ → AED 0/mo at 2.25% + AED 0.50. Per telr.com/pricing, verified Oct 2026.
Restaurant POS with integrated payment acceptance — order, pay and receipt on one device, daily settlements; UAE payments run through Network International.
- Card rate
- —
- + per txn
- —
- Monthly fee
- —
- Settlement
- Daily settlements
UAE acceptance delivered with Network International per provider disclosure, Oct 2026; rates quoted per merchant.
Pay-at-table QR payments and ordering for hospitality — diners scan, split and pay in seconds without an app; CBUAE RPS in-principle approval (Aug 2026).
- Card rate
- —
- + per txn
- —
- Monthly fee
- —
- Settlement
- —
In-principle approval announced Aug 2026 — full licence not yet issued; verify current status.
No-code payment acceptance for UAE SMBs — payment links, invoices and Tap to Pay on iPhone/Android without a terminal. Acts as merchant of record via licensed processing partners.
- Card rate
- 2.37–2.77%
- + per txn
- AED 0.8
- Monthly fee
- AED 0
- Settlement
- Published settlement schedule on provider site
Model and availability per provider documentation, Oct 2026; per-transaction rates published on the provider site.
