rpti_about
ClaudeScope, panel, citation line, licence and correction address of the Retail Payment Methods Transparency Index, with the latest date a price was read at source.
Overview
The Retail Payment Methods Transparency Index, published by EcomStream, records which payment service providers offer each payment method to merchants established in the EU, Norway, the United Kingdom and Switzerland (Cyprus and Malta excepted), per country where shoppers pay and per channel: online, in-store, or online and in-store. Every price is given as the provider prints it, with the pricing model and the date it was read at source; where a provider publishes no price, the answer says so. The connector also describes how a method works (where shoppers pay with it, chargeback exposure, who may refuse a payment, why a payment can fail, and any fee the method owner charges directly), lists every price one provider publishes, and gives the scope of the index. Providers are listed alphabetically. The index covers a panel of providers that actively serve retailers and brands, not every provider in a market. Read-only, no account needed. Published under CC BY 4.0; every answer carries the citation line.
Tools
rpti_find_providers
ClaudeLists the providers in the Retail Payment Methods Transparency Index that offer a payment method to a merchant established in a given country, selling to shoppers in a given country on a given channel, with the price each provider publishes for it as printed at source (or No price published), the pricing model and the date it was read at source, followed by how the method works (reach, risk and cost) as the index page shows it under the table. Providers are listed alphabetically. The index covers a panel of providers that actively serve retailers and brands, not every provider in a market. Merchants established in the EU, Norway, the United Kingdom and Switzerland are covered, Cyprus and Malta excepted.
rpti_list_methods
ClaudeLists the payment methods in the Retail Payment Methods Transparency Index with the countries where shoppers pay with them and a link to each method page. Optionally limited to the methods available to shoppers in one country.
rpti_list_providers
ClaudeLists the providers in the Retail Payment Methods Transparency Index alphabetically, with the number of rows in which each publishes a price and a link to its price page where one exists.
rpti_method_profile
ClaudeDescribes how a payment method works as the index records it: where shoppers pay with it, the channels, how the shopper pays online and in-store, chargeback exposure, who may refuse the payment, why a payment can fail, and any fee the method owner charges the merchant directly. Use it for any question about how a payment method behaves, its reach, its risk or failures, or the fee its owner charges, also when no price is asked.
rpti_provider_prices
ClaudeLists every price a provider publishes in the Retail Payment Methods Transparency Index, per payment method, with the merchants each price applies to, the channel, the pricing model and the date it was read at source. Optionally limited to merchants established in one country.
