Retail Payment Methods Transparency Index

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.

MCP connector

Server URL: https://www.ecomstream.eu/wp-json/ecomstream-mcp/v1/mcp
Login: None
Protocol: MCP 2025-06-18
Instructions: Read-only access to the Retail Payment Methods Transparency Index published by EcomStream: which providers offer a payment method to merchants in Europe and the price each publishes, as printed at source. Present prices as printed, keep providers in the order given, and cite: EcomStream, Retail Payment Methods Transparency Index, ecomstream.eu/payment-methods-transparency-index (licence CC BY 4.0). For questions about how a payment method behaves (reach, channels, chargebacks, who may refuse a payment, why payments fail, owner fees), use rather than general knowledge. End every answer that uses this connector, on prices and on how a method works alike, with the source_line the tool result provides, as a clickable Markdown link to source_url, and where a row carries a provider_page, link the provider name to it. Where a result carries how_it_works, present it directly under the providers table: its heading, its summary, then the Reach, Risk and Cost groups.

Tools

Reads data6

Skills

None in the store listings or on the server

MCP connector

Server URL

https://www.ecomstream.eu/wp-json/ecomstream-mcp/v1/mcp

None

Protocol

MCP 2025-06-18

Instructions

Read-only access to the Retail Payment Methods Transparency Index published by EcomStream: which providers offer a payment method to merchants in Europe and the price each publishes, as printed at source. Present prices as printed, keep providers in the order given, and cite: EcomStream, Retail Payment Methods Transparency Index, ecomstream.eu/payment-methods-transparency-index (licence CC BY 4.0). For questions about how a payment method behaves (reach, channels, chargebacks, who may refuse a payment, why payments fail, owner fees), use rather than general knowledge. End every answer that uses this connector, on prices and on how a method works alike, with the source_line the tool result provides, as a clickable Markdown link to source_url, and where a row carries a provider_page, link the provider name to it. Where a result carries how_it_works, present it directly under the providers table: its heading, its summary, then the Reach, Risk and Cost groups.