Blog

Image credits: Mollie

Last month, Shopify, a cloud-based, multi-channel commerce platform designed for SMEs, asked customers of Mollie, a Dutch unicorn that provides a payments platform, to use its payment gateway instead of Mollie’s payments solution. The Canadian firm also said that it would soon be unable to support them with their online payments, causing confusion among the users. 

However, Mollie has now clarified that the communication from Shopify was an error. Mollie customers using Shopify can continue using Mollie as their payment solution.

Salesforce’s report on Dutch workforce’s digital skills

Has the Dutch workforce mastered all digital skills? Find out

Has the Dutch workforce mastered all digital skills? Find out Show Less

Mollie, in its official press release, says, “We need to take Shopify’s word for it, for now, but it sure did look to us like a sneaky attempt to upsell its own payments product to Mollie customers. To set the record straight, Mollie payments will remain available and compatible with Shopify.” 

“Nice try Shopify ;),” the release adds.

The company also says, “In the event, Shopify misinforms you again, we want to make sure you know not to follow the instructions they send. If you click the preselected option in their message, you will be switching from Mollie to Shopify Payments and will no longer have access to Mollie’s best-in-class dashboard, real-time business insights, and reports.” 

Previous development

A few months back, the Dutch signed a multi-year agreement with Mazda Motor Europe to provide the automaker’s new online marketplace platform with a simplified payment experience. 

This collaboration will enable Mazda to provide a digital and e-commerce experience for consumers and offer convenient and frictionless payments.

Mollie: What you need to know

Founded in 2004 by Adrian Mol, Mollie is a payments platform that offers an easy-to-implement process for integrating payments into a site or app. 

With a simple and clear payments-API, the Dutch company offers multiple payment methods uniformly. The company is on a mission to make online payments simple for merchants by taking away the complexity of payment methods and offering a simple, but ‘powerful’ API.

Amsterdam-based unicorn processes payments for more than 130,000 clients with local payment methods such as Mastercard, VISA, Amex, PayPal, iDEAL, Bancontact, Bitcoin, SEPA Direct Debit, and Cartes Bancaires, ESP, Giropay, SOFORT Banking, and more.