Buckaroo has announced that it will be accepting online payments with the Bancontact app, through which customers of online merchants can complete payments via smartphone.

Maurits Dekker, CCO of Buckaroo, states that numbers prove the success of the use of the Bancontact app, as merchants offering the app are reported to have obtained 15% to 20% more conversion. ”This makes accepting online payments with the Bancontact app indispensable for stores or companies with Belgian customers”, he remarks.

Nathalie Vandepeute, CEO of Bancontact Payconiq Company, expresses her excitement for the collaboration: ”This [partnership] allows the Bancontact app users to experience at even more online shop easy and fast payments with their smartphone. This new collaboration underlines once again the importance of Bancontact as payment method of the Belgians” she says.

Founded in 2005 and based in Utrecht, Buckaroo is a payment service provider that offers a complete internet checkout with a wide range of national as well as internaitonal payment methods, promising a faster and more customer- friendly online & offline collection of payments and receivables. The company has been named Best Payment Provider in the Netherlands for four years in a row.

Bancontact Payconiq Company, producer of the Bancontact app, is based in Brussels, and a Belgian market leader in electronic and mobile payment services providing smooth and secure payment processing.