PayDo becomes principal acquirer for Apple Pay and Google Pay, cutting third-party reliance for merchants

PayDo, a global payments platform, announced it is now a principal acquirer for both Apple Pay and Google Pay, giving merchants on PayDo Checkout a direct connection to the two digital wallets without relying on third-party acquiring partners. The launch follows PayDo's introduction of direct acquiring for Visa and Mastercard at the end of 2025 and adds to the more than 350 alternative payment methods already supported on PayDo Checkout, with the company pitching the change as a way to reduce fragmentation and consolidate payment infrastructure under a single provider. PayDo CEO and founder Serhii Zakharov said in the announcement that “payment fragmentation has become a systemic tax on innovation” and that the expansion gives merchants “more control, greater independence and a simpler way to offer the payment methods their customers already know and trust.”