Gov.uk has replaced Stripe with Dutch provider Adyen

toomuchtodo

https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2026/06/02/building-for-the-future-m... https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/182de6c9-d... https://www.payments.service.gov.uk/roadmap/ https://www.payments.service.gov.uk/performance/

arjie

Surprisingly small contract. It's interesting to see that a full government contract for a payment provider is a fraction of a US mid-size company's cloud bill. I am constantly surprised by things like this. Here's another: there are more foreigners in Taiwan (total pop. 25 m) than in China (total pop. 1.4 b).

telesilla

Stripe allows for these kinds of payments, we've been updating our store to support Wero etc. It should give better conversation and processing rates than the US credit cards.

ChrisArchitect

Associated Adyen post: https://www.adyen.com/press-and-media/adyen-payments-gov-uk

oakinnagbe

I'm curious whether this will materially reduce costs for local authorities or whether the benefits are primarily in expanding payment options.

siren2026

I wish Adyen was as good at marketing and hype as Stripe was. Stripe is really good at making themselves look like a way bigger deal than they are.

thomashabets2

So maybe it'll stop taking three requests, 1-2 months, and a certified letter every year to receive your tax refund? HMRCs digital services in general are pretty good, but refunds not so much.

m101

The solution to all these expenses is to just have the user pay the transaction costs. Then everyone will start using bank transfers.

maelito

Adyen refuses small clients, under the million :/

zuzululu

doesnt seem like stripe has anything to worry about here the total contract value is of irrelevant scale i guess i expected it to be more significant seeing that its the UK gov

gib444

Got to love the people taking a swipe at the company. They found their market, can't you just be happy for them? They're hardly the only company in the world to only deal with bigger clients. This site regularly dunks on European tech as being subpar, but when an American company gets ditched for a European one, barely anyone can find nice words to say. You really reveal yourselves in times like this, I've got to admit.

throwyui

All are ditching american tech and what not as much as they could

madhacker

Good for them. Self-reliance is a good thing especially weaning off hostile Americanism.

xp84

It seems to me like whole Western countries, especially Britain being outside the EU and Eurozone and with its own currency, ought to have at least one big domestically-based option for something this fundamental. It’s an odd thing to have to rely on foreign countries for. Is there a company that’s basically like “Stripe but British-owned”?