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Learn about MB WAY, a digital wallet payment method in Portugal.

MB WAY is a digital wallet payment method in Portugal. When paying with MB WAY, customers initiate payments using their phone number, and authenticate and approve them using their MB WAY app.

You get immediate notification of whether the payment succeeded or failed.

Note

MB WAY supports international phone numbers, but the majority of customers use a Portuguese phone number starting with +351. You can test your integration in a sandbox using test phone numbers.

Customer locations
Portugal
Presentment currency
EUR
Payment confirmation
Customer-initiated
Payment method family
Wallet
Recurring payments
No
Payout timing
Standard payout timing applies
Connect support
Yes
Dispute support
Yes
Manual capture support
No
Refunds / Partial refunds
Yes / Yes

Payment flows

Customers pay with MB WAY using a phone number linked to their MB WAY app. After providing their phone number, customers receive a push notification in their MB WAY app, authorize the payment, then return to your website.

Get started

Learn how to configure MB WAY as a payment method.

You don’t have to integrate MB WAY and other payment methods individually. If you use our front-end products, Stripe automatically determines the most relevant payment methods to display. Go to the Stripe Dashboard and enable MB WAY. To get started with one of our hosted UIs, follow a quickstart:

Checkout: Our prebuilt, hosted checkout page.
Elements: Our drop-in UI components.

Other payment products

The following Stripe products also let you add MB WAY from the Dashboard:

Payment Links

Refunds

You can refund MB WAY charges up to 365 days after the payment completes. Refunds usually take a few minutes to complete. MB WAY supports full and partial refunds. You can also issue multiple partial refunds up to the amount of the original charge.

Connect

You can use Stripe Connect with MB WAY to process payments on behalf of a connected account. Connect users can use MB WAY with the following charge types:

Enable MB WAY for connected accounts that use the Stripe Dashboard

Reach out to your Stripe representative to enable MB WAY for connected accounts that use the Stripe Dashboard or email us. These accounts must onboard manually.

Enable MB WAY for connected accounts that use the Express Dashboard or a dashboard that isn’t hosted by Stripe

To onboard connected accounts that use the Express Dashboard or a dashboard that isn’t hosted by Stripe, request the mb_way_payments capability using the Capabilities API. For more details, follow the instructions to enable payment methods for your connected accounts.