Number of payments with iDEAL in the Netherlands 2006-2020
card payments per capita compared to 151 in Belgium and 232 in the Netherlands.
Online transactions with iDEAL kept on growing in the Netherlands in 2020, reaching over 890 million payments. iDEAL is an inter-bank system, local to the Dutch market, allowing shoppers to use their bank account for online purchases. It is covered by all major Dutch consumer banks. In 2006, the number reached approximately 4.4 million payments. Subsequently, this increased to approximately 524 million in 2018. One preferred way of conducting money transfers in Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands is by card. In 2016, Luxembourg had approximately 216