Most used e-commerce payment methods in Spain 2016-2024, with 2030 forecast

According to 2024 data, more than ********** of e-commerce users in Spain preferred to pay for their purchases via wallet. Debit and prepaid cards ranked as Spain's second-most popular e-commerce payment method, ahead of account-to-account (A2A) transactions. Cryptocurrency was not used whatsoever for e-commerce payments in Spain.

E-Commerce in Spain and its most successful sectors

Electronic commerce has begun to see growth over the past decade, with its sales volume reaching figures of approximately **** billion euros in 2018, differing greatly from the volume registered in 2007, which amounted to a mere *** billion euros. The tourism industry was the business sector that most benefited from e-commerce services in 2018, with travel agencies and tour operators registering revenues of over *** billion euros and air travel generating approximately * billion euros that year. Other important sectors that generated the highest web-based revenues in Spain included clothing and gambling, with sales totals of approximately *** billion euros and *** billion euros respectively.

E-Commerce expenditure in Spain

According to the latest records, the average Spaniard increased their expenditure on products purchased online in the last decade, rising from *** euros a year in 2007 to **** thousand in 2017. The most common amount spent per purchase was ** to ** euros. Insurance and financial services ranked as the service that Spaniards spent most money on, with average spending amounting to nearly *** thousand euros in 2017. Electronics also arose as one of the most common items that Spaniards spent their money on, with an annual expenditure of ***** euros that year.