Scalapay

Scalapay is an Italian buy now, pay later payments company focused on embedding instalment finance into merchant checkouts. Its core product allows consumers to split purchases into three or four interest-free instalments, while merchants receive the full purchase amount upfront and Scalapay assumes the credit risk. The platform is integrated into e-commerce checkout flows and point-of-sale environments, combining merchant settlement, underwriting and transaction management. The company makes money primarily from merchant transaction fees, with a smaller contribution from consumer late fees. Its paying customers are merchants rather than end users, although the product is designed to influence consumer conversion and basket size. Available evidence indicates a European operating footprint and a scale-up profile supported by significant venture funding and a later debt facility, as well as a payments-licence acquisition to deepen infrastructure control.