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Wero still unknown to most Germans after two years

Wero, built by the European Payments Initiative (EPI) as a European alternative to PayPal, Mastercard and Visa, has seen limited consumer recognition and usage two years after its July 2024 launch. A representative Verivox/Innofact survey of 1,002 German adults in July 2026 found 39% correctly identified Wero as a payment service, 31% had never heard of it, 23% had heard the name but couldn't identify it, about 7% use it actively and 14% had linked a bank account. EPI reports 57 million registered users across Belgium, France and Germany (9 million in Germany), while PayPal reports roughly 35 million active German accounts. Wero expanded from phone-to-phone transfers to e-commerce payments in November 2025 and plans in-store rollout; growth is constrained by limited merchant acceptance, bank-based onboarding, AWS reliance and ongoing funding needs.

Guide to Building B2B Online Marketplaces

This guide explains what an online marketplace is, how it differs from a single-vendor eCommerce store, and what technical and operational requirements B2B teams must consider when adopting the marketplace model. It covers marketplace types (B2C, B2B, service, hybrid), core functional needs such as vendor onboarding/KYC, commission engines, order splitting and split payments, and argues that general-purpose eCommerce platforms (Shopify, Magento) are not natively designed for multi-vendor marketplaces. The article contrasts SaaS marketplace vendors (Mirakl, Sharetribe) with an open-core solution (Mercur) and provides timing and build-time expectations for platform projects.

Amazon Adds Wero to Checkout, Phased Rollout

Amazon Germany has begun a stepwise integration of the European payment brand Wero into its checkout, first visible as a rename of the existing iDEAL payment option to "iDEAL | Wero." The change currently affects only the labeling while the customer payment flow (redirect to the bank's app for authorization) remains unchanged. Wero is a payment brand developed by the European Payments Initiative (EPI) to unify national payment schemes across Europe using SEPA real-time transfers and European security/privacy standards. Amazon has not issued an official announcement; help pages already use the new name and the migration is expected to complete by the end of 2027. Retailers such as Lidl and Decathlon have also recently integrated Wero.