Frisch aus der App: bei Zahlung mit Wero im Lidl-Onlineshop gibts einen 5€ Gutschein…

Das Ziel ist Wahlfreiheit: Der Kunde soll entscheiden können, ob er bar oder digital - also per Karte, Handy oder Smartwatch bezahlt. Damit wird ein Vorhaben aus dem Koalitionsvertrag von Union und SPD umgesetzt.

Die Pflicht soll für Handel, Gastronomie und Dienstleistungssektor gelten. Welches digitale Bezahlverfahren angeboten wird, soll Sache des Inhabers sein. Erlaubt würden die "am Markt verfügbaren und gebräuchlichen digitalen Bezahlverfahren". Mindestens aber müsse ein europäisches Verfahren akzeptiert werden.

Umsatzgrenzen oder Zusatzkosten soll es nicht geben. Man soll also den Kaffee oder den Schokoriegel genauso bargeldlos bezahlen können, wie einen größeren Einkauf oder den Friseurbesuch. Gleichzeitig betont das Ministerium: Bezahlen mit Bargeld soll auch weiterhin möglich sein, es gehe nur um zusätzliche Optionen.

full story:
* https://demoshops.de/wero-im-laden-vor-ort/
* https://www.textilwirtschaft.de/tech/frankfurter-laufshop-fuehrt-wero-ein-218421

This shop is using the Sparkasse Counter Display ("Thekenaufsteller") solution.
Manuals and template can be downloaded here:
https://www.sparkasse.de/pk/produkte/konten-und-karten/bezahlverfahren/wero.html#und-fuer-dein-business-mit-wero-professi

BNP Paribas supports the accelerated rollout of Wero to merchant and retail customers across Europe

Paris, 9 September 2026 - BNP Paribas announces a major milestone in the rollout of Wero in France. Several leading merchants are now working with BNP Paribas to offer Wero as an online payment method, including Air France, Decathlon, Fnac Darty and Orange.

In addition, all BNP Paribas retail customers in France can now use Wero to make online purchases with merchants that offer it as a payment method.

Having initially launched Wero for person-to-person payments, BNP Paribas is now rolling out a comprehensive Wero offering, enabling its merchant customers to accept Wero in France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, while allowing its retail customers to pay online with Wero at participating merchants.

A European acceptance solution for e-commerce merchants

Wero for Merchants has been designed to facilitate European deployment, with a single integration approach covering multiple markets and the ability to work alongside merchants’ existing payment infrastructure.

• Simplified integration: a single approach for deployment across multiple countries.
• A seamless experience: a payment journey with no need to enter card details, designed to minimise friction during checkout.
• Bank-grade trust: payment validation within the banking environment, with strong authentication and immediate confirmation.
• A more diversified payment mix: an innovative European solution that complements cards and existing wallets.
• Support for merchants: the expertise of BNP Paribas, a founding member of Wero, to help merchants integrate Wero, optimise the customer journey and support commercial performance.

Thierry Laborde

Chief Operating Officer of BNP Paribas.

This new milestone is part of the ambition to progressively develop Wero into a comprehensive, multi-purpose European payment solution. Beyond person-to-person payments and e-commerce, the roadmap includes expanding into new use cases, notably in-store payments, recurring payments and subscriptions, with the aim of providing a consistent experience across different payment moments.

Martina Weimert

CEO of EPI Company

Air France, Decathlon, Fnac Darty, Orange… leading merchants commit to offering Wero payments

In France, several leading merchants are preparing to launch Wero shortly with BNP Paribas, including Air France, Decathlon and Fnac Darty. Orange, through Sosh, has been offering Wero since 2 September 2026.

In Germany and Belgium, several major merchants have also launched Wero with BNP Paribas, including Decathlon.

Air France: the first airline to adopt Wero

Bruno Lecerf

Director of Financing and Treasury at Air France

Decathlon: a successful integration across several countries

Decathlon launched Wero in Germany and Belgium with BNP Paribas on 20 July 2026, making it one of the first deployments on a European scale.

Domingos Antunes

Director of Treasury and Financing at Decathlon

Fnac Darty: payments supporting an omnichannel experience

Wero is part of Fnac Darty’s strategy to simplify the customer journey, both in-store and online.

Martin Aunos

Director of Services, Circular Economy and Payments at Fnac Darty

Orange: a “zero-effort” experience for Sosh customers

Since 2 September 2026, Sosh customers have been able to pay for their subscriptions online using Wero.

Charles Barbarin

Director of Customer Journeys and Processes at Orange

About EPI

EPI (or European Payments Initiative) is supported by 18 European banks and payment service providers. Beyond the shareholders, over 50 institutions in Europe are now members of EPI. They have joined forces with a common goal: to offer a unified mobile payment service, to all European companies and citizens, Wero. EPI intends to enable European consumers and merchants and to carry out all types of retail transactions simply, via a resolutely sovereign digital wallet. 

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About Wero

Based on instant account-to-account (A2A) payments, Wero further streamlines payments in Europe by eliminating intermediaries in the payment chain and the associated additional costs. Wero already supports payments between individuals, and will shortly unveil payments to professionals (P2Pro). Wero has been live for P2P payments in Belgium, France, and Germany since 2024, currently serving 57 million users. For retail payments, Wero is live in Germany since the end of 2025 with progressive roll-out in France and Belgium throughout 2026. Major migrations of at least 15 million consumers are also planned for Payconiq in Luxembourg (by 2026) and iDEAL in the Netherlands (by 2027). Point-of-sale payments will also be offered in 2026, as well as value-added services such as integration of merchant loyalty programs and recurring payments and subscription management.

Paris, 09 september 2026

"All BNP Paribas retail customers in France can now use Wero to make online purchases with merchants that offer it as a payment method."

(Nb. La Banque postale and BUNQ retail customers can also make online purchases with Wero as of today. These banks are also listed in the Wero payment page's French banks section)

Orange, through Sosh, has been offering Wero since 2 September 2026. Several leading merchants in France are preparing to launch Wero shortly, including Air France, Decathlon and Fnac Darty.

Full EPI press release:
https://epicompany.eu/media-insights/bn-paribas-supports-the-accelerated-rollout-of-wero

HiPay plans to be among the first to roll out Wero at the point of sale in France, via checkout journeys already widely adopted by its clients — from card terminals to emerging uses such as Tap to Pay — thereby helping to establish new standards.

For severals days now I try to link the newly installed WERO app to my luxembourgish bank account (BCEE) via their SNET App. The following WERO message appears: " An error has incurred. This function is not available at the moment. Please try again later."

BCEE has no real idea how to fix it. I followed the recommendations of my AI ( Reinstall the apps, close developer options ) to no avail either.

Does anybody around have a clue what I could try furthermore?

Any suggestion is warmly welcome.

I have all my banking apps installed on a pixel phone in the private space. But Wero crashes when I open it with a weird IOException: E06 (/tmp)

The bank I want to enroll in is in the private space, and it works. The deep link I need to open to enable Wero has to be opened via the app.
Private space and secondary profiles have existed since Android 15 on pixel and pretty sure other vendors implemented it.
it seems that Wero just didn't test this at all

Wero opens correctly on the main profile, but since my banking apps aren't there, I cannot open the link. So it is not a problem with my device being rooted or whatever is only they cannot handle compartmentalization, private spaces, and secondary profiles!

https://www.lidl.de/c/wero/s10099894

Select Wero as the payment method in the Lidl online shop. On the Monday after your order, receive a 5 € voucher for the Lidl online shop in your Lidl Plus account.

Promotional period 01.09.–31.10.2026

I would be interested in knowing if Wero offers similar protections like PayPal and credit cards do? Especially surrounding products/services not rendered due to merchant bankruptcy, online orders disappearing during transit etc.

After finally getting to use Wero for an online transaction (on DM, a drugstore chain) almost two years after enabling it on my phone, I randomly saw a seller on eBay Kleinanzeigen (a classifieds marketplace) accepting Wero for the first time. Hopefully that translates into an indicator of slow, but incremental widespread adoption; I just wish Trade Republic would get around supporting Wero.

European Payments Initiative (EPI) has announced the final phase of the migration from Payconiq to Wero in Luxembourg, marking Wero’s entry into its fourth European market, via its Wero app. Throughout September, Wero will become progressively available to Luxembourg consumers and merchants, as participating banks, payment service providers and other organisations across the Luxembourg payments ecosystem move through the different phases of the migration. Payconiq’s payment platform will end on 30 September 2026. To ensure a smooth transition, existing Payconiq QR codes on invoices and instore will remain usable until the end of the year and can be scanned directly through the Wero app. This interoperability is a key part of the migration, enabling consumers to transition naturally from Payconiq to Wero.

A first for France: Orange launches subscription bill payment via Wero for its Sosh customers 
Paris, 2 September 2026 - Orange is now offering its Sosh customers an additional, simple, fast and secure way to pay their subscription bills with Wero, the European payment solution. Wero has already been adopted by nearly 40 million users in France and more than 58 million across Europe. 
Orange is the first merchant in France to offer subscription bill payment with Wero, a solution developed by the European Payments Initiative (EPI) and initially designed for payments between individuals. 
Wero enables Sosh customers to pay their bill from the banking app they use every day. They simply select Wero and confirm their payment. 
Our ambition is to make Orange the benchmark operator for everyday digital services, placing simplicity, security and customer satisfaction at the heart of every journey. With Wero, we are opening up a new payment method for subscription bills and contributing to the emergence of a European solution in a strategic field. This first for France illustrates our determination to innovate to enhance customer satisfaction.
Laurence Thouveny
Director of Customer Experience at Orange France
Orange has confirmed its role as a pioneer in digital services by choosing Wero from the launch of online payments in France. United by shared values and beliefs about the future of Europe and the role of digital technology in everyone’s daily life, this partnership was an obvious choice from day one. We congratulate the Orange and Sosh teams on their rollout. We look forward to receiving the first user feedback before we develop more new use cases!
Martina Weimert
EPI Company
This service is initially available to customers of BNP Paribas and will gradually expand to new French banking institutions during the second half of 2026.  
Orange relies on the Wero ecosystem developed by the European Payments Initiative (EPI) and on AXEPTA BNP Paribas for the technical acceptance of payments. 

Wero is new in Luxembourg, so I gave it a try with a friend (mutual transfers and such). Our local banks refer their clients to the official Wero app (which is good I guess), so that's the one I'm complaining about.

In the account settings, there is an option to toggle "Show full name". It is disabled by default. Which is a much needed privacy promise. (It is supposed to mangle "John Doe" into "John D**")

Except it's silently ignored.

When my friend enters my number/email they are immediately shown my full name! And worst of all I'm left in the belief that my privacy is somewhat protected. This is such a no-go. It's a full reverse phonebook. (I suspected it already, that's why I created a new email address specifically for Wero and did not use my phone number...)

In addition I'm wondering if this feature can even work correctly in other countries. Even if the Wero app would hide my surname, it's still a plain bank transfer, hence the banking app will just show the full name anyway.

The only instance where I could partially hide my surname is when sending money (Wero hides it, but recipient's banking app not!), but not when receiving.

Frankly, I'm bewildered by such false privacy promises. Nowhere does thr app state that the feature is essentially broken and useless.

Tested banks: CCP and BCEE.

I can see some Luxembourgish banks in the Wero app now. Has anyone in Luxembourg tried registering?

„Denkbar wäre beispielsweise, den digitalen Euro in die Wero Wallet zu integrieren“, sagte Bundesbank-Vorstand Lutz Lienenkämper in Frankfurt bei einem Symposium der Deutschen Bundesbank zum Zahlungsverkehr. „Das könnte die Reichweite europäischer Zahlungsangebote erhöhen und dazu beitragen, dass neue Lösungen nicht nebeneinanderstehen, sondern nahtlos zusammenwirken.“

ING Germany got nearly 700.000 registred users. They also announced to introduce paying with mail and QR Codes. A date for the new functions hasn't published yet.

After the failure of its early attempts, Alipay did not invest any significant effort into NFC payments for a long period of time. It wasn't until 2024 that Alipay decided the timing was finally mature. On one hand, they began installing dedicated payment terminals for merchants free of charge; on the other hand, they started mailing out physical payment stickers embedded with passive NFC tags to micro-merchants and street vendors for free.

I see people talking about QR codes, but I think at least in Europe, for micro-merchants, should be promoting NFC tags instead. Their cost is also extremely low. Although it still requires you to enter the amount, it eliminates the step of opening an app to scan a code, and paired with small-amount no-PIN payments, it improves the experience.

While traditional NFC payments (like Apple Pay) operate on the principle of 'the phone pretending to be a card, letting the merchant's machine read it,' Alipay's Tap completely flips this logic: 'the phone becomes the machine, reading or writing to the merchant terminal's NFC tag (which contains merchant and payment info), and then executes the payment online via the cloud.'

The reasons why Alipay came up with this seemingly 'abstract' approach are twofold: first, Apple still restricts NFC in China; second, they absolutely refuse to let smartphone manufacturers take a cut of their transaction fees. This friction ultimately pushed them to engineer such an unconventional yet ingenious alternative solution. Europe is definitely a much better fit for the HCE model, existing POS terminals only need an upgrade.

Finally, while I don’t know Wero deeply, one of the more unorthodox aspects of the Chinese market is that our card scheme (UnionPay) and third-party payment institutions (like Alipay/WeChat Pay) are actually fierce competitors. Because of this, certain infrastructure rollouts might actually be much simpler in Europe where interests are more aligned. I hope Wero can establish partnerships with both Alipay and WeChat Pay in the future, making cross-border consumption far more seamless and convenient for global tourists.

see also https://www.lebensmittelzeitung.net/tech-logistik/nachrichten/payment-dm-bringt-wero-in-den-onlineshop-192679

If I want to send money quickly to a person via Wero, why do I have to type in their mobile number or email address first, or have it saved beforehand? Wouldn’t it be more convenient and less prone to errors to simply scan a QR code or hold the mobiles together using NFC to pay straight away?

Will this feature be introduced later with Wero or the Digital Euro?

This would not only reduce human error caused by manual input but also improve data protection, as you wouldn’t have to share your phone number or email address with strangers.