There is some momentum right now for sure. But the tracker is tracking what? Some selection of shops? Common two digit numbers of shops? Over all Europe.? Are they kidding.
I would love to accept it in my store, but my terminal provider just said they wouldn’t implement it.
Your comment just made me look it up again and with payone there now seems to be a German provider that supports it. Guess I consider changing to them at the end of my current contract, they cost about the same as my current one.
Personally, my biggest issue with it is that it’s tying one bank account and one phone number (at least with my bank, I’ve heard that other banks tie it to email addresses).
I have multiple bank accounts (one for each business plus personal ones), but only one mobile phone number. So I can only get and send wero payments with just one bank account. I cannot get/send business and personal payments simultaneously, and even if I activated it for one business, it still wouldn’t work for the other.
I could only get more phone numbers, but they cost monthly, and I’m not willing to do that just for a niche payment service.
I’m still feeling positive that they even work on alternatives. But you’re absolutely right, it isn’t really functional right now and money should be put into development rather than marketing/user growth for now.
I’m just going to keep on using SEPA CT. It’s more convenient for me. In fact it’s superior to wero in many ways, it’s European, and all EU banks support it AFAIK
Well when a phone number can only be used for one bank account, but someone has more bank accounts than phone numbers (which is the case for a lot of people) then it is an issue because they can’t use wero with all accounts.
Yes, some banks. But as Wero is a european project that aims to build financial infrastructure independent of US tech, I would’ve liked to see such a feature (if it requires an app on a mobile phone anyway). This would make contactless payment without Google feasible for everyone (and terminal providers would only have to implement one new protocol instead of handling each bank’s custom NFC stuff)
I can’t use it on amazon, or to buy a plane or train ticket. Can’t use it to pay for a pizza I order online, or a movie ticket, or a digital download movie or song or album.
I also don’t use cards or phone payment IRL if I can avoid it. But particularly online, where I HAVE to use VISA or paypal, they’re also not supporting those either.
If only you could… you know… use it to pay for stuff? In stores? Wild concept, I know.
There are some stores that already support it. Give it a year or two and adoption will be more widespread.
https://www.werotracker.eu/?view=merchants
There is some momentum right now for sure. But the tracker is tracking what? Some selection of shops? Common two digit numbers of shops? Over all Europe.? Are they kidding.
But still a nice project
The list of banks that let you use wero is also pretty limited as of now, so it has a long way to go before being truly useful :(
I would love to accept it in my store, but my terminal provider just said they wouldn’t implement it.
Your comment just made me look it up again and with payone there now seems to be a German provider that supports it. Guess I consider changing to them at the end of my current contract, they cost about the same as my current one.
Even better, tell the existing one that you plan to change for that reason.
I mean, I’m mostly meme’ing, I will never touch it. I think it’s hilarious that they do all that marketing and it’s simply not functional yet.
I do sincerely wish you good luck and that it works for you though.
Yea true.
Personally, my biggest issue with it is that it’s tying one bank account and one phone number (at least with my bank, I’ve heard that other banks tie it to email addresses).
I have multiple bank accounts (one for each business plus personal ones), but only one mobile phone number. So I can only get and send wero payments with just one bank account. I cannot get/send business and personal payments simultaneously, and even if I activated it for one business, it still wouldn’t work for the other.
I could only get more phone numbers, but they cost monthly, and I’m not willing to do that just for a niche payment service.
I’m still feeling positive that they even work on alternatives. But you’re absolutely right, it isn’t really functional right now and money should be put into development rather than marketing/user growth for now.
I’m just going to keep on using SEPA CT. It’s more convenient for me. In fact it’s superior to wero in many ways, it’s European, and all EU banks support it AFAIK
tying it to phone number is no biggie, look at UPI, they’ve been doing it since inception
Well when a phone number can only be used for one bank account, but someone has more bank accounts than phone numbers (which is the case for a lot of people) then it is an issue because they can’t use wero with all accounts.
afaik when you select pay with wero, you are asked to select a bank account
You young people and your silly ideas!
I fail to see how Wero would be practical for paying in a store. Using a card is faster, and if you use your phone to pay, you might as well use NFC.
and how do you pay with NFC? AFAIK that only works with Google Pay / Apple Pay.
Some banks have their own app that works without Google Pay or even without Play Services.
Yes, some banks. But as Wero is a european project that aims to build financial infrastructure independent of US tech, I would’ve liked to see such a feature (if it requires an app on a mobile phone anyway). This would make contactless payment without Google feasible for everyone (and terminal providers would only have to implement one new protocol instead of handling each bank’s custom NFC stuff)
Bank apps don’t implement anything custom. They act like a real card.
webstores.
I can’t use it on amazon, or to buy a plane or train ticket. Can’t use it to pay for a pizza I order online, or a movie ticket, or a digital download movie or song or album.
I also don’t use cards or phone payment IRL if I can avoid it. But particularly online, where I HAVE to use VISA or paypal, they’re also not supporting those either.