About
Wero is a pan-European account-to-account payment service run by EPI Company SE, a payment institution authorised by the National Bank of Belgium in 2024 and backed by a group of European banks and processors. Users pay by phone number or email in their bank's app or the Wero app, and money moves instantly between bank accounts. P2P went live in Germany, France and Belgium in 2024, taking over from Paylib in France; online checkout followed in Germany in late 2025 and in Belgium and France in 2026. Wero launched in Luxembourg in September 2026, replacing Payconiq, which shut on 30 September, and Dutch iDEAL is migrating to it by the end of 2027. EPI reported 55 million users in June 2026.
In active rollout and absorbing national schemes: Paylib and Giropay already wound down into it; iDEAL rebrands to "iDEAL | Wero" from Q1 2026 and is decommissioned 31 Dec 2027.
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Wero starts replacing iDEAL for Dutch online payments, with 11 banks and migration due by end-2027
EPI has begun rolling out Wero for e-commerce in the Netherlands, so PSPs can move Dutch merchants off iDEAL step by step ahead of an end-2027 deadline.
German drugstore chain dm adds Wero to its online checkout
dm has switched on Wero in its German web shop, becoming one of the larger domestic retailers to accept the European account-to-account method. Nexi Germany carried out the integration.
