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> It is not possible to send Wero payments to friends & family via a web browser or on a computer
Truly independent from US companies ... If you don't have an iOS or an Android device, you are just stuck, once again
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The first time I read "US store X supports Apple Pay or Google Pay now" I was really confused. I didn't know that was a thing. Here (NL) contactless payments works with every debit card, physical or stored Apple Google/Pay, in every store. There is no difference between payment providers, everyone offers contactless payments and it works with every bank. (The only exception are credit cards, but they are not used a l…
> Here (NL) contactless payments works with every debit card, physical or stored Apple Google/Pay, in every store That's how it works in the US as well. You might be conflating Apple Pay with Apple Wallet, which stores your credit cards for tap-to-pay. Most people in the US use Apple Wallet/Google Wallet to digitally store their credit/debit cards, and use those cards to pay at the store by tapping the POS terminal.…
It sucks that decathlon basically left Canada after a short trial run. I think it really came down to crappy marketing overall.
There are 16 decathlon locations in 4 provinces. They also have an online store. The Toronto suburbs stores closed. They by no means "basically left Canada". They just left the GTA.
Much to the surprise of many in Ontario, there are quite a few places outside of that province that can be considered Canada.
iDeal is amazing and it's great it's coming to the rest of Europe, even if they gave it a worse name. Here in the Benelux it's the go-to payment option for ecommerce. I think this will be a much bigger threat to Visa and Mastercard than the oft-promised digital Euro.
> I think this will be a much bigger threat to Visa and Mastercard than the oft-promised digital Euro Wasn't the digital Euro specifically crippled due to banks lobbying against it to promote Wero instead?
That said, I wouldn't be surprised regarding lobbying.
Wero is such a valuable asset for Europe and couldn't have come at a better time. It's built on the excellent SEPA system, which standardized bank transfers and "Lastschrift" in Europe. SEPA itself got a huge upgrade last year with mandatory instant transfers that cannot cost more than standard transfers between European checking accounts. Both of those allowed Wero to happen as a final abstract top layer, meaning: t…
> the UX of sending money to an email address > No account necessary and no private american conglomerates can delete that account. Who owns domain names (which emails require)? No, don't say people do, people don't own domain names, they lease them, and it's not a right either.
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Note that Wero is amongs others based on the Dutch iDEAL [1] system, which was introduced 21 years ago. Virtually every Dutch web shop supports iDEAL (and many only support iDEAL) as well as international payment services such as PayPal and Stripe. As a result, the vast majority of transactions of Dutch webshops go through iDEAL. It is really a super-nice frictionless system. iDEAL also supports P2P payments through…
It's not the same system. iDEAL supports banks to implement payment in their online banking websites, while Wero is Google/Apple ecosystem exclusive.
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> No account necessary and no private american conglomerates can delete that account. Officially you need a Google or Apple account to download a wero capable app from their stores, and Google and Apple can always delete all wero capable apps from their stores like for example with Russian sanctioned banks. Some banking apps work on non - google play controlled android smartphones, but always only accidentally. Some…
If Wero is going to be similar to iDEAL, which it is based on, the payment flow will be through your bank's app. Heck, even the Wero app description says so: The Wero app is available only for account holders from the German bank Postbank and the French bank La Banque Postale. Are you a customer of another Wero-enabled bank? If so, you can easily use Wero within your banking app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/de…
Wero app Play Store page: "This item isn't available in your country."
Hard to cheer for a thing when it prevents you to access your own money, and promises to "easily pay" immediately fall flat.
Paypal is bad but at least it doesn't fail at step 0.
Wero is such a valuable asset for Europe and couldn't have come at a better time. It's built on the excellent SEPA system, which standardized bank transfers and "Lastschrift" in Europe. SEPA itself got a huge upgrade last year with mandatory instant transfers that cannot cost more than standard transfers between European checking accounts. Both of those allowed Wero to happen as a final abstract top layer, meaning: t…
> The Wero app can be installed on any mobile device or tablet running iOS 17.4 or later, or Android 9 or later. We recommend updating your device to the latest version of its operating system for maximum performance and security. > It is not possible to send Wero payments to friends & family via a web browser or on a computer Truly independent from US companies ... If you don't have an iOS or an Android device, you…
Why is this news? In the Netherlands the ideal system is already replaced by Wero ? What am I missing.
Seems to be a weird marketing article