Opportunity for merchants and consumers in Germany and for European payment transactions
Eschborn, 24. Feburary 2025. At the EuroCIS 2025 retail technology trade fair in Düsseldorf, Nexi Germany GmbH and the Wero operator EPI (European Payments Initiative) signed a contract for the introduction of the Wero digital wallet payment method. As a regulated payment service provider, Nexi is now licensed to connect merchants and service providers for Wero acceptance. With Nexi's partner Computop, merchants will be able to benefit from the new Wero payment method, initially in e-commerce and later also in stationary retail. As a so-called gateway provider, Computop provides all technically necessary interfaces to the Wero operator EPI. Nexi plans to connect the first merchants in the third quarter shortly after the launch of Wero in German e-commerce in the middle of this year.
Martina Weimert, CEO EPI (left), Carola Wahl, CEO Nexi DACH (right)
As a leading European PayTech, founding member and shareholder of the European Payments Initiative (EPI) and now also as a Wero acquirer, Nexi is actively shaping the future of digital payments. “The Wero payment system, which is based on account-to-account transfers, stands for solutions that we at Nexi are driving forward: intuitive, simple, scalable and pan-European,” says Carola Wahl, CEO Nexi DACH. "With Wero, there is no major change for merchants. The payment method is fully integrated into the established payment processes in e-commerce. They also benefit from an attractive pricing model, real-time payments and international reach."
Martina Weimert, CEO of the European Payment Initiative (EPI), comments: "We are looking forward to working with Nexi as acquirer in the next phase of the Wero rollout in German e-commerce to expand the acceptance of Wero among online merchants. Our goal is to provide users with a secure and seamless way to pay online. This will not only increase convenience for consumers, but also provide merchants with an attractive and competitive payment option."
Ralf Gladis, CEO Computop, adds: "With our modular offering for acquiring processing, we offer acquirers comprehensive services for Wero payment acceptance - from onboarding with reporting to EPI to the generation and exchange of tokens and handling of authorization and booking through to detailed reporting. We are convinced that, together with our strong paytech partner Nexi, we will win over numerous e-commerce merchants for the new European payment method."
Wero has so far been launched in Belgium, France and Germany. The Netherlands and other European countries will follow in the coming years. So far, payments between private individuals (P2P) are possible via Wero. Integration in e-commerce will follow in mid-2025 and the payment function for smaller merchants and traders (P2Pro) at the end of 2025. Wero will finally be introduced in bricks-and-mortar retail in 2026.