Berliners will soon have to pay fees and other payments to the administration via the payment system Wero. This was decided by the digital committee of the House of Representatives, according to a report by Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB).
Wero – a combination of We and Euro – is a digital payment service that allows money to be transferred by providing a mobile phone number or an email address. It is intended to be positioned against US payment services such as Paypal.
Zero offline shops, there’s no implementation yet. And it will be smartphone based (qr code), no cards. Battery empty? No pay.
It’s just bank payments without having to write the IBAN, and a standardized interface for online store payments when ready.