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I still want to know who was the damn idiot that decided to call a payment system "Tax". It gets utterly confusing when the word "Vero"/"Wero" can mean two separate things that both have to do with money. (And in Finnish W and V are considered the same letter because there was a spelling reform where all W-letters got replaced with the previously unused V).
I hope they'll change the name to something that can be sensibly used in all of EU.
V and W are most definitely not considered the same letter in Finnish. Phonetically they produce the same sound but it's not like people use V and W interchangeably. Besides, before the reform in 1800s the w was used for both v and u sounds.
How do you pronounce the name "Wille"? How about "Ville"?
Or that singers family name, Wirtanen? Not the same as Virtanen?
Or, in which way do you pronounce the word "wero"? The same as "vero", or something different?
Can you give an example of a Finnish word with a "w" that is not pronounced the same as the Finnish "v"?
(Ja sori, tรคstรค tekstistรค tuli hyรถkkรครคvรคmpi kuin tarkoitin... Uudelleenkirjoittamiselle ei oikein ole aikaa, mรถh :( )
They are pronounced the same hence phonetically they are the same but they are not concodered the same letter. If they were the same, people would be unsure if words are written with v or w or use them interchangeably, which does not happen.
...which is why you sometimes see "Toni Virtanen", " Mika Valtari", etc.
I've met two Wilmas and both of them get their names written as Vilma.
People k ow that W is deprecated and V is used now instead, and then when they hear that sound, they write a "V". Just like you said.
Also, try reciting the alphabet. It ends "oo, pee, kuu, รคr, รคs, tee, uu, vee, รคks, yy, zeta, oo, รครค, รถรถ", right? Where is "kaksoisvee"?
I'll be able to pay fines with Wero... French tax authority, the real trailblazer we all need.
Thats really useful, thanks :)
Happy to help !
The โsupported banksโ figure is useless. The largest bank in continental Europe by market cap is Santander. And the two largest banks by number of customers are Spanish. None of them use Wero, but Bizum.
Itโs my understanding theyโre planning on a collaboration, but still.
The shop situation looks pretty grim, hopefully that'll change sooner than later.
All they really had to do is copy the twint app from switzerland, they have the perfect blueprint to copy. I really hope this works, but holy moly, the french app - paylib - which wero replaced allowed you to pay in shops, but now we cant with Wero, for an unspecified amount of time. Forced to use visa/mastercard in france now. It makes you wonder who all these marketing experts and banking and political decision makers are... we're going to remove functionality and then hope user adoption goes up. In store payments should have continued using paylib background in the interim, or the wero in store payments should have been set up from the start. Its not that bloody difficult.
I don't know about other local systems, but the Wero branding is already starting to show up when making iDeal payments. I think there's a good chance that at least in the short-to-medium term, the transition is going to be largely seamless for stores, where support for the local system translates into support for Wero, and all they really have to do is change the name in the order form.
Can you also add a light mode?:)