BLIK Is Going European. So Are We.
Our clients are already accepting payments from Germany, France, Spain and other EU countries. Zevio monitors the OSS threshold in line with the EU e-commerce directive. And BLIK - our strategic partner - joined a European mobile payments network covering 130 million users. This isn't a plan for the future. This is today.
Polish subscribers are just the beginning.
When we talk to publishers and service businesses about Zevio, we almost always start from the same place - the Polish market, Polish subscribers, BLIK as a payment method that Poles know and trust.
But reality is moving faster than sales conversations. Our clients are already accepting payments from other EU countries today. Germany, France, Spain, Sweden, the Netherlands - these aren't plans for the future. This is the Zevio dashboard right now.
OSS - the obligation most businesses ignore until it's too late
If your business sells digital subscriptions to customers in other EU countries, you're covered by the EU VAT directive for digital services. The rule is simple, though often misunderstood: there is one shared threshold of 10,000 EUR per year across all sales to all EU countries outside your country of establishment. Not per country - combined.
That means 2,000 EUR to Germany + 3,000 EUR to France + 5,000 EUR to Spain = threshold exceeded. From that point, you charge VAT at the rate of the customer's country, not your own.
At Zevio, we've built OSS monitoring directly into the platform. You see one shared threshold, a breakdown per country, and a clear distinction between what counts towards the OSS threshold and what doesn't. Domestic sales in Poland don't count. Sales to EU countries outside Poland - they do. Simple, transparent, ready for reporting.
Not because we wanted to build a tax tool. Because our clients need it - and it's better they have it in one place than hunting for answers across four different systems.
BLIK joins Europe - and that changes everything
A few months ago, BLIK joined a European mobile payment interoperability consortium. The network already includes Bizum from Spain, MB Way from Portugal, Vipps MobilePay from Scandinavia, Bancomat from Italy, and EPI/Wero from France, Germany and the Benelux. Together - over 130 million users across 13 European countries, covering around 72% of the EU and Norwegian population.
This isn't another partnership on paper. The EuroPA Alliance has been operating since March 2025. BLIK is joining a live, working system.
The timeline is concrete: P2P transfers between systems in 2026-2027, in-store and e-commerce payments from 2027. Digital subscriptions aren't yet a separate item on the consortium's roadmap - and that's exactly the space Zevio intends to occupy.
What this means for businesses using Zevio
Today, your subscribers pay with BLIK from Polish bank accounts. In a year or two, a Pole living in Berlin will be able to pay with Wero - and a Pole in Stockholm with Vipps. Same infrastructure, same ecosystem.
Businesses that are already building a subscription model based on BLIK through Zevio won't need to rebuild anything. They'll simply be ready earlier - with an active subscriber base, a proven onboarding process, and an OSS report that's already monitoring sales per country right now.
The Polish diaspora in Germany, the Netherlands, the UK - this isn't an abstraction. These are readers of Tygodnik Powszechny, students at language schools, clients of the businesses we work with. They're already paying. We can already see it in the dashboard.
We're starting in Poland. But we're building on infrastructure that is becoming European.