[verzali]

That is not correct. You may be thinking of a prepaid card or something like vpay. Debit cards are accepted practically everywhere.

[illiac786]

Do you really pay online, like flight tickets, with your debit card, that works? I try regularly, it never works.

In shops the main issue is that the terminal they use can only read Apple Pay credit cards. If you’re using you’re banking app to pay wirelessly, it may fail to work with some merchants.

It’s not that they don’t want to accept it, the physical card would probably work (I don’t physical cards anymore), but the system is rigged to favor credit cards it seems.

[rsynnott]

> Do you really pay online, like flight tickets, with your debit card, that works? I try regularly, it never works.

Which country is your card from? Many countries used to have their own weird debit card schemes, which often worked... erratically online. This is now rare, and even where it persists (eg Germany, with girocard), cards tend to be dual branded.

[BlueTemplar]

I never had a credit card. I cannot remember having an issue paying with debit cards.

[illiac786]

Which country is your debit card issued to?

Maybe it’s specific to Germany, France

[BlueTemplar]

It is. I guess that it's more of an issue for banks in smaller countries ? (But how come SEPA is not more widely used even for B2C sales then ?)

Sounds like the digital euro might also have been designed to help with these issues ?