S-Payment and ePages partner to drive digitalisation in retail

Stuttgart/Hamburg, 23 June 2025 – S-Payment, the payment competence centre of the Sparkasse Finance Group, and ePages, Europe’s leading provider of cloud-based commerce solutions for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), are launching a strategic partnership to drive digitalisation in retail. Effective immediately, all Sparkasse institutions across Germany can offer their business and commercial customers the new website builder “S-WebSolutions”. This enables them to support small and medium-sized businesses on their path to digitalisation and provide various solutions for a quick entry into online retail.

“S-WebSolutions” includes the two products “S-WebSite” and “S-WebShop”, which ePages has developed specifically for the needs of brick-and-mortar retail. With “S-WebSite”, small and medium-sized businesses can build a strong online presence, increase visibility, make their products and services available to customers around the clock, and reach new customer groups far beyond their regional market. With “S-WebShop”, even small retailers can now offer their product range online at moderate cost and increase their revenue.

AI-based setup with ePages Copilot

With the use of the new ePages Copilot, an AI-powered setup assistant, businesses can create a professional website or webshop in just a few clicks. Retailers can start with a cost-effective website that already enables product listings. If needed, this can easily be expanded into a fully featured online shop with a shopping basket function and integrated payment options at the click of a mouse.

The cross-border features integrated by ePages also enable small retailers to ship their goods across Europe and automatically translate their product and service offerings into up to eleven languages. This allows providers of highly specialised product ranges to become less dependent on national demand fluctuations and expand their business across borders. Additional B2B modules also enable the handling of more complex orders from business customers, which often involve individual conditions.

“Our partnership with ePages enables us to effectively guide our business customers’ previously largely regional retail activities into the digital world,” emphasises Christian Plaza Bartsch, Managing Director of S-Payment. “With S-WebSite and S-WebShop, we offer new tailored solutions for our customers that simplify entry into e-commerce while ensuring long-term viability.”

“With this new partnership, we directly reach hundreds of thousands of small and medium-sized Sparkasse business customers,” explains Wilfried Beeck, CEO of ePages. “We can support them in digitising their business processes easily and cost-effectively and in offering their products beyond regional markets or even internationally. With new integrated AI features, such as automatic translations, entirely new growth opportunities are opening up for regional retail.”

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S-Payment GmbH:

S-Payment GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of the DSV Group, is the payment competence centre of the Sparkasse Finance Group. It is responsible for developing and marketing holistic, target group-specific and omnichannel payment solutions for private and business customers of the Sparkasse – both for PoS and for e- and m-commerce. This includes, among other things, contactless payments with cards and smartphones (app “Mobiles Bezahlen” for Android as well as Apple Pay with Sparkasse).

S-Payment acts as a comprehensive partner to the Sparkasse. It advises institutions nationwide on innovative products and highlights market trends. In addition, it establishes the Sparkasse Finance Group’s payment solutions in new markets (e.g. e-mobility, connected cars, digital PoS) and develops value-added services that offer Sparkasse customers additional individual benefits when paying.

Press contact:

Stephan Arounopoulos
Corporate Communications Manager
Tel.: +49 711 782 99 – 230
stephan.arounopoulos@s-payment.com

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ePages:

ePages (www.epages.com) is the leading provider of cloud-based commerce platforms for small and medium-sized businesses in Europe. More than 100,000 companies run their websites and online shops with ePages. Regular updates and AI-supported integrations keep online presences up to date. ePages works with more than 80 technology partners to provide innovative features for online marketing, marketplaces, price comparison portals, payment, shipping, ERP and more. The company is headquartered in Hamburg, with additional offices in Berlin, Jena, London, Barcelona and Bilbao.

Press contact:

Sarah Böhm
PR & Content Manager
Tel.: +49 40 350188-264
s.boehm@epages.com