Payment processor Worldline and energy storage company EcoFlow have announced a commercial partnership. EcoFlow will use Worldline’s Global Collect platform to handle payments across multiple countries, including the US, UK, and markets across Europe.
Under the agreement, Worldline will provide local payment acquiring in multiple regions. This means EcoFlow’s transactions will be processed domestically within each market rather than routed cross-border. The two companies say the arrangement is intended to raise payment authorisation rates and meet local regulatory requirements in each country.
Worldline will also apply network tokenisation technology to EcoFlow’s transactions. The companies say this is aimed at reducing false payment declines — a recurring issue for high-value products.
The plan includes extending local acquiring to Asia-Pacific and Latin America as EcoFlow’s transaction volumes grow in those regions.
Stijn Gasthuys, Head of Global Commerce at Worldline, said: “As EcoFlow expands into new markets, they need a payments partner combining global execution with local expertise to deliver reliable, high‑performance payment experiences worldwide. At Worldline Global Collect, our ability to support complex international growth, together with our strong European coverage, made the difference.”
The deal was earlier briefly disclosed in Worldline’s Q1 2026 earnings release on 28 April, where it was listed as a key commercial highlight for the Global Commerce business unit. However, the partners didn’t provide deal details at that point.
EcoFlow was founded in 2017 and sells home energy storage products in 140 markets, reporting over 5 million users. Worldline, listed on Euronext under the ticker WLN, reported €4 billion in revenue for full-year 2025 and has over 1.2 million customers.
Yidan Yuan, Head of Europe at EcoFlow, noted: “Delivering a seamless and reliable customer experience is at the core of everything we do. As our global business continues to grow, we need a payment infrastructure that can scale with us while maintaining high performance across markets. Our partnership with Worldline allows us to strengthen payment reliability, improve authorisation rates and ultimately provide a smoother experience for our customers worldwide.”
EcoFlow’s push into new markets is happening against a backdrop of rising global demand for home energy backup, driven by grid instability, extreme weather, and in some regions, active military conflicts. Within the global portable power station industry, EcoFlow ranked first in 2024 in both sales revenue and shipment, with a market share of about 25% and 17% respectively.
Demand for backup power today is being driven by several overlapping pressures across different regions. There’s ageing grid infrastructure in Europe and North America, increasing frequency of extreme weather events that cause outages worldwide, and general consumer energy price volatility stemming from 2026 disruption to gas and oil supplies.
No market illustrates demand for EcoFlow’s products more starkly than Ukraine, whose electricity infrastructure has been the target of sustained missile and drone attacks since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022. During long-term blackouts, in October–December 2025, EcoFlow station sales exceeded 20,000 devices per month across the country, up from around 3,000 per month in September.
Therefore, Ukraine functions as an extreme stress-test of EcoFlow’s products at scale. The brand recognition built in that context is now translating into broader European demand, where concerns about grid resilience, even if less acute, are real. In this respect, the Worldline partnership, covering local payment acquiring in the US, UK, Europe, and planned expansion into APAC and Latin America, is directly tied to managing transaction volume as the portable power station demand scales.
