Merchant acquiring

Putting certified card acceptance on merchants’ own phones

Terminal cost was the single barrier keeping small merchants on cash. Hardware economics meant the processor could not profitably serve anyone below a monthly volume floor.

1 min readBy Entrant

The challenge

Terminal cost was the single barrier keeping small merchants on cash. Hardware economics meant the processor could not profitably serve anyone below a monthly volume floor.

What we delivered

A SoftPOS acceptance app on standard Android, taken through scheme and PCI MPoC evaluation alongside build rather than after it. Onboarding moved from a scheduled engineer visit to a same-day download.

Disciplines

  • Product engineering
  • Certification
  • Security
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