Guest Analysis: 4 Reasons Why your MPOS Strategy is Failing

Rick Oglesby

July 16, 2015 – Are you tired of hearing that MPOS is the future of payments while your business is incapable of scaling its MPOS offering? Or are you seeing that your MPOS portfolio is made up of nothing but inactive or low volume merchants? Here’s 4 reasons why, and some things you can do about them.

Payments is a universal merchant need and a commodity, but MPOS is neither of those things, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that payment companies are struggling with it. POS is a highly differentiated, value-added service, so a whole new set of rules apply. It will be  product teams, not distribution teams, that will make or break the payments companies of the future. Is your business ready?

This blog post was inspired by a recent report by Double Diamond Payments Research. For more information about the report please visit To Be or Not To Be an ISV? Integrated Payments Strategies for Merchant Solutions Providers, or email [email protected]. 

About Double Diamond Payments Research
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