Overview
All brick-and-mortar merchants need to reduce their overhead costs in a time of reduced sales volume. Many merchants may be unaware of some alternative and emerging payment channels that are available to them and fail to take advantage of other ways in which in-store shoppers can pay. These are systems that are not routed through the established payment card networks and feature lower transaction fees.
A new research report from Mercator Advisory Group, Payment Channel Alternatives to the Card Networks for Merchants, describes the ways that consumers can pay for transactions in stores and how merchants can integrate these payment acceptance methods into their point of sale (POS) systems. Most retailers, especially small businesses, can save money on card processing fees (interchange) and related fees thanks to some existing technologies as well as more recent API developments from payment providers.
“Merchants are looking for ways to save costs in times of low growth or no-revenue growth and shrinking profit margins. Now they have some viable ways to save on processing costs for sales transactions by offering their shoppers some alternative payment methods,” commented Raymond Pucci, Associate Director, Research Services at Mercator Advisory Group, and author of the report.
This report is 15 pages long and has 6 exhibits.
Companies mentioned in this report: American Express, Best Buy, Circle K, CITGO, Cumberland Farms, Chase, Discover, First Data, GasBuddy, Mastercard, Speedway, Starbucks, Target, Vantiv, Venmo, Visa, Walmart, Wex, Zelle, and ZipLine.
One of the exhibits included in this report:
Highlights of this research report include:
- Consumer in-store payment preferences
- Types of merchant payment channel alternatives
- Emerging decoupled debit payment methods
- Merchant pains and gains from card networks
- Merchant payment transaction processing fee examples
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