Globe Newswire
POPcodes, a leading provider of value-added solutions and services to the payment industry, today announces results from a 2-year pilot and a subsequent three-year contract extension with a global top-five merchant acquirer.
Founded in 2013, POPcodes created a content, campaign and workflow management platform with a smart terminal-based app that helps merchant services providers (MSPs) establish a direct-to-merchant digital communication channel that optimizes key business processes, benefitting themselves and their merchants.
According to a September 2022 Gallop poll, 95% of people prefer to use something other than cash for some or most their purchases. And, with over 80% of those purchases still occurring in-person, the deployment, training and support for the infrastructure required to process those payments costs merchants and acquirers millions of dollars a year and consumes valuable employee resources.
In April of 2020, in an effort to contain those costs and deliver a better merchant experience, a top-five acquirer launched its evaluation of a white-labeled version of POPcodes’ Push Button Services™ solution. They began remotely deploying the app to thousands of merchants’ smart devices just as COVID began to impact their very large brick-and-mortar merchant base.
The platform enabled merchants to access the latest deployment, training, support content directly from their smart terminal. With the go-live occurring days after the CDC’s declaration of COVID as a global pandemic, the solution quickly paid unexpected dividends, by delivering time-critical instructions to merchants on how to disinfect their terminals without damaging them. This not only reduced customers’ and associates’ risk of exposure during payment, but it also saved downtime and tens of thousands of dollars by not having to replace equipment.
“There is tremendous untapped potential in the global, internet-connected ecosystem of smart terminals,” said Gregg Aamoth, CEO of POPcodes. “Our goal is to deliver omnichannel ready, value-added solutions help acquirers, ISOs, merchants and ultimately everyone in the extensive payments value-chain unlock that potential.”