Connected POS Terminals - 9th Edition

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Executive Summary

1 Introduction

• 1.1 The card payments industry
  • 1.1.1 The transaction process in card payments
  • 1.1.2 Costs of a card payment transaction
  • 1.1.3 Revenue distribution in the card payments industry
  • 1.1.4 Card payments and household consumption expenditures
  • 1.1.5 Breakdown of household consumption expenditures
  • 1.1.6 Card payment volumes
• 1.2 The POS terminal market
  • 1.2.1 POS terminal market data
  • 1.2.2 POS terminal form factors

2 Cellular IoT and NFC Connectivity

• 2.1 Evolution of electronic payments
  • 2.1.1 EMV migration
  • 2.1.2 Adoption of cellular IoT communications
  • 2.1.3 Rollout of NFC-ready terminals

3 POS Terminal Vendors

• 3.1 Vendor profiles and strategies
  • 3.1.1 Anfu
  • 3.1.2 BBPOS
  • 3.1.3 Bitel
  • 3.1.4 Castles Technology
  • 3.1.5 Centerm
  • 3.1.6 Cloud Code (Hainan)
  • 3.1.7 Datecs
  • 3.1.8 Dspread Technology
  • 3.1.9 Equinox Payments
  • 3.1.10 Fiserv
  • 3.1.11 ID Tech
  • 3.1.12 Ingenico
  • 3.1.13 Itron Electronics
  • 3.1.14 JTact
  • 3.1.15 Landi
  • 3.1.16 MoreFun
  • 3.1.17 Newland Payment Technology
  • 3.1.18 New POS
  • 3.1.19 Nexgo (Xinguodu)
  • 3.1.20 PAX Technology
  • 3.1.21 Payter
  • 3.1.22 Smartpeak
  • 3.1.23 SumUp
  • 3.1.24 Sunmi
  • 3.1.25 SZZT Electronics
  • 3.1.26 Tianyu
  • 3.1.27 TopWise
  • 3.1.28 Trendit
  • 3.1.29 UIC Payments
  • 3.1.30 Vanstone Electronic
  • 3.1.31 VeriFone
  • 3.1.32 YZPOS

4 Forecasts and Conclusions

• 4.1 Market trends and drivers
  • 4.1.1 Steady uptake of cellular IoT connectivity
  • 4.1.2 NFC has become ubiquitous
  • 4.1.3 POS terminal app stores are a potential game-changer
  • 4.1.4 Android payment terminals gain traction
  • 4.1.5 New technologies can transform the shopping experience
  • 4.1.6 The mPOS market segment is still growing
  • 4.1.7 Is the advent of SoftPOS a possible threat to POS terminal hardware sales?
  • 4.1.8 Trump tariffs affect POS vendors that manufacture in Asia
• 4.2 Market forecasts
  • 4.2.1 Cellular POS terminal market forecast
  • 4.2.2 NFC-ready POS terminal market forecast
  • 4.2.3 NFC-ready mPOS terminal market forecast

List of Acronyms and Abbreviations

List of Figures

• Figure 1.1: Typical payment transaction flow
• Figure 1.2: Visa interchange fees in the UK and the US (2025)
• Figure 1.3: Revenue distribution in card payments
• Figure 1.4: Card payments as a share of HCE and GDP (World 2024)
• Figure 1.5: Household consumption expenditures by service and product (EU27 2024)
• Figure 1.6: Card payments in Europe and North America (2024)
• Figure 1.7: Installed base of POS terminals and ATMs (World 2020–2024)
• Figure 1.8: POS terminal density by country (World 2024) 0
• Figure 1.9: Stationary and mobile POS terminals
• Figure 1.10: Android POS terminals
• Figure 1.11: mPOS devices
• Figure 1.12: SoftPOS app
• Figure 2.1: EMV implementation status (World 2024) 6
• Figure 2.2: POS terminals with cellular connectivity by region (World 2024) 7
• Figure 2.3: NFC-ready POS terminals by region (World 2024) 8
• Figure 3.1: POS terminal shipments by manufacturer (World 2024)
• Figure 3.2: PAX Technology POS terminals
• Figure 3.3: Payter’s Apollo terminal
• Figure 3.4: Verifone POS terminals 5
• Figure 4.1: Deployment of NFC and cellular technologies (World 2023–2029)
• Figure 4.2: Cellular POS terminal shipments by region (World 2023–2029)
• Figure 4.3: Cellular POS terminal installed base by region (World 2023–2029)
• Figure 4.4: NFC POS terminal shipments by region (World 2023–2029)
• Figure 4.5: NFC POS terminal installed base by region (World 2023–2029)
• Figure 4.6: mPOS terminal shipments by region (World 2023–2029)
• Figure 4.7: mPOS terminal installed base by region (World 2023–2029)