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“Imagine the Best Experience”: PF Veterans Offer Their Advice to Companies Considering the Model
While the payment facilitator way of doing business is still a relatively new entrant in the payments industry, the model has been around long enough to have generated some seasoned veterans.
Some of those veterans offered their advice during a discussion at PF WORLD 2019.
Read MoreYapStone Raises $71 Million, Funding Geographic and Product Expansion
Leading payments provider and payment facilitator YapStone announced this week that it had raised $71 million in a recent funding round.
Read MoreHow To Get Cracking On Your PayFac-ing
There are at least two great reasons to jump into the payment facilitator game– increased revenues and market share—and many many tools to help. One of those tools is advice from the hard-won success achieved by those who have made the leap.
In a session on the ins and outs of starting a payfac at the second annual Payment Facilitator Day at Transact16 in April, Kevin Harris of RunSignUp said training people was more of a challenge than software concerns, and David Weiss of Yapstone shared the difficulties of international expansion. Nick Starai of gateway tech company NMI told the audience to concentrate on the business they know best rather than focus on technological bells and whistles. The highlights of the discussion fill this week’s paymentfacilitator.com podcast, the next best thing to having been there.
Read MoreYapstone’s Way Of Unlocking Payments For Renters Everywhere
Paying rent is one of the last—and largest—vestiges of paper-check-writing in the U.S. and it’s also remarkably inefficient. Combine that with the fact that rent is often one of the largest monthly costs for the country’s roughly 100 million tenants and it’s easy to see why Yapstone has focused on rent payments as one of its most critical verticals.
“We want to focus on multi-billion-dollar opportunities,” said Yapstone President David Weiss.It’s also important to remember that paying that monthly rent bill is only one part of the tenant—and landlord—financial reality. By selling the service to both apartment dwellers and apartment managers, Yapstone has the perfect audience for a group of services that make the rental process easier and therefore more profitable. “We’re offering a whole range of value-added services such as credit reporting, renters’ insurance that follows that resident from unit to unit,” Weiss said. “This is a powerful series of products that enable us to tap into a $400 billion to $500 billion market.”
Read MoreRentMoola Deal Signals Major Upheaval In The Rental World
In the world of payment facilitators, it’s hard to envision a segment more in need of payments updates than apartment rentals—one of the last nature preserves for the American Check. A deal announced on Tuesday (Dec. 1) between RentMoola and MasterCard is a very optimistic sign.
The deal itself is simple, but the potential implications are anything but. The deal positions MasterCard as RentMoola’s preferred payment brand in the U.S. and Canada, which that tenants and condo owners get an unspecified preferred rate “as well as (again, unspecified) rewards with exclusive offers.” This arrangement will include MasterPass “in early 2016,” which presumably means any time before July. Replacing checks with payment cards is a step in the right direction, but where rental payments can really shake things up is when the process bypasses the landlord.
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