Acquiring New Merchants and Alliance Partners

「Recurring revenue grew steadily in stock fees, as a major commercial facility that was a new merchant commenced full-scale operations and payment activity at merchants in everyday-life sectors, including household-goods stores and drugstores, continued to grow. Spread revenue also expanded significantly as merchant acquisition progressed steadily across a broad range of industries and business formats, including SMEs (small and medium-sized merchants), leisure and amusement facilities, and coin-operated parking facilities.」

「The group's key KPIs expanded steadily: (1) active IDs increased 17% from the fourth quarter of the previous consolidated fiscal year, (2) the number of payment transactions increased 41% year on year, and (3) GMV (payment transaction value) increased 30% year on year.」

「Meanwhile, use of cashless payments progressed among merchants in everyday-use industries and business formats that began operations during the latter half of the second quarter of the consolidated accounting period, and the number and GMV (gross payment volume) of payment transactions expanded steadily during the latter half of the period.」

「For large projects, the company has steadily acquired merchants and expanded initial revenue by reliably meeting their diversifying needs through its focus on vertical deployment, including the development and implementation of payment functionality using points issued independently by merchants and the awarding of those points, the introduction of self-checkout systems to reduce staffing and enable unmanned operations, and the return of cashless payment sales data.」

「Aiming to increase its share of the face-to-face payments market, the group focused on the sale, installation and activation of payment terminals together with alliance partners, including credit-card companies, banks, and manufacturers of payment machines, vending machines and ticket machines. As a result, it was able to steadily capture the recovery in demand following COVID-19 and expand its business performance during the current consolidated fiscal year.」

「Payment-terminal sales are diversified across industries rather than concentrated in any particular sector, and the company has achieved steady growth in terminal sales and initial revenue by meeting merchants' various cashless payment needs.」

「The number of active terminals has increased steadily by meeting merchants' cashless payment needs without concentrating on particular industries. Along with this, the volume and value of payment transactions have expanded, and recurring revenue has also grown steadily.」

「Aiming to increase its share of the face-to-face payments market, the company focused on the sale, installation and activation of payment terminals together with alliance partners, including credit-card companies, banks, and manufacturers of payment machines, vending machines and ticket machines. As a result, it was able to steadily expand its business performance even during the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, the number of payment terminals during the current consolidated fiscal year increased 71.8% year on year, the number of payment transactions increased 105.5%, and the value of payment transactions increased 86.8%, showing steady expansion.」

「Recurring revenue also grew steadily as merchant development expanded the number of active terminals and the volume and value of payment transactions.」

「The continued development of merchants across multiple industries expanded the number of active terminals, resulting in steady growth in fixed-fee revenue and processing-fee revenue.」

「The company has focused on acquiring new merchants and alliance partners.」

「Merchant development through partnerships with financial institutions progressed steadily, while application alliances with points-program companies whose core business is merchant development also progressed steadily.」

「The company has focused on acquiring new merchants and alliance partners.」