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Published: 27-05-2025
Category:Fintech & Payments
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Key Statistics

$4.9tn

Total mPOS terminal transaction value in 2030

$540 bn

Total soft POS terminal transaction value in 2030

2150%

2025 to 2030 soft POS market growth

2025-2030

Forecast period

Overview

Our mPOS Terminals & Soft POS market research suite provides detailed and insightful analysis of this evolving market; enabling stakeholders, from POS hardware manufacturers, payment infrastructure providers, software developers, and hospitality and retail vendors, to understand future growth, key trends and the competitive environment.

The suite includes several different options that can be purchased separately, including access to data mapping the future growth of POS, an intuitive study uncovering the latest trends and opportunities within the market, and a document containing extensive analysis of the 27 market leaders within the mPOS terminals & soft POS space. The coverage can also be purchased as a Full Research Suite, containing all these elements, and including a substantial discount.

Collectively, they provide a critical tool for understanding this rapidly emerging market; allowing POS manufacturers and technology vendors to shape their future strategy. Its unparalleled coverage makes this research suite an incredibly useful resource for charting the future of such a high-growth market.

All report content is delivered in the English language.

Key Features
  • Market Dynamics: Extensive insight into the market landscape; analysing the various forms of POS and their specific use cases. This section also assesses the threat that soft POS poses to mPOS, as well as how the enhanced features embedded within smart POS systems can help alleviate this threat. The report includes a segment analysis which looks at the opportunities and challenges faced by mPOS terminals and soft POS across six distinct industry segments. This document concludes with a Country Readiness Index, which identifies high-growth markets and potential regions for mPOS & soft POS vendors.
  • Key Takeaways & Strategic Recommendations: In-depth analysis of key development opportunities and key findings within the POS market, accompanied by key strategic recommendations for stakeholders.
  • Benchmark Industry Forecasts: 5-year market forecasts for POS adoption and use, including a breakdown of the installed base, transaction volume, and transaction value for the six different types of POS: dedicated POS, contactless POS, mPOS, biometric POS, smart POS and soft POS. The forecast also contains adoption and revenue for POS software systems.
  • Juniper Research Competitor Leaderboard: Key player capability and capacity assessment for 27 POS vendors, via two Juniper Research Competitor Leaderboard; separating mPOS and soft POS.

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The market-leading research suite for the POS Terminals market includes access to the full set of forecast data of 101 tables and over 46,000 datapoints. Metrics in the research suite include:

  • Total POS Terminals Installed Base
  • Total POS Transaction Volume
  • Total POS Transaction Value 

These metrics are provided for the following key market verticals:

  • Dedicated POS
  • Contactless POS
  • mPOS
  • Biometric POS
  • Smart POS
  • Soft POS 

Juniper Research Interactive Forecast Excel contains the following functionality:

  • Statistics Analysis: Users benefit from the ability to search for specific metrics, displayed for all regions and countries across the data period. Graphs are easily modified and can be exported to the clipboard.
  • Country Data Tool: This tool lets users look at metrics for all regions and countries in the forecast period. Users can refine the metrics displayed via a search bar.
  • Country Comparison Tool: Users can select countries and compare countries. The ability to export graphs is included in this tool.
  • What-if Analysis: Here, users can compare forecast metrics against their own assumptions, featuring 5 interactive scenarios.

The Competitor Leaderboard report provides a detailed evaluation and market positioning for 27 leading vendors in the mPOS Terminals & Soft POS space split into two Competitor Leaderboards, one for traditional and one for soft POS. The vendors are positioned either as an established leader, leading challenger, or disruptor and challenger, based on capacity and capability assessments.

Juniper Research Competitor Leaderboard for mPOS: 

  • Epos Now
  • Fiserv
  • Global Payments
  • Lightspeed
  • Mswipe
  • NEXGO
  • Newland NPT
  • PAX Technology
  • PayPal
  • Posiflex
  • Square
  • SumUp
  • Toast
  • Verifone
  • Worldline

Juniper Research Competitor Leaderboard for soft POS: 

  • alcinēo
  • Apple
  • CM.com
  • Fiserv
  • MagicCube
  • Mypinpad
  • Payten
  • PayPal
  • Square
  • Stripe
  • Tidypay]Viva.com
  • Wizzit
  • Worldline
  • ZealPay

This document is centred around the Juniper Research Competitor Leaderboard; a vendor positioning tool that provides an at-a-glance view of the competitive landscape in a market, backed by a robust methodology.

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Market Trends & Strategies

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Competitor Leaderboard

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Market Data & Forecasts

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  • Benefit tick iconCompetitor Leaderboard with 27 vendors ranked
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  • Benefit tick icon8 regions and 60+ country-level data splits
  • Benefit tick iconMarket segment data splits
  • Benefit tick icon12 months of continuous data updates

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Full Research Suite comprises of:

  • Benefit tick iconMarket outlook & trends analysis
  • Benefit tick iconInterviews & case studies
  • Benefit tick iconStrategic recommendations
  • Benefit tick iconCompetitor Leaderboard with 27 vendors ranked
  • Benefit tick iconVendor profiles & capabilities analysis
  • Benefit tick icon5-year forecasts
  • Benefit tick icon8 regions and 60+ country-level data splits
  • Benefit tick iconMarket segment data splits
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