{"id":2251,"date":"2018-06-14T12:28:01","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T12:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reformingretail.com\/?p=2251"},"modified":"2019-01-23T09:28:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T15:28:58","slug":"antitrust-filing-shows-danger-of-pos-systems-with-only-one-payments-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/14\/antitrust-filing-shows-danger-of-pos-systems-with-only-one-payments-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Antitrust Filing Shows Danger of POS Systems with Only One Payments Option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What's contained below is the first recorded legal pushback to the merging of POS and payments. Done responsibly, there's nothing wrong with the bundling of the two services. But done unethically, which is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">absolutely<\/span> the potential risk when a <strong>POS only offers one payment option<\/strong>, it sets merchants up for SMOPP, an acronym we've termed for Screwing Merchants on Paired Payments.<\/p><p>So should you read this if you're a merchant?<\/p><div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/subscribe\/\">Subscribe<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/log-in\/\">log in<\/a> to read the rest of this content.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s contained below is the first recorded legal pushback to the merging of POS and payments. Done responsibly, there&#8217;s nothing wrong with the bundling of the two services. But done unethically, which is absolutely the potential risk when a POS only offers one payment option, it sets merchants up for SMOPP, an acronym we&#8217;ve termed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solutions","category-merchants","category-pos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p81nA2-Aj","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reformingretail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/a1-2.jpg?fit=1000%2C667&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2251"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4228,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions\/4228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}