{"id":4365,"date":"2019-02-19T04:39:20","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T10:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/?p=4365"},"modified":"2019-02-21T07:26:41","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T13:26:41","slug":"lightspeed-pos-adds-very-reasonable-payments-processing-as-they-should","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/19\/lightspeed-pos-adds-very-reasonable-payments-processing-as-they-should\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightspeed POS Adds Very Reasonable Payments Processing. As They Should"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/29\/lightspeed-pos-files-for-ipo-but-has-not-learned-industry-lessons-about-focus\/\">Lightspeed POS is preparing to go public<\/a>. As such they need to present a good story to prospective investors in their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/terms\/r\/roadshow.asp\">road show<\/a>. An obvious question one of these investors <em>should<\/em> ask is what Lightspeed plans to do about payments. We'd imagine something like this,<\/p><blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Hey, payments is super commoditized yet nearly all gross margin. You already have distribution into tens of thousands of merchants so your incremental distribution cost to move payments is trivial. What do you plan to do with payments and do you envision material revenue coming from that strategy?<\/p><cite>Make-believe mutual fund analyst<\/cite><\/blockquote><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>Lightspeed POS is preparing to go public. As such they need to present a good story to prospective investors in their road show. An obvious question one of these investors should ask is what Lightspeed plans to do about payments. We&#8217;d imagine something like this, Hey, payments is super commoditized yet nearly all gross margin. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","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":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solutions","category-pos","post_format-post-format-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p81nA2-18p","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reformingretail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Lightspeed_PAYMENTS.jpg?fit=2924%2C1949&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4365","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=4365"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4513,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4365\/revisions\/4513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}