"merchant acquisition" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the process of acquiring new merchants for a business, usually through partnerships or contracts. Example: The company's growth strategy includes aggressive merchant acquisition in order to expand its reach into new markets.
It is rapidly overturning a lucrative industry of "merchant acquisition" that allowed banks to earn wide margins for agreeing to provide credit-card readers to shops.
It could be Walmart's answer to Amazon's merchant acquisition spree.
Now, we're net revenue profitable — when you remove merchant acquisition costs — and are on a path to profitability".
But these services are typically a de minimis expense on the company's overall operating cost structure — often even considered as part of the customer (or merchant) acquisition cost — and therefore do not classify as a fully managed service.
Thawley and Jensen, have been bootstrapping Bidzy to the tune of just $70,000, which makes its merchant acquisition efforts all the more impressive.
CEB TowerGroup's estimate of the "Per-Transaction Costs by Channel in US Banking" below is a good proxy for the potential for improved efficiencies in the merchant acquisition and service channel from Square's self-service model.
At least between merchants, the acquisition of goods from one in possession of them who can in good conscience be regarded by the other as their owner, or at least as being entitled to their disposition, usually confers ownership on the buyer, even if the seller was not in fact the owner.
As Groupon looks to build its perceived and actual value for merchants, the OpenCal acquisition, and subsequent launch of Scheduler, made a lot of sense.
Prior to Kit CRM's acquisition, Shopify merchant customers had been able to take advantage of the service's functionality through the Shopify App Store, which offers optional add-ons for Shopify's online store software.
While Heilig-Meyers faced numerous problems, including a lack of cash flow caused by an unwieldy string of acquisitions, the merchant was struggling because it still hewed to the old school of furniture retailing.
The startup, formerly called Vurve, had raised $5.7 million to help merchants build apps for customer acquisition, retention, and monetization.
