{"id":5518,"date":"2026-03-31T10:00:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T10:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/softspace.com.my\/?p=5518"},"modified":"2026-06-18T03:23:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T03:23:54","slug":"how-softpos-is-making-cashless-acceptance-work-for-small-merchants-across-southeast-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/softspace.com.my\/?p=5518","title":{"rendered":"How SoftPOS Is Making Cashless Acceptance Work for Small Merchants Across Southeast Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5519 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/softspace.com.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ss-x-tia-1024x716.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"716\" srcset=\"https:\/\/softspace.com.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ss-x-tia-1024x716.png 1024w, https:\/\/softspace.com.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ss-x-tia-300x210.png 300w, https:\/\/softspace.com.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ss-x-tia-768x537.png 768w, https:\/\/softspace.com.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ss-x-tia-209x146.png 209w, https:\/\/softspace.com.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ss-x-tia-50x35.png 50w, https:\/\/softspace.com.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ss-x-tia-107x75.png 107w, https:\/\/softspace.com.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ss-x-tia.png 1531w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>March 2026 &#8211; <span data-contrast=\"auto\">Six in ten consumers in Southeast Asia now prefer cashless payments, yet many small merchants still sit outside the digital economy because\u00a0they\u2019re\u00a0held back by hardware costs, complex onboarding, and transaction fees. In a feature published with Tech in Asia, our CEO breaks down how\u00a0SoftPOS\u00a0technology is tackling those barriers head on.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:0,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The piece covers how SOFT SPACE is working with device manufacturers, banks, and telcos to bring sub-US$100 SoftPOS devices to market, cutting merchant setup from weeks to as little as 15 minutes, and building the infrastructure for software-based payment acceptance that can scale across Southeast Asia and beyond.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techinasia.com\/startup-unlocking-contactless-payments-smes-sea\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 2026 &#8211; Six in ten consumers in Southeast Asia now prefer cashless payments, yet many small merchants still sit outside the digital economy because\u00a0they\u2019re\u00a0held back<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-company-announcement","category-news-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/softspace.com.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/softspace.com.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/softspace.com.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/softspace.com.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/softspace.com.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5518"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/softspace.com.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5607,"href":"https:\/\/softspace.com.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5518\/revisions\/5607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/softspace.com.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/softspace.com.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/softspace.com.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/softspace.com.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}