BUSINESS SERVICES PLATFORM SOLUTIONS FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES

摘要

Methods and systems for providing business services solutions for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) owned by merchants in developed markets and in developing markets. In some embodiments, a merchant enrolls with a merchant issuer financial institution (FI) and then receives an SME financial account, a suite of shared SME business service applications, and access to a payment card acceptance service for use in setting up and scaling their business. In an implementation, the process includes receiving a request for an SME business platform, validating merchant identification data, providing an SME financial account to the merchant, transmitting an SME business platform acceptance message, and transmitting an SME business platform to the merchant device. The SME business platform includes a payment card account acceptance application and at least one business services application configured for running on the merchant device.