Catalyst engaged with select e-Mitra merchants for a pilot project to promote card payments at these centers. This field story captures insights on the opportunities for digitising payments at e-Mitra centres.
Publications
Trust in mPoS Machines is the Biggest Concern Among Merchants in Jaipur
This field story highlights barriers to the adoption of mobile point-of-sale machines by small merchants, drawing insights from Catalyst’s feet-on-street drive to promote PoS adoption in Jaipur.
Can Hunger for Growth Lead to Early Adoption of Digital Payment Solutions?
This field story highlights barriers to digital payments adoption by micro and small merchants and identifies potential use cases, drawing from the experience of a merchant in Jaipur.
Merchant Perspectives on the BHIM Experience
This note discusses learnings and insights from Catalyst’s pilot UPI awareness and activation campaign, followed by insights from a feedback survey that was conducted in March 2018. It provides an analytical perspective on the features that work in favour of … Read More
Digital Lending for Small Merchants: The Missing Road to the Last Mile
Lack of affordable credit from formal sources is a key factor hindering the growth of MSMEs in India. This learning note presents insights from Catalyst’s ‘Credit as a Hook’ pilot project. The pilot tested a digital payment and loan product … Read More
Accepting Card Payments – All You Need to Know
This primer provides information on different types of card payment solutions available for merchants, and highlights the features and benefits of each solution.
Benefits of Accepting Digital Payments
This infographic illustrates the benefits of digital payment transactions.
Everything You Need to Know About Mobile Payments
This infographic provides information on the various kinds of mobile payments solutions and platforms in India.
Catalyst’s Fintech for the Last Mile Incubator Program
This infographic provides a snapshot of the ‘Fintech for the Last Mile’ incubator program launched by Catalyst at IFMR. The incubator was designed to support start-ups that can reimagine and reinvent fintech products for the masses in ways that optimize … Read More
Catalyst’s Digital Payments Lab
This infographic provides a snapshot of the Catalyst program’s approach to promote last-mile digital payment solutions for underserved communities of merchants and consumers in India. Through a partnership with the Government of Rajasthan, Catalyst set up a Digital Payment Lab … Read More