2026 North America Merchant POS/mPOS Software ISV List with Marketshare
PRODUCT OVERVIEW
This product is a list of North America POS/mPOS Software Share. It lists over 184 top POS ISVs (independent software vendors) in the North American POS and mPOS markets for merchants and retailers. It is inclusive of those that make their own POS equipment like NCR, Oracle, Oracle/MICROS, Fujitsu and others, as well as pure software players like Aptos, OneView Commerce, and others. This list also includes the mPOS players such as Square, Toast, Clover, etc.
For each company, we look at their overall business, Total revenue, maintenance revenues, licenses outstanding, and Gross Payment Volume through their systems installed. We look at the data for Enterprise-level retailers by segment (retailers with 50 or more stores) and then SMB (below 50 stores) and this data is broken down by 13 different segments.
This product is ideal for payment providers, POS companies, private equity companies looking for acquisition candidates. It provides market share by more than 30 different metrics.
This product is ideal for payment providers, POS companies, private equity companies looking for acquisition candidates. It provides market share by more than 30 different metrics. The format is in Excel and provides custom graphing opportunities.
This includes a list of over 180 POS and mPOS software providers. This includes OEM providers such as NCR, Oracle, Fujitsu, Diebold Nixdorf, Square, Toast, Revel as well as companies that only do software such as Aptos, Shopify, Intuit, Epicor, Envista, etc.
It includes both POS and mPOS vendors. Included in the data is the following:
Revenue/Software Related Revenue – Worldwide Sales, North American Sales, North American POS Revenue, and North American mPOS Revenue
Software Related Revenue Sales – On Prem, Software Maintenance, Software as a Service
Enterprise vs SMB – Revenue in chains below 50 stores, Revenue in chains with more than 50 stores
Total Software Related Revenue by Segment – See segments and examples below:
Food/Grocery (Kroger, Safeway, Trader Joe’s, Wakerfern)
Drug Stores (Walgreens, CVS)
Superstore/Warehouse Clubs/Hypermarkets (Walmart, BJ’s Wholesale, Costco)
Mass Merchants (Target, Meijer Stores, Dollar Tree)
Department Stores (JC Penney, Sears, Kohls, Bealls)
Specialty Hard Goods (Home Depot, Lowes, Best Buy, Rooms to Go, Canadian Tire)
Specialty Soft Goods (H&M, Victoria’s Secret, Casual Male, Old Navy)
Convenience/Gas (Chevron, Exxon,)
Fast Food (McDonald’s, Subway, Burger King, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell)
Bar/Restaurant (Applebees, Buffalo Wild Wings, Chipotle)
Lodging (Marriott, Sheraton, Hilton)
Entertainment: Casinos and Cruises (Carnival, Harrah’s, Wynn, Caesar’s Palace)
Entertainment: Museums, Theme Parks, Theaters, Others (Disney, Universal, AMC, Carmike)
Licenses Installed By Device Type – POS for SMB, POS for Enterprise, mPOS for SMB, mPOS for Enterprise
Gross Payment Volume by Segments (listed above) and Total – This is the value of card payments by segment for each company – particular valuable to payment providers.
27 charts already produced – include segment, POS or mPOS or Both, On-Prem or SaaS, SMB or Enterprise
Create Custom Chart – this allows you to create your own charts.
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HIGHLIGHTS
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This includes a list of 175 POS and mPOS software providers. This includes OEM providers such as NCR, Oracle, Fujitsu and Diebold Nixdorf as well as companies that only do software such as Aptos, Epicore, Envista, etc.
It includes both POS and mPOS vendors. Included in the data is the following:
Revenue/Software Related Revenue – Worldwide Sales, North American Sales, North American POS Revenue, and North American mPOS Revenue
Software Related Revenue Sales – On Prem, Software Maintenance, Software as a Service
Enterprise vs SMB – Revenue in chains below 50 stores, Revenue in chains with more than 50 stores
Total Software Related Revenue by Segment – See segments and examples below
| Food/Grocery (Kroger, Safeway, Trader Joe’s, Wakerfern) | |||
| Drug Stores (Walgreens, CVS) | |||
| Superstore/Warehouse Clubs/Hypermarkets (Walmart, BJ’s Wholesale, Costco) | |||
| Mass Merchants (Target, Meijer Stores, Dollar Tree) | |||
| Department Stores (JC Penney, Sears, Kohls, Bealls) | |||
| Specialty Hard Goods (Home Depot, Lowes, Best Buy, Rooms to Go, Canadian Tire) | |||
| Specialty Soft Goods (H&M, Victoria’s Secret, Casual Male, Old Navy) | |||
| Convenience/Gas (Chevron, Exxon,) | |||
| Fast Food (McDonald’s, Subway, Burger King, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell) | |||
| Bar/Restaurant (Applebees, Buffalo Wild Wings, Chipotle) | |||
| Lodging (Marriott, Sheraton, Hilton) | |||
| Entertainment:Casinos and Cruises (Carnival, Harrah’s, Wynn, Caesar’s Palace) | |||
| Entertainment:Museums, Theme Parks, Theaters, Others (Disney, Universal, AMC, Carmike) | |||
Licenses Installed By Device Type – POS for SMB, POS for Enterprise, mPOS for SMB, mPOS for Enterprise
Gross Payment Volume by Segments (listed above) and Total – This is the value of card payments by segment for each company – particular valuable to payment providers.
27 charts already produced – include segment, POS or mPOS or Both, On-Prem or SaaS, SMB or Enterprise
Create Custom Chart – this allows you to create your own charts.
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FAQS
IHL Group’s North America ISV market share data is sourced from the Sophia database, IHL’s proprietary research system tracking technology deployments across 6,000+ retail and restaurant chains. Data is collected through vendor surveys, direct retailer interviews, publicly available financial disclosures, and IHL’s continuous market monitoring program. All vendor figures are validated against multiple independent sources before publication. The 184+ ISVs covered represent the comprehensive universe of POS and mPOS software providers with measurable North American market presence, spanning both enterprise retailers with 50+ locations and SMB merchants.
Each regional ISV list covers the same data structure — revenue by stream, Gross Payment Volume, enterprise vs. SMB segmentation, and POS vs. mPOS breakdown — but reflects the specific vendor landscape and market dynamics of that geography. The North America list covers 13 retail segments including entertainment formats (casinos, cruises, museums, theme parks, theaters) that are tracked separately from the 10-segment EMEA and Asia Pacific editions. Vendors that lead in North America, such as NCR, Square, Toast, and Clover, have different market positions in EMEA and Asia Pacific where regional ISVs hold stronger competitive positions. Organizations with global operations can purchase all three regional editions or access them through a REAP advisory subscription.
Yes. Technology vendors and retailers use IHL’s ISV market share data to benchmark competitive position, validate go-to-market strategy, identify whitespace opportunities by segment, and support investor and board communications with independent third-party data. The workbook covers worldwide and North American revenue figures, allowing vendors to assess their share of the total addressable market by segment, device type (POS vs. mPOS), and customer size (enterprise vs. SMB). The enterprise license permits internal use across your entire organization with IHL Group attribution required when citing data externally in presentations or marketing materials.
Although the companies are global, this specific list for the North American Market – we do have other regions (EMEA and Asia)
Yes, there are separate values for each so you can compare Square and Clover to NCR or Fujitsu.
In our terms, we use a cutoff of 50 locations to determine if an account is Small/Medium Businesses or Enterprise
Yes, we break the data down by 13 different segments. So for each of the 175 companies you can see revenues in segments ranging from Grocery to Specialty Soft Goods to Hospitality segments.
Yes, we include $ sales for licenses by segment and Gross Payment Volumes overall for each ISV
PRICING
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