- Numbers of merchants listed as instore rose sharply in May with 20 coming online in AUS and 8 in NZ.
- There has been good growth over Q4, which I think will continue to happen in June (as evidenced by recent "now instore" announcements on the APT facebook page.
- There has been some good progress in NZ as mentioned above, plus another 46 merchants added on the platform (there were only 7 added in April so a big change). The vend integration may have driven some additional growth,
- Customers continue to rate the company in the same way since I started looking at alternative metrics. The trust pilot score hasn't changed over the 319 reviews which have been left.
- Importantly (IMO) the negative reviews continue to be around declined use of the service, as opposed to something else.
- Facebook likes, have also been rising in Q4 with a rise in March, I tend to think if likes are rising then customers are being added, so a rise is good. We are over 300 per day (customers being added per day was 3300 in the march update).
- As we know the US rollout has begun, so far their are 15 merchants on the store directory, the social media pages have started (400 instagram followers and 53 facebook likes). As I said elsewhere it will be interesting to see how this grows (and how fast).
