StarPay-MARS, a unified management system for payment service applications and registrations, completes development.

StarPay-MARS, a unified management system for payment service applications and registrations, completes development.

New development enables launch of fully-online StarPay services.

NetStars Co., Ltd. (headquarters: Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Representative Director and President: Tsuyoshi Ri; hereinafter “NetStars”) has completed development of its StarPay-MARS system for managing merchant information on its multi-QR code payment platform, StarPay. Furthermore, it has begun to accept QR code payment applications online.

MARS (Merchant Application and Registration System) is a database of information on over 200,000 merchants registered on the StarPay service.This new development has achieved partial automation within the service, including the introduction of optical character recognition (OCR) processing of documents required for applications, and all new registrations and information changes are now managed online.

The StarPay service, which enables one-stop application for Japanese and international QR code payment brands, had previously accepted handwritten applications by postal mail and typed applications via email.By using MARS, merchants can detect any omissions or errors in information at the application stage, thus reducing communication burdens afterward.NetStars also expects to reduce human costs to one-sixth of prior levels through significant reduction in time and effort required to check applications.

In addition, MARS enables visualization of overall application statuses.Through regular checking of which pre-service use stages are presenting difficulties, we can improve our services and resolve problems quickly in a data-driven manner.

Illustration of application status monitoring via MARS

Going forward, NetStars will continue to drive technology development and contribute to accelerating DX in stores via our StarPay service.