Local advertising that pays for itself.
We put your business on the screens inside the neighborhood stores your customers already walk into every day, then we prove what it produced.
Connecting Local Merchants with Nearby Shoppers
AI Merchant Solutions builds and operates the Neighborhood Advertising Network, a growing network of digital screens placed inside high traffic convenience stores, gas stations and independent retailers. Local businesses advertise on those screens, shoppers scan a code to claim an offer, and the offer is redeemed in person at the advertiser. Every scan, claim and redemption is tracked, so advertisers see exactly what their spend produced. We also help the same businesses cut what they pay to accept payments, which is often how the advertising ends up costing nothing.
Zero-Cost Advertising
Funded by merchant processing savings
Built for Foot-Traffic Businesses Running on Thin Margins
AI Merchant Solutions is a Florida based payments and advertising technology company. We work with the businesses that run on foot traffic and thin margins: convenience stores, gas stations, independent retailers, restaurants, service contractors and high volume cash businesses. Our job is simple. Bring them more customers and lower their cost of doing business.
Mike Kaplan
Founder & Managing Member
The company was founded by Mike Kaplan, who has spent more than 25 years in financial services and retail technology. He has owned and operated ATM routes, run retail locations, and has specialized in cash discounting and surcharging since 2014, where he is recognized in the industry as a subject matter expert. Today the firm supports merchants ranging from single store operators to multi location groups processing over $10,000,000 per month.
Two Engines That Feed Each Other
We operate two synchronized business arms that multiply growth for local merchants.
The Neighborhood Advertising Network
We install digital screens inside busy neighborhood stores and sell short, high frequency ad spots to local businesses within a few miles of each screen. Shoppers standing in line see the ad, scan the code on the screen, and land on an offers page built for that exact store. They claim the offer and redeem it in person at the advertiser.
Payment Acceptance & Merchant Technology
We place processing, point of sale, ACH and electronic check, and cash discounting programs that are built to bring a merchant's net cost of acceptance as close to zero as the law in their state allows. We are an independent sales contractor and technology aggregator. We never hold merchant funds.
Turn Payment Savings Into Measurable Customer Growth
Most advertising asks a small business to spend money it has not made yet. We can approach it from the other side. When we lower what a business pays to accept payments, that savings can fund the advertising that brings the next customer through the door. The business gets exposure, measurable redemptions and a lower cost structure at the same time.
Simple & Transparent For Everyone
Drive Tracked Redemptions
You pick a store or a group of stores, we build your creative, your ad goes into the loop, and you get reporting on scans, claims and redemptions for your offer.
Monetize Counter Space
We install the screens at no cost to you, you earn free advertising spots for your own promotions inside your own store, and you drive impulse purchases with the screens right at the counter.
Scan & Save Instantly
You scan the code on the screen, claim an offer from a nearby business, and redeem it in person. Marketing signup is optional and never required to get the offer.
5 Core Pillars of Our Network
Measured, not estimated
Scans, claims and redemptions are tracked per advertiser, per store, per day. You see what worked instead of guessing at impressions.
Point of decision placement
The screens sit where the buying decision is already being made, inside the store, in line, with the customer's attention available.
Local by design
Advertisers are matched to the stores in their own service radius, not to a market wide audience they cannot serve.
Category discipline
We work to limit the network to 1 advertiser per narrow category per screen so your competitor is not running next to you.
Relationships that last
We have built this business on long tenured partners and repeat clients, and we structure every deal so it still makes sense in year 5.
Expanding Across South Florida & Nationally
The network launched in South Florida and is expanding across Broward, Palm Beach and Miami Dade counties, with additional markets in development. Our merchant services clients are served nationally.
Ready to Grow Your Business or Reduce Processing Costs?
If you want your business on the screens, want screens in your store, or want us to take a look at what you are paying to accept payments, contact us. There is no cost to have the conversation and no obligation to move anything.
Company Quick Facts
- Legal Name
- A1 Merchant Solutions LLC dba aiMerchantSolutions.net
- Brand Name
- AI Merchant Solutions
- Entity Type
- Florida Limited Liability Company
- Headquarters
- Delray Beach, FL 33484
- Founded By
- Mike Kaplan, Founder & Managing Member
- Experience
- 25+ Years in Financial Services & Retail Tech
- Core Focus
- In-store digital ads, coupon redemptions, payment acceptance & POS
- Serving
- C-stores, gas stations, retailers, restaurants, contractors
- Direct Phone
- 561.722.3055
- Direct Email
- mike@aiMerchantSolutions.net
- Website
- aiMerchantSolutions.net