The Green Sheet Online Edition
November 24, 2025 • 25:11:02
There's still time to close out 2025 with purpose
As the holidays approach and merchants across the country enter their busiest stretch of the year, payments professionals feel the familiar squeeze. Support queues get longer. Terminals misbehave at the worst times. Merchants demand faster responses, deeper troubleshooting and steadier partnership. Inside payments companies, teams juggle year-end reporting, budget planning, and preparations for 2026.
It’s a demanding season, one that can leave even the most seasoned ISO, merchant level salesperson or operations lead feeling like there’s barely space to breathe, let alone reflect. But this moment, dense as it feels, holds opportunity: there is still time to finish 2025 with intention.
Most payments professionals set ambitious goals at the start of the year: portfolio growth targets, process improvements, merchant retention benchmarks, revenue milestones, skills to sharpen, relationships to deepen.
Somewhere between spring initiatives and summer project cycles, some of those goals drifted to the back burner. The final weeks of the year may not seem like the ideal time to revisit them, but in reality, they may be the most powerful time to do so.
A short list of goals that can realistically be achieved before December turns to January—closing a lingering merchant account, completing a compliance course, updating onboarding materials, reconnecting with key partners, cleaning up CRM data or wrapping up a pilot initiative—can deliver outsized impact.
The momentum gained from checking off even one or two meaningful targets can create a sense of closure, clarity and renewed confidence heading into 2026.
The payments landscape is built on endurance and adaptability. Merchants depend on you at their most hectic hours, and you deliver. But sustaining that level of service also requires moments of reflection—brief, deliberate pauses to ask: What did I set out to accomplish this year? What remains within reach? What would it feel like to cross the finish line with strength, rather than fatigue?
Even in the midst of end-of-year demands, the window hasn’t closed. A few focused actions now can turn unfinished goals into completed victories. And starting the new year with that sense of progress, however modest, can carry forward into bigger wins in 2026.
There’s still time to finish strong. 
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