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| But to Eric's point, there are a number of initiatives, which we think will have continuing positive impact on margin expansion, really in the short to mid and even long term |
| But again, along the way, the validation we're getting from our customers and prospects is really strong |
| So huge opportunity within the kind of core system of action, integrated payment penetration, that we're already seeing a lot of growth, and we expect to continue to see that |
| Driving profitability and cash flow remain top priorities for us, and as such, a revised adjusted EBITDA guidance represents a $12 million increase at the midpoint and 210 basis points of margin expansion, as compared to our initial full year guidance and approximately 300 basis points margin expansion over 2022 results |
| Strong free cash flow generation allows us to continue to invest in our growing business and deliver strong returns to our shareholders |
| This quarter, we once again exceeded the top end of our guidance range for adjusted EBITDA, which grew 39% year-over-year and equated to a 24% margin |
| Year-over-year, this represents over 485 basis points of margin expansion |
| For the trailing 12 months, levered free cash flow was $74.4 million, a 69% increase over the prior year, continuing to underscore our balance sheet flexibility |
| We remain extremely excited about the opportunities and growth prospects in front of us |
| We believe that's going to help us drive more efficient go-to-market motions, greater new customer acquisition, the ability to cross-sell at a greater rate |
| But overall, again, I do believe we are -- not I do believe, I know we are quite excited about the payments opportunity |
| In the third quarter, we're continuing to deliver on our full year 2023 objectives by exceeding EBITDA guidance and achieving record EBITDA margins |
| Very pleased to see the continued operating execution in the quarter |
| I think it's a great opportunity |
| This enhances the value our customers receive from the relationship with EverCommerce and drives additional revenue |
| We continue to see to see strength in our customer acquisition efforts and strength, as Eric talked about, in those core payment programs within that space from a cross-sell standpoint |
| The solid performance in subscription and transaction revenue was largely due to continued execution of our growth strategy and to provide customers our core system of action software solutions and driving expansion by promoting cross-sell and upsell opportunities, leading with payments |
| I think you've seen nice progress as we've split those metrics into two, try to give you a little bit more transparency, but a lot of opportunity for us to continue to grow both the payments cross-sell as well as other cross-sell |
| Very, very linear to where it was at the beginning of the year and an area that, again, when we look at the strength of that metric overall vis-a-vis, digital demand gen, we have opportunities to continue to invest in some of our core products, some of our core systems of action, where those return metrics are really strong |
| We also expect that our go-to-market engine can help accelerate growth with this product |
| These core software platforms are critical to our customers' businesses, and have proven to be resilient revenue streams |
| And as a result, payments revenue contributes approximately 95% gross margin and is a meaningful contributor to overall adjusted EBITDA margin expansion |
| Embedded Payments is our most accretive cross-sell solution and stands to be a long-term driver for EverCommerce revenue growth and margin expansion |
| So I think we expect, as Eric said, as we had talked about really from the beginning, from the time we went public, continuing expansion of margins for the short, mid and long term |
| So very excited to get there |
| This action better positions us to manage through continuing headwinds expected for the balance of the year and into 2024 and enables us to drive growth investments as appropriate |
| And with over 685,000 total EverCommerce customers as of the beginning of 2023, we continue to have a very large embedded opportunity to continue to grow this base of multi-solution customers |
| Accelerating payments attachment and utilization are key elements of our term growth plan, and we continue to see success through a core system of action solutions |
| I'm not going to say we're midway through or x percentage through, but there's a lot of work to continue that journey, or we'll say customer receptivity has been incredibly strong, where we meet them in the market, where we've surveyed them |
| But even as growth rates improve, our expectation is we have a lot of leverage within the business, as we continue to scale to drive even wider operating margins in the organization |
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| Churn has actually been below expectations from the implementation of that mandate |
| As Eric noted, in Q3, we experienced some softness in the more transactional portions of our business, which negatively impacted revenue and has extended into Q4 |
| We have also experienced slower growth in our fitness solutions as that industry remains challenged from the lingering effects of COVID |
| As previously described, we're experiencing some softness in certain transactional revenue streams, and we continue to experience headwinds in our marketing technology and fitness solutions |
| We continue to experience demand driven headwinds in our marketing technology solutions underscoring growth of 1.5% from the prior year period |
| And so the consumer map is the puzzle, is really the area we've seen the softness, much less so than the business of business, core software that we're selling to the market place |
| As we've highlighted in the past, you have seen modest macroeconomic pressures in the more transactional aspects of our business |
| Specifically in transactions from merchants in areas -- in discrete areas of wellness, we have seen a little bit of softness in late Q3 and early Q4 |
| Clearly, this quarter, we saw softness as we alluded to, on some of those things that are not as much in our control and a continuation of some that we've been managing through for the first half of the year |
| So maybe the first one, it sounds like the fitness vertical and a little bit of marketing is still seeing some weakness |
| The one area that we continue to see, logo, slower growth is on the fitness side, which has been several quarters |
| Additionally, while payments revenue grew 28% in the third quarter, we also started to see some modest headwinds in certain pockets of our payments business |
| Specifically, in the third quarter, we saw a decline in contractor equipment spend through our EverPro Rebates Rewards program, in which we share a portion of the vendor rebate |
| And so it's both combined with a slightly slower growth rate than we want |
| And while we see some discrete areas of softness that certainly we're quite heartened about the opportunity in front of us |
| And along with some ticket size declines in certain areas of home and field services that we've again observed in late Q3 and early Q4 |
| I think the areas that we talked about that we're seeing some softness are really focused on consumer demand, which affects our marketing technology, more lead generation business, our rebates, which are -- what our customers are selling or buying HVAC and things of that nature for their customers |
| Maybe you could double click on some of the comments around kind of increasing headwinds in pockets of the payment business |
| We'll end slightly lower than that for the year |
| I think the -- as I think you brought -- you started out right path with marketing technology, there's been a lag |
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