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| We have left backend as an upside to margin expansion for this year |
| Highlights for the quarter include strong growth across the board, with total volume increasing 53%, revenue increasing 46%, and adjusted EBITDA increasing 40% |
| Our leadership and challenger positions across our end markets drove 19% growth in organic total volume at constant currency |
| Adjusted EBITDA margins expanded sequentially by 100 basis points to 37.3% as we're driving efficiencies throughout our business |
| We drive the B2B enablement, and that has been on a wonderful journey as we've gone from a handful of partners to multi partners, from US only to expanding into Canada last year, with a fantastic roadmap to go international, and really good engagement with our partners |
| So, all combined, very good momentum |
| I think the SMB business had a nice improvement |
| Obviously, on the social gains perspectives, we continue helping our current customers and naturally in our leadership position with gains we’ve extended |
| We spend equally, Jason, in every single one of them, and we're pretty excited about going from a leadership position in one market to the challenger position in others |
| It's a nice acceleration from what it had done historically |
| So, really good momentum in the business |
| How do we make the lives easier for our folks? How do we become more efficient? Some great analysis that we've done with a third party was, how do we get all the customer service data to take the call time from say 11 minutes to seven minutes, or from 11 minutes to five minutes? These are things that we find really, really compelling, and there are great use cases across every single department for us to drive greater efficiencies, greater engagement with our employees and more satisfaction while helping us continue scaling on a profitability perspective |
| And volume year-to-date with respect to January and February and first few days of March, has been very strong |
| And as such, I think that bodes well for us as we continue investing in the ISV market |
| If we double-click, global commerce grew volume by 30 plus percent, which we continuously believe that is category-leading |
| So, it's a no-brainer that we've evolved to where we sit today, but not every ISV is alike, and I think that's something that gives us a really good position because we're entering into a fairly mature market where folks have moved from referral to ISO to potentially (pay-stack), and we're entering right at the right time |
| And the output is really what we're seeing today is great engagement, very good visibility into where they're going with us, and ultimately a significant building block for our growth trajectory |
| If you think about 19%, it's typically faster than the end customer growth itself, which means that it's wallet share that we're gaining, and it sets us up well for us to continue executing going forward |
| Fantastic onboarding tools for seamless and instant merchant onboarding, great partner tools and APIs for us to accelerate our ISV strategy |
| It's just a wonderful journey and I'm incredibly proud of the team |
| But from the quality of the pipeline, the depth of the pipeline, the sheer opportunities that these merchants bring to us, we're in a very unique place and we think that sets us up for success in 2024 |
| So, we're quite excited about what that means for us |
| Yes, continuing the momentum in our feature and capabilities, as we've highlighted, 40 plus capability answers since in the fourth quarter alone |
| So, from a capital allocation perspective, base case is that repayments base cases that repayments, we're very fortunate with our free cash flow profile |
| Our cashflow generation is extremely strong, and that is our base case and that's what we should think about |
| And I think you've seen over the past three quarters, we have had good margin expansion |
| As you've now seen, we've reported strong fourth quarter and full-year results near the high end of our range for revenue and above the range we provided for total volume, revenue, and constant currency, and adjusted EBITDA |
| So, as our business scales - and we are at scale, but as it continues to scale and as those two items lap, it really sets us up well from a margin perspective |
| So, in the first quarter, certainly, we'll expect strong revenue growth, 26% to 29%, but that's really driven by, of course full quarter of Paya in 2024 and only partial in 2023 |
| With respect to the exit of Q4, very good momentum in all of our channels, keeping in mind that we lacked in global commerce, the World Cup, which is a significant event the previous year |
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| It really is just Till that's driving margins down on a year-over-year basis at the midpoint |
| That'll go away, but we'll still have the customer loss for a few more quarters |
| The two headwinds that we have in global commerce, specifically will cut for Q4 and just lapping the customer |
| And I'd say that from what we're seeing in terms of kind of a go forward, like we said, it’s a drag on EBITDA margin, and that's why you see flat throughout the year |
| So, that's a headwind that we're facing |
| And then just on global commerce, appreciate World Cup and lapping or kind of the customer loss |
| Certainly, margin dilutive initially for the first couple of quarters |
| It brings us capabilities on the ISV side, but it is early stage, high revenue growth, but there is a drag from an EBITDA margin perspective |
| We took a prudent approach |
| I wanted to ask about market conditions |
| The other component on the downside is the customer grow over that we experienced late last year |
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