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| While I'm proud of our product developments and international expansion in 2023, I'm even more excited about where we're headed with the product department |
| We delivered strong net income and adjusted EBITDA in 2023 |
| So we do expect that we're going to sell more this year than what we sold last year and last year was a good sales year |
| 2023 delivered solid results for Paycom |
| Personally, this is very exciting, because it allows me to invest further in the areas that I'm passionate about, which are the ones where I can have the largest impact for our clients |
| In this new role for Chris, Paycom will be even stronger than ever before |
| Our collaboration has strengthened Paycom and I'm excited for what we will do going forward |
| Fourth quarter results were better-than-expected, with total revenues of $435 million, representing growth of 17% over the comparable prior year period |
| So again, that's a successful win for the client |
| I'm excited to see him continue to elevate our brand, engage our clients and drive further demand generation for our sales force |
| This evolution of our organization is exciting, and I believe it will bring significant value to our clients, employees and investors |
| We ended the year with solid results with full-year 2023 revenue of $1.694 billion up 23% compared to 2022 |
| The strength of our product and the client initiatives we have in place give me confidence that 2024 will be a solid year of execution |
| The innovations in automation and user experience are resonating across our client base, delivering immediate and measurable value to our clients will deliver long-term value to Paycom |
| On the product front, Beti has been one of the products at the leading edge of our AI and automation strategy, delivering tremendous ROI to our clients |
| On average, a greater than 80% reduction in errors, and 90% reduction in time spent processing payroll and improved employee engagement |
| I mean, we talked about some of the headwinds that Beti maybe creating, we've talked about that last quarter, and I mean, Beti has a great benefit to the customer |
| We are strengthening our relationships and relentlessly pursuing solutions that deliver high ROI for our clients |
| This new product uses AI and decisioning logic to automate all decisions for time-off requests, which further enhances both the employee and the manager experience by eliminating conflicts and resolving time-sensitive decisions |
| We spent a lot of quality time throughout the year, especially last quarter having meaningful engagements with our clients and the feedback has been very encouraging |
| I am proud of our leadership group who have strategized and built the client value achievement strategy |
| I'm confident that the size of our opportunity and our track-record for execution will bolster our growth trajectory |
| We ended 2023 with better-than-expected results, thanks to the considerable coordinated efforts of our team across the organization |
| The buzz about the future of product innovation across the organization is exciting and encouraging |
| We've had a great sales strategy |
| We're going to continue to generate even more momentum as we engage clients to help them maximize their value when using our system |
| Even after the substantial buybacks and dividends paid in the quarter, we ended the year with a very strong balance sheet, including cash and cash equivalents of $294 million and zero debt |
| And all I would say is that we're better staffed going into 2024 than what we have been in a while for managers all the way out |
| While still early, we are very excited about the potential impact this initiative will have on our expanded team |
| Our international strategy complements our product strategy and adds to the momentum we are seeing with US-based companies that have an international presence |
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| And that was really what we saw as it related to the retention and that group to pressure on that down-market group |
| I mean the forms filing is somewhat of a headwind in Q1 |
| I mean, the market is tight, you're not seeing people change jobs as much as what you may have in the past, but it's still up, it's just that it's still a little soft in that area on the pre-employment services |
| Craig talked about that being 5% still total out there, we've seen portions of that 5% already down 20% |
| And that does take some time with the CRRs to do that and that time they spent doing that, making sure we get appropriate usage, prevented them from being able to do certain other task |
| I guess maybe one clarification, I think from what at least I understand and please correct me if I'm wrong, it appears like for your messaging today that you're perhaps a little bit less aggressive in terms of pushing Beti into the customer base versus your prior commentary |
| I would say, we probably went into fourth quarter a little more conservative than what we have in the past, after a kind of our Q3 results |
| I guess, like have you seen any sort of client attrition, that's like attrition from existing clients or some clients -- prospective clients who are choosing to kind of go a different direction, because they don't like Beti |
| Baird, I apologize |
| And obviously we have a lower, much lower attrition with businesses that use Beti versus those that don't |
| Can you talk a little bit about like factors we saw there, and that probably kind of linked in with that 90% retention number? And then on EBITDA guide, Craig for you, and if I look at this year, we're kind of guiding down a little bit on EBITDA margin |
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