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| But I'm confident that we will move past this and over time, build a stronger Toast |
| As I mentioned earlier, like we have -- SMBs continue to drive the majority of our growth, and we see tremendous runway there |
| The changes we announced today primarily focused on noncustomer-facing roles and we remain committed to fitting healthy topline growth and delivering a best-in-class customer experience |
| Our non-payment fintech solutions led by Toast Capital, contributed $34 million in gross profit in Q4, reflecting steady healthy demand |
| And the way our team thinks about, it is anywhere food to serve, we think that our platform that we built over the past decades offers us an opportunity to go create increments value for those customers and so we're starting there |
| Great job on execution when it comes to location growth, winning market share being clearly very, very strong |
| Our SaaS net retention rate remained in a healthy range at 117% led by solid contributions from upsell and location expansion from existing customers |
| As we look ahead, our conviction in the future is as strong as ever |
| And we're also seeing really good health pipeline and inbound requests from customers |
| Continuing to deliver on our mission and serving as the technology backbone for restaurants will lead to significant value creation for all our stakeholders, our customers, our shareholders, and of course, our Toasters that support our community each and every day |
| SaaS ARR grew 43% year-over-year, driven by the strong location growth and a 7% base in SaaS ARPU as we lean into our customer acquisition momentum and balance ARPU growth |
| In fintech, our long-term growth drivers for increasing core net take -- take rate remain, driving towards lowest cost per transit leveraging our unique customer relationships to provide additional fintech solutions |
| Look, we're proud of the team's progress over the past year with new brands like, if you just look at Choice and Caribou, which I talked about in my prepared remarks |
| Our ability to sustain over 30% location growth at this scale is a testament to our competitive differentiation |
| Our all-in-one platform, our localized go-to-market approach, and the consistent execution by our sales and customer success teams |
| The momentum in our SMB segment has allowed us to double the number of flywheel markets over the past year, with 30% of our markets now in flywheel defined by over 20% SMB market share |
| Our rep productivity in flywheel markets is over 10% higher than other markets, leading to faster share gains |
| Even in our most penetrated markets where we have over 30% market share, we are still gaining share at a healthy clip |
| These markets are a benchmark for how we expect other markets to evolve over time and gives us confidence in sustaining healthy location growth |
| Q4 hardware and services gross margin improved 19 percentage points compared to last year, primarily reflecting lower shipping costs and ongoing operational efficiencies |
| In addition, we're gaining traction across the broader TAM as we expand our product offerings to serve different restaurant types |
| I think we do think that the GPV and ARPU potential in these businesses is stronger |
| We expect ARPU to continue to increase and GPV permission to remain above industry averages |
| We're seeding investments in new parts of the TAM where we believe our market position provides a competitive advantage |
| Our go-to-market motion is a competitive differentiator and an important part of our ability to efficiently scale the business, enabling us to sustain healthy ARR growth while moderating investments in sales and marketing |
| So, first of all, as Aman said, we're really pleased with what we're seeing internationally |
| And so I think over time, as we continue to improve the capabilities across our product portfolio and improve our pricing and packaging and our upsell motion, there should be continued levers of growth for us into the future |
| I think if you look at, if you just zoom out for a second and think about the growth potential in the business, we're confident in our ability to continue to drive sustained ARR growth across both locations and ARPU |
| We're really confident in the guidance that we have, Dave, and it's reflecting if you think about the long-term guidance we've given out a few quarters ago, that's -- we have ambition to get to 30% to 35% long-term recurring gross profit growth |
| ARR grew 35% and total fintech and subscription gross profit, our recurring gross profit streams increased 49% for the year |
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| This reflects slower GPV trends in January due to weather headwinds across many parts of the country |
| Given these factors, we expect free cash flow to be negative in Q1, then accelerate as the year progresses |
| Fourth quarter GPV is 32% to $33.7 billion, and GPV per location declined modestly year-over-year, in line with our expectations and consistent with the trend exiting the third quarter |
| So, essentially, the new customer cohort will be a little bit of a drag on that mid-single-digit ARPU growth |
| Looks like the net take rates came down a little bit |
| I know that doing a reduction in force is a difficult decision |
| We've made the difficult but right decision to reduce our headcount by 10% |
| It was a little down this year |
| As a reminder, fourth quarter GPV relocation is seasonally lower than the third quarter, and payment ARR reflects the same seasonality |
| As I said earlier, this week is a tough week |
| Please refer to the cautionary language in today's press release and our SEC filings for a discussion of the risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from our expectations |
| Our designing challenge for 2024 is to operate with a shared urgency against our mission, raise the bar on how we collaborate, and maintain a relentless focus on our customers |
| And so the ARPU is slightly lower |
| The ARPU is obviously lower |
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