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| Gross margin improvement reflects a higher contribution from breakage and spoilage and better margins at Output Solutions |
| Gross profits were $4.1 million and margins were up 170 basis points from the year-ago quarter |
| This includes an investment in output solutions that should increase capacity by 50%, our largest ever quarter of prepaid card load volumes, our strongest ever card pipeline and the expectation that ACH volumes will start to grow again in the fourth quarter |
| In addition, we continue to be in excellent financial condition with strong cash flow this quarter, in part supported by record interest income, which we expect will add over $1 million to our cash position over the second half of this year |
| PIN-less debit is also doing very well |
| It was another quarter of strong growth |
| We have seen some very positive activity with a few funds that we've been working with and hopefully our best town story on a regular basis will increase that activity |
| Margins were up in the quarter due to the highly profitable ACH revenue growth as well as due to spoilage revenues from our prepaid segment |
| This quarter, results were led by a strong performance at prepaid, where revenues were up 197% |
| As a sign of prepaid's continued growing momentum, the third quarter was the first quarter in the company's history in which the volume loaded onto prepaid cards exceeded $100 million |
| For the quarter, prepaid continued to have solid growth, not just in load volumes, but in transactions processed and purchased dollars processed |
| While residual revenues from expiring card programs were certainly a contributor to our strong revenue growth, load volumes, transactions, and purchased dollars process were all generated from ongoing programs |
| I attribute this steady improvement to our business strategy where we keep adding new ISVs and they, in turn, continue to penetrate their account bases |
| Both dollars and transactions processed were up from a year ago with PayFac on target for three quarters of $1 billion of processing volume in what is shaping up to be a record year |
| Card revenues were up again with year-over-year growth in our PayFac business, accelerating sequentially to 27% in the third quarter |
| This steady stream of referral business also enables us to run a lean sales and marketing organizations with the attendant benefits to our profitability |
| So we believe prepaid has built a solid foundation of reoccurring revenue programs as a solid base of which we can grow, evidenced by the increasing load dollars |
| Both revenue and margins were up again at output solutions this quarter as Sy Green and his team continue to utilize every ounce of available capacity |
| I'm pleased to report another quarter of strong growth with revenue up 25% our 13th consecutive quarter of revenue growth |
| We are extremely proud that the card-issuing division continues to receive introductions like this as it illustrates the customer satisfaction on which we pride ourselves |
| And Output Solutions has an amazing pipeline of business from internal sales and from cross selling across their divisions |
| Often this should lead to what we believe will be both a better top and bottom line |
| This in turn should help us improve overall segment revenue growth and profitability |
| Revenues for the quarter were up 25% to $20.5 million, driven by growth in all of our segments, especially prepaid |
| Turning the card, PayFac continues to generate strong growth, 27% for the quarter, as Greg will discuss, it's been a busy quarter of increasing penetration with existing ISVs, implementing new ISVs and building a strong pipeline, including three significant new opportunities which we are aggressively targeting |
| And in ACH, total revenues were up on the strength of associated services such as PIN-less debit and account inquiry |
| Again, this reflects my previous comment about the significant improvement in profitability this year compared to last year |
| Revenue growth in this product line has been outstanding and we intend to capitalize on the momentum being created by more widespread adoption |
| Output Solutions was also up nearly double digits once again, while credit card revenues were up 5%, as our PayFac business continues to grow at a faster rate than the wind-down of our legacy traditional payment processing |
| It is the boring part of sales involving a lot of state work, but it sets us up to have a strong pipeline for the fourth quarter, and on into the new year |
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| As Louis noted, we expect to meet our revenue guidance for the year, but expect to see a slight slowdown in revenue growth in gross profits in the fourth quarter due to declining breakage and other items |
| Gross profits and gross margins were down compared to the second quarter, principally due to a sequential decrease in prepaid profits and gross margins as our share of the New York City COVID incentive breakage and spoilage stepped down |
| We expect this to be the last quarter of which volumes are below year-ago levels as this is the last year-ago quarter that included meaningful Voyager volumes |
| And then-- I was writing down which you're saying, did I hear you right that we can see a step down in gross margin in Q4 or decline in gross profit in Q4? I couldn't quite get that because you were talking about that prepaid spoilage -- is coming down |
| So there's going to be a very natural lack of supply on the PayFac side for the market |
| So at a time when many companies are forecasting slowdowns in their business, Usio continues to charge ahead |
| Louis alluded to a number of large prospects in our pipeline, which we attribute to both our diligent marketing efforts, but also in part due to these new complexities and challenges |
| From a profitability perspective, adjusted EBITDA was $2.1 million compared to a loss of $1.4 million in the first nine months of last year |
| As our share of New York City breakage and spoilage profits are sequentially reduced, we expect prepaid profits and margins to contract further in the fourth quarter |
| So I guess the other question that I would have, Paul for you is, as you look, obviously, we're in a terrible, our small-cap microcap bear market |
| Gary Prestopino I mean, if I'm reading this right, what you're saying is it's going to be very difficult for others to become a registered PayFac because of the August regulations or whatever |
| So I guess, and I've always asked this question, but your card revenues were only up 4.8% in the quarter |
| Our business will always include some spoilage from expiry that card |
| Since some of the increase in the quarter was from nonrecurring expenses, we expect fourth quarter SG&A to trend lower |
| We expect these expenses to trend down in the fourth quarter, but probably not to the levels we experienced in the first and the second quarter of the year |
| So combining his contacts throughout the industry with expanded capacity will make us a formidable competitor for larger, more lucrative programs |
| When does that become available? And as a follow up for a second piece of that, have you guys lost business or turned away business due to the capacity constraints you're under currently? Louis Hoch Yeah |
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