Expensify (ticker: EXFY) has reported a revenue of $33.3 million for Q2 2024, with notable growth in interchange revenue, paid memberships, and cash flow. The company also highlighted the transition to a new card program, the launch of a super app, and a partnership with Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL).
Despite a net loss of $2.8 million, non-GAAP net income and adjusted EBITDA were positive. The company is preparing to generate revenue from its new app in Q3 and is focusing on transitioning from R&D to a go-to-market strategy. Expensify is also optimizing its core business and has plans for a new payroll product, although it is currently not the focus.
Key Takeaways
- Q2 2024 revenue stood at $33.3 million with 684,000 paid members.
- Interchange revenue increased to $4 million, with a 14% quarter-over-quarter and 48% year-over-year growth.
- Operating cash flow was $9.3 million, and free cash flow was $5.7 million.
- Net loss reported at $2.8 million, but non-GAAP net income and adjusted EBITDA were positive at $5.6 million and $10.2 million, respectively.
- A new card program is expected to boost interchange revenue and financial transparency.
- The company is set to generate revenue from the new super app in Q3, featuring a travel management system and a hybrid app for user migration.
- A partnership with Apple for the upcoming film "F1" has been established.
- Optimizing R&D expenses and sales processes is a priority, with less emphasis on R&D for enabling payments.
- Revenue estimate for New Expensify in Q3 is less than $1 million but more than zero.
- Conversion to the new card program is a focus, with a 100% conversion rate target by year-end.
- A payroll product is in the pipeline, awaiting licensing and market competitiveness.
Company Outlook
- Expensify is tracking conversion rates and customer acquisition processes for future revenue and EBITDA guidance.
- The company expects to recognize the revenue impact of a sponsorship initiative in Q2 of the next year.
- More guidance will be provided as the business stabilizes.
Bearish Highlights
- Expensify reported a net loss of $2.8 million for the quarter.
- The revenue estimate for New Expensify in Q3 is modest.
Bullish Highlights
- The company has seen a 10% increase in free cash flow from Q1.
- There is an expectation of new revenue streams from New Expensify and travel bookings.
- The transition to a new card program is anticipated to increase interchange revenue.
Q&A Highlights
- The company is limited in share buybacks due to a covenant with their lender but expects more flexibility after the next quarter.
- Aggressive card conversion strategies are being employed to avoid business disruption.
- Engagement with the CEO is encouraged in the company's chatroom for customers and shareholders.
InvestingPro Insights
Expensify's recent financial performance, as detailed in the article, reflects a company in the midst of a strategic transition. To further understand the financial health and market position of Expensify, let's consider some key metrics and insights from InvestingPro.
InvestingPro Data highlights a market capitalization of $185.95 million, signaling investor recognition of the company's potential despite current challenges. The company's price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio stands at -5.77, reflecting its lack of profitability in the last twelve months as of Q2 2024. However, the gross profit margin is robust at 54.42%, indicating a strong ability to control costs relative to revenue.
In terms of performance, Expensify's stock has experienced a significant return of 35.48% over the last week, suggesting a positive short-term investor sentiment. This aligns with the InvestingPro Tip that analysts have revised their earnings upwards for the upcoming period, indicating potential confidence in the company's future performance.
InvestingPro Tips also reveal that Expensify holds more cash than debt on its balance sheet, which is a positive indicator of the company's financial stability and ability to invest in growth opportunities, such as the new card program and the super app mentioned in the article. Additionally, the company has liquid assets that exceed short-term obligations, further emphasizing its financial resilience.
For readers looking to delve deeper into Expensify's financials and market prospects, there are additional InvestingPro Tips available on the platform. These tips can offer valuable insights for making informed investment decisions.
In summary, the InvestingPro Insights underscore Expensify's potential for growth and financial stability, despite the challenges it faces. The company's strong gross profit margin and recent positive stock performance, combined with its solid balance sheet, offer a nuanced understanding of its market position and future outlook.
Full transcript - Expensify Inc (EXFY) Q2 2024:
Ryan Schaffer: Welcome to the Q2 2024 Expensify Earnings. I'm Expensify CFO, Ryan Schaffer, and with me I have our, Co-Founder and CEO -- I'm sorry, I have our Founder and CEO, not Co-Founder, David Barrett. But before we begin, please note that all the information presented on today's call is unaudited, and during the course of this call, management may make forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws. These statements are based on management's current expectations and beliefs and involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from these described in these forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements in the earnings release that we issued today, along with the comments on this call, are made only as of today and will not be updated as actual events unfold. Please refer to today's press release and our filings with the SEC for a detailed discussion of the risks that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward-looking statements made today. Please also note that on today's call, management will refer to certain non-GAAP financial measures. While we believe these non-GAAP financial measures provide useful information for investors, the presentation of this information is not intended to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for the financial information presented in accordance with GAAP. Please refer to today's press release or the investor presentation for a reconciliation of these non-GAAP financial measures to the most comparable GAAP measures. With that out of the way, let's talk about the financials. In Q2, our revenue was $33.3 million. Our average paid members were 684,000. So, these numbers have basically leveled off. They're effectively flat quarter-over-quarter. They're both within 1% of Q1, and also our interchange was $4 million, which is a 14% quarter-over-quarter increase and a 48% year-over-year increase. Our operating cash flow was $9.3 million. Again, operating cash flow includes timing of customer funds, which can vary depending on when the quarter ends. Our free cash flow, which excludes the timing of customer funds, was $5.7 million, which is a 10% quarter-over-quarter increase, something we're very happy about. We've talked a lot about our cost-cutting measures and we're pleased with the results that we're seeing. Our net loss was $2.8 million, but our non-GAAP net income was $5.6 million and our adjusted EBITDA was $10.2 million, something we're very happy about. All right. Now, my favorite topic, the Expensify Card. Quarterly interchange from the card grew 48% year-over-year to $4 million. And now my favorite subject is the program manager issue. So, as you know, we've been transitioning our members from our old card program to our new card program. The new card program has two benefits. One, we earn 20% more interchange on every transaction. And also under the new program, our interchange will be considered revenue instead of contra expense in cost of revenue. So, it cleans up the financial story. It makes the financials easier to understand. So, our net interchange was $3.5 million. Our interchange in revenue is $5 million for a total interchange of $4 million. So, the way to kind of read this is $3.5 million on the old program, $5 million -- or $0.5 million on the new program, total $4 million. We're also increasing our free cash flow guidance. Previously, our guidance was $10 million to $12 million for the year. Last quarter, we increased that to $11 million to $13 million. And now we're increasing our annual year guidance to $15 million to $16 million, which is a big jump and I think a testament to the effectiveness of the discipline that we put into reducing our costs. Again, our free cash flow is $5.7 million, which is a 10% increase from Q1. As you know, we don't give paid member guidance, but we do show you the actuals from how the current quarter is going. So in July, our paid members were up to 689,000. If you look at the pink bars, they show this current July and then every July in the past. And normally, July is a bit of a soft month. You'll see that we generally see a month-over-month decrease, but this month we're actually up. So things -- that's good news. So, we're excited about that. All right. Now let's talk about some business highlights. Our SEO keywords have increased 122% year-over-year. This is important because it's top of funnel. Basically in order to be on the first page, you have to work your way there. So the progress across our long tail keywords has been increasing quarter-over-quarter. So, we're encouraged by the progress we're seeing there, and this is the more actual results. These are the keywords that are on the first page, which get almost all the clicks. So, we've seen a 57% increase quarter-over-quarter in our first page SEO keywords. So, our content marketing strategy is working and working well and quickly, so that's something to be encouraged by. Also, we continue to see a brisk improvement in our number of global reimbursement customers. Global reimbursement is important because we're a global company, and our customers want to reimburse their employees no matter what country they're in. And these are generally larger customers being in many or further in the U.S., global reimbursement is important for large enterprise customers. But it's also important because it allows us to expand globally in countries that we normally struggled or we have historically struggled to grow in. So, this kind of unlocks a more global opportunity. Additionally, you might have seen that we announced our partnership with Apple for their upcoming 2025 film, F1, which is expected to be a very successful blockbuster. We are the title team sponsor in that film. So as you can see in this Instagram post on the right, you see Mr. Brad Pitt with Expensify across his chest. So, we are -- our name is on the car. It's on all the jerseys. It has a very big placement within the film, something we're very excited by. The movie is still filming. It doesn't come out until next year, and we've already gotten such great coverage in TV -- on both TV and online that we've reached over 600 million impressions. Additionally, due to the fact that we have such crazy good placement on all across the movie and how much buzz this movie is generating, our earned media coverage is estimated to be over $100 million at this point. For those of you not familiar with the term, earned media, what that means is, what would be the financial equivalent to get all the placement that we have gotten effectively for free due to all the buzz. So if you think about how much does it cost to have one of the biggest stars in the world have our name on their chest for months and months and be filmed by the paparazzi and covered on the news across the world. Also, all the placements that we're getting during F1 races and all the YouTube videos and everything that people are creating. They also released a trailer, which has been seen over 10 million times on YouTube alone, also across X and other social media. So the coverage that this has generated thus far is estimated to -- it would have cost us $100 million to get that. Obviously, we have paid $100 million for that. So that's what earned media means. With that, I want to hand it over to our CEO, David Barrett.
David Barrett: All right. Yes. Very excited about the F1 movie. I think that we've been talking about trying to create a roadmap that builds a sort of mixed consumer business application, and I think the timing is really working out perfect for us. That's good. All right. So last quarter, we talked about just a bunch of functionality that we're going to build. And so, pretty much, I don't have lots to talk about other than to say, like, we've done pretty much what we set out to do and we kind of walk through some highlights there. So to start first, however, is this kind of a reminder of the overall strategy. Now, many of you have already seen it before but there's always new viewers. So let's just start with kind of -- I think there's three secrets to Expensify success. First, we're trying to capture the 99% of the untapped market. Of the 300 million businesses in the world, less than a million actually use anything today. And so, we're trying to go after a huge, huge global opportunity as Ryan mentioned earlier. The only way to do that is through a viral, bottom-up, word-of-mouth, lead-gen strategy. You can't just top down sail your way into 300 million businesses. There's just not enough sales people in the world to do that. And so there are lots of companies that have gotten to 1 billion users. And the way they do that is with a viral strategy. And that's why we're all in on sort of the viral dynamics that are built in inherently to expense management. And of course, we monetize that with high-margin monthly subscriptions. It's been our strategy all along, and it's worked really well for us. It's kind of like break into that market, that 1.3 billion untapped users. There's a huge fraction of the market that's basically under 250 employees. A huge market is under like 10 employees and so forth. And so, we're kind of going for this giant VSB/SMB market. Now, of course, we still have enterprise customers growing there and so forth, but we think the much bigger opportunity is actually to 100x the market size itself. And the way we do that is by leveraging the natural, inherent viral sort of component of the various use cases of expense management. Expensify is fundamentally a chat application, mixed with a payment application, mixed with a document-sharing application. And notably, all three of those are the most viral applications on the Internet. And so, we think that we can find the viral, then sort of then overlap between these three different use cases, and that's what's going to propel us into this massive scale opportunity. And so, the way we do that is to kind of like, map how that works is. We can say something like Alice, an individual consumer or an employee, submits an expense to Bob, who basically turns around and sends an invoice to Cathy, who splits the invoice with her roommates and then maybe that one of those roommates books travel with her company. Every time you use Expensify as a product, you can't help but promote us to the people around you. That's the viral dynamic we're leaning into. And by building a super app that can leverage all these different applications in a single app package, then making it sort of a super virality effect, that's what we're going for. So kind of walk through some highlights of that. So first, we've been building this for a long time and we're getting to the point where we're launching it. We're testing with real users, and we are preparing for a much bigger migration away from our classic messaging of the past and towards our new messaging and towards that. We're just about to release a new homepage. It's been A/B testing a million variations for a long time. Not the most exciting thing in the world, but it is a highly visible thing. So, I just want to give you a heads up. Also, I would say one of the most exciting things, which is kind of subtle, is we've built something we call our hybrid app. Now, recall that we have millions of users on our existing app. We're using the classic experience. And so, in order to migrate them to the new experience, we don't want them to have to download an entirely new app, lose all of the SEO and review history and so forth that we have. But the new app is a complete rewrite. It's a completely different technology stack and everything. And so, the way that we're sort of bridging that gap is we've made a hybrid app. We're in the process of upgrading all customers today to this new app that actually has both apps packaged inside of it, where you can switch back and forth between. Now, that sounds really easy. It's actually super-duper hard. And so, we worked very hard on that. We're very proud of it and we're launching that right now. And that's basically a key part of allowing for reunification or basically this process of taking old customers and moving them to new experience. Next, something else we've been talking about, super excited about, we launched a full-fledged travel management system built into New Expensify. And so travel management, obviously, travel and expense, it's like peas and carrots. They go together to the dawn of time. And so we have brought the travel management experience into the product, which is incredibly powerful. We think that it can scale up to the top of the market. It has very, very powerful functionality that can go head-to-head with anyone else out there. And it's built into the same super app experience than anything else. Additionally, we bring our unique flavor to it as well, in that we are chat enabling all this functionality. And what that means is, typically, we like to say that we do a travel expense at the speed of chat, because historically, if you're doing any kind of a collaborative application online, you can only go as fast as the other person in the collaboration. And if that collaboration is happening over e-mail, that means that you're collaborating at the speed of e-mail. And I don't know about you, I am always days or maybe even weeks behind on my e-mail. And so that means that any collaboration that someone wants to do with me via e-mail is super-duper slow. Expensify is a real-time chat application, and we're bringing that real-time chat functionality to all of our approval flows, especially travel approval. So, for example, imagine you need to -- someone's requesting a flight, and in the United States, every flight gets 24-hour free cancellations, but only to cancel in that 24 hours. And so it's in the business' interest to have those approvals happen incredibly fast, faster than you can realistically get done via e-mail. And so that's what we mean by moving at chat speed, not just for travel, but for all of our expense management. It's just removing the delay in all of the collaboration process and bringing it onto a single platform that lets it happen so much faster. Because the only way to make expense management faster is not by just making the button click faster, we need to make the people involved act faster and that's where the new design really shines. Also, just a lot of nuts and bolts work. This might sound kind of boring, but now you can enter a billing card in New Expensify. Up until this point, it just was impossible to actually buy. But now you can buy. And so what's exciting about this is we are in a position to begin generating revenue from New Expensify starting in Q3. So, we're very excited and looking forward and optimistic for the future for adding New Expensify as a new revenue stream, as well as adding travel bookings as a new revenue stream. On top of that, more just sort of like nuts and bolts, Expensify's historical strength has been our incredibly good accounting connections, and so we're migrating all of that over to New Expensify. Now, you can connect to Xero, NetSuite, QuickBooks, Intacct, all of these basically directly from inside of New Expensify. One of the most exciting features, I would say, has got to be our search platform. Now, we've always been talking about search and this idea of universal search and how cool it is, but you really get to get a sense of how cool it is when you sit down to use it. And that is there's a lot of competitors out there that have a suite of kind of disconnected applications. That means like travel over here, then you sign into a different place for invoices and maybe it's kind of like the same sign-in to get to different places, but they're fundamentally different experiences. Expensify is very different. It's a super app, meaning that all of these different data types and all these different applications exist within the same app container. And that means because we've combined all the data together, we can search it in a universal fashion. And we're not talking just like very simple search. We're talking like Gmail-style, Boolean Search logic, where you can custom craft very, very specific searches for exactly what you want and then save those searches for use later. And so, we think that we're going to bring the most powerful search experience across any expense management solution, bar none. And we're doing it because the super app design allows us to combine data into a single place, such that it can be searched together in a single place. Then maybe finally, as we're talking about essentially onboarding and that -- because we're getting to a point where the core functionality is starting to work pretty good, we're spending more and more time on just the onboarding flows themselves. They started talking to the homepage, but also when you sign up, we're adding things like welcome videos. Concierge is assigning you specific tasks based upon what you've indicated you want to do and things like this. And so we're just very excited to be moving out of the sort of R&D mode and more into a go-to-market mode. And so that's a pretty exciting thing that we're going to talk more about in upcoming quarters. So overall, I would say that it's been a great quarter. I mean, like, Q1 was good. Q2 is even better. And I think that it's nice that sort of, as Ryan mentioned, the core business itself is stable. It's basically like things are a strong foundation and also our cash flow is growing, which is fantastic. I think we've delivered a tremendous amount of engineering progress on New Expensify. And we're in the process of actually rolling it out to existing customers and new customers and also enrolling it out in new travel markets, which is great. I would say, looking forward to Q3, we hope that New Expensify is adding an entirely new revenue stream. We hope that New Expensify travel is adding entirely new revenue stream. And we think that, as Ryan mentioned, that we can be making tremendous progress in migrating our existing expense by card spend onto a New Expensify Card program, which is treated as revenue and also earns 20% more in interchange. And so it's a lot of really exciting things in the works. As always, our Product Managers are able to talk more about any of this, and me too. So just like scan this QR code, click this link and come talk to us. And with that, I think we'll open up to questions.
A - Unidentified Company Representative: Perfect. Okay. Let's start with JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM).
Unidentified Analyst: Hi, Dave. Hi, Ryan, I was wondering if you could comment a bit more on the dynamics that you've seen in July related to the slight uptick in the customer numbers. As you mentioned in the past, it would typically be a slow month. What drove the improvement?
Ryan Schaffer: Yes. It's a great question. Also good to see you again. In terms of what drove it, I don't think it's any one thing. We've been talking for a lot of quarters about how we're making a lot of small changes. And I think it's not one specific thing, it's not just travel or anything like that. It's that we -- it's the sum of thousand steps basically. And we think that I'm not going to say that we won't see decreasing users going forward, but I think we're pretty encouraged on kind of leveling off and what we're seeing in July. So...
David Barrett: Yes. I mean we did go to new conferences as well. And so we've been constantly messaging users and just giving pan service to the people who use us. So, I think that all adds up.
Ryan Schaffer: Yes. We've been -- we got a lot of buzz from the Apple movie as well. A lot of stuff going on in Expensify land.
Unidentified Analyst: Would you mind providing a bit more detail on this initiative? So, when do you think we will see the expense related to the sponsorship hit the P&L?
Ryan Schaffer: So, it's recognized when the movie comes out. So the...
Unidentified Analyst: So 2Q of next year?
Ryan Schaffer: Yes. That's when they come out in June of next year. Yes.
Unidentified Analyst: Okay. Perfect. And would you be able to quantify it, at least ballpark?
Ryan Schaffer: I'm unable to do that, unfortunately.
Unidentified Analyst: Okay. And it sounds like there has been quite a lot of investment done to ensure that, as David said, the two apps are working together, the release of new travel product and you talked about moving out of the R&D mode. When do you think we'll see more pronounced optimization of the R&D expense?
David Barrett: Interesting. Are you talking about how are we optimizing the R&D expense itself?
Unidentified Analyst: Well, your comment, David, about the fact that you're coming out of the R&D mode, does that imply that R&D may...
David Barrett: Well, great question. I didn't mean to suggest anything specific about R&D expenses. I just mean that -- because I think -- maybe not, you're referring to an accounting term. I just mean in terms of, like, we're optimizing the sales process, which involves a different kind of R&D. It's basically R&D for streamlining the ability for people to onboard as opposed to R&D to enable people to make payments. Just kind of different in that way. I don't know if that's...
Ryan Schaffer: Yes. Most people probably understand this, but for people that don't, when you launch a product and you keep working on it, that's no longer considered R&D, it's considered a cost of revenue. So, the same people who are fixing things or building things on the day before, and then they have to fix on the day after that. It's no longer an R&D expense, but internally, we still would consider that person building a new product.
Unidentified Analyst: And then if I may squeeze one more question, please. The comment about revenue coming in 3Q for New Expensify, would you be able to quantify your estimate on that? And maybe a more broader question, what sort of metrics are you looking at to get you some comfort in order to provide the longer-term guidance, the revenue and EBITDA [indiscernible]?
Ryan Schaffer: So, I think it's too early to give a revenue number on New Expensify, less than $1 million. Like significantly -- all right. I'm not going to do it, but it's not a huge amount, right. But way more than zero anyways. So, what was the second part of the question?
Unidentified Analyst: The long-term guide that you stopped providing?
Ryan Schaffer: Yes. Okay. I think as the business becomes more predictable, we'll -- obviously, we've started giving some guidance on free cash flow. And I think our goal is to provide more guidance in general. I think we need to see a little bit more stabilization or a longer period of stabilization in the business before we feel comfortable doing that. But that's top of mind for us, for sure.
Unidentified Analyst: Any specific metric if any?
Ryan Schaffer: How do we measure the success of New Expensify? Yes. Okay. So, essentially, we are measuring -- there's kind of two flows for that we get business. There's bottom-up where the employee downloads it first, brings it in to the business and then they convert. And that generally doesn't involve any sales. The employee basically acts as the sales person there. And then a top-down, which is the more traditional SaaS process, where someone at the top talks to a sales person. So, we are tracking both conversion of both of those flows and then doing that for our two payment plans, which are Collect and Control. So there's basically two different segments, smaller businesses and larger businesses. So we are -- those are the -- do you agree, those are the four?
David Barrett: Yes. I mean, there's a lot of different ways. It all kind of adds together, like different creeks flowing to the same river. But maybe we can follow up more in different calls.
Unidentified Analyst: Of course. Sounds great. Thank you very much for all the answers. I'll jump back into the queue.
Unidentified Company Representative: Perfect. Next up, we have Citi.
Unidentified Analyst: Hey, thanks. This is George on for Steve. Thanks for taking the questions, David and Nick. I wanted to ask about, Nick, your favorite topic, the New Expensify Card program. Really exciting that it's rolling out. I did want to get some clarity. The 34% of spend migrating, that's a really helpful disclosure. I did notice that you also disclosed kind of $0.5 million out of $4 million from the new program, which seems like less than a third. Maybe there's some complications with timing, but I guess I would have intuitively expected to be higher, giving your collecting more interchange. Can you help square the circle there?
Ryan Schaffer: Absolutely. And just for the transcripts and everything, this is Ryan. Nick's our Head of IR.
Unidentified Analyst: Sorry, Ryan and David.
Ryan Schaffer: Hey, I don't want the transcripts to get confused. So, great question. I thought we might actually get that question. So, the 34% is representative of what percentage of our spend have been transitioned over at the end of Q2, but in order for it to be exactly 30% total revenue, we would have had to start the quarter there. Because at the beginning of the quarter, it was like 10%. So, it's a transition over a three-month period. So, at the end of the quarter, we've transitioned 34% of spend, but a lot of it actually happened in the last, I think, like 25-days of the quarter. So it's kind of -- that's why it looks like it does, because we put out some banner notices and push notification stuff in the app, and that was super effective at pushing people over. So, does that make sense for you? It was just a timing...
Unidentified Analyst: Yes, that makes perfect sense. I figured it was just a timing thing. And then in terms of that spend that's migrated over, I know kind of baseline, we would expect a 20% uplift. But I'm wondering, part of the appeal here is that there's more features on the new card program. Do you notice any kind of change in terms of, like, transaction volumes from people who have migrated over?
David Barrett: Not sure. Maybe a bit early for that.
Ryan Schaffer: Most of the people have migrated over in the last like 60 days. So it's tough, I think, to draw some sort of trend there. But...
David Barrett: That's something to look at.
Ryan Schaffer: In general, I mean, I think when we get to a company spend, we get most of their spend.
David Barrett: Yes. It's pretty all or nothing.
Unidentified Analyst: Okay. That makes sense. And then just one last one for me on the decision to kind of come back into the conference circuit. Maybe you could talk about maybe the history of why you left that channel in the first place. Obviously you have a lot more products, New Expensify, a lot of exciting stuff to talk about. So just maybe the decision to come back there and any kind of implications from an OpEx standpoint?
Ryan Schaffer: So, we never stopped going to conferences. We did stop going to this once -- to go into corporate travel conferences. So, back in 2016-ish, maybe 2017, we were going to travel conferences because we had integrations with people like Egencia, which got bought by Amex. And we were trying to be the expense partner to a whole bunch of travel booking tools. And that was moderately successful, I'd say. I mean, it generated business, but didn't knock our socks off. So, we stopped going to those. And now we have our own booking tools. So, we're really kind of re-engaging on the travel side after taking a eight-year hiatus. And in terms of -- I don't see it dramatically changing anything. There's not a ton of travel conferences. There's a ton of accounting conferences, but not as many travel conferences. So, I don't think it's really shifting. I don't think you'll notice it really.
David Barrett: probably not.
Unidentified Analyst: Okay. Thanks for taking the question.
Ryan Schaffer: Thank you.
Unidentified Company Representative: Perfect. We've got JMP up next.
Aaron Kimpson: Hey, thanks for the questions, guys. Few from me. So the first one, how much of the initial demand you're seeing for travel is greenfield versus replacing another vendor? And who are you bumping into there when it is competitive?
Ryan Schaffer: First of all, great to hear from you, Aaron. Hope you're enjoying New York. That is a great question. So, we're actually seeing both. So obviously, greenfield is an easier sale. They see it. Wow, this is incredible. How do we start? The sales a little slower when you're doing a rip and replace, but we're getting a lot of enthusiasm from even people who currently have a current travel tool. So it's -- also we're seeing a lot of companies, new leads come to us because we saw a travel announcement and I think it's -- in the 2010s, think it was very popular or in vogue to have a whole bunch of different point solutions. I think the best in breed of this and this and this and this. And fast forward 10 years, 12 years and technology has gotten easier, and having a platform doesn't necessarily mean your product sucks. In 2010, if you had multiple products, your products were pretty terrible. But that's not really the case anymore. And I think platform plays are becoming more popular. And since we've announced T&E, travel and expense, we're seeing a lot of customers kind of -- or a lot of leads come out of woodwork being we want both. So, I think it's not just about cross selling. It's also just been great from bringing new eyes onto Expensify. So, we have a lot of brand strength and recognition, but we didn't do travel. And for a lot of companies, that's kind of a deal breaker. And now we do travel. So they're engaging.
Aaron Kimpson: Awesome. That's really helpful. And New York is wonderful, but like, Ryan, there's no place like Ohio. Second question. Can you clarify for us on the public call, you have a stock repurchase plan authorized. You're generating cash. Have over $30 million in net cash on the balance sheet. Valuation still near an all-time low. How does the covenant with your lender that restricts share repurchases work? What's the waiver you've received from the lender? And is buying back shares right now something that you can do with that covenant and something that you're considering, if so?
Ryan Schaffer: Okay. Great question. So, for the people that don't dig into our -- deep into our disclosures, we have a covenant with our lender that limits how much we can -- how many shares we can buy back. Now we've -- currently, it's quite low because it's based on a 12-month lookback on free cash flow. And last Q3, we spent a lot of money. So that's kind of pulling that down. So, we expect after this next Q3, we'll -- that covenant will be loosened up and we'll have the ability to buy back more.
Aaron Kimpson: Got it. Thank you so much.
Ryan Schaffer: [indiscernible], but it's...
David Barrett: Capability.
Ryan Schaffer: Yes.
Unidentified Company Representative: Great. Next up, we have BMO (TSX:BMO). Do we have Daniel or Kyle on the line? All right. Let's hop over to FT Partners.
Unidentified Analyst: Hey, there, guys. Thanks for taking the question here. I just want to ask on the cards. I think in the press release, it was said that you're planning on getting 100% by the end of the year. So, is the plan then to whatever cards haven't been converted to basically forcefully shut them off and ship out new cards? And kind of what's the strategy to get to that 100% conversion rate?
Ryan Schaffer: Great question. So, we're seeing -- so the number we said was at the end of Q2, right? So that's like a 45-day-old number. So, we're seeing great progress even since then. We do think we're probably going -- I think what you're basically angling at is, we'll probably get to a very high percentage and then some percentage will not do anything, right? So, we haven't decided if we're going to shut off the cards or not. We don't want to, but I think we're going to try to get there just through some aggressive -- hopefully, they're not listening, but we're probably going to shut the cards off.
David Barrett: Don't tell anybody.
Ryan Schaffer: Yes, don't tell them. But we're going to just try to through account managers and kind of aggressively be like, all right, we got to reship them over because -- last thing we want to do is disrupt some business operations, get them all angry, and then they decide to leave us or something like that, right? So, we're going to trying to move everyone with smiles and carrots and spare the stick.
David Barrett: Yes. I mean, ultimately, these cards do eventually expire and so they'll be forced to migrate over one way or another. We're just trying to accelerate sort of the inevitable timeframe.
Unidentified Analyst: Got it. That makes sense. And then, I was just wondering if there's any update on payroll. I think that was a discussion a few quarters ago, looking at specific licenses. And so, I just wanted to see if there's any updates there.
David Barrett: Sure. I mean, payroll, we still use it internally. We've got most of the money transition licensing in place. I think right now we're just primarily focused on the core business. We have the -- basically, the technology and the accounting basically in place, but there's a lot of front-end work that needs to happen to make it truly competitive in this market. And there's no interest in, like, launching an uncompetitive product. As Ryan mentioned earlier, it's one thing to be able to, like, check the boxes that technically you've got a product, and then that's the first 90% of the work, if you will. But then like the second 90% of the work is actually making it really good and market competitive. And so I think we're in that second 90% right now, and I don't think we have an exact estimate of when we'll be launching a truly competitive product. But when we do launch it, it's going to be good.
Ryan Schaffer: And we're also waiting two MTLs.
David Barrett: Yes, there are a couple of [indiscernible], and they're big ones.
Unidentified Analyst: Right. So, I think last we talked it was New York and maybe one other still outstanding. So that makes sense. Okay. That's all from me. Thanks, guys.
David Barrett: Thank you.
Unidentified Company Representative: Great. That wraps the Q&A section.
Ryan Schaffer: All right. Thank you all very much. As David mentioned, we are actually in the Expensify chatroom. If you want to discuss with us further -- I know in the past we've had a lot of retail traders come in and talk to us, but you don't have to be a retailer to come and talk to us. Anyone can. So, we welcome our institutional friends as well. But we're actually in there. So, if you want to talk to the CEO, go to this link. And we're there to engage with all of our customers or shareholders. So, thanks a lot. We'll see you next quarter.
A - David Barrett: Thanks, everyone.
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