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spk03: Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the PAR Technology Fiscal Year 2024 Second Quarter Financial Results Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. To ask a question during the session, you will need to press star 11 on your telephone. You will then hear an automated message advising your hand is raised. To withdraw your question, please press star 11 again. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Chris Burns, Senior Vice President of Investor Relations and Business Development. Please go ahead.
spk09: Thank you, Amy. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us today for Power Technologies' 2024 Second Quarter Financial Results Call. Earlier this morning, we released our financial results. The earnings release is available on the investor relations page of our website at partech.com, where you can also find the Q2 financials presentation, as well as in our related form, aka, Furnace to the SEC. During our call today, we will reference non-GAAP financial measures, which we believe to be useful to investors and exclude the impact of certain items. The description and timing of these items, along with a reconciliation of non-GAAP measures to the most comparable GAAP measures, can be found in our earnings release. I'd also like to remind participants that this conference call may include forward-looking statements that reflect management's expectations based on currently available data. However, actual results are subject to future events and uncertainties. The information on this conference call related to projections or other forward-looking statements may be relied upon and subject to the Safe Harbor Statement included in our earnings release this morning and in our annual and quarterly filings with the SEC. Finally, I'd like to remind everyone that this call is being recorded, and it will be made available for replay via a link available on the investor relations section of our website. Joining me on the call today is PAR's CEO and President, Savneet Singh, and Brian Minar, PAR's Chief Financial Officer. I'd now like to turn the call over to Savneet for the formal remarks portion of the call, which will be followed by general Q&A. Savneet?
spk11: Thank you, Chris. Good morning, and welcome to everyone on the call. Q2 marked an inflection point for PARP. We delivered meaningful growth on a near-flat OpEx space, launched our Burger King rollout, integrated Stuzo, completed the work to close the task acquisition, and launched Wendy's in July. Equally important is that we divested our government business, clearing the way for us to be a pure-play food service technology business. We are marching towards becoming a very profitable business while increasing our ability to effectuate change at our customers. Subscription services continues to be the growth engine of our company, and subscription services revenue grew by 48% in the quarter versus the same period last year. Our relentless focus on customer success, along with a commitment to delivering best-in-class products, continues to drive our results. Excluding Stuzo, now branded par retail, second quarter ARR grew organically by 24% when compared to Q2-23. This is an impressive number given we're just kicking off Burger King, launched Wendy's in July, And as you know, we recognize payments revenue on a net basis. At the end of Q2, ARR stood at $192 million, a 57% increase in the second quarter last year. Additionally, post Q2, we closed our acquisition of TASK, which will contribute an additional $40 million of ARR. Operator cloud ARR grew by 37% to $84 million in Q2 when compared to the same period last year. Operator cloud growth is being driven by increased win rates at Brink with stronger multi-product attachment of data central and par payments, as well as continued ARPU improvement. ARPU increased by 14% from the same period last year due to higher value deals, API monetization, upsell, price increases, and par payment services go live. We expect the growth in ARPU to continue given current white space and existing high value accounts, as well as a very robust pipeline of tier one deals. To put this into perspective, the successful attachment of both data central payments into a brink concept increases the ARR opportunity by over 3x. As I mentioned, we officially launched the Burger King rollout on April 1st, and Burger King is extremely pleased with the progress made to date, including both from a product as well as an implementation perspective. We feel confident that Park can be the enabler of BK's digital success and are giving them every reason to accelerate our rollout and hopefully add additional products down the road. It is critical Burger King meets their implementation thresholds for the year, and we are partnering closely to ensure that they do. As we mentioned in the last call, whatever we don't install this year will get quickly rolled out in 2025 and the early parts of 2026. Turning to PAR payments. In Q2, PAR payments achieved our highest-ever gross processing volume run rate of $2.5 billion. Pipeline execution led to the signing of several new concepts, such as Chow Time Canada, Wings Over, and Miami Grill, to name a few. which will be going live before the end of the year. In Q2, we went live with three new customer logos and continued our rollout with Smoothie King. Importantly, many of our new wins include processing for above-store transactions, not just our traditional in-store POS processing. Our pipeline of new customers is strong, and we expect continued momentum following the launch of our Punch Wallet offering at the start of Q3. I'll give more details on Punch Wallet later in the call. Looking forward, The team is fully engaged on integrating payment capabilities into part retail and tasks to unlock further growth. Adding payments to the part retail sales bag is very exciting. Data Central also delivered a strong Q2. This quarter included the signing of seven new customers across the restaurant and C-store space, including pilot travel stops and the ongoing rollout of Love's Travel Centers. We continue to build out a robust pipeline with four new Tier 1 concepts, and see additional opportunities for Data Central to be attachment to bring deals. Data Central is winning off the strength of Brink's tremendous growth and reputation, creating a roadmap for future upsell of new products. The enterprise market is seeing how the connection of the POS, back office, and payments processing delivers improved operations, enhanced data capture, and significant value to their business. This trend will continue. Our engagement cloud, which includes Punch, Menu, and now ParRetail, continue to study growth trajectory in Q2. After a period of rapid change, our near-term goal for Punch is to drive stable new business wins of 500 to 1,000 new locations quarterly. Our exciting new product launch with Punch Wallets demonstrates better together innovation and is driving new revenue with Punch plus ParPay. This has amazing potential to enable Starbucks-like payment experiences for all Punch brands. Plunch Wallet is a clear demonstration of PAR's better together strategy and providing improved outcomes for our customers. Features include saved payment options, stored value balances, digital wallets, and subscriptions. Plunch Wallet allows for up to two and a half times faster checkout times, a 23% increase from repeat store visits, and an increase in customer lifetime value of more than 150%. Year-over-year AR growth for Engagement Cloud was 11%, driven by the deals we signed at the end of 2023 and very early in 2024. This past quarter saw significant new customer growth with nine new brands launching on the Punch platform, and we also saw 12 upsell deals to existing customers. In early July, we went live with Wendy's, a deal that we announced in Q1. Record time for a go live for a large enterprise deal. Looking ahead, we expect Punch to be a strong profit contributor to PARC. The newest part of Engagement Cloud is Stuzo, which has been rebranded as ParRetail. ParRetail is a leading digital engagement software provider to convenience and fuel retailers. The product is in 20,000 stores, in over 20,000 stores, and provides a beachhead to cross-sell additional products across like payments and back office. Our pipeline looks strong for the second half of the year, and importantly, we hope to launch our first payment product for this market, which will continue to improve our better together strategy. Menu, our digital ordering application, also delivered an impressive Q2. We continued launching new customers and have officially reached more U.S.-based active sites than our international base, highlighting a key initiative we had entering the year, which is getting Menu to be U.S.-ready. We launched five new concepts in Q2, and every new customer is an existing customer of another PAR product, proving that our customers desire a more unified experience. Additionally, some of our customers continue to test additional modules of Menu, We are encouraged by the progress so far with Menu and expect a solid second half of 2024. Engagement Cloud ARAR now totals $108 million at the end of Q2 and has approximately 95,000 food service outlets utilizing our software. We continue to see PAR as uniquely positioned in the food service technology sector with best-in-class software across key operational and engagement pillars. Our ability to deliver better outcomes across our products and producing a better together experience with multiple products sets PAR up to be the industry standard. Q2 hardware revenue grew 10% quarter over quarter and is starting to claw back some of the challenges we had in Q1. Hardware is always hard to predict as 40 to 50% of our business is outside of Brink. But given the strong pipeline of Brink, we expect hardware to stabilize and hopefully start growing while our team works to upgrade our base of long-term hardware-only customers. Stepping back to review our consolidated results. In Q2, our adjusted EBITDA was negative $4.3 million. This number, though, includes $2.5 million of one-time charges related to customer credits and SUSO purchase price accounting adjustments. When further adjusting for these charges, our adjusted EBITDA came in at negative $1.8 million, giving us tremendous confidence in our previously communicated goals of inflecting the adjusted EBITDA positive in Q3. This fast slope in EBITDA is impressive, especially in light of the over $10 million of annual EBITDA we gave up as part of our government sale. the team is proving that our customer flywheel is leading to dramatic operating leverage. Our EBITDA swing is being driven by both subscription services revenue and stringent expense management. On the expense side, our non-GAAP operating expenses, including part retail, grew by only 3% year-over-year, continuing our trend of intense expense controls while scaling AR quickly and simultaneously launching both Burger King and Wendy's. This is not easy to do, and I commend the team for their commitment to only spending in areas where we can improve ROI. I think it bears repeating that this is the sixth quarter in a row where operating expenses were near flat, while ARR grew organically greater than 20%. Drilling down into the components of expenses, subscription sales and marketing expense as a percentage of revenue this quarter is 18%, a significant sequential 300 basis point improvement from the 21% we had in Q1. Sales and marketing expenses actually decreased $1.1 million organically. As I noted on the last call, we want this number to get to 15% or lower and are sprinting our way there. This is being driven primarily by our ability to take price and upsell while continuing to realize just how many products an individual AE can sell. Our subscription R&D expense as a percentage of revenue was 31%. This number improved 400 basis points sequentially, and our organic R&D spend actually decreased $1 million. We have our sight on eventually taking this number to 25% and lower. Brink, in particular, is leading the charge here, proving that we can launch large and diverse concepts off of one core platform. The work we did to retool Brink is now paying significant dividends. These numbers don't include tasks, which, as most of you know, is a very profitable business that we're rapidly integrating into PARC. While the path to profitability is very clear, we understand that in the end, our success will be dictated by the success of our customers. So while we've done a commendable job becoming efficient, our team will not lose sight of the fact that our ability to drive these unit economics is predicated on our customers winning. As I've said in the past, words like consolidation and bundling have had negative connotations, and I think for the right reasons. Prior attempts to consolidate were not done around industry-leading products. It required customers to trade off functionality for simplicity. This is explicitly what we are not doing at PARP. Our products must stand on their own, be best in class, integrated natively, and when unified, deliver surprise and delight. This is what's truly driving the financial outcomes you are seeing today. To recap, Q2 was a very successful quarter across many fronts for our company. I'm energized by the Better Together experiences and what that means for our customer relationships and outcomes, both existing and prospective. The combined effort of the PAR team around the globe has put us in a unique position to further our mission of fueling the future of food service and retail. We're at day one of a massive opportunity. Brian will now review the numbers in more detail. Brian?
spk05: Thank you, Savneet, and good morning, everyone. Q2 was a successful quarter for PAR as we were able to drive both positive results and momentum while managing efficient integration of PAR retail. administer the closure of the task acquisition, and effectively manage a smooth divestiture of PAR government. To emphasize Sabneet's earlier statement, Q2 represents a pivotal inflection point in PAR's journey from our beginnings as a quasi-restaurant tech and government contractor company to a pure-play food service tech-led organization. The construct of our Q2 2024 Statement of Operations is indicative of that inflection point, as I will highlight. Before moving forward, I'd like to properly call out that all 2024 and comparative 2023 results that we will discuss this morning exclude any contributions from par government, as those results, including the gains on the respective sale of par government, have been isolated within our discontinued operations results. Total revenues were $78.2 million for the three months ended June 30th, 2024. an increase of 12% compared to the three months ended June 30th, 2023. Driven by subscription service revenue, growth of 48%, partially offset by decrease in hardware revenue of 24%. Net loss from continuing operations for the second quarter of 2024 was 23.6 million, or 69 cent loss per share, compared to a net loss from continuing operations of 21.8 million, or 80 cent loss per share reported for the same period in 2023. Non-GAAP net loss for the second quarter of 2024 was 7.9 million, or 23 cent loss per share, a significant improvement compared to a non-GAAP net loss of 16.3 million, or 60 cent loss per share for the same period in 2023. Adjusted EBITDA for the second quarter of 2024 was a loss of $4.3 million. Once again, meaningful improvement compared to an adjusted EBITDA loss of $12.3 million for the same period in 2023, driven by increased margin contribution from subscription services, partially offset by a reduction in hardware revenue and margin. As Samit mentioned, our Q2 results included $2.5 million of one-time charges within subscription services. Excluding those items, adjusted EBITDA would have been a loss of $1.8 million. Now for more details on revenue. Subscription service revenue was reported at 44.9 million, an increase of 14.5 million, or 48% from the 30.4 million reported in the prior year. Excluding car retail, organic subscription service revenue grew 15% compared to prior year. The annual recurring revenue exiting the quarter was 192.2 million, an increase of 57% from last year's Q2. with engagement cloud up 77% and operator cloud up 37%. Excluding par retail, total organic annual recurring revenue was up 24% year over year. Hardware revenue in the quarter was $20.1 million, a decrease of $6.3 million, or 24%, from the $26.4 million reported in the prior year. Sequentially, compared to Q1 this year, hardware was up $1.9 million, or 10%. The continued interest from our legacy hardware customers, as well as the continued high attachment of hardware sales within our expanding software customer base, gives us confidence that our hardware business will continue to contribute meaningful revenue and respective margin. Professional service revenue was reported at 13.2 million, an increase of 0.4 million, or 3%, from the 12.8 million reported in the prior year. Historically, Our professional service revenue trend is correlated to our hardware revenue trend, but we are pleased with our team's ability to grow professional service revenue while hardware revenue contracted. Our team has executed this by expanding our service contract base with successful demonstration of our service team's value proposition. 8.2 million of the professional service revenue in the quarter consisted of recurring revenue primarily from our hardware support contracts versus 7.2 million in 2023. Now turning to margins. Gross profit was $32 million, an increase of $12.8 million, or 67%, from the $19.2 million reported in the prior year. The increase was driven by subscription services with gross profit of $23.8 million, an increase of $10.7 million, or 81%, from the $13.1 million reported in the prior year. Subscription service margin for the quarter was 53.1% compared to 43.3% reported in the second quarter of 2023. The increase in margin is driven by a continued focus on efficiency improvements with our hosting and customer support costs, as well as accretive margin contributions from par retail operations. Excluding the amortization of intangible assets, stock-based compensation, and severance included in subscription service margin, total non-GAAP subscription service margin for the three months ended June 30th was 66% compared to 61% in the second quarter of 2023. Hardware margin for the quarter was 22.8% versus 19.2% in Q2 2023. In light of our year-over-year revenue decrease, we were still able to improve margins by taking price as we continue to demonstrate our value while also driving savings within our cost structure. Professional service margin for the quarter was 27.5% compared to 7.7% reported in the second quarter of 2023. Q2 2023 results were negatively impacted by one-time charges. Excluding those charges, Q2 2023 professional margin would have been 20%, reflective of our normalized historical margin rates. We expect margins to be approximately 20% for the remainder of this year. In regard to operating expenses, GAAP sales and marketing was 9.8 million, a decrease of 0.3 million from the 10.1 million reported for Q2 2023, with organic sales and marketing decreasing 1.1 million year-over-year. GAAP G&A was 25.4 million, an increase of 8.9 million from the 16.4 million reported in Q2 2023. The increase was driven by non-GAAP adjustment items for M&A transaction fees and stock-based compensation, as well as post-acquisition par retail costs. GAAP R&D was $16.2 million, an increase of $1.3 million from the $14.9 million recorded in Q2 2023. The increase was primarily driven by post-acquisition par retail expense, while organic R&D decreased $1 million year-over-year. Q2 2024 operating expense, excluding non-GAAP adjustments, was 43.5 million, an increase of 5.7 million, or 15% versus Q2 2023. And excluding the inorganic growth from post-acquisition par retail, organic operating expenses only increased 3%. Our ability to manage our operating expenses while driving substantial margin improvement will continue to be the catalyst for continued consistent EBITDA growth. Now to provide information on the company's cash flow and balance sheet position. As of June 30th, 2024, we had cash and cash equivalents of $114.9 million and short-term investments of $27.5 million. For the six months ended June 30th, cash used in operating activities was $37.4 million versus $12.8 million for the prior year. $12 million of the variance was driven by cash activity associated with discontinued operations, and the remainder primarily driven by change in net working capital. Cash used in investing activities was $72.9 million for the six-month-ended June 30th versus $6.2 million for the prior year. Investing activities during the six-month-ended June 30th included $166.3 million of net cash consideration in connection with the STUSO acquisition, and capital expenditures of $2.7 million for developed technology costs associated with our software platforms, partially offset by $87.1 million of cash consideration received in connection with the disposition of part government and $9.4 million of proceeds from net sales of short-term health maturity investments. Cash provided by financing activities was $191.5 million for the six-month end of June 30th. compared to cash used in financing activities of $2.5 million for the prior year. Financing activities during the six-month end of June 30th was substantially driven by private placement of common stock. I would like to take a moment to reiterate and thank our PAR team on continuing to execute our operating plan while successfully managing the integration of the PAR retail organization and also manage the smooth divestiture of PAR governments. As a result, we drove significant improvement in key financial metrics with 24% organic AR growth, 12.8 million or 67% improvement in gross margin, all while maintaining modest growth in operating expenses. This has resulted in meaningful adjusted EBITDA growth and positions us well to be adjusted EBITDA positive in Q3. I will now turn the call back over to Savneet for closing remarks prior to moving to Q&A.
spk11: Thanks, Brian. Let me wrap up with a few key messages before we open the call for Q&A. While the macro environment has been and will always be volatile, the end worker we're selling to continues to be strong. There is no doubt that macroeconomic shock will impact all businesses. What we love about our end categories is that in times of duress, they outperform. Customers trade down and demand more ways to access their food and fuel. Moreover, the products we sell are built to drive ROI. ostensibly helping our customers deal with whatever external pressures they are facing. We track this data very closely and are seeing not only resilience, but growth in our base. Same source sales within our brink base on average increased 5.5% this quarter from a year ago, suggesting that our customers are taking share from adjacent categories. We've seen this happen time and time again. I also think our recent results prove this out. In spite of an uncertain macro, are delivered at six straight quarter of greater than 20% growth with almost no OpEx growth. What's more, during this time, we've launched our largest POS and loyalty customers, respectively, without having to add tremendous costs or by offsetting any costs with internal efficiencies. We are funding tomorrow's growth engines without net new expense. In uncertain markets, customers aren't looking for speculative tech, but best-in-class products with proven ROI. This is where our multi-product model wins. We're just starting to scratch the surface of the white space in our TAM and are continuing to build a roadmap to programmatically earn a greater share of our customers' wallets. We're an ambitious team at PARB and treat every day as day one. For the first time in our history, we are a pre-play food service technology business, providing greater focus and transparency to our investors and our employees. This focus will help us accelerate our innovation, deliver for our customers, and create value for our shareholders. With that, I'll open the call for Q&A. Operator?
spk03: Thank you. As a reminder, to ask a question, you will need to press star 1-1 on your telephone and wait for your name to be announced. To withdraw your question, please press star 1-1 again. Please stand by while we compile the Q&A roster.
spk02: And our first question comes from the line of Mayag Pandan of Needham.
spk03: Your line is open.
spk15: Thank you. Good morning, Sabneet, Brian, and Chris. First, congrats on the quarter. I wanted to start with a question around the integration of Stuzo. And I know you just closed task. Would be curious to hear what the customer response has been, integration process, any surprises, positive or negative early in the process of integrating Stuzo. And then also, I know it's only been a few weeks, but any comments around task as well?
spk11: Sure. On Suzo, which is rebranded par retail, it's gone phenomenally well. You know, we've done a few of these M&A deals, and this is probably the smoothest integration we've had. I think the reception for customers has been great. We've jumped in front of them. But I think more importantly, it's the response of our existing C-Store customers that's been very encouraging. You know, I expect many of them to sort of be excited about the future roadmap, the combined resources, but most importantly, having dedicated industry focus is going to make a big difference there. It's gone very well, I think, from a talent perspective. There are a number of people from the SUSO team that are now working across all of PAR. So I think we also acquired a tremendous team. And then I think from a business results perspective, you know, we're really excited for the second half. You know, I'm personally jumping into a bunch of our go-to-market motions. We feel really, really good about this integration. And I think, you know, cultural fit underlines everything in an M&A deal. And that's been, you know, just really nice. On the task side, you know, we're a couple weeks into it, so, you know, I don't want to get too excited, but, you know, I can say categorically, you know, the quality of that senior leadership team is just so impressive. The ideas, the insights they have on our category expanding internationally through the adjacent categories is going to be really, you know, instrumental in PAR. But I also think, you know, their deep focus on efficiency is something we're going to continue to expand. I think we've done, you know, as you've seen, the operating leverage in PAR is really accelerating here. That team will help us push that forward. And then I think, as I said, it's too early yet on the customer side, but nothing bad.
spk15: Great. That's good color. And then maybe a sub-needle also for Brian, in terms of the financial impact of the two acquisitions, I think when you closed these deals back in March, the contribution was expected to be $80 million in ARR from Stucco and Task, and I believe about $20 million in adjusted EBITDA. Is that still – I know that's an annualized number, but is that still the forecast, or do you think there's any change, positive or negative, relative to when you first announced these acquisitions?
spk11: That's all right. You know, obviously, we're an ambitious team, so we assume there's little bits of upside and an opportunity there, but we're still really excited. Those numbers we feel really confident about.
spk06: Great. I'll get back to you.
spk03: Our next question comes from the line of Steven Shelton of William Blair. Your line is open.
spk13: Hey, good morning. Thanks for taking my question. First, just looking at page nine of the presentation with the organic and total ARR breakdown, it seems like SUSO's ARR might have been down just a touch sequentially. I think organic ARR was up over 7 million sequentially. Total ARR was up by less than 7 million. Just wanted to make sure, am I thinking about that right? What would cause SUSO's ARR to be down slightly sequentially? And just generally, how are you thinking about the growth outlook going forward now that it's integrated and rebranded to that asset?
spk11: Sure. The purchase price accounting adjustment around SUSO, very normal course of business. So it wasn't, you know, churn. It was how we, you know, as we integrate the businesses, the accounting adjustments. So it wasn't, I wouldn't say it's operational, more accounting adjustments. You know, at the time of the call, I think we're really excited for the second half. We've already had, you know, three signings in July. I think we'll have more. And, you know, what's powerful about Stuzo is that every single deal that we sign goes live when we sign it. And so you don't have to wait for a rollout period. You can pull that revenue in, you know, current quarter. We actually feel really, really good about it, and there are some very, very big opportunities in front of us. But even if we don't win those larger opportunities, I still think we'll get to, you know, where we thought with on the deal, which, you know, I think we'll get to teens, 20% growth on this business, just like we do for the rest of PAR.
spk05: Steve, just to add what Savdy said there, what that really was there from Q1 and Q2 was adjusting the actual beginning baseline, right, as we got in price adjustment as we dig into and get the actual balance sheet on our books.
spk06: It's a reset of that, so now it's our new baseline that we're going off of.
spk14: Got it. So then we should probably expect a step up then in SUSE from 2Q to 3Q.
spk13: Got it. Exactly. That's right. And then just, you know, I know it's still very early with TAS, but just how are you thinking? Maybe just more detail on joint go-to-market efforts with your existing domestic capabilities, TAS international capabilities. And as you think about it, are there a lot of cross-selling opportunities that you could go after pretty quickly here? And just generally, what do those cross-selling motions look like?
spk11: So, you know, I'll give you the theory. We'll see if we can execute on it, and we usually do. But, you know, it's pretty simple. So the first thing I think we're evaluating is, you know, I said to our team, we're figuring out where to point the bazooka. The task product does everything, and it's incredibly robust. really well-built, cleanly built, and, as I said, dynamic, you know, founders and team. So the immediate, I think, set of opportunities we have are, you know, what customers do we have in the United States that are looking for international solutions, and where do we want to – what products of the task platform do we want to get them on? That's sort of step one, and, you know, we're doing that work and figuring out how to do that. We're, you know, going to throw in some traditional par resources into the task go-to-market team to figure that out. The second aspect is there are select places in the United States where there are parts of the task platform that we want to bring to the U.S. market. And I won't go into details here, but, you know, we think there's some pretty significant opportunity there, you know, that we think are unique. The third thing I would say is there are adjacencies that task serves really well. So as an example, you know, task is, I believe, the leading stadium provider in, you know, Australia. and are being pulled into numerous deals all over the place. We're going to figure out if that makes sense for us. But I think between our U.S. base that needs to go international, the modules of TAS that can serve our U.S. customers in areas that we don't today, we've got plenty of wood to chop, and then I think we can explore other ideas down the road. But I think there's going to be no shortage of ideas. To us, it's going to be focusing on the one or two things we can actually prove out quickly.
spk14: Great to hear. Thanks for taking the questions.
spk03: Our next question comes from the line of Eric Martinuzzi of Lake Street Capital Markets. Your line is open.
spk16: Yeah, I was interested in your perspective on the competitive landscape, specifically versus two larger competitors in the POS with Micros and NCR Boix. Now, given the completion of the acquisition specifically task, How does that change your competitive landscape for international for you?
spk11: Well, I think, you know, before that, we weren't international. So, you know, I don't think we had a solution. And the time of the acquisition, you know, one of the things that I've sort of been observing is that our big U.S. brands are growing far faster outside the United States than in the United States. And over time, decision makers for those businesses will probably gravitate towards the international side because that's where they're deploying their capital. And I think that puts us at a point of weakness. So we may have the best solution in the US, but if somebody has a better global solution, maybe the B plus product wins over the A plus product in the US because they want something more connected. And that was a big part of the rationale for the acquisition. So I think it makes us far more competitive on these mega large deals. Obviously, as you know, TASC has got one or two mega brands already. I think, you know, soon to be three, and I think we will be able to help accelerate that. So, I think it makes us more competitive holistically, whereas before, I think our large customers would sort of think of us as a U.S.-only solution.
spk16: Got it. Yeah, and then a housekeeping item here. Post the dust settling on the, I think it was the July 18th close on TASC, Can you give us a sense for kind of a normalized rest-of-year interest expense and share count?
spk11: Absolutely. Brian, do you want to run through the interest expense from the Guell note, and then we'll?
spk05: So, yeah, what you're referencing there, Eric, right, is the fact that we did that acquisition with a combination of cash and a balance sheet, a portion around 37%, 38% equity, And then we also used about $90 million of a term loan from Blue Alp. That effective interest rate is roughly around 10%. We do plan on that. That's going to be a shorter-term loan on our balance sheet. So what I would say is you could see the bump up from that, like I said, to 10%, but I would not put that as a longer-term expectation for us. We'll be looking to properly adjust the balance sheets, go forward. That actually allowed us, as everyone understands, That actual loan, what it allowed us to do was really reduce the deal risk for us. And what do I mean by that? We signed a deal back in March, right? We did not know exactly what the equity and cash ratio was going to be. We did not know the exact timing of when the PAR government investiture was going to happen. So we wanted to make sure the deal, the value of it was very strong to us, as Stephanie just explained, that we had that locked in. This allowed us to do that, and we were able to get that commitment from them. And then now we're going to make sure that we properly do everything, you know, capital allocation that we always have appropriately for good ROI.
spk16: All right. And the share count, just getting kind of – what is it today?
spk05: Referring to the 8K, I believe it's at right now – I think it's about another 2.3 million in shares on top of where we were versus what you see in the 8K.
spk16: Gotcha. Thank you.
spk03: Our next question comes from the line of Samad Samana of Jefferies. Your line is open.
spk12: Hey, good morning. Thanks for getting me on first. Just really impressive the amount of change you guys have digested in the second quarter and really kind of clearing the path up for the company. And just great to see all that. So, Stephanie, maybe just, you know, you've given us some guardrails on organic growth and, you know, in terms of what will lead you to the upper bound that you've given historically versus maybe where you are. So, can you maybe just help us think through, now that you're done with this period of really, really big change in 2Q, how would you think about organic ARR growth through the rest of the year? And if you feel more confident in maybe thinking about the upper end of that range, and then I have a couple follow-ups.
spk11: Thanks, Samad, and, you know, appreciate the feedback. So, as you know, a lot of – I think what got me so – has me so excited is, you know, our growth isn't decelerating, and we've cleaned up, you know, I think the government business, made it pure play, and, you know, as I hope with, you know, communicating on the call, you know, our operating leverage is pretty tremendous. You know, our EBITDA was negative $1.8 million after we sold off, you know, over $10 million of EBITDA. It's kind of exciting to see just how fast the financial profile is changing alongside all the business transformation you mentioned. From a growth perspective, you know, we still feel super confident, you know, greater than 20%. We're in the mid, you know, we're over 24%, 25% right now. You know, as far as confidence on accelerating beyond that, you know, we're still early in the Burger King rollout. So we certainly, you know, if we can continue to execute and they get excited, we have, you know, clearly a path to get to the, you know, the higher ends of that. But, you know, from where we sit today, I wouldn't want to change anything because I don't want to get ahead of ourselves. But we feel pretty confident. As I said, we've never – I think this is very subjective, but I don't think we've ever done a rollout as well as we're doing this one and shown such commitment to the customer. And so I think we're giving no reason for that organization not to give us more and build more. But right now, it's a very month-by-month process to figure out what we're doing next month from that side. And that's the one lever there. The other lever, as I mentioned, is on the part retail business, formerly Stuzo. We've got a really strong pipeline right now, some very big deals. And what's neat about that business, which is so different than our historical past, is, you know, you get one of those big deals and you start building them immediately. And so we now have kind of a second lever to potentially get us to the higher end of the range. But that will be very much a Q4 experience.
spk12: Great. And then just on the Wendy's rollout, it sounds like, you know, that implementation has gone much faster than expected. I know it happened in the third quarter. can you just remind us and this may be for i don't know if brian if this is maybe more of a question for you but is that our is lundy's already reflected in arr or is it now that it's live in the third quarter it'll be actually the three p numbers we're just trying to get a sense of magnitude there and and where that contribution falls so it'll be it'll be in the third quarter because we launched in july and we build when we launch um so you know this quarter even like i said we grew
spk11: with 24%, and it didn't include that Wendy's number. So, again, through Q, we get a nice boost. We unfortunately can't dimensionalize the size of that contract in, you know, public forums because of our relationship with the customer. But, you know, I think I feel really comfortable with, you know, one of our largest, you know, one of our top two largest punch customers.
spk12: Great. And maybe just last question for me is, I mean, like, I think on the call, we've talked a lot about how much the business has grown and changed. I'm just curious from an operational standpoint how you're thinking about where you spend your time and maybe how are you thinking about organizationally kind of matching the scale that you've gained over the last, let's call it year and change, and if you're spending your time differently and if you guys plan on evolving maybe the leadership to match the scale that you've gained.
spk11: That's a really good question, Smad, and it's the thing I think and I think our board obsesses on the most. So I spend a lot of time thinking about organizational design. Do we run functional? Do we run through business units? How do we go to market? How do we get the most? And how do we most importantly build a bench of talent underneath it? And a lot of that work is studying the companies that have done this in generations past or in the current market. And so we run relatively decentralized. We have a business unit that runs our engagement cloud, a business unit that runs our operator cloud, Those two leaders are both phenomenal. I mean, you can see the growth in Operator Cloud. And, you know, I joke, you know, when I left running the day-to-day, the business got better. And so I feel really good about the quality of talent there. And so, to me, the question is, you know, I answer the question twofold, which is, one, our organizational design is scalable. The acquisition of ParRetail, you know, such a successful integration happened not because of me but because of the team underneath that and their ability to integrate, make that team feel part of our team and our culture. And so I think it's the organizational design combined with really, really high-quality talent. I say this all the time, and I mean it sincerely. There are four or five people at PAR that will be better CEOs than me, and I'd bet my salary on it. And so the combination of adding great talent plus a flexible organizational design to do it. Where I'm spending my time, I'd say it's probably allocated in three or four buckets. The first is strategic. When we took over PAR, we were talking before the call. subscription service revenue was like $5 million in Q4 of 18. You know, today we're almost 200, we're well over 200 with tasks. And so our vision and mission has to change with that. And we have all these ambitious people, but, you know, these ambitious people aren't going to stay around if our goal is to, you know, take 200, 300. And so I spent a lot of time on what's the strategic vision that we can align our organization such that it aligns with customers that we're serving. And so I spent a lot of time on that. I am kind of the cheerleader for the company on our values and making sure we're hiring, firing, promoting based off the values that we signed up for and being really tight on that and creating a lot of accountability. And that means everything from if a customer has a problem, I text them and text them back and make sure that our team knows that's what I expect of everybody. And then I spend a ton of time on recruitment of talent. So I'm really active in trying to find great talent that we can add to PAR and keep us honest about it. And then, you know, lastly, it's on capital allocation. And so, you know, we have this constant debate, which is we are holding our operating expenses very tight. And so where we decide to invest that budget is a very tough conversation. Do we put it more into payments? Do we put it more into part retail? Do we put it more into brink where we have this tremendous growth? Those are hard conversations with imperfect data. And so I spend a ton of time figuring out where do we want to make that incremental investment. and then supplementing that with does M&A make more sense? And so we are kind of always having that conversation.
spk14: Gotcha. I appreciate the answer and congrats on all the success. Thank you.
spk03: Our next question comes from the line of Adam Wyden of ADW Capital. Your line is open.
spk07: Hey, guys. Super exciting and congratulations. I feel like I've been waiting six years to sort of have this, this phone call. So I just I want to separate about some qualitative questions and some quantitative questions. If I look at the two and a half million dollars of ad backs, and those are truly ad backs and suddenly you said minus 180, that does not include government. If I look at sort of the contract revenue that you generated last quarter of 35. And you know, obviously, you have some corporate absorption, corporate allocation in the government if I sort of put a 9% margin on that, you know, it looks like to me like about, you know, about 3 to 3.3 of EBITDA. So I know you said over 10, but I mean, you know, can you sort of dimensionalize, I guess, like the quantum of that? And is it more like 12, 13? Is there a corporate G&A that you think you can take down associated with that that you haven't yet to take down? And then I would say secondly, you know, can you sort of, give us a sense of what you think sort of the ongoing EBITDA contribution is? Because, I mean, I guess sort of where I would get at is high level, you're sort of, you were profitable in the second quarter without tax. I mean, it's sort of what I'm trying to get to. So if you could unpack that, and then I've got a couple other questions about pipeline qualitative, but that would be helpful to sort of conceptualize.
spk11: So I think if we had the government business, we would have crossed EBITDA profitability really comfortably this year. You know, as I said, it's over $10 million plus, you know, allocations and stuff like that. You know, I don't think it was a swing of $5 million, if you will, because that's too much. But I think it's a few million dollars would have gone in the right direction, and we would have crossed that. And so the point I was making on the call, and I think you're suggesting is, Even with, you know, call that a headwind on EBITDA, we still got to these numbers. And obviously, it shows how much – how efficient the core business is becoming. So, you know, in short, I think we would have been – EBITDA, we would have crossed it this quarter. We'll cross it next quarter. And I think, you know, my guess, probably a few million dollars. You know, it's a little bit hard because there's, you know, rationalizing office expense and things like that. You know, you're making allocations versus, you know, sometimes signs.
spk07: Right. And then on the task side, do you sort of still expect to get, you know, $8 million to $10 million per year, I guess? I mean, you don't think that there's an additional huge investment on the task side from a G&A perspective? I mean, is it fair to assume that you still think you're going to get, you know, sort of $2 million to $2.5 million on task per quarter?
spk11: I think – Post the cuts from, you know, post-transaction, right, so the public company costs that we're taking out, I think that's reasonable. You know, when we reported it, we were in the 6-8, you know, guidance. I think post-removing things like, you know, everything from reporting fees to board fees and audit fees and things like that, we'll pull out another couple bucks, we hope, as we talked about on the announcement call. And then I think That assumes that we don't find ways to grow the business. So, you know, let's assume that for now, and obviously that will not happen, but let's assume that for now. So short answer is no different from when we reported back in March.
spk07: Right. So I don't want to belabor this, but sort of in summary, if you give the $3 million credit for, you know, plus or minus on government, that gets you to like one, two, plus, you know, plus another, you know, two on task. I mean, you're, I mean, you are a solidly profitable company and which sort of leads me to my follow-up, which is, you know, I look at sort of Agile Assist and I get it, it's different. You know, you guys have multiple products, but now as Engagement Cloud is sort of integrated and you're merging Stuzo in with Punch and, you know, you're getting those cost synergies and those revenue synergies and moving Punch customers to Stuzo and getting higher R2. And now with Data Central integrated, I mean, you're really now starting to get to the point where your products are getting integrated. I mean, Agilisys is running at a 17% margin, and it's a much smaller ARR company. I mean, can you talk a little bit about sort of, you know, how you think about, you know, Rule of 40? Because at least from our calc, it looks like you're getting there a lot sooner than we thought. And, you know, do you think about that from an ARR growth plus company-wide margin, Rule of 40? You know, do you sort of have a sense of when you're going to get there? Or, you know, I'm just, you know, any sort of thoughts in terms of, like, you know, path to Rule of 40, accelerated development based on this acquisition and cost and anything you can sort of talk about your confidence of getting to Rule of 40 and where you think that sort of lives.
spk11: Sure. So, you know, we're growing, call it mid-20s. You know, let's, you know, we acquired this $6 to $8 million with Tassie, you know, call it pre-synergy. Plus, you know, you haven't yet seen sort of the velocity we have as we win new part retail deals. And again, the most important driver, of our profitability, it's still the core business becoming so efficient. You know, I've been kind of messaging here. We haven't really added costs in six quarters and barely any costs over the last seven or eight quarters, yet the revenue is there, and that's still the biggest driver. And so I think we're not giving guidance on this call, but we are squarely focused on hitting Rule 40, and, you know, our business units are all guided to hit the Rule 40 independently. And so we're going to get there very quickly. Like I said, the slope to EBITDA has been so fast, and I think it will continue to go there in 2025 as we roll out these big deals. So we're really focused on it. I think we'll be there, you know, working our way to get there as fast as possible. And maybe most importantly, you know, the reason I break out the sales and marketing R&D expense is you can just see, again, on an organic basis, you know, excluding, you know, tasks that are in there, how fast that's happening. So we're squarely focused on it. We're moving there fast. And, you know, what I'm really prioritizing, Adam, is We get to real 40 really quickly if we turn down the growth engine and just say, hey, let's ramp up the cash flow. We're not trying to do that. We want to capture as much market share, keep the growth high. And so that's how we're going to get there. And I feel really good about that. The other part I would just say is really quickly, the white space within our TAM is meaningful. And I think as you're seeing in our numbers, one of the things we've figured out is how to attach more products. And so we're just at the beginning of that, really, really honestly just at the beginning of that. And so you're seeing us become, you know, drive this growth by selling one, two, three, four products. You know, before it was one product, wait a year, add another product. Now it's getting them in faster and faster. And that model, we're just at the beginning of that white space. And so that's what I'm really excited about. We're there. So... I can't give you the date yet because we're not getting guidance on this call, but we'll come back with that, you know, on our next couple calls.
spk05: And I just want to talk about one thing, Adam. I just want to talk about one thing because I want to understand this too. The Q2 numbers did not include part of government. So when we talk about that adjustment, we talk about that $1.8 million loss, that's the good baseline to go off of Q2, and it has that, like we said, it's that pure food service tech plan baseline, and now we build off of and you layer in the growth that we're expecting, driven student services, and you layer in tasks.
spk07: All right, just want to make sure you think.
spk05: Okay, we got other callers in the queue.
spk07: Chris, got one last question. On the pipeline, you made a comment on two of super mega brands, and then you said hope to get a third. Can you talk a little bit, I mean, at the end of 2023, you talked about how the pipeline was the biggest it's ever been. And, you know, look, I know you're very sensitive to customers. And, you know, I want the customers who are listening to this call to understand that, like, you're not telling us anything, but we're all sort of going to the trade shows and trying to figure out what's out there for RFP. But, I mean, it appears to us that, like, there are many large mega brands that are out there sort of doing, you know, feasibility studies for point of sale and for vertical solutions. I mean, I think Wendy's is an amazing proof point. in that, you know, they went and took punch and, you know, they sort of have their own loyalty online ordering platform and it seems like they're moving away. You know, Burger King is another example. I mean, can you talk a little bit about that third mega brand for task? And then, you know, I think on a couple of calls, you talked about Burger King sort of being a mega brand, but then like mega brands on top of that. Can you talk a little bit about that pipeline and then also table service and then I'm done?
spk11: You know, I can't talk about any of the brands, unfortunately, but let me answer it this way. We have, again, categorically never had so much pipeline, particularly with an operator cloud as we have today. It's real. It's meaningful. It literally seems like every week I'm flying somewhere with a team member to try to get, you know, these deals on the finish line, and I don't think that's going to continue. And as I said in the call, you know, this macro environment, while it might be scary, is actually, you know, we think pretty exciting for us. Like, for us, we get to go on offense because our customers, you know, as I said earlier, The average Brink same-store sales across our customer base is up 5.5% this quarter. That's way more than the average restaurant. And so they're still making these investments. We have not seen a slowdown in that pipeline. And I think that maybe that's a better way to answer, which is we have not seen any slowdown in pipeline. And, you know, particularly where I see the most pipeline expansion, while Brink has great pipeline expansion, it's the expansion of pipeline and data central as an example that we're like, wow, that's really, you know, becoming exciting for us. You know, as far as specifically the brands, I just can't talk about that stuff yet, but we feel really good about it. And, you know, listen, if we felt like the pipeline was getting smaller or we had, you know, we were feeling any of it, I would tell you, but this environment is really helping us right now.
spk07: I'm going to jump. We've got three more. Yeah, but the prospect of mega brands beyond Burger King, you think that that's on the table, and that's all I'm trying to get at, that there are mega brands larger than Burger King that, you know, you think are feasible, you know, in terms of, you know, selling more products. That's what I was trying to get at.
spk11: I would say we are, you know, actively in conversations with mega brands, and I think many people are going to this constant debate of internal versus vendor-based tech, and I think they're going to move to vendors over time. Okay, thank you.
spk03: Our next question comes from the line of Mark Palmer of the Benchmark Company. Your line is open.
spk01: Yes, good morning. Thanks for taking my questions. Along the lines of what Adam actually just asked, wanted to get your sense of what the company's current capacity is to take on new Tier 1 customers given the ongoing Burger King rollout, which is on the front end, as well as launch of Wendy's. Where does capacity stand? You know, could you comfortably tuck in another tier one at this point?
spk11: Absolutely. So I think a lot of the model we've changed within particularly the operator cloud segment, you know, all of the teams have done this incredible job of making it, you know, dynamic. And so our ability to ramp up and ramp down, is what's changed most about PARP. You know, going back three or four years, we just, I don't think we managed it tightly, and I don't think we had that flexibility. Today, we can ramp up and ramp down and do this in partnership with our customers. And so the most important part is we align to the customers such that we can make sure we're there, and we work really hard to make sure they pay for it, too. And so it's been a change in how we do it, and again, kudos goes to that team that's continuing to figure out ways to delay that. You know, one of our emerging leaders, you know, she sort of finds a way to get it done, and I think we will. You've got to rise to the occasion, and we will. On the engagement side, as you mentioned, you know, when we launched, you know, Wendy is one of our largest accounts ever, and, you know, I encourage everybody to download the app, play around, see our functionality. It was amazing how fast we did it. It was complicated, and that gives me great confidence that when we get the next one, we'll be able to do that. And as I mentioned, on the part retail side, That team's an execution machine, and I have no fear that if we land one or two of these big deals, we'll be able to get it done as we promised.
spk01: Very good. And just one follow-up. You just talked about the fact that PAR's business is somewhat counter-cyclical, that restaurants, enterprise restaurants, see value in what you're offering, in particular during a down market as they look to boost sales and gain efficiency. How does the company's effort to improve pricing fit into that mix with regard to the degree of receptivity that you're seeing, the degree of receptivity that you anticipate?
spk11: Pricing to me is based off value that we drive. And if we drive value, we take price. If we don't, we don't. You know, we're thinking deeply about this idea of adding outcomes to a big part of the PAR thesis. But we drive outcomes. You know, I think we had to change the framework from our customer base thing. We're not trying to hit SLAs. We're trying to drive business outcomes for you. And if we drive those outcomes and we take value off those outcomes, we're aligned. And that's what we're seeing. You know, ARPU was up 14% this quarter. It was up, you know, similar amounts last quarter. I expect that to continue. And all that's suggesting is that our customers are willing to pay if we can drive great outcomes. And in this environment, as you suggested, if we're able to drive those outcomes and our customers are winning alongside of us, I think we haven't felt pressure to push that forward. And so we're, you know, excited. And I think, you know, the point on, you know, cyclicality, the enterprise sort of food service business is just very durable. And I don't find them to make drastic changes to their plans because they don't have businesses that go up 20, down 20. And so when they have the time to duress, they make investments in things like loyalty. They make investments in things like digital sales because they're trying to capture a share. But at the same time, they make investments in their back office because they've got to run more efficiently. And so we are, I think, very well situated to be in that. And most importantly, because we're already in all these brands, the rub and the challenge and the friction to get going, it's far lower than if we were a net new customer or vendor, excuse me.
spk14: Thank you.
spk03: Our next question is, comes from the line of George Sutton of Craig Holland. Your line is open.
spk00: Thank you. Just one question for me relative to the trend that we're seeing of OMS and POS players trying to bring their products together to market from separate companies versus your unified modality. Can you just give us a sense of how you think that ultimately wins in the market. Again, it's going to the tangible examples of the better together concept.
spk11: Absolutely. First of all, we play with both. We are the most integrated solution in our category by a long shot. Nobody has more integrations and more online ordering partners, loyalty partners, e-commerce partners than we do, so we support both. But our thesis, and I think you can sort of see that, is that over time, customers don't want to disjoint a tech stack. they don't want to take the risk that one vendor changes something and it screws up all the other vendors, which is literally what happens every single month. And so what we've observed, and I think you can see from our data, every menu customer is an existing customer of a part product. And I think all that's suggesting is that if we can build a comparable product, our customers prefer to add on an additional product versus adding a new vendor where they need to learn that vendor, get up to see that vendor, and then deal with all sorts of challenging things like having different menus, different pricing, different APIs, you just create more friction and more risk of things going wrong. And so I think generally our thesis is that our customers over time will prefer something more unified, something more deeply integrated. But we don't force that upon them, and we give them complete flexibility to figure out what works best. But I think what we are seeing is that over and over again, and this is to your last point, we're able to prove better together outcomes. We can say when you take a second-part product, look at this outcome you got that you couldn't get before. You had a third product, oh, my God, here's a third one, and we are finding ways to surprise and delight you. The example I gave on this call was the Punch Wallet, which, you know, really is a cool feature that you only get if you've got Punch in our payments product. You know, if you had Punch in a different payments product, it would be really hard to deliver that outcome to the customer. And so, again, it all starts with the customer, which is we can deliver great products, our customers will buy it. And if we can't prove that out, they won't.
spk14: Perfect. Thank you.
spk03: Our next question comes from the line of Anya Soderstrom with Sodoti. Your line is open.
spk08: Hi, and thank you for taking my questions. Most of them have been addressed, but I just had a follow-up on the sort among your customers, do you see then your potential customers being more urgent to take on your solutions now when they see their sales being a little bit more challenged?
spk11: I think it's too early to say. You know, as I said, our customer base is diverse, and so we definitely have customers that have struggled, but, you know, on average, they've done relatively well, particularly against the broader restaurant community. What I think we observed is, again, since I've been the CEO, I haven't lived through a bunch of cycles. But, you know, I remember, you know, in the pandemic, we saw how quickly customers ran to add additional technology. And so I think that's the analog that I have where when it was an acute problem, they absolutely ran to it. I think when you have something that is, you know, honestly not yet in the numbers of our customers, but there's a fear that something might happen, I suspect it might be similar to what we saw back then, which is a greater push to get these tools out the door to prove that ROI. And I think one of the beauties of great technology is that it's operating expense, not CapEx, and it allows them to roll out a product, prove the ROI, without having to tie up tons of budget up front, which is probably very hard to do right now. And so I think what we're seeing is this constant debate of our customers of, you know, which product do we prioritize first, and we really help them kind of give our view of how that works in a roll-up.
spk02: Okay, thank you. That was helpful to me.
spk03: Our next question comes from the line of Andrew Hart of BTIG. Your line is open.
spk04: Hey, just one for me. So, Nate, you talked about how you're really excited about the white space within the existing customer base, and I think you answered to it in a couple of questions so far today. But, you know, one of the things you talked about in prepared remarks was the 14% ARPU gross since last year. But I guess just can you kind of frame up for us or elaborate at least on, How much upside is there inside the existing base today? And, you know, how do you see pricing evolving over the next one to two years? Thanks.
spk11: So I don't want to, you know, I think we think there's about within the existing base, there's three X the size of the current revenue we have today. And as you know, I hate hyperbole and massive numbers. And so I keep chipping that number down. But there's just a ton of opportunity current base, you know, less than 10% of our customers on brink have our payments products. Like, you know, even though payments is growing so quickly, like we have a long, long way to go there. You know, Data Central has now got tremendous pipeline. You know, we have excitement that Data Central could be our fastest growing product next year. That's because we're mining that white space. And so now that we have a playbook, you know, I think we can do it. And, you know, as I said, Ali and the team have really figured out how to get this stuff going, integrate it, launch it quickly. And so we feel – I think we feel really encouraged that we can attack that white space where I think in years past we were hopeful. Today it's much more programmatic and much more focused. But, you know, I think let us demonstrate it and then we can give better guidance.
spk04: Thanks. And maybe a follow-up on that. When you think about the 20% to 30% ARPU growth longer term, how do you parse that out between, you know, net new locations and ARPU opportunity?
spk11: So, you know, historically, it's been completely location-based. This is the first year that we've been able to demonstrate, call it ARPU and ARPU being inclusive of price increases modules. You know, I think over time, it would be great if we can create something more formulaic, like 50-50. I think as I look into 2025, it will be heavily driven by net new store locations because the wins that we have. And so it will still be heavily based on new locations. But that doesn't mean we're taking our eye off the ball on price and new modules. It just happens to be that, you know, if we sign these large deals, we've got to get these stores out the door.
spk16: Yeah.
spk05: I think what it is, too, is we have more now tools in the toolbox for us to use, right? And so it allows us to flex one versus the other. So this is a 70s point we're setting for 2025 with some new logos, which is going to help drive that, which at the same time accelerate our growth. But in the past, we felt predominantly we had to get the new logos. But now that we have multiple products that are working very well together, and we've got a sales motion that knows how to sell them together, it's an additional tool in the toolbox.
spk06: Great to hear all those levers. Well, thanks, guys. Nice results.
spk03: And I'm showing no further questions at this time. I would now like to turn it back to Christopher Burns for closing remarks.
spk09: Well, thank you, Amy, and thank you, everyone, for joining us today. And we certainly appreciate your time this morning and look forward to connecting with you over the next days, weeks, months. And we'll speak to you after the Q3. Thank you so much and have a good day.
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