SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 496: PayByGroup $3.4M Raised, $10m in Transaction Volume to Help Groups Pay with CEO Camilo Acosta
02 Dec 2016
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
This is The Top, where I interview entrepreneurs who are number one or number two in their industry in terms of revenue or customer base.
Chapter 2: What is Pay By Group and how does it work?
You'll learn how much revenue they're making, what their marketing funnel looks like, and how many customers they have. I'm now at $20,000 per top. Five and six million. He is hell-bent on global domination.
Chapter 3: How did Pay By Group's revenue grow from zero to millions?
We just broke our 100,000 unit sold mark. And I'm your host, Nathan Latka.
Chapter 4: What are the transaction fees for using Pay By Group?
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Chapter 5: How does Pay By Group generate revenue from consumers and businesses?
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Chapter 6: What is the average order value for transactions on Pay By Group?
Coming up tomorrow morning, you learn from Eli Cowrie, the CEO of Woopra. They've raised over $1 million and passed $1.6 million in 2015 revenue. Currently, in October 2016, they're doing $300,000 in monthly recurring revenue to help businesses get smarter with business intelligence. Top Tribe, good morning.
Chapter 7: How many merchants currently use Pay By Group?
Nathan Latka here. Our guest today is Camilo Acosta, and he's the CEO at Pay By Group, based out in San Francisco. They're a team that is working with global brands to make it easy for people to spend the cost of any purchase at the online checkout. Their product is seen by millions of people, and their users share stories like, our family reunion wouldn't have happened without Pay By Group.
Chapter 8: What is the total transaction volume processed by Pay By Group?
So he's on to something special. Camilo, are you ready to take us to the top? Yes. All right. Very cool. All right. Tell us what pay by group does and how you generate revenue. So we're a white label payment solutions that increases conversions for merchants by allowing friends and families to split the cost of a shared online purchase.
So everything from vacation rentals to holiday gifting, what we're doing is capturing the full breadth of online commerce that involves multiple payers. Um, and as I said, we plug in directly with merchants, you know, online merchants, uh, and we charge a convenience fee to, uh, consumers who use our service and that's how we make money. Okay. So is it, this is like a marketplace then, right?
No, no, no. It's, we're literally a checkout option. Okay. So like a payment button. So, so you're not sure. In other words, you're only charging one side though. You're, you're, you're, you're, are you charging the people that are the family that uses your thing to get the family reunion or are you charging something on someone on the backend? Yeah.
We charge, we actually charge the businesses and the consumer, but the consumer is where our bread and butter is. Okay. And when you say businesses, give me an example of one or two of those. The consumer is the family that wants the reunion, right? So, you know, a typical, you know, like enterprise client, uh, for us, like that we're, you know, you know, um,
targeting at the moment is someone like Walmart, right? So someone goes on Walmart, they're trying to buy a gift for Mother's Day between their siblings and they see the pay-by-group option as a way to pay together so one person doesn't have to front that cost of that gift. They can use pay-by-group and each one pays their fair share using our service.
But we're, again, like a payment method on that merchant website. Okay, so are you taking cut from Walmart though and the family planning the reunions, splitting the cost of the solo cups from Walmart? It's from the family, but we charge a sort of an annual fee to the merchant, but that's negligible compared to the revenue that we make on the consumer side. Okay.
That's what I was going to ask you. Yeah. So where do you make more of your money on the consumer side? Yeah, exactly. Okay. So walk us through that. I'm I, first off, give us an integration that is already active. Um, so we're active on a bunch of vacation rental sites. That was like where we, where we initiated, uh, our business, how we got started.
Um, and so if we see, uh, Cabo villas is one of our like first, uh, ones that comes to mind. I don't know why. Because you want to be in Cabo right now. I know why. Probably. All right. So my family of five is booking through Cabo villas. We want to split the cost. What are we paying? What are we paying you? Whether we know it or not to just put the cost on Cabo villas.
So if you're the one organizing, let's say it's you, you're the one who is organizing this trip. You're getting your family together. Um, you're it's free for you. It's free for the organizer, but everyone that you invite is going to pay 2.9%. Okay. So let's say it's a $2,000 vacation rental. They're paying 29 bucks a person. Correct. Okay. Okay. Do you see a thousand or 2000? 2000.
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