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What happened with EVCM today?

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Company

Company overview

EverCommerce helps service businesses manage daily work, bill customers and collect payments. It serves home-service businesses through EverPro, healthcare providers through EverHealth, and wellness businesses through EverWell. These businesses pay for software subscriptions and related services; integrated payment processing also generates fees tied to transaction volume. Subscription and transaction fees provide most revenue, with a smaller contribution from implementation and other services.

Customers typically start with business-management software. EverCommerce then seeks to sell them payment and customer-engagement tools that work alongside it. Revenue depends on retaining these businesses, persuading them to buy more functionality, and the transactions they process. Most customer contracts allow cancellation on short notice, so recurring revenue is not guaranteed.

Payment services rely on partners including Worldpay and PayPal, and on continued access to card networks through processing arrangements. EverCommerce must meet sponsor-bank and network rules, including payment-data security requirements, to maintain that access. Its healthcare offerings also face rules governing healthcare services and the handling of patient information.

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Related companies

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  • Customer

EverCommerce’s results hinge on service-SMB demand for software and adoption of payments, with Intuit and Square important competitors to watch outside this list.

  • Weave Communications, Inc. competes with EverCommerce for small healthcare practices’ spending on patient communications, scheduling, engagement and payment collection tools. Watch Weave’s expansion among specialty-medical practices, including physical and occupational therapy, where its customers overlap EverCommerce’s healthcare base.

  • CareCloud, Inc. competes with EverCommerce for physician practices buying practice-management software, billing services, tools that route insurance claims and chronic-care management. CareCloud’s billing and claims services are worth watching because EverCommerce also earns transaction-based fees from helping healthcare providers collect revenue.

  • Lightspeed Commerce Inc. and EverCommerce both grow when small and medium-sized businesses adopt operating software and use its built-in payment tools, though Lightspeed mainly serves retailers and hospitality businesses rather than service businesses. Watch Lightspeed’s subscription and payments revenue for a comparison with EverCommerce’s push to sell payment tools to existing software customers.

  • EverCommerce depends on PayPal to process customer payments, while PayPal also sells merchants payment acceptance that can compete with EverCommerce’s built-in payment tools. Watch PayPal’s processing reliability and partner terms: disruptions or loss of commercially reasonable terms could cost EverCommerce payment revenue and customers.

  • Salesforce competes with EverCommerce for businesses’ spending on tools to manage customer relationships, selling cross-industry subscriptions rather than suites tailored to service businesses. Its customer-management offerings are the relevant competition for EverCommerce’s efforts to sell more customer-engagement software to existing clients.

  • Roper Technologies, Inc. competes with EverCommerce through CentralReach, which sells practice-management and billing software to therapy providers that overlap EverCommerce’s healthcare customer base.

Agenda

tomorrowThu, Oct 22

  1. Time to be announced

    Roper Technologies, Inc. earningsROP

    Roper Technologies’ report will show whether therapy practices are still buying CentralReach’s practice-management and billing software, a market where it competes with EverCommerce’s healthcare business.

in 6 daysTue, Oct 27

  1. Time to be announced

    PayPal Holdings, Inc. earningsPYPL

    PayPal’s report will show how its payment-processing business is operating, offering a signal about the partner service EverCommerce relies on to handle customer payments.

in 14 daysWed, Nov 4

  1. Time to be announced

    Weave Communications, Inc. earningsWEAV

    Weave Communications’ report will show whether small healthcare practices are still buying patient communication, scheduling, and payment tools that overlap with EverCommerce’s healthcare offerings.

in 15 daysThu, Nov 5

  1. Time to be announced
    Major

    EverCommerce Inc. earningsThis company

    EverCommerce’s report will show whether existing software customers are using more of its payment tools, adding transaction-fee revenue alongside software sales.

  2. Time to be announced

    CareCloud, Inc. earningsCCLD

    CareCloud’s report will show demand for physician-practice billing and claims services, a revenue-collection need EverCommerce also serves with its healthcare tools.

  3. Time to be announced

    Lightspeed Commerce Inc. earningsLSPD

    Lightspeed Commerce’s report will show whether retailers and hospitality businesses use operating software alongside built-in payments, a comparison for EverCommerce’s effort to sell payment tools to existing software customers.