USA Technologies Chairman Reports 45 Percent Revenue Gain In Second Quarter

USA Technologies Inc. sent the following letter from George Jensen, Jr., chairman and CEO, to shareholders:

Dear Shareholder,

At the USA Technologies, Inc. annual shareholders meeting on June 13, 2011, I stated that the company would achieve record revenues for the quarter ended June 30, 2011, as well as record recurring revenues from license and transaction fees, cashless transactions processed, and record new customers.

With the quarter now ended, I am delighted to report that USAT has achieved those anticipated results.

At our shareholders meeting, I indicated that we were headed for a significant leap in sales for fiscal 2011 compared to fiscal 2010. Our unaudited total revenue for fiscal 2011 is approximately $22.9 million, an increase of 45 percent compared to $15.8 million a year earlier. Five years ago, our fiscal year ended June 30, 2006 annual total revenue was $6.4 million.

On June 13, I indicated that annualized recurring revenue in license and transaction fee revenues would be up significantly. They were. Unaudited fiscal year recurring revenue from license and transaction fees totaled approximately $16.4 million, an increase of 76 percent from $9.3 million a year ago. Five years ago our recurring revenue was just $1.2 million.

Unaudited gross profit grew by 59 percent, totaling approximately $7.8 million for the fiscal year, up from $4.9 million for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2010.

I predicted that the quarter ended June 30, 2011 would set a new record for total revenue of approximately $7 million, of which $5 million would be made up of recurring network service and transaction processing fees. Once again, we delivered. The unaudited June 30, 2011 quarter total revenue is up approximately 53 percent from the approximately $4.5 million in total revenue earned for the same quarter a year ago. Revenues in the June 30, 2011 quarter were more than the entire fiscal year total revenues just five years ago. The unaudited recurring revenue for the June, 30 2011 quarter grew approximately 72 percent from the $2.9 million earned for the same quarter a year earlier.

There's more good news to report. At the shareholder meeting, I forecasted that by June 30, 2011, we would add 200 new customers and grow our customer base to 2,000. We did. We almost doubled the 1,050 customers we had just a year earlier.

In addition, we ended the fiscal year 2011 with approximately 119,000 connections. We grew connections 45 percent from the 82,000 connections just a year ago. Finally, I forecasted that the number of transactions we processed for our customers during the June 2011 quarter would grow to more than 20 million, totaling an aggregate dollar value of approximately $37 million. We hit our goal. We processed 22.5 million transactions in the June 30, 2011 fiscal quarter compared with 11.7 million the same quarter 12 months ago, up 92 percent. And the dollar value of transactions processed for our customers grew 80 percent to $37.4 million, from $20.8 million a year ago.

And still there's more good news. Today, USA Technologies is virtually debt free, and we have approximately $13 million available in cash (unaudited), ready for investment in the company's future growth. As I told shareholders a month ago, based on the revenues during April 2011, USAT was currently on an annual run rate of $ 28 million in revenue, and based on anticipated recurring revenues for the June 30, 2011 quarter, USAT was currently on an annual run rate of $ 20 million of recurring revenue.

The reason for this growth is evident. Customers in the self serve, small ticket traditional food and beverage vending industries we serve are rewarding us for our product innovation, our services, and particularly for our unique sales incentives, such as JumpStart. JumpStart is a sales winner and competition killer. It allows operators the ability to acquire our ePort cashless technology and services for a small monthly fee. There is no need for operators to make an upfront capital investment. JumpStart is industry unique and our most effective and successful customer 'buy-in' incentive.