EngageSmart Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2021 Results

Record Quarterly and Annual Results in First Year as Public Company

• Annual Total Revenue increased 48% year-over-year to $216.3 million

• Annual SMB Revenue increased 74% year-over-year to $108.7 million

• Annual Enterprise Revenue increased 28% year-over-year to $107.5 million

BRAINTREE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–EngageSmart, Inc. (NYSE: ESMT), a leading provider of vertically tailored customer engagement software and integrated payments solutions, today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2021.

“EngageSmart delivered outstanding results in 2021, with total annual revenue increasing 48% year-over-year,” stated Bob Bennett, EngageSmart CEO. “Momentum across our SMB and Enterprise segments drove another quarter of record revenue performance, highlighted by strong customer growth and exceptional customer retention. Our position is compelling as we address a huge market opportunity accompanied by high customer affinity for our solutions.”

“In the SMB segment, practitioners rely on the SimplePractice platform to schedule appointments, document cases, deploy telehealth, and bill and collect payments from their customers,” said Cassandra Hudson, Chief Financial Officer. “We are now in ten vertical markets, including the mental health market where we have a strong leadership position and look forward to building on this foundation in 2022. In the Enterprise segment, we are empowering our customers to create more modern experiences for their payers by migrating legacy processes, like mailing payments, to online adoption across our solutions. Throughout the fourth quarter, we saw strong revenue growth through the onboarding of new customers and continued adoption of our solutions with existing billers. As we look ahead, we intend to build on our SaaS solutions to further extend our leadership as a provider of vertically tailored customer engagement software and integrated payments solutions.”

Fourth Quarter 2021 Financial and Business Performance

• Total Revenue increased 37% to $61.6 million compared to $45.0 million in the fourth quarter of 2020.
• SMB Revenue increased 55% to $31.1 million compared to $20.1 million in the fourth quarter of 2020.
• Enterprise Revenue increased 23% to $30.6 million compared to $24.9 million in the fourth quarter of 2020.
• Gross Profit was $46.2 million, representing 75.0% gross margin, compared to $33.8 million, or 75.1% gross margin, for the fourth quarter of 2020. Adjusted Gross Profit was $48.0 million, representing 77.8% Adjusted Gross Profit Margin compared to $35.5 million, or 78.7% Adjusted Gross Profit Margin, for the fourth quarter of 2020.¹
• Net Loss was $0.9 million, representing 1.5% net loss margin, in the fourth quarter of 2021, compared to net income of $0.2 million, or 0.4% net income margin, in the fourth quarter of 2020.
• Adjusted EBITDA was $6.3 million, representing 10.2% Adjusted EBITDA Margin, compared to $7.8 million, or 17.4% Adjusted EBITDA Margin, for the fourth quarter of 2020.¹
• Total Transactions Processed increased 41% to 31.2 million compared to the 22.1 million in the fourth quarter of 2020.

Full Year 2021 Financial and Business Performance

• Total Revenue increased 48% to $216.3 million compared to $146.6 million in the prior year.
• SMB Revenue increased 74% to $108.7 million compared to $62.6 million in the prior year.
• Enterprise Revenue increased 28% to $107.5 million compared to $83.9 million in the prior year.
• Gross Profit was $161.2 million, representing 74.5% gross margin, compared to $109.0 million, or 74.3% gross margin, in the prior year. Adjusted Gross Profit was $167.9 million, representing 77.6% Adjusted Gross Profit Margin compared to $115.8 million, or 78.7% Adjusted Gross Profit Margin, in the prior year.¹
• Net Loss was $9.0 million, representing 4.1% net loss margin, compared to $6.7 million, or 4.6% net loss margin, in the prior year.
• Adjusted EBITDA was $30.6 million, representing 14.2% Adjusted EBITDA Margin, compared to $22.0 million, or 15.0% Adjusted EBITDA Margin, in the prior year.¹
• Total Transactions Processed increased 40% to 111.4 million compared to the 79.4 million in the prior year.
• Total Number of Customers increased by 37% to 83.0 thousand as of December 31, 2021, compared to 60.4 thousand as of December 31, 2020.
• Cash and Cash Equivalents were $254.3 million as of December 31, 2021, compared to $29.4 million as of December 31, 2020.

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¹Reconciliations of GAAP to non-GAAP financial measures, including Adjusted Gross Profit, Adjusted Gross Profit Margin, Adjusted EBITDA, and Adjusted EBITDA Margin, as well as definitions for the non-GAAP financial measures included in this press release and the reasons for their use, are presented below.

2021 Business Highlights

• EngageSmart and its vertically tailored solutions achieved industry recognition:
  • EngageSmart ranked on Deloitte 2021 Technology Fast 500
  • EngageSmart ranked amongst highest scoring businesses on Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces for 2021
  • EngageSmart named a 2021 Top Workplace in Massachusetts by The Boston Globe
  • SimplePractice named in Capterra Shortlist Report for Massage Therapy Software
  • InvoiceCloud named a finalist in the 2021-2022 Cloud Awards in the category of Best Cloud Payment, Finance or Billing Solution
  • HealthPay24 named in Black Book’s Top 10 Patient Payment Technology and Software list for 2021
• Product innovation in EngageSmart’s vertical solutions drives market leadership:
  • SimplePractice launched Monarch, a national therapist network integrated into our EHR platform
  • InvoiceCloud launched new products including Outbound Campaigns, as well as 42 new integrations in 2021
  • DonorDrive launched a new mobile app to further simplify the way people fundraise
  • HealthPay24 launched a Retail solution offering a transparent financial payment and reconciliation process

• EngageSmart successfully completed its initial public offering in September 2021
• EngageSmart added Kevin O’Brien, President, Enterprise Solutions, and Alan Canzano, EVP Corporate Development and Strategy to the Leadership Team
• EngageSmart welcomed Debbie Dunnam and Diego Rodriguez to the Board of Directors

Financial Outlook

A reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDA guidance to net (loss) income on a forward-looking basis cannot be provided without unreasonable efforts, as we are unable to provide reconciling information with respect to interest expense, net, provision for (benefit from) income taxes, depreciation, amortization of intangible assets, transaction-related expenses, fair value adjustment of acquired deferred revenue, stock-based compensation, and restructuring charges, all of which are adjustments to Adjusted EBITDA.

Webcast and Conference Call Information

EngageSmart, Inc. (NYSE: ESMT), a leading provider of vertically tailored customer engagement software and integrated payments solutions, will report fourth quarter and full year 2021 financial results after the close of the market on Tuesday, February 15, 2022. Management will host a conference call to discuss the results at 5:00 p.m. ET.

The conference call will be webcast live on EngageSmart’s investor relations website at https://investors.engagesmart.com/events-and-presentations/events/. A replay will be available on the investor relations website for 365 days following the call. For investors and analysts wishing to participate in the call, the dial-in numbers are (844) 200-6205 for domestic callers and (929) 526-1599 for international callers. The conference call access code is 642527.

About EngageSmart

EngageSmart (NYSE: ESMT) is a leading provider of vertically tailored customer engagement software and integrated payments solutions. At EngageSmart, our mission is to simplify customer and client engagement to allow our customers to focus resources on initiatives that improve their businesses and better serve their communities. Headquartered in Braintree, Massachusetts, EngageSmart offers single instance, multi-tenant, true Software-as-a-Service (“SaaS”) vertical solutions, including SimplePractice, InvoiceCloud, HealthPay24 and DonorDrive, that are designed to simplify our customers’ engagement with their clients by driving digital adoption and self-service. EngageSmart serves more than 79,000 customers in the SMB Solutions segment and more than 3,100 customers in the Enterprise Solutions segment across five core verticals: Health & Wellness, Government, Utilities, Financial Services, and Giving. For more information, visit https://engagesmart.com/ and follow us on LinkedIn.

Forward-Looking Statements

Certain statements in this release are “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and are based on current expectations and assumptions that are subject to risks and uncertainties. All statements contained in this news release that do not relate to matters of historical fact should be considered forward-looking statements, and are generally identified by words such as “expect,” “intend,” “anticipate,” “estimate,” “believe,” “future,” “could,” “should,” “plan,” “aim,” and other similar expressions. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding anticipated financial performance and financial position, including our financial outlook for the first quarter and full year 2022 and other statements that are not historical facts. These forward-looking statements are neither promises nor guarantees, but involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements. Our actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements for many reasons, including, but not limited to, the following: our inability to sustain our rapid growth; failure to manage our infrastructure to support our future growth; our risk management efforts not being effective to prevent fraudulent activities; inability to attract new customers or convert trial customers into paying customers; inability to introduce new features or services successfully or to enhance our solutions; declines in customer renewals or failure to convince customers to broaden their use of solutions; inability to achieve or sustain profitability; failure to adapt and respond effectively to rapidly changing technology, evolving industry standards and regulations and changing business needs, requirements or preferences; real or perceived errors, failures or bugs in our solutions; intense competition; lack of success in establishing, growing or maintaining strategic partnerships; fluctuations in quarterly operating results; future acquisitions and investments diverting management’s attention and difficulties associated with integrating such acquired businesses; concentration of revenue in our InvoiceCloud and SimplePractice solutions; COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on our employees, customers, partners, clients and other key stakeholders; legal and regulatory risks; and technology and intellectual property-related risks, among others.

Other important risk factors that could affect the outcome of the events set forth in these statements and that could affect the Company’s operating results and financial condition are discussed in Item 1A of our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2021, as updated by our future filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). Such statements are based on the Company’s beliefs and assumptions and on information currently available to the Company. The Company disclaims any obligation to publicly update or revise any such forward-looking statements as a result of developments occurring after the date of this document except as required by law.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

This press release includes certain performance metrics and financial measures not based on GAAP, including Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA Margin, Adjusted Gross Profit, Adjusted Gross Margin, Non-GAAP Operating Expenses, and Free Cash Flow, as well as key business metrics, including total Number of Customers and total Transactions Processed.

Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA Margin, Adjusted Gross Profit, Adjusted Gross Margin, Non-GAAP Operating Expenses, and Free Cash Flow are supplemental measures of our performance that are not required by, or presented in accordance with, GAAP and should not be considered as an alternative to net (loss) income, gross profit, operating expenses, net cash provided by operating activities or any other performance measure derived in accordance with GAAP.

We define Adjusted EBITDA as net (loss) income excluding interest expense, net; provision for (benefit from) income taxes; depreciation; and amortization of intangible assets, as further adjusted for transaction-related expenses, fair value adjustment of acquired deferred revenue, stock/equity-based compensation, and restructuring (reversal) charges. We define Adjusted EBITDA Margin as Adjusted EBITDA divided by revenue plus the fair value adjustment of acquired deferred revenue.

We define Adjusted Gross Profit as gross profit as adjusted for the fair value adjustment of acquired deferred revenue, amortization of intangible assets, stock/equity-based compensation, and transaction-related expenses. We define Adjusted Gross Margin as Adjusted Gross Profit divided by revenue plus the fair value adjustment of acquired deferred revenue.

We define Non-GAAP Operating Expenses as GAAP operating expenses excluding stock/equity-based compensation and transaction-related expenses. We define Non-GAAP Operating Expenses as a percentage of revenue as Non-GAAP Operating Expenses divided by revenue plus the fair value adjustment of acquired deferred revenue.

We define Free Cash Flow as net cash provided by operating activities less purchases of property and equipment, including costs capitalized for development of internal-use software.

We define Number of Customers as individuals or entities with whom we directly contract to use our solutions.

We define Transactions Processed as the number of accepted payment transactions, such as credit card and debit card transactions, automated clearing house (“ACH”) payments, emerging electronic payments, other communication, text messaging and interactive voice response transactions, and other payment transaction types, which are facilitated through our platform during a given period. We believe Transactions Processed is a key business metric for investors because it directly correlates with transaction and usage-based revenue. We use Transactions Processed to evaluate changes in transaction and usage-based revenue over time.

We calculate our dollar-based net retention rate at the end of a given period by using (a) the revenue from all customers during the twelve months ending one year prior to such period as the denominator and (b) the revenue from all remaining customers during the twelve months ending as of the end of such period minus the revenue from all customers who are new customers during those twelve months as the numerator. We define new customers as customers with whom we have generated less than twelve months of revenue. Acquired businesses are reflected in our dollar-based net retention rate beginning one year following the date of acquisition.

We caution investors that amounts presented in accordance with our definitions of Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA Margin, Adjusted Gross Profit, Adjusted Gross Margin, Non-GAAP Operating Expenses, and Free Cash Flow may not be comparable to similar measures disclosed by our competitors because not all companies and analysts calculate these non-GAAP financial measures in the same manner. We present these non-GAAP financial measures because we consider these metrics to be important supplemental measures of our performance and believe they are frequently used by securities analysts, investors, and other interested parties in the evaluation of companies in our industry. Management believes that investors’ understanding of our performance is enhanced by including these non-GAAP financial measures as a reasonable basis for comparing our ongoing results of operations.

Non-GAAP financial measures assist management in assessing operating performance by removing the impact of items not directly resulting from our core operations, to present operating results on a consistent basis. Management uses these non-GAAP financial measures for planning purposes, including the preparation of our internal annual operating budget and financial projections; to evaluate the performance and effectiveness of our operational strategies; and to evaluate our capacity to expand our business. These non-GAAP financial measures have limitations as analytical tools, and should not be considered in isolation, or as an alternative to, or a substitute for net (loss) income, gross profit, operating expenses, net cash provided by operating activities, or other financial statement data presented in accordance with GAAP in our consolidated financial statements.

Contacts

Investor Relations:

Josh Schmidt

EngageSmart, Inc.

IR@engagesmart.com

Press:

Nicole Bestard

Quarter Horse PR

Engagesmart@qh-pr.com
646-627-3644

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