Company: FLYW
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000950170-25-027078
Chunk: 432

Company: Flywire Corp
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 7
Chunk 432
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's achievement of specific post-acquisition milestones and was subject to exchange rate fluctuation adjustment between the U.S. Dollar and Australian Dollar. During the year ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, we paid $1.7 million and $0.5 million, respectively, in contingent consideration based on Cohort Go's successful and timely achievement of contracted milestones. No additional contingent consideration is due or payable with respect to the Cohort Go acquisition. Cohort Go is an Australian-based education payments provider that simplifies the student recruitment process by bringing together students, agents and essential student services such as health insurance into one platform. The acquisition of Cohort Go accelerated the growth of Flywire's agent related revenue and contributed to our global expansion. Cohort Go contributed $14.5 million in transaction revenue and $9.3 million in platform revenue during the year ended December 31, 2024, $16.6 million in transaction revenue and $10.4 million in platform revenue during the year ended December 31, 2023 and $6.4 million in transaction revenue and $3.3 million in platform revenue during the year ended December 31, 2022.

Our Revenue Model 

We generate revenue from transactions and from platform and other fees as described below.

Transaction revenue includes fees earned from payment processing services provided to our clients, which is comprised of processing domestic and cross-border transactions. The fee is generally earned on each transaction through a rate applied to the total payment value of the transaction, which can vary based on the payment method, currency pairs being converted and the geographic region in which our clients and their customers reside. Payment processing services also include fixed fees per transaction, which generally relate to domestic payments processed. It also includes marketing fees from credit card service providers for marketing arrangements in which we perform certain marketing activities to increase the awareness of the credit card provider and promote certain methods of payments, which we consider to be ancillary to the payment processing solutions we provide to our clients.

Platform and other revenues primarily include (i) fees earned for the utilization of our platforms to optimize cash collections and student application processing, which include revenue earned from software subscription fees and usage based fees, (ii) fees for the establishment of payment plans on our payment platform, (iii) fees related to printing, mailing, and other services which we consider to be ancillary to the solutions we provide to our clients, (iv) commissions from insurance providers when an end-user purchases an insurance policy, and (v) revenue from interest earned