Shift4

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Shift4 Payments, Inc.
Company type Public
Industry Financial services
Founded1999;25 years ago (1999) (as United Bank Card)
Founder Jared Isaacman
Headquarters Center Valley, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Area served
  • Canada
  • Europe
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
Key people
RevenueIncrease2.svg US$2,564.8 million (2023)
Increase2.svgUS$114.8 million (2023)
Increase2.svgUS$86.2 million (2023)
Total assets Increase2.svgUS$3,387.8 million (2023)
Total equity Increase2.svgUS$868.4 million (2023)
Number of employees
3,030 (2023)
Website shift4.com
Footnotes /references
Financials as of December 31,2023.
References: [1]

Shift4 Payments, Inc. is an American payment processing company based in Allentown, Pennsylvania. [2] [3] The company, founded in 1999 by the then 16-year-old Jared Isaacman, processes payments for over 200,000 businesses in the retail, hospitality, leisure and restaurant industries. [2] [4] Shift4 specializes in commerce solutions such as mobile payment software and hardware. [5] [6] The company was publicly listed on the New York Stock Exchange 2020. [7]

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History

While working as an employee of a payment processing company, the 16-year-old Isaacman (who had already earned his GED and gone to work full-time) identified what he saw as inefficiencies in the industry. In response, he launched United Bank Card in his parents' basement in Far Hills, New Jersey. [5] [8] At the time, it generally took merchants about one month to set up a payment system and merchants had to pay for their credit card readers and sign a lengthy application. As an alternative, Isaacman's new company cut the set-up time to one day, gave merchants free credit card readers and only required merchants sign a two-page application. [5]

In 2012, United Bank Card rebranded as Harbortouch to better reflect its point-of-sale and payment technology. [5]

Between 2014 and 2017, the company expanded by acquiring multiple payment processing and point-of-sale companies, including Merchant Services Inc. (the same company Isaacman worked for as a teen). [5]

The company rebranded once again in 2017 as Lighthouse Network, with Harbortouch becoming a subsidiary. [9] [10]

In 2017, the company - then operating as the Lighthouse Network - acquired payment gateway provider Shift4 Corporation and rebranded itself as Shift4 Payments. [10]

Shift4 went public on the NYSE in June 2020, raising $345 million through its IPO. [4] [3] The company is one of the few companies to go public in the months after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The company completed its "roadshow" for investors entirely online. [7] The company was the first to ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange after the trading floor was reopened following its shutdown because of the pandemic. [4]

In November 2020, Shift4 announced the acquisition of 3dcart, [11] an E-commerce platform. In January 2021, Shift4 rebranded this solution as Shift4Shop. [12]

In March 2021, the company announced the acquisition of VenueNext, a provider of point-of-sale and payment solutions for stadiums, arena, and other entertainment venues. [13] A year later, the company announced it acquired Finaro. [14]

Services

The company's business model involves integrating payment processing services into various hardware and software products as well as the gathering of business intelligence. [15] [16]

It works primarily in the restaurant, hospitality, retail and e-commerce industries. [7] [17] Shift4 also offers cloud-based reporting and analytics software. [6] In 2019, the company processed approximately 3.5 billion transactions. [18]

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