Olo Announces Third Quarter 2024 Financial Results

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Revenue up 24%, ARPU up 15% Year-over-Year

Ending Active Locations Reach Approximately 85,000

NEW YORK, November 07, 2024--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Olo Inc. (NYSE:OLO) ("Olo" or the "Company"), a leading open SaaS platform for restaurants, today announced financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2024.

"Team Olo executed well on our top priorities in the third quarter and positioned us to complete a successful 2024. We continued to win, retain, and expand with brands, we drove further innovation across our Order, Pay, and Engage product suites — including the general availability of Olo Pay’s card-present functionality on Qu point-of-sale systems — and we delivered revenue and bottom line performance that exceeded the high-end of our guidance ranges," said Noah Glass, Olo’s Founder and CEO. "Olo is winning on the strength of our open, enterprise-grade platform, while setting the table for brands to leverage their own transaction data to personalize the guest experience and drive profitable traffic."

Third Quarter Financial and Other Highlights

  • Total revenue increased 24% year-over-year to $71.9 million.

  • Total platform revenue increased 24% year-over-year to $71.0 million.

  • Gross profit increased 13% year-over-year to $39.0 million, and was 54% of total revenue.

  • Non-GAAP gross profit increased 12% year-over-year to $43.6 million, and was 61% of total revenue.

  • Operating loss was $8.5 million, or (12)% of total revenue, compared to operating loss of $16.3 million, or (28)% of total revenue, a year ago.

  • Non-GAAP operating income was $8.2 million, or 11% of total revenue, compared to $5.7 million, or 10% of total revenue, a year ago.

  • Net loss was $3.6 million, or $0.02 per share, compared to a net loss of $11.8 million, or $0.07 per share a year ago.

  • Non-GAAP net income was $10.4 million, or $0.06 per share, compared to non-GAAP net income of $7.6 million or $0.04 per share a year ago.

  • Cash, cash equivalents, and short- and long-term investments totaled $391.9 million as of September 30, 2024.

  • Average revenue per unit (ARPU) increased 15% year-over-year, and remained flat sequentially at approximately $850.

  • Dollar-based net revenue retention (NRR) was above 120%.

  • Ending active locations were approximately 85,000, up approximately 3,000 from the quarter ended June 30, 2024.

Third Quarter and Recent Business Highlights

  • Enterprise brands: Multi-module new deployments included Dutch Bros on Olo Ordering and Olo Pay for card-not-present transactions and Paris Baguette for Olo Order suite modules and Olo Pay for card-not-present transactions. Additional new deployments included Long John Silver’s on Olo Rails, and Nothing Bundt Cakes on Olo Dispatch. Expansion deployments included Another Broken Egg Cafe and P.F. Chang’s on Olo Engage’s Guest Data Platform.

  • Emerging enterprise brands: Multi-suite new deployments included Oakberry, Papa Gino’s, and Pizza Inn. Olo Engage expansion deployments included Kolache Factory and Thompson Restaurants.

  • Catering+: Expansion deployments included Bojangles, Cowboy Chicken, and Mendocino Farms. Deeper partnership announced with ezCater to enable Catering+ brands to more easily manage ezCater orders and scale this increasingly important demand channel.

  • Innovation: Announced numerous product enhancements during Olo’s 2024 Fall Release event, including: the availability of Olo Pay’s card-present payment processing for brands on Qu point-of-sale (POS) systems; new functionality within Catering+ to help operators manage complex business accounts; and brand loyalty program sign-in integration with Olo’s Borderless passwordless guest checkout solution. The full list of features announced are available by visiting www.olo.com/quarterly-release/fall-2024.