Buy Now Pay Later Companies

Afterpay Business Model 

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Afterpay is a FinTech company providing as a core service the โ€œbuy now pay laterโ€ solution. When a consumer purchases a product, Afterpay pays the seller and asks the consumer to pay 25%. The remaining 75% is paid in three, fortnightly installments that are also interest-free. Afterpay, in turn, makes money via merchant and late fees.

Affirm Business Model

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Started as a pay-later solution integrated into merchantsโ€™ checkouts, Affirm makes money from merchantsโ€™ fees as consumers pick up the pay-later solution. Affirm also makes money through interests earned from the consumer loans, when those are repurchased from the originating bank. In 2020 Affirm made 50% of its revenues from merchantsโ€™ fees, about 37% from interests, and the remaining from virtual cards and servicing fees.

Klarna Business Model

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Klarna is a financial technology company allowing consumers to shop with a temporary Visa card. Thus it then performs a soft credit check and pays the merchant. Klarna makes money by charging merchants. Klarna also earns a percentage of interchange fees as a commission and for interests earned on customersโ€™ accounts.

Splitit Business Model

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Splitit is a fintech company founded by Israeli entrepreneurs Gil Don and Alon Feit in 2009. The platform was initially created to allow consumers to use existing credit to make BNPL purchases. Splitit relies on transaction fees to make money, with the exact fee depending on how and when the merchant chooses to be paid.  Splitit does not charge consumers for late or missed payments. Nor does it charge interest on purchases. Instead, the company relies on transaction value and mass consumer uptake to make money.

Quadpay Business Model

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Quadpay was an American fintech company founded by Adam Ezra and Brad Lindenberg in 2017. Ezra and Lindenberg witnessed the rising popularity of buy-now-pay-later service Afterpay in Australia and similar service Klarna in Europe. Quadpay collects a range of fees from both the merchant and the consumer via merchandise fees, convenience fees, late payment, and interchange fees.

Venmo Business Model

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Stripe Business Model

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Revolut Business Model

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Revolut is an English fintech company offering banking and investment services to consumers. Founded in 2015 by Nikolay Storonsky and Vlad Yatsenko, the company initially produced a low-rate travel card. Storonsky in particular was an avid traveler who became tired of spending hundreds of pounds on currency exchange and foreign transaction fees. The Revolut app and core banking account are free to use. Instead, money is made through a combination of subscription fees, transaction fees, perks, and ancillary services.

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