Spenda & Capricorn extend their relationship into eCommerce
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16 May 2023
Spenda and Capricorn extend their relationship into eCommerce
Key Highlights
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Building upon a 20-year commercial foundation, Capricorn Society Ltd (“Capricorn”) has selected Spenda
Limited (“Spenda”) as its preferred supplier to deliver the first phase of its Digital Service Delivery (“DSD”)
initiative
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Spenda and Capricorn have entered into a contract for initial DSD project works to be carried out over an 8
week period. Under this contract, it is anticipated Spenda will receive an initial agreed fee of $152k (exclusive
of GST) per 4 week cycle, effective from May 2023. The fees received by Spenda may increase or decrease
depending on the hours and scope of work each 4-week cycle. Subject to the parties entering into a contract
for services beyond the initial DSD project phase, the DSD project is expected to require further engagement
of Spenda to assist with development and ongoing maintenance, software and service requirements. The
current contractual commitment for fees paid under the DSD project is currently limited to each 4-week cycle
advance payment by Capricorn
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Capricorn is a member-based organisation established in 1974 to primarily support businesses in the
automotive industry. Their current network consists of over 26,000 Members and more than 2,000 Preferred
Suppliers (referred to as ‘Members’ and ‘Suppliers’) in every State and Territory in Australia and New Zealand.
Capricorn’s members purchase circa $270M per month in parts from their approved supplier network
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This DSD initiative builds upon Capricorn’s existing CAPLink infrastructure which forms part of the services
currently delivered by Spenda to Capricorn under the Software, Services and Maintenance contract that
expires in June 2024. Spenda will substantially increase its services provided to Capricorn under the current
Software, Services and Maintenance contract to commence delivery of the DSD project
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The first phase of the DSD initiative is to deliver CAPCharge to Capricorn’s Member and Supplier network
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CAPCharge incorporates various components of the Spenda product suite, including Pay-Statement-by-Link,
the Payment Widget and Spenda’s inside sales capabilities
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Spenda’s Pay-Statement-By-Link solution will be tailored to enable members to view their live statement,
claim credits, integrate purchases into the financials and ultimately pay their Capricorn account
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Spenda’s Payment Widget will be tailored to enable member purchases to be charged to the Capricorn
account via supplier eCommerce solution
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Initially Capricorn is focused on releasing its digital capabilities across all its membership via implementations
with selected eCommerce “ready” suppliers whom it has already targeted. In the future, it is proposed to
invite all eCommerce capable suppliers into the program and supported to access Capricorn eCommerce
services that are powered by Spenda
Figure 1: CAPCharge Transaction Flow
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Payments processed via CAPCharge will increase productivity and create efficiencies for both Members,
Suppliers and Capricorn
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Following completion of the first phase of the project, the parties will be working toward entering into a new
full form Software, Services and Maintenance agreement that incorporates software licenses for the Spenda
platform, as well as maintenance of CAPLink infrastructure beyond the current contract expiry date of June
2024
Commenting on the partnership, Bradley Gannon, Chief Executive Officer (Automotive) of Capricorn, said:
“We have had a long-term partnership with Spenda and we are looking forward to growing this relationship further as
we work together to build our digital technology platforms to enhance our online Member experience.”
Spenda’s Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Adrian Floate, added:
“We’ve been working with Bradley and the team at Capricorn for many years. We helped Capricorn to deliver CAPLink
to its Suppliers to automate its transaction capture and credit approval. 20 years later, we are excited by this challenge
as Capricorn moves to its next chapter and creates a range of digital services. Being selected to work with Capricorn
on this significant project shows faith in both in our services and in our ability to deliver to Capricorn’s vision. .
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About Capricorn
Capricorn is a member-based organisation established in 1974 to primarily support businesses in the automotive
industry. Its current network consists of over 26,000 Members and more than 2,000 Preferred Suppliers in every State
and Territory in Australia and New Zealand.
For more information, see https://www.capricorn.coop/
About Spenda
Spenda Limited (ASX: SPX) is a transaction services business supplying industries with a broad range of B2B payment
services, digital trading software and integrated solutions. Our goal is to convert EFT payments to card payments
utilising the BPSP engagement coupled with our payments collaboration framework. Our competitive advantages
deliver customers end-to-end e-invoicing integration, rapid ordering, digital trust and automated reconciliation.
Spenda supplies its customers a recipe of integrated software to create a vertical market standard operating
environment (SOE) that enables the effective and seamless transfer of data from multiple, disparate software systems
in one standardised technology solution, such as SpendaRetail. Spenda has licensing agreements with third-party
software vendors that enable it to provide integrated SOE solutions to its customers.
For investors seeking information on the Company’s activities that relate to marketing, customer events and other
acknowledgement of customer activities, this information will be posted to the Company’s news section of the website
and on social media channels with the handle #getSpenda, active on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook.
For more information, see https://spenda.co/investor-centre/
This announcement has been authorised by the Board.
Investor Enquiries
Please email: investors@spenda.co
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