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Background
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2020
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]  
BACKGROUND

NOTE 1 – BACKGROUND

 

Background

 

The OLB Group, Inc. ("OLB" the "Company") was incorporated in the State of Delaware on November 18, 2004 and provides services through its wholly-owned subsidiaries.

 

The Company provides integrated financial and transaction processing services to businesses throughout the United States. Through its eVance Capital, Inc. subsidiary ("eVance"), the Company provides an integrated suite of third-party merchant payment processing services and related proprietary software enabling products that deliver credit and debit card-based internet payment processing solutions primarily to small and mid-sized merchants operating in physical "brick and mortar" business environments, on the internet and in retail settings requiring both wired and wireless mobile payment solutions. eVance operates as an independent sales organization ("ISO") generating individual merchant processing contracts in exchange for future residual payments. As a wholesale ISO, eVance has a direct contractual relationship with the merchants and takes greater responsibility in the approval and monitoring of merchants than do retail ISOs and as a result, receives additional consideration for this service and risk. The Company's Securus365, Inc. subsidiary operates as a retail ISO and receives residual income as commission for merchants it places with third party processors.

 

CrowdPay.us, Inc. ("CrowdPay") is a Crowdfunding platform used to facilitate a capital raise anywhere from $1,000,0000 -$50,000,000 of various types of securities under Regulation D, Regulation Crowdfunding, Regulation A and the Securities Act of 1933. To date, the activities of this subsidiary have been insignificant.

 

OmniSoft.io, Inc. ("OmniSoft") operates a software platform for small merchants. The Omnicommerce applications work on an iPad, mobile device and the web and allows you to sell a store's products in a physical, retail setting. To date, the activities of this subsidiary have been insignificant when compared to the overall business.

 

The Company also provides ecommerce development and consulting services on a project by project basis.

 

COVID-19 Impact

 

On January 30, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 (coronavirus) outbreak a "Public Health Emergency of International Concern" and on March 10, 2020, declared it to be a pandemic. The virus and actions taken to mitigate its spread have had and are expected to continue to have a broad adverse impact on the economies and financial markets of many countries, including the geographical areas in which the Company operates. In response to the pandemic, the Company is working with merchants to address potential changes to the purchase patterns of consumers. In addition, it is focusing on servicing merchants that sell products with an extended delivery time frame, that have products that are paid for in advance, and that work in the catering, ticketing, limo and travel related businesses which have been directly impacted by the social distancing requirement of the pandemic. Further, for those of the Company's employees that are able to perform their job remotely, the Company has implemented a "remote work" policy and provided employees with the technology necessary to continue to do their jobs from home and for those employees that are unable to perform their job from a remote location, the Company has taken steps to ensure appropriate distancing and added sanitizing stations along with requiring frequent hand washing and work station cleaning.

 

The Company has experienced disruptions to its business and has observed disruptions for the Company's customers and merchants which has resulted in a decline in transaction volume. While the volume of processing transactions by merchants in March was relatively in-line with the Company's expectations that the number of transactions during March would be below the prior year because states in the United States began to implement stay-at-home orders, the number of transactions and resulting revenue was approximately 15% lower in March than in February and 30% lower in April than in March. In May, the number of transactions increased whereby they were 5% higher than in April, and in June, transactions were 7% higher than May. The Company's revenue during the period of time decreased and then increased in the amount similar to the percentage of month-to-month transaction volume.

 

We do estimate that the number of transactions will continue to stay at a depressed level or further decline from the prior year, along with revenues, until the response to the COVID-19 pandemic relaxes further stay-at-home restrictions and allows customers to make more point of purchase transactions for merchants and/or more merchants provide for additional contactless and online purchase options. The anticipated amount of anticipated decline from prior year is unknown, but it will be impacted by when consumers return to the level of purchasing that occurred in the prior year and before the pandemic. The Company does not anticipate that the pandemic will continue to have a material impact on the Company's business or liquidity. However, additional closings and reopenings of businesses in the future will likely result in a month over month decline and then increase similar to what occurred in March through June 2020.

 

While it is unknown how long these conditions will last and what the complete financial impact will have on the Company, the financial services and payment technology industries in which we operate depend heavily upon the overall level of consumer, business and government spending. A sustained deterioration in general economic conditions resulting in less consumer, business and government spending may adversely affect our financial performance by reducing the number or average purchase amount of transactions we process. If our customers make fewer sales of products and services using electronic payments, or consumers spend less money through electronic payments, whether due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus, change of consumer behavior or otherwise, we will have fewer transactions to process at lower dollar amounts, resulting in lower revenue making it reasonably possible that we are financially vulnerable to the effects of the pandemic. If we experience lower revenue, the risk of not meeting financial covenants could exist.