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"Total revenue = $707.8 million"

Somehow that seems wrong to me... Is Square counting money-through-the-system as revenue? Is that what it is? To me it feels like their revenue would be their cut of the money that runs through the system, so some small percentage of the $707m. Is this a common thing to do, in this area?




$707m is their cut of the money that they process. I think it was approximately $24bn of money that went through the system.


Ah, excellent, thank you!


No, that has to be their cut. If they're taking 3% then it's absolutely conceivable that they are processing $23 Billion. Visa and MasterCard process multiple trillions of dollars a year.




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