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Third-party app providers are winning over small business direct deposit relationships


To lock in customer primacy, your financial institution must offer products that enable business owners to accept customer payments that settle directly into their existing business account at your financial institution. 

The challenge is that many business owners are turning to third-party app providers to receive customer payments. While many of those businesses may link to their business account at your financial institution today, that may not be the case tomorrow.  

Business Accounts Accepting Deposits through Third-Party Apps

The below table shows the total number of business accounts analyzed that received an
incoming deposit from either Square, PayPal, or Venmo (third-party apps).

# of FIs

84

# of Connected Business Accounts

13,601

Total Monthly
Third-Party App Transactions

279,601

Total Monthly Incoming
Deposits from Third-Party Apps

$266,636,060.23

Evaluating the account penetration of third-party app providers


It’s not often that you can easily benchmark the influence a competitor has over your customer base, but in the case of third-party app providers, we can do just that. 

If an account holder is accepting payments through a third-party app, you can likely draw two conclusions from their behavior:

They have a need to accept online or in-app card payments from customers, and...

They have an interest in digital solutions that are increasingly becoming an alternative
to the banking services you provide a business.

Financial Institution Benchmarks

The below analysis represents per FI averages based upon total incoming deposit activity from PayPal, Square, and Venmo.

# of Accounts per FI

162

% of Account
Penetration

12.2%

Total Monthly Deposit
Amount per FI

$3,174,238.81

Account Benchmarks

The below analysis represents per account averages based upon total incoming deposit activity from PayPal, Square, and Venmo.

# of Transactions per Account

20.56

Average
Deposit Amount

$953.63

Average Total Monthly
Deposit Amount per Account

$19,604.15

Benchmarking the Competition – Financial Institution Averages

The below analysis represents the total monthly amount of incoming deposits from PayPal,
Square and Venmo across all the FIs within each asset range.

PayPal

# of Connected Business Accounts

4,387

Total Third-Party
App Transactions

36,365

Total Incoming Deposits
from Third-Party Apps

$71,019,475.63

Square

# of Connected Business Accounts

5,069

Total Third-Party
App Transactions

202,607

Total Incoming Deposits
from Third-Party Apps

$176,750,594.07

Venmo

# of Connected Business Accounts

4,145

Total Third-Party
App Transactions

40,629

Total Incoming Deposits
from Third-Party Apps

$18,865,990.53

Benchmarking the Competition – Account Averages

The below analysis represents the total monthly amount of incoming deposits from PayPal,
Square and Venmo across all the FIs within each asset range.

PayPal

# of
Accounts
per FI

# of Accounts  per FI

52

# of
Transactions
per FI

# of Transactions per FI

433

# of
Transactions
per Account

# of Transactions per Account

8.29

Average
Deposit
Amount

Average Deposit Amount

$1,952.96

Average Total
Deposits per
Account

Average Total Deposits per Account

$16,188.62

Square

# of Accounts per FI

60

# of Transactions per FI

2,412

# of Transactions per Account

39.97

Average Deposit Amount

$872.38

Average Total Deposits per Account

$34,868.93

Venmo

# of Accounts per FI

49

# of Transactions per FI

484

# of Transactions per Account

9.80

Average Deposit Amount

$464.35

Average Total Deposits per Account

$4,551.51

With any challenge, there is an opportunity


Enabling business owners to accept payments through your existing online and mobile banking channels creates an opportunity to generate non-interest fee income, increase deposits, and increase account engagement.  

Generate non-interest fee income 
Challenge1
Increase deposits and reduce deposit displacement
Challenge2
Increase small business primacy, engagement, and loyalty
Challenge3

Benefits for your small business customers


Potential cost savings for your customers
Benefit1
Accelerate cash flow & increase deposit balances
Benefit2

Next steps to take action on your report data


1.
Upgrade to Autobooks Premium Reporting* and gain access to a detailed customer contact target list:
  • Account owner name
  • 3rd party deposit transaction totals
  • 3rd party vendor totals

*Learn more inside Autobooks Hub.

2.
Leverage the Autobooks
Enrollment Resource Kit:

Send a targeted campaign to educate customers on the benefits of getting paid through their financial institution app.

3.
Further refine your targeting with the Autobooks Signal Campaign:

Send the right message at exactly the right time to customers who are searching for a third-party solution.

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