VisiPay processed $1.85B across 35M transactions in 2023
Austin McNair · 39 Year Old Made $21m Last Year Selling Surprising Software · Apr 2, 2024 · at 18:41
Austin McNabb, CEO of bootstrapped payment processing company VisiPay, reports the company's total annual payment volume and transaction metrics.
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“Last year, we did a 1.85 billion, thirty five million transactions.”
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