John Morris co-founded REPAY, the Atlanta-based electronic payments company, in 2006, and nearly 20 years later, he and the company are still going strong.
A graduate of the University of Georgia, from which he has a master’s degree in accounting, Morris founded REPAY “with the goal of providing fast, frictionless, and fail-safe integrated payment processing solutions for consumers and businesses”—and it’s safe to say that he succeeded.
Morris’s previous experience has surely contributed, as he previously co-founded and was the president of Security Check Atlanta. During his tenure, the check verification and payment processor grew to over 24,000 merchant locations and was named one of Inc. Magazine’s fastest-growing private companies in 2001 and 2002.
Now, the REPAY is also making moves to stay ahead of the game, with Tim Murphy stepping down as Chief Financial Officer after more than 10 years in the role. Chief Accounting Officer Thomas Sullivan will take over the CFO role in the interim, helping the company that “enables businesses to accept payments from their customers and make payments to vendors and suppliers in a simple, secure way through various digital payment methods, including virtual cards,” to continue firing on all cylinders.
Its most recent innovation came in February, when the company announced a partnership with Lightspeed DMS, which marks REPAY’s first major expansion beyond the traditional automotive industry, offering revenue- and productivity-driving payment automation to a wider range of retailers and dealerships. “Through REPAY’s advanced automation capabilities, dealerships can ensure on-time payments while maintaining strong positive relationships with their vendors,” the company announced.
Still expanding its horizons after all these years, REPAY continues to support its clients and advance the industry under Morris’s leadership.
