Subsequent Events [Text Block] | NOTE 13 - SUBSEQUENT EVENTS In preparing the condensed consolidated financial statements as of and for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2018, the Company has evaluated subsequent events and has concluded that the following events require disclosure: A. Formalizing the Reverse Acquisition On January 4, 2020, PubCo and PrivCo entered into the Agreement, to formalize and memorialize the Verbal Agreement. The Agreement was disclosed in a Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 7, 2020. B. Product Development, Launch and Sales In 2019, we commenced a larger deployment of our blockchain-based, payment and ledger system, which we believe was enthusiastically received. As we increased our Independent Sales Organizations (“ISO”) relationships, we were able to on-board clients at an increasing pace, resulting in increasing revenues. As client acquisitions accelerated, we experienced significant growth in payment processing volume through the third quarter of 2019. Servicing our quickly growing customer base required us to grow our “ acquiring bandwidth As we grew, it became apparent to us that market demand for our services could be substantial and that we would need to upgrade and reengineer certain technology modules of our acquiring engine. As a result, we scaled back our acquiring capabilities in the fourth quarter of 2019, which allowed us to focus on the technology upgrades. As anticipated, this shift in focus resulted in a reduction of revenues in the fourth quarter. However, we anticipate these upgrades will enable growth acceleration in 2020 and beyond. C. Legal Matters In 2019, through November 30, the Company recorded approximately $270,000 in legal expenses for litigation and arbitration. America 2030 Capital Limited and Bentley Rothschild Capital Limited On or about October 31, 2018, Nisan and Errez received constitutive notice, regarding arbitration against Nisan, Errez, PrivCo and possibly PubCo, from Bentley Rothschild Capital Limited ("Bentley") and America 2030 Capital Limited (“America 2030”), both located in Nevis, West Indies, and both claiming breach of contract by Nisan and Errez of Nisan and Errez’s respective individual Master Loan Agreements (see G. America 2030 Capital Limited and Bentley Rothschild Capital Limited RB Capital Partners, Inc. On April 24, 2019, RB Cap and related parties (the “RB Cap Parties”) filed a complaint in the San Diego Superior Court against PrivCo, PubCo, Ben Errez and Fredi Nisan (collectively, the “GreenBox Parties”); and on October 1, 2019, the RB Cap Parties filed an amended complaint against the GreenBox Parties alleging claims of fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract and other, related claims in the Superior Court for the State of California, County of San Diego. The GreenBox Parties filed a cross-complaint against the RB Capital Parties, alleging claims of fraud, breach of contract, tortious interference, and other, related claims. On or about December 15, 2019, the GreenBox Parties and RB Cap Parties resolved to negotiate a settlement and agreed in principal to settlements terms. The documentation of the settlement terms was underway as of February 3, 2020. Dahan Yoram Dahan, Melissa Dahan, Forty8 Ltd., and Trustees of the Melissa H. Dahan Living Trust (collectively, “the Dahan Parties”) were also named by RB Capital in the suit listed in the previous paragraph. On October 31, 2019, the GreenBox Parties filed a Cross-Complaint against the Dahan Parties, alleging claims of fraud, securities fraud, misrepresentation, promissory estoppel, and other related claims, in the Superior Court for the State of California, County of San Diego. On or about December 15, 2019, the GreenBox Parties and the Dahan Parties resolved to negotiate a settlement and agreed in principal to settlements terms. The documentation of the settlement terms was underway as of February 3, 2020. Withholding Suit On November 25, 2019, five companies (the “Plaintiffs”) filed a complaint against us, Global Payout, Inc., MTrac Tech Corporation and Cultivate Technologies, LLC (collectively the “Defendants”) in the Superior Court of the State of California. Plaintiffs filed suit to recover processed funds and processing fees alleged to be withheld illegally (collectively, the “Withholding Suit”). We do not dispute the funds owed; however, we do believe it’s within our rights to hold the funds, per the terms of agreements signed by Plaintiffs. We disagree with any allegations of any wrongdoing and will aggressively defend ourselves against the Withholding Suit. Ideally, we will settle this claim in the near term. While the results of this matter cannot be predicted with certainty, especially at this early stage, we believe that losses, if any, resulting from resolution of this matter will not have a materially adverse effect on operations or cash flow. Pursuant to a mandatory arbitration clause in the controlling agreement, the parties to the Withholding Suit have agreed to arbitrate their claims. D. RB Capital Partners, Inc. – Minority Owner, Affiliated Party, Lender, Plaintiff in Lawsuit a) On or about October 23, 2018, we issued 7,500,000 newly issued, restricted shares of our stock to RB Cap, in repayment of $7,500 of a convertible promissory note issued by PrivCo to RB Cap, and subsequently assumed by us (the “RB Cap 300K Note”). Subsequently, we disputed whether these shares should have been issued to RB Cap. b) On November 26, 2018, PubCo issued a convertible promissory note for $200,000 to RB Cap. The note incurs interest at 12% per year and the outstanding principal and accrued interest are due November 26, 2019. The note holder may elect to convert the note at any time from six months from the date of issuance at a fixed price per share of $4.50. c) On or about March 13, 2019, we issued a final cash payment towards the RB Cap 300K Note of approximately $126,092 (the “Payoff Funds”). However, RB Cap contested the amount of the Payoff Funds. d) Each of the above listed transactions, as well as RB Cap’s claim to ownership of shares in PubCo through RB Cap’s January 2018 investment in PrivCo, were subsequently contested in claims/counterclaims between RB Cap and GreenBox (see C. Legal Matters E. MTrac New Exclusive Licensing Agreement Unified Agreement On or about October 2, 2018, we entered into a three-party agreement with MTrac Tech Corporation (“MTrac”) and Cultivate Technologies, LLC (“Cultivate”) a Nevada Corporation, to redefine pricing and revenue sharing under a new agreement (the “Unified Agreement”). The Unified Agreement did not eliminate the licensing fees stated in the MTrac 5 Year License, but added and defined a profit sharing agreement on all accounts generated by the merchants and agents that MTrac procured for PubCo, as follows: 40% to MTrac, 40% to PubCo, and 20% to Cultivate, with profit defined as Earnings Before Interest Taxes Depreciation and Amortization (“EBITDA”), adjusted for non-cash long-term compensation, based upon publicly filed financial information. Under the terms of the Unified Agreement, MTrac was granted the exclusive right by Cultivate and us to market the GreenBox Business’ new blockchain ledger-based payment platform which combined our proprietary system with certain proprietary technologies owned by Cultivate, which in combination offer a payment platform that allows a much more user-friendly payment system (the “Current Platform”). New Exclusive Licensing Agreement: Current Exclusive License On or about December 17, 2018, all previous agreements with MTrac were revoked, at which point we entered into a new 5-year exclusive three-party Software License and Services Agreement with Exclusivity with MTrac and Cultivate (referred to as the “Current Exclusive License”). Under the terms of the Current Exclusive License, PubCo waived all future licensing fees for the remaining 4-year term (in recognition of MTrac’s introduction of Kenneth Haller to PubCo – see F. Kenneth Haller and the Haller Companies In order for MTrac to maintain exclusivity rights under the Current Exclusive License, MTrac must meet certain merchant payment processing targets, subsequently modified under a verbal agreement, as follows: as of September 1, 2019, $10,000,000 in monthly processing volume (which MTrac achieved); as of January 1, 2020, $25,000,000; and as of June 1, 2020, $40,000,000 in monthly process volume. Lawsuit On November 25, 2019, five companies (the “Plaintiffs”) filed a complaint against us, MTrac, Global Payout, Inc. (parent company of MTrac) and Cultivate Technologies, LLC in the Superior Court of the State of California. Plaintiffs filed suit to recover processed funds and processing fees alleged to be withheld illegally (see Withholding Suit in Section C. Legal Matters F. Kenneth Haller and the Haller Companies / Affiliated Party Transactions Kenneth Haller (“Haller”) became our Senior Vice President of Payment Systems, a key member of our management team, in November 2018. We began working indirectly with Haller earlier in 2018, both individually and through our relationship with MTrac Tech Corporation (“MTrac”) (see Section E. MTrac Haller Sky Financial & Intelligence LLC Haller owns 100% of Sky Financial & Intelligence LLC (“Sky”), a Wyoming limited liability company, and serves as its sole Managing Member. Sky is a strategic merchant services company that focuses on high risk merchants and international credit card processing solutions. In 2018, Sky was using GreenBox’s QuickCard payment system as its main payment processing infrastructure, through Sky’s relationship with MTrac (see Sky - MTrac Agreement Sky MIDs We accrued and/or paid Haller $55,365 in the quarter ending December 31, 2018, which included $30,000 in consulting fees and $23,365 in travel and relocation expense reimbursement. In 2019, we paid Sky consulting fees of $30,000 in the quarter ending March 31, $30,000 in the quarter ending June 30, $36,667 in consulting fees in the quarter ending September 30, and $124,150 in the quarter ending December 31, which included $50,000 in consulting fees and $74,150 in expense reimbursement. In 2019, Sky facilitated $1,397,822 in payments (using our funds) on our behalf during the quarter ending September 30, and similarly $184,056 in the quarter ending December 31. Non-Exclusivity As our relationship with Haller / Sky is non-exclusive, Haller and the Haller Companies provide services to other companies, including those listed below. Any revenue generated by Haller and/or the Haller Companies through these other relationships is in addition to the Haller Consulting Fee. Sky - MTrac Agreement On or about May 4, 2018, Sky entered into a two year, Associate/Referral Agreement-E-Commerce with MTrac, wherein Sky agreed to promote MTrac’s solution payment platform (which is based on the GreenBox platform) and related services; to provide new sales, sales leads, introductions to merchants and Independent Sales Organizations (“ISO”), and other potential customers of MTrac’s services, for which Sky receives ongoing commissions from all credit card transactions processed as a result of new business generated by Sky for MTrac. Most services provided under this contract are executed by Sky’s majority owned subsidiary, Charge Savvy, LLC (see Charge Savvy, LLC Haller, through Sky, owns controlling interests in Charge Savvy, LLC and Cultivate, LLC, with whom we do business indirectly, through their respective business relationship with MTrac. We also do business directly with Cultivate LLC, through a three-party agreement, which includes us, MTrac and Cultivate (see Cultivate, LLC Charge Savvy, LLC Sky owns 68.4% of Charge Savvy, LLC (“Charge Savvy”), an Illinois limited liability company. Haller serves as one of three Managing Members of Charge Savvy, along with Higher Ground Capital, LLC (owns 14%), and Jeff Nickel (owns 17.4%). It is through Charge Savvy, that the Haller Network is most visible as part of our operations, as Charge Savvy is the ISO through which revenue generated from Haller Network Agents is processed, under a contract between Sky and MTrac, who in turn, has a contract with us. The three managing members of Charge Savvy own the same percentages of Cultivate (see below), as they do Charge Savvy. During the quarters ending June 30 and September 30 of 2019, Charge Savvy sold PubCo POS-related equipment totaling $22,450 and $16,000, respectively. Cultivate, LLC Sky owns 68.4% of Cultivate, LLC (“Cultivate”), an Illinois limited liability company, and serves as one of three Managing Members, along with Higher Ground Capital, LLC (owns 14%), and Jeff Nickel (owns 17.4%). When Cultivate was first formed, it was the licensor of certain proprietary point of sale software, retail point of sale operations, and complementary support of Cultivate’s software and related hardware for on-site credit and debit card processing. Subsequently, Cultivate the entity became exclusively a software provider, ceasing all service and support operations. Eventually certain beneficial aspects of the Cultivate software functionality were integrated into QuickCard, then upgraded and replaced with certain updates. During 2018 and 2019, we did not pay Charge Savvy nor Cultivate any commissions. In December 2018, Jeff Nickel, one of the Managing Members of Cultivate and Charge Savvy, was paid approximately $10,758 in commissions, separately from our agreements with Charge Savvy and Cultivate. Cultivate - MTrac Agreement On or about May 4, 2018, Cultivate entered into a two year, Associate/Referral Agreement-E-Commerce with MTrac, wherein Cultivate agreed to promote MTrac’s solution payment platform and related services; to provide new sales, leads, merchants, ISO Agents, and other potential customers of MTrac services, for which Cultivate receives ongoing commissions from all credit card transactions processed as a result of new business generated by Cultivate for MTrac, who in turn has a contract with us. The Associate/Referral Agreement-E-Commerce between Cultivate and MTrac noted MTrac’s license of GreenBox’s payment processing technology, and contained terms whereby Cultivate could (but was not required to) refer certain customers to MTrac in exchange for various referral fees. Cultivate never referred customers to MTrac, and therefore, did not collect, and is not collecting, any referral fees from MTrac. Haller Commissions Under a verbal agreement in Spring 2018, we offered Haller commissions on any referrals that resulted in new business for the Company (“Haller Commissions”). Under this agreement, Haller introduced us to three merchants who became three of the first merchants to use our system. Under the verbal agreement, we paid Haller commissions from transactions processed by these three merchants, summing to approximately $210 in June 2018, $8,396 in July 2018 and $321 in August 2018. In or about September 2018, we commenced discussions with Haller to join our management team and discontinued paying Haller commissions related to these three merchants. GreenBox, Cultivate and MTrac Agreement On or about December 17, 2018, PubCo entered into a 5-year exclusive three-party license agreement with MTrac and Cultivate (see Section E. MTrac Sky Mids Previous references in press releases issued by PubCo in or about August 2018 regarding a “Sky Mids Acquisition” are references to the non-exclusive working relationship between PrivCo (and subsequently, PubCo) and Sky / Haller. The designation “Sky MIDs” was a colloquial reference to Sky, based upon a Sky-owned and operated website, which is no longer in use. While an acquisition of Sky has not formally been executed, nor have we (nor subsequently, PubCo) executed a formal engagement with Haller nor Sky, previous statements regarding the nature of our relationship with Sky Mids, which include our beliefs in the advantages of this relationship, accurately represent the working relationship between the Company and Sky / Haller. Lawsuit On November 25, 2019, five companies (the “Plaintiffs”) filed a complaint against us, Cultivate Technologies LLC (majority owned by Sky), Global Payout, Inc. (OTC:GOHE) and MTrac Tech Corporation in the Superior Court of the State of California. Plaintiffs filed suit to recover processed funds and processing fees alleged to be withheld illegally (see Section C. Legal Matters Verbal Agreement As part of Haller’s remuneration, the Company and Haller have a verbal agreement for Haller to be issued approximately 14 to 18 million shares of the Company’s stock. While a formalized remuneration agreement has not yet been executed as of February 3, 2020, the Company does not foresee the issuance to be dilutive, as PrivCo will likely surrender an equal amount of shares to PubCo, as a means of compensating PubCo for the issuance. G. IPX Referral Payments, LLC / Affiliated Party Transactions Pouya Moghavem, our employee since August 1, 2018, owns 25% of IPX Referral Payments, LLC Additionally, in or about October 2018, IPX provided GreenBox with a merchant account in Mexico through Affinitas bank, one of the Gateways that process payment transactions on our behalf. We did not pay IPX for this service, however, Affinitas paid IPX approximately $1,830. H. Share Transfers by an Affiliated Party The following three share transactions summarized below, totaling 1,085,000 shares, were each inadvertently inadvertently a) On or about December 27, 2018, PrivCo inadvertently b) On or about January 4, 2019, PrivCo inadvertently c) On or about January 4, 2019, PrivCo inadvertently I. Issuance of Unregistered Securities The Company issued the following securities that were not registered under the Securities Act. Except where noted, all of the securities stated below were issued in reliance on the exemption under Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act. a) On or about October 23, 2018, PubCo issued 7,500,000 shares to RB Capital Partners (“RB Cap”), in repayment of $7,500 of a $300,000 note issued by PrivCo to RB. b) On or about May 10, 2019, PubCo issued 10,000 shares to a non-affiliated legal consultant for services rendered. c) On or about June 18, 2019, PubCo issued a total of 850,000 shares to nine PubCo employees as performance bonuses. The shares were fully vested upon issuance and worth $0.10 per share, at closing, on the day of issuance. d) On or about August 14, 2019, PubCo issued 2,307,692 shares to a lender, that chose to convert a $150,000 promissory note at a 50% discount into shares of PubCo. e) On or about August 14, 2019, PubCo issued 1,085,000 shares to PrivCo, as repayment of shares inadvertently transferred by PrivCo to third parties on behalf of PubCo (see H. Share Transfers by an Affiliated Party f) On or about December 12, 2019, PubCo entered into an agreement to issue 600,000 restricted shares to a non-affiliated service provider as renumeration in lieu of cash fees, on a vesting schedule as follow: 200,000 shares vest upon each of the following milestones: the Company filing its Form 10-K for 2018, the Company filing its three interim Form 10-Qs for 2019, and the Company filing its Form 10-K for 2019. J. Promissory Notes Power Up Lending Ltd PULG $83K Note On December 13, 2018, PubCo issued a convertible promissory note for $83,000 to PULG, with a net $80,000 received by PubCo. The note incurs interest at 10% per year and the outstanding principal and accrued interest are due December 13, 2019. The note includes a conversion feature where, beginning 180 days after the issuance date, at which time the lender may convert all or a portion of the outstanding principal and accrued interest balance into shares of PubCo’s common stock at a discounted rate of 65%. PubCo incurred $3,000 in financing fees associated with the loan. PubCo chose to repay the note on March 13, 2019, at which time it repaid the principal, accrued interest and an early repayment penalty of $17,005, which PubCo recorded as interest expense. RB Capital Partners RB Cap $200K Note On November 26, 2018, the Company issued a convertible promissory note for $200,000 to RB Capital Partners, Inc. (“RB Cap”). The note incurs interest at 12% per year and the outstanding principal and accrued interest are due November 26, 2019. The note holder may elect to convert the note at any time from six months from the date of issuance at a fixed price per share of $4.50. As part of the ongoing legal claims against us by RB Cap, RB Cap asserts that PubCo owes RB Cap this $200,000, plus interest, pursuant to the note. This note became part of a claim/counter claim suit with RB Cap (See C. Legal Matters Saskatchwan Ltd Saskatchewan Ltd $150K Note On December 27, 2018, PubCo issued a convertible promissory note for $150,000 to Saskatchewan Ltd (“Sask”) (the “Sask Note”). The note incurs interest at 12% per year, paid quarterly, in advance. The outstanding principal and any remaining interest are due December 12, 2019. The note includes a conversion feature where, beginning six months after the issuance date, at which time the lender may convert all or a portion of the outstanding principal and any accrued interest balance into shares of PubCo’s common stock at a discounted rate of 50%. As of December 31, 2018, the principal balance of the note was $150,000, with no accrued interest due. Sask issued a notice of conversion to the Company on June 27, 2019 to convert the outstanding principal into 2,307,692 shares of the Company’s stock. The shares were subsequently issued to Sask on August 14, 2019. Vista Capital Investments, LLC Vista $500K Note On March 11, 2019, PubCo issued a convertible promissory note for $500,000 to Vista Capital Investments, LLC (“Vista”) (the “Vista Note”), due October 6, 2019 (the “Maturity Date”). The Vista Note incurred a onetime interest charge of 8%, which was recorded at issuance, and was due upon payback of the Vista Note. The Vista Note included an original issue discount of $125,000, netting the balance received by PubCo from Vista at $375,000. The Vista transaction included commitment fees, which took the form of an obligation by PubCo to issue Vista 25,0000 shares and a four-year warrant to purchase 125,000 shares, with an exercise price of $2.50 (the “Commitment Shares”). Upon the occurrence of an event of default, as defined in the Vista Note, the conversion price shall become equal to a 65% of the lowest traded price for the Company’s common stock in the 25 consecutive trading days preceding the notice of conversion and the balance due shall be multiplied by 130% (the “Default Provision”). The Vista Note’s principal and interest were due to be paid October 6, 2019. On or about October 16, 2019, the parties amended the Vista Note to extend the Maturity Date to November 6, 2019, reduce the principal and interest due to $464,625 and cancel the Commitment Shares. On or about December 11, 2019, the parties agreed to a second amendment of the Vista Note, which extended the Maturity Date to January 15, 2020, required the Company to make a one-time payment of $10,000, changed the principal and interest balance due to $487,858, and waived Vista’s default rights through January 15, 2020. On January 22, 2020, Vista issued a default notice to the Company, which included an increase in the balance due to $634,213. On or about January 28, 2020, the parties agreed upon a third amendment to the Vista Note, which extended the Maturity Date to February 29, 2020, reduced the principal and interest due to $482,856 and required the Company to make a one-time $20,000 payment on or before January 29, 2020, of which $5,000 is to be applied to principal due. All other terms of the note remain in full force and effect. K. Purchase Agreements West Coast Business Capital, LLC On or about November 12, 2019, PubCo entered into a Purchase Agreement with West Coast Business Capital, LLC (“West Coast”). Under the terms of the Purchase Agreement, we agreed to sell West Coast $596,000 of future incoming cashflow from the GreenBox Business, to be delivered to West Coast in daily installments of $5,960, for $400,000, from which $16,000 in fees was deducted, providing us with net cash of $384,000. For accounting purposes, we recorded this transaction as a loan of $400,000, with interest of $196,000, which will be repaid over the following four months. Both Nisan and Errez, individually, signed personal guarantees for this Purchase Agreement. Fox Capital Group, Inc. On or about December 5, 2019, PubCo entered into a Secured Merchant Agreement with Fox Capital Group, Inc. (“Fox”). Under the terms of the Secured Merchant Agreement, we agreed to sell Fox $366,000 of future incoming cashflow from the GreenBox Business, to be delivered to Fox in daily installments of $4,073.33, for $260,000, from which $26,000 in fees was deducted, providing us with net cash of $234,000. For accounting purposes, we recorded this transaction as a loan of $260,000, with interest of $106,000, which will be repaid over the following four months. Both Nisan and Errez, individually, signed personal guarantees for this Secured Merchant Agreement. Complete Business Solutions Group, Inc. On or about December 9, 2019, PubCo entered into an Agreement for the Purchase and Sale of Future Receivables (the “Purchase and Sale Agreement”) with Complete Business Solutions Group Inc, (“CBSG”). Under the terms of the Purchase and Sale Agreement, we agreed to sell CBSG $240,000 of future incoming cashflow from the GreenBox Business, to be delivered to CBSG in weekly installments of $16,000, for $200,000, from which $35 in fees was deducted, providing us with net cash of $19,965. For accounting purposes, we recorded this transaction as a loan of $200,000, with interest of $40,000, which will be repaid over the following four months. Both Nisan and Errez, individually, signed personal guarantees for this Purchase and Sale Agreement. L. Charitable Contributions / Related Party Transactions The Company made donations totaling $2,750 during the last three months of 2018 to organizations, including the San Diego Kayak Team (a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization), of which Nate Errez (“Nate”), the son of Ben Errez, one of our two officers and directors, is a member. |