COMMITMENTS AND CONTIGENCIES

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2021

Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]

COMMITMENTS AND CONTIGENCIES

NOTE 9 - COMMITMENTS AND CONTIGENCIES

Litigation

Former Shareholders Lawsuit

In November 2017, two shareholders of AppTech, one who previously filed the 2014 lawsuit in the State of Washington, filed another lawsuit against the Company in the State of California, claiming the same accusations as the previously filed lawsuit which was dismissed. The lawsuit has been transferred to the United States District Court for the Southern District of California. The Company filed the defendants answer, affirmative defenses and counter claims. Management believes that the Plaintiff misrepresented and misled AppTech during the merger. The court has encouraged the parties to settle. Even though the Company believes the lawsuit is without merit and will vigorously defend, the Company has made several offers to settle. On December 19, 2019, the Company entered into a settlement and release agreement. The Company has recorded the liability as of December 31, 2019 for the total obligation of $240,000 to be paid out over three years beginning February 15, 2020. The 2019 impact is recorded in general and administrative expenses. On January 24, 2021, the parties entered a stipulation modifying the repayment schedule of the settlement. The Company is current on the following modified repayment schedule.

Years ended December 31:

2021	$	40,000
2022		75,000
Total	$	115,000

Patent Acquisition Lawsuit

In September 2018, a complaint was filed in San Diego superior court for a breach of contract arising from a written agreement for the purchase of a judgment to which AppTech was not a party. The purchase of the judgment was part of the transaction to acquire the patents. AppTech substantially performed under the agreement but the second agreement to extend the final payment was executed under alleged duress. On October 26, 2018, the Company filed an answer that denied each and every purported allegation and cause of action and further denied that they caused any damage or loss. On December 3, 2019, the Company entered into a conditional settlement providing the terms of the conditional settlement have been completed by October 1, 2020. The conditional settlement amount of $150,000 was paid in monthly installments of $15,000. The settlement installments paid for the year ended December 31, 2020 was $135,000. On December 30, 2020, full payment was made in accordance with a modified settlement payment schedule.

Other Lawsuit

In July of 2020, an owner and corporation having a business opportunity filed a lawsuit in the State of California alleging a breach of contract, intentional misrepresentation, fraudulent inducement of contract, negligent misrepresentation and unjust enrichment relating to a non-binding memorandum of understanding (“MOU”) between the parties and its associated circumstances in 2016 and other alleged representations associated with the proposed partnership between the parties. Process was served on January 8, 2021. The Plaintiffs filed an amended complaint on March 15, 2021. The Company filed an answer with affirmative defenses on April 26, 2021. The lawsuit is in the beginning stages of discovery. Management believes the agreement was non-binding, the statute of limitation has expired and the allegations have no merit. We currently own a judgment against the owner and corporation in the amount of $516,932 plus statutory interest.

Convertible Note and Warrant Lawsuit

In July 2021, an entity possessing a convertible note and warrant filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of New York for specific performance, breach of contract, permanent injunction, and attorney’s fees. The Company believes that the plaintiff is acting as an unlicensed dealer and utilized unlicensed brokers to induce the Company into the contracts thereby voiding the agreements. Prior to the plaintiff filing suit, the Company provided demand letters to the plaintiff and their coconspirators, and filed complaints with the SEC, FINRA and California Division of Corporations. The Company has not yet filed its answer but anticipates filing counter and cross suits in the near future.

Significant Contracts

Capital Raise

In January 2019, the Company entered into an agreement with a broker dealer to provide capital raising activities. Under the terms of the agreement the broker dealer is to make a minimum of $90,000 in advisory fees. In addition, there are various other provisions within the agreement which include a 10% placement fee, warrants to purchase common stock, a 4% transaction fee, etc.

In February 2021, the Company entered into an engagement letter with Maxim Group LLC (“Maxim”) as the lead management underwriter for a follow-on offering which is non-binding. This engages Maxim through September 30, 2021 as exclusive financial advisor, lead managing underwriter and sole book running manager and investment banker in connection with the offering. The offering shall consist of approximately fifteen million worth of securities subject to the due diligence examination of the Company. The actual size of the offering, the precise number of securities to be offered by the Company and Maxim will depend upon the capitalization of the Company among other various factors. Maxim shall be granted an option to acquire an additional 15% of the total number of securities as an over-allotment, an underwriting discount of 7% and an expense allowance equal to 1%.

Silver Alert Services, LLC

In August 2020, the Company entered into a strategic partnership with Silver Alert Services, LLC. doing business as Lifelight Systems (“Lifelight”), expanding into the telehealth sphere. The partnership will expand AppTech’s reach into new markets and provide advanced technological solutions for the telehealth and personal emergency response systems markets. The strategic partnership provides a promissory note to Lifelight for up to $1.0 million dollars with an interest rate of three percent per annum upon successful completion of Lifelight’s Personal Emergency Response System (“PERS”) pilot program. Also, Lifelight is granted an option for the right to purchase 4,500,000 shares of AppTech Corp. for which 1 million are exercisable at $0.01 and 3,500,000 are exercisable at $0.25 for which vest upon the successful completion of the PERS pilot program and are exercisable for 24 months. These options had a grant date fair value of at $1,549,999 and $5,424,987, respectively using a Black-Scholes options pricing model. No stock-based compensation was recorded during the six months ended June 30, 2021 as vesting was determined to be highly improbable.

On December 30, 2020, the Company amended its strategic partnership agreement and purchase option agreement with Silver Alert dated August 21, 2020. The amendment altered and/or added certain definitions and the loan disbursements in the strategic partnership agreement. Further, the purchase option agreement was amended to incorporate a vesting schedule related to the gross revenue generated from the partnership. The options will vest based on reaching various gross revenue benchmarks for which expire two years after each tranche vests.

On March 29, 2021, the Company amended its strategic partnership agreement and purchase option agreement dated December 30, 2020. The amendment altered the agreement reducing the options to purchase to one million shares at a price of $0.01 and two million five thousand shares of stock at $0.25. These options had a grant date fair value of $2,329,999 and $5,824,980, respectively using a Black-Scholes options pricing model. No stock-based compensation was recorded during the six months ended June 30, 2021 as vesting was determined to be highly improbable.

The Company’s ability to deliver on the $1,000,000 loan and fulfill its 50% obligation in 2020 was greatly impacted by the ongoing Covid 19 pandemic. Nursing homes and other senior living facilities were in lock down which did not allow the Silver Alert team into facilities for set-up and equipment training. As of August 9, 2021, the team still does not have access to these facilities and thus revenue could not be generated. Both parties agreed the delay was in the best interest of the long-term growth of the partnership. The Company will assess the probability of vesting at the end of each reporting period.

On April 27, 2021, the Company entered an amended and restated strategic partnership agreement and purchase option agreement with Silver Alert Services, LLC which amends and restates earlier agreements dated August 21, 2020, as amended on December 30, 2020 and March 29, 2021. The amended and restated agreements provide for an equity transaction whereby the Company receives a 70% (seventy percent) ownership in Silver Alert, LLC upon certain revenue goals being achieved. Further, upon the occurrence of the revenue goals, the revenue sharing between the companies shall be altered resulting in the Company retaining 70% (seventy percent).

NEC Payments

On October 1, 2020, the Company entered into a strategic partnership with NEC Payments B.S.C (“NECP”) through a series of agreements, which included the following: (a) Subscription License and Services Agreement; (b) Digital Banking Platform Operating Agreement; (c) Subscription License Order Form; and (d) Registration Rights Agreement (collectively the “Agreements”).

The intent of the Agreements was for the Company to deploy NECP’s technologies, allowing the Company to extend its product offering to include flexible, scalable and secure payment acceptance and issuer payment processing that supports the digitization of business and consumer financial services and the migration of cash and other legally payment types to distanced and contactless card and real time payment transactions. NECP will assist the Company to complete the development of its text payment solution and provide “best in class” software that complements the Company’s intellectual property. The Agreements, among other things:

(a)	provide the Company a license to access and use NECP’s digital banking and payment technology solutions, as identified in the Subscription License Order Form;
(b)	grant the Company conditional exclusivity in the United States for all of NECP’s payment acceptance processing technologies contingent upon the Company reaching transaction volume target goals;

(c)	grant NECP a license to develop software without the possibility of infringing upon the Company’s intellectual property;
(d)	creates the parameters in which NECP shall assist the Company in completing the development of its text payment system related to the Company’s patents;
(e)	award NECP a fifteen percent (15%) equity stake in the Company, on a fully diluted basis;
(f)	set revenue sharing splits between AppTech and NECP for all revenues generated from digital banking technologies licensed to AppTech.

Under the Agreements, either party had the right to terminate the agreement should the Company fail to secure a funding in the amount of $3,000,000 within 45 days from the effective date of the Agreements.

On November 19, 2020, the Company entered into Amendment No. 1 to the Subscription License and Services Agreement whereby the funding date was amended to amended to no later than December 18, 2020. All other terms of the original Agreements remained in full force and effect.

On February 11, 2021, the Company entered into an amended and restated Subscription License and Services Agreement, Digital Banking Platform Operating Agreement and Subscription License Order Form with NECP (collectively the “Restated Agreements”). The Restated Agreement created an engagement fee of $100,000 due within three business days from the effective date, reduced the funding amount triggering the enforceability of the Restated Agreements to $707,500 (“Funding”), altered the date in which initial fees are payable to no later than March 5, 2021 (the “Funding Date”) and provided terms to prevent dilution for NECP’s equity compensation for future funding secured by the Company. The fees in the Restated Agreements are payable within three business days from the effective date, at or before the Funding Date, at the Subscription Service Ready Date annually and monthly. The gross total fees due under the Restated Agreements are $2,212,500, excluding pass-through costs associated with infrastructure hosting fees.

On February 19, 2021, the Company completed and validated its contractual obligations and paid to NECP the $100,000 engagement fee. On February 29, 2021, the Company paid the initial fee of $707,500 to NECP prior to the Funding Date. On March 25, 2021, the Company issued 18,011,515 shares of common stock to NEC on a fully diluted basis with piggyback rights. The Company valued the common stock issuance at $67,543,182 based upon the closing market price on the effective date of the transaction based on the closing market price of the Company’s common stock. The issuance was recorded as a $5,000,000 asset, as capitalized prepaid software development and licensing and $62,543,182 as an expense, as excess fair value of equity issuance over assets received, as of June 30, 2021 based on the estimated fair market value of services had the Company developed improvements and additional functionality of the NECP platform. The estimated amortization is a 5 years life based on the term of the licensing agreement. The Company may revise the value of the asset and estimated life as more information is made available.

The initial fees paid within three business days from the effective date and at or before the Funding Date included the following costs:

Engagement Fee	$	100,000
License subscription fee (50% due at Funding Date)		375,000
Annual maintenance subscription fee (first year)		112,500
Implementation fee (50% due at Funding Date)		162,500
Infrastructure implementation fee (50% due at Funding Date)		32,500
Training fee (50% due at Funding Date)		25,000
Total	$	807,500

As of June 30, 2021, the following payments are due in the intervals noted over the five-year life of the Restated Agreements:

License subscription fee (second 50% due at Subscription Ready Date)	$	375,000
Annual maintenance subscription fees ($112,500 annually)		450,000
Implementation fees (50% due at Subscription Ready Date)		162,500
Infrastructure implementation fees (50% due at Subscription Ready Date)		32,500
Training fees (50% due at Subscription Ready Date)		25,000
Infrastructure support fees ($6,000 monthly after Subscription Ready Date)		360,000
Total	$	1,405,000	*

* Infrastructure Hosting Fees, which are pass through hosting fees from a hosting partner are excluded from this calculation.

Innovations Realized LLC

On October 2, 2020, the Company entered into an independent contractor services agreement with Innovations Realized, LLC (“IR”) to develop a strategic operating plan focused on the design, execution and go to market implementation of the NECP platform to enter the United States market.

On February 18, 2021, the Company entered into an amended independent contractor services agreement with IR. On February 19, 2021, the initial payment of $76,000 was made and on February 24, 2021 the second payment of $76,000 was made, on April 5, 2021 the third payment of $152,000 and on May 5, 2021, the fourth and fifth payment of $114,000 was made. The following payments are due over the life of the contract:

July 5, 2021		114,000
August 5, 2021		114,000
Total	$	228,000

Under the October 2020 agreement, the Company granted options to purchase 400,000 shares at a price of $0.01 and 2,500,000 shares at $0.25 and exercisable for two years after vesting. These options vest in equal monthly installments over 24 months. In addition, the options early vesting based on the completion date of the statement of work or the IR principle becoming an employee of AppTech Corp. These options had a grant date fair value of $1,399,992 and $8,749,701 using a Black Scholes pricing model. The options to purchase 400,000 shares valued at $1,399,992 were recorded as an expense, as excess fair value of equity issuance, and to purchase 141,411 shares valued at $491,421 were recorded as an asset, as capitalized prepaid software development and licensing, as of June 30, 2021 based on the estimated fair market value of services had the Company developed the platform. The estimated amortization is a 5 years life based on the term of the licensing agreement. The Company may revise the estimated life upon completion of the platform.

On December 21, 2020, the Company sold the domain “bubblepay.com” for $72,500 to a third party.

Employee versus Contractor Classification

The Company compensated various individuals as consultants. Annually, the Company issues Form 1099s for amounts paid to them. In addition, a portion of these consultants did not have arrangements which specified compensation payable to them. The Company risks potential tax and legal actions should these consultants be deemed to be employees by governmental agencies. The Company added all relevant independent contractors as paid full-time employees on April 22^nd and April 28^th, 2021.

Executive Compensation

On April 28, 2021, the Company entered into new employment and stock options agreements with its named executive officers. The agreements, among other things, each employment agreement, apart from the Chief Executive Officer which implements a guaranteed bonus structure, shall provide for a starting base salary and potential business development revenue sharing at rates ranging from 20-50% of net processing revenue. Each Employment Agreement also provides a potential annual bonus, which is subject to adjustment by the Board from time to time. Further, stock option awards for certain named executives were provided, subject to the applicable vesting schedule. Each Employment Agreement provides that the applicable named executive officer’s employment with us is “at will”. The named executive officers are entitled to receive all other benefits generally available to our executive officers.