David Foss
Board Chair and Chief Executive Officer at Jack Henry & Associates
Thank you, Kevin, and good morning, everyone. Today, we're very pleased to share details with you for a quarter that produced record revenue and operating income as well as record sales bookings. As always, I'd like to begin today by thanking our associates for all the hard work and commitment that went into producing those results for our fourth quarter and for the entire fiscal year.
For the fourth quarter of fiscal 2022, total revenue increased 7% for the quarter and increased 8% on a non-GAAP basis. Deconversion fees were down about 37% as compared to the prior year quarter. As a reminder, although a reduction in deconversion fees impacts the quarter negatively, it is a long-term positive for our business.
Turning to the segments, we had a solid quarter in the core segment of our business, revenue increased by 8% for the quarter and increased by 19% on a non-GAAP basis. Our Payments segment performed well, posting a 5% increase in revenue this quarter and a 5% increase on a non-GAAP basis. We also had a very robust quarter in our complementary solutions businesses with a 9% increase in revenue this quarter and a 10% increase on a non-GAAP basis.
As I highlighted in our press release, the fourth quarter was the strongest sales quarter in the history of the company. Those of you who follow us closely will know that in the fourth quarter of 2021, we set an all-time sales record. We broke that record in the second quarter of fiscal '22 and now we've broken that new record in the fourth quarter. Additionally, in the third quarter of this year, we exceeded our highest ever Q3 sales payment by around 40%. All in all, this has been a remarkable year for the sales teams.
To provide a little detail regarding sales successes in the quarter, we booked 17 competitive core takeaways with five of those being multibillion dollar institutions. Additionally, we signed 18 deals to move existing on-premise customers to our private cloud environment. Several of our complementary offerings also saw very strong demand in the quarter with, as you might guess, our digital suite leading the pack. We signed 48 new clients to our Banno Digital Platform in the quarter and 21 new clients to our card processing solution.
For the full year, we signed 52 competitive core takeaways with 10 of them greater than $1 billion in assets. Additionally, we signed 54 contracts to move on-premise core clients to our private cloud, 165 new Banno Digital customers and 58 new clients for our core processing -- for our card processing solution. Of course, we signed a variety of other contracts for many of our other solutions as well, but it's important to note that almost all of these contracts represent long-term recurring revenue commitments to Jack Henry for a wide variety of our solutions.
Our Annual Client Conference is scheduled for the end of this month and I'm very happy to say we already have 56 core prospects signed up to attend and hopefully finalize their decision to move to Jack Henry. So in case you missed that, I'm going to repeat that. At our Annual Client Conference at the end of this month, we have 56 core prospects signed up to attend and work with our sales organization.
At our Analyst Conference in May, I shared with the attendees that we had just surpassed 7.2 million registered users on our Banno Digital Banking Platform. As of the end of the fiscal year, we were at roughly 7.7 million registered users. As a point of reference, on July 1st of 2020, we had about 3.2 million registered users. So in two years, we've seen an increase of almost 150% in our user count. This is significant because as I've stressed in the past, most of the revenue for a business like this is tied to the number of users on the platform.
On August 9, we announced the definitive agreement for Jack Henry to acquire Payrailz with an expected closing of August 31. Payrailz accelerates Jack Henry's technology modernization strategy by immediately adding next-generation digital payment capabilities to Jack Henry's technology stack and payments ecosystem. Payrailz also enhances Jack Henry's payments-as-a-service strategy enabling clients to simplify the complexity of payments, modernize their existing payment channels and remain at the center of their account holders' payment experiences.
Today, Jack Henry supports the growing demand for payments-as-a-service with a virtual payments hub that consolidates money moving solutions and supports numerous payment channels and types. Payrailz strategically complements this hub with its extensive capabilities for consumer and commercial bill pay, real-time person to person payments, account to account transfers, business to customer payments, accounts and more. Acquiring Payrailz will strengthen Jack Henry's position in the payments space by providing our collective clients with additional functionality, optionality and flexibility that enhances their diverse digital and payment strategies.
Hopefully, you've all seen the August 1st announcement about our corporate rebranding. As we move forward, rather than using Symitar, ProfitStars in Jack Henry Banking as unique brands, you will see us go-to-market as simply Jack Henry. We believe that uniting the brands reflects Jack Henry's role as a well-rounded financial technology provider and an advocate for community and regional financial institutions. Our new brand is the outcome of the work we're doing to modernize our technology, streamline operations and operate as one company, which we believe will result in a better client experience. We now have a platform to speak from a single consistent voice, as we continue to help community and regional financial institutions, strengthen connections with account holders by offering a full array of solutions and access to a wide network of FinTech partners.
As many of you know, Jack Henry is regularly named as a Best Place to Work in various publications around the country. Recently, we were thrilled to be named by LinkedIn as a Top 10 Best Place to Work in financial services. Our consistent placement on Best Place to Work lists is a testament to the workplace culture we have at Jack Henry and our employee engagement scores reflect that strong culture. Additionally, we began a continuous listening strategy this year to gather feedback from our associates, and I'm pleased to share that overall our participation rate was greater than 65%. We achieved an engagement capital score of 79% and 87% of our employees says that they believe in Jack Henry's values all well above industry benchmarks.
As we shared at the beginning of August, we have now completed a comprehensive search and named a new CFO effective on September 1. Mimi Carsley joined our finance team on July 1 and has been busy coming up to speed on the Jack Henry story and financials for the past several weeks. As we stated in the press release, she comes to us with more than 30 years of financial industry experience, but also has a strong technology background. Mimi will be traveling with our Director of Investor Relations, Vance Sherard in September to meet with a number of investors and analysts and I expect that she will lead this call in November.
But first with the addition of Mimi, we are now prepared to wish Kevin, a happy retirement. Kevin has been very accommodating through the search process by delaying his intended retirement date until he was confident that we have found replacement, who could help us build the company for the future. As many of you know, Kevin has been with Jack Henry for almost 25 years, but his association with our company goes back well over 30 years. During that time, he has had a tremendous impact on our execution and our success. I'd like to take this opportunity on behalf of all Jack Henry associates, customers and shareholders to thank Kevin for everything he's done to make us so successful for these many years, you will be missed Kevin.
As I reflect back on fiscal 2022, I can confidently say it was a very good year for our company. Our employee engagement scores remain high and our levels of customer engagement and customer satisfaction scores are also very high. We have successfully completed several leadership and board level retirements and replacements and expect these new members of our leadership teams to continue our track record of success. Our sales teams are performing extremely well and have positioned us for another successful year and overall demand for Jack Henry technology solutions remains high in all segments of our business.
We have a commitment to doing the right thing for our constituents that we believe will continue to serve us well. We will continue with our disciplined approach to running the company and expect that approach to help provide stability for our employees, customers and shareholders. As we began the new fiscal year, I continue to be very optimistic about our future.
With that, I'll turn it over to Kevin for some detail on the numbers.