Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

On October 15, 2013, The SpendSmart Payments Company (the “Company”), through its wholly owned subsidiary The SpendSmart Payments Company, a California corporation, entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement (the “Agreement”) with Intellectual Capital Management, Inc., d/b/a SMS Masterminds (“SMS”) a Nevada corporation, whereby, upon the completion of certain closing conditions, the Company will purchase substantially all of the assets of SMS. Maxim Group LLC is serving as the exclusive financial advisor to the Company in connection with the transaction.

In consideration for such assets, the Company has agreed to issue SMS an aggregate of five million two hundred and fifty thousand shares of common stock of the Company. In addition to standard and customary closing deliverables, as further set forth in the Agreement, as a condition to the closing of the Agreement: (i) the Company will enter into an employment agreement with Alex Minicucci, currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of SMS; (ii) the Company will enter into an employment agreement with Luke Wallace, currently the Chief Operating Officer of SMS; (iii) the Company will complete an equity financing; and (iv) the Company shall have completed its due diligence of the assets and business of SMS, to its sole satisfaction.

The summary of the Agreement described above is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Asset Purchase Agreement which is filed as Exhibit 10.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.

On October 16, 2013, the Company issued a press release entitled “SpendSmart Acquires Fast Growing & Profitable Mobile Marketing Company: SMS Masterminds” a copy of which is furnished herewith as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.

Pursuant to General Instruction B.2 of Form 8-K, the information in this Item 7.01 of Form 8-K, including Exhibit 99.1, is being furnished and shall not be deemed “filed” for the purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or otherwise be subject to the liabilities of that section, nor is it incorporated by reference into any filing of the Company under the Securities Act of 1933 or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, whether made before or after the date hereof, regardless of any general incorporation language in such filing.

(d) Exhibits.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.