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Approaching Half a Million Customers: How to Win in SMB with BILL CEO and Founder René Lacerte

SaaStr

A mobile phone is their dominant source of managing business activities. When you get bigger, say 20 to 50 to 100 monthly transactions, you probably have an accounting person in BILL daily. Then, in 2017, with around $50M in revenue, BILL added payment capabilities. If you screw up one payment, customers are going to be angry.

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5 Best Paddle Alternatives in 2024

FastSpring

The company handles transactions for sellers of digital products, providing the infrastructure for global online payments while taking responsibility for tax collection and remittance, fraud prevention, and other aspects of the checkout process. It’s a capable solution, but by no means is Paddle a universal, one-size-fits-all option.

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Merchant of Record for Mobile Games: What It Is and Why You Need One

FastSpring

Because of these developments, mobile game companies are investigating more options for monetizing their games than just the App Store or Play Store. So where do you start if you want to provide more global payment solutions to your player base while chipping away at the hefty 30% fees that mobile marketplaces charge?

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Digital River Alternatives for 2024

FastSpring

It’s especially important to note that Digital River is a merchant of record (MoR), which means that many payment service providers may not include the kind of comprehensive services you’re used to with an MoR. Three other payments options in 2024. What Makes a Merchant of Record Different From Payment Service Providers ?

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Software Transcends Borders—Why Not Money?

Andreessen Horowitz

While embedding financial services is relatively easy in some countries, a global software company that wants to add payments, lending, or some other financial service in multiple countries has to navigate a complex web of local infrastructure companies and regulations. has had real-time payments since 2005 via the Faster Payments network.

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How Founders Can Take Control of Their Destiny with Tradeshift (video + transcript)

SaaStr

Tradeshift has grown to 650+ people with offices in 12 countries from its start as a mere vision in 2005. Tradeshift Pay is an entrant payment solution for supply chains, meaning no matter where your supplier is in the world, we can make sure they get paid. We can do the payments, and we have all of these third party app providers.”

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Is What Epic Wants for App Stores What Other Game Developers Actually Want?

FastSpring

Epic’s outsized voice and the reluctance of other studios to speak up publicly for fear of repercussions from app stores leaves us wondering: Is what Epic wants for app stores what other game and app developers actually want? There were no gatekeepers — just a computer, a player, and a game. But the world has changed.