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Epic Games Versus The App Store: A Fight for Autonomy and Freedom in the Ecommerce Era

FastSpring

Note: Apple announced that it would be reducing the App Store fee from 30% to 15% for most developers starting on January 1st, 2021. For app entrepreneurs and ecommerce store owners, the battle to be noticed in the marketplace is ongoing. Epic Games wants to take control of their online sales with its own marketplace.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Toast at $500m in ARR, and a $3B Total Run Rate

SaaStr

It loses money on the hardware (gross margin negative) and the payments solutions have barely a 20%+ margin and constitute the vast majority of revenue today. Wix has a similar challenge at $1B+ in ARR , where its website SaaS has high margins but its payments products for eCommerce have a 29% margin.

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Thanks to Chargebee, Deel, Lark, and Vanta for Sponsoring SaaStr APAC 2023!

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Chargebee is a recurring billing and subscription management tool that helps SaaS and SaaS-like businesses streamline Revenue Operations. Chargebee integrates with the leading payment gateways like Stripe, Braintree, PayPal etc. Deel is a global payroll solution that helps businesses hire anyone, anywhere.

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Chargebacks 101: How to Minimize Charges for Your Ecommerce Business

FastSpring

This is called a “chargeback”, and if you’re an e-commerce merchant, they can cost your business—big time. Heartland Payment systems estimate that around 0.01% of all transactions end in a chargeback. But in 2016 alone, chargebacks cost the e-commerce industry an estimated $6.7 For a small business owner.it

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29 Latin American SaaS Superstars

SaaStock

ContaAzul is a business management platform for small businesses created in Brazil. RD Station is an inbound marketing platform targeted at small and medium-size businesses. Listing your online business on Olist is compared to having your shop in the largest department store in the region. RD Station.

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PSD2: Strong Customer Authentication Overview

FastSpring

As part of the second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) , online stores in the European Union will be required to implement additional security measures during the authentication process. For many online merchants, these new regulations may require you to add more authentication measures to your checkout process.

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How Adopting Mobile Payments Can Help Your Business Grow in 2024

Stax

You’re making a purchase at a retail store, and the cash register is large, clunky, and painfully slow, even for 2004. Fast forward to now where much has changed, and research anticipates contactless mobile payments to exceed one billion users globally by 2024. Why Is Adding Mobile Payments Important to Businesses Today?