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Adding Payments and Fintech to SaaS Can Be Great. But You Gotta Watch the Margins.

SaaStr

So in the Boom Times of later 2020 and 2021, almost every VC pushed SaaS companies to at least become a little bit of a fintech. It seemed such an easy way to bolt on more revenue to an underlying SaaS platform. Shopify now gets 2x the revenue from payments and merchant services than it does from SaaS subcriptions.

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The Complete Guide to SaaS Pricing Strategy

Tom Tunguz

They prioritize revenue growth, market share and profit maximization differently. Maximization (Revenue Growth) - maximize revenue growth in the short term. Many mid-market software companies price with the goal of revenue maximization, negotiating for the highest possible price in each sale.

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5 Interesting Learnings From Shopify. At $3+ Billion in ARR.

SaaStr

But, there are still many interesting things we can learn from Shopify, especially since it sells to so many SMBs, has been late to go upmarket, and combines a payments/fintech element with pure SaaS. Subscriptions can fuel payments and merchant revenue. It’s now bigger than Shopify’s SaaS revenue, by far: 3.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Squarespace at $700,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

Squarespace may be more design-focused, Wix the somewhat more cost-effective solution. It’s pretty incredible in fact that both these two businesses can hit $700m and $1B in ARR, both growing 30%, neither able to clip the wings of the other. Over $500,000 revenue per employee. 30% of its revenue outside the U.S.

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Digital Payments: 12 Digital Payment Options to Consider Accepting in Your Business

Stax

We can hail a ride from a mobile app, and our transactions for all sorts of goods and services can be easily paid for from our phones. Physical wallets are phasing out, left behind in favor of digital wallets and other digital payment options. In 2019, 77% of US consumers were using at least one type of digital payment system.

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SaaS Payment Processing: 10 Questions to Ask When Comparing Solutions

FastSpring

What makes a company choose one SaaS payment processing provider over another? In my conversations with software developers and technical founders over the years, I’ve heard how complicated these tech stack choices are to make. Integrations? How does the provider protect against payment fraud? Is it the interface?

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

SaaStr

And they are both incredibly impressive — 118% growth at $3B run-rate and $500m in ARR in software alone may be an all-time record — but also, perhaps not SaaS? #1. With gross margins of only 21%, is Toast really a software company? Wix just has more software revenue to blend the total margins higher.