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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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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. As a result, it’s quite profitable, with $150m in free cash flow in 2020. #2. Monetizing ecommerce via subscriptions, but not payment processing. Billion in GMV processed, up a stunning 91% from 2019. 85% NRR.

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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. How does the provider protect against payment fraud? Is it the interface? Integrations?

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5 Interesting Learnings from Shopify at $5 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

Few SaaS leaders have gone through more post-pandemic change than Shopify and Zoom. Zoom came out of 2020-2021 with SMBs no longer growing, but a huge boost in the enterprise. SaaS growth slowed to 10% year-over-year, down from a peak overall growth of almost 100% (!) during peak Covid in Q3 2020. More on that here.

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UIPath S-1 Analysis: How 7 Key Metrics Stack Up

Tom Tunguz

UIPath, leaders in the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) category, filed their S-1 last week , revealing an impressive business. UIPath offers software to build robots, programs that automate repetitive work. Robots read pdfs that customers provide and input that data into other computer systems.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Bill.com at $800,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

And its payments network to roll out. But yes, it’s the most incredible SMB growth story in SaaS we’ve ever seen. Up from 110% at IPO, 124% in 2021, and 121% in 2020. Like Shopify, Bill.com is now less a SaaS company than a transactions company built on top of a software layer. 131% NRR.

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Why Vertical SaaS is Booming, And How to Get 110% NRR from SMBs, with Jason Lemkin + Mangomint’s CEO Daniel Lang

SaaStr

So one of SaaStr Fund’s latest investments is Mangomint, a vertical SaaS platform for spas and salons. There are multiple vendors in different segments, including Mindbody which IPO’d a SaaS generation ago and then taken private in a $2B Vista acquisition. And why is Vertical SaaS thriving today? Pretty cool!