Tom Tunguz

MARCH 28, 2021

UIPath, leaders in the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) category, filed their S-1 last week , revealing an impressive business. in the same three year span, with a 3x jump between 2019 and 2020. Larger enterprise contracts imply longer contract terms and larger pre-payments, boosting these figures.

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Payment Services Metrics Payment Solutions Payments 359

SaaStr

MAY 8, 2021

— Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) September 4, 2020. I felt like when I was a SaaS CEO and had to go profitable, they helped saved my rear. bills, “payment terms”, and often, repeated follow-up. But getting paid in a simple ACH or credit card payment each month can be magical. This is still true.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Scale Payments 317

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Many of the fundamental business models that were once engraved in the SaaS playbook are now changing thanks to a tougher macro environment and a maturing market. PST, Stephanie Opdam, Partner at Notion Capital, shares four business model changes that will allow SaaS companies to build resilience and staying power over time.

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SaaStr

JULY 20, 2022

It’s something we don’t see too often these days, as $200m+ ARR sort of became the new floor to IPO in SaaS. Today, it crosses dentistry, optometry, veterinary, physical therapy, specialty medical services, audiology, plumbing, electrical, HVAC and other home services. It was growing 75% in 2020, year-over-year.

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SaaS Payments Scale Payment Methods SMB 290

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Founder and General Partner of Craft Ventures, David Sacks, shares his perspective on what to expect from SaaS in 2024. Can you raise a Series A if you’re not “AI SaaS?” Can You Raise A Series A If You’re Not AI SaaS? So, can you raise a Series A if you’re not “AI SaaS?” Is everything going to be focused on AI?

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2021

Shopify, since last year, has nearly tripled in market cap driven by the rise of e-commerce, but also the digital payments and the QR code system they provide for contactless payments. We’re bringing S-M-B back with SaaS. Fintech and crypto players are changing financial services forever.

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Cloud Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions 284

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

An ICP aligns your product, sales, marketing, service, and executive teams to all focus on your highest-value accounts. Brex then scaled its payments business quickly. Then, it built an entire ecosystem around it, soon launching Shopify payments, an embedded payment tool that quickly became the largest piece of the business.

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Payments Payment Methods Embedded Payments Scale 243

FastSpring

AUGUST 11, 2021

In Malaysia, Sales and Service Tax (SST) is a consumption tax imposed on a wide range of goods and services. is much simpler for businesses compared with the previous Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime it replaced and the old SST framework that preceded GST. Each has their own registration, compliance, and remittance processes.

Merchant Services 142

Merchant Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Methods 142

Baremetrics

MARCH 30, 2021

Your business requires a fast and reliable tool for sending and receiving payments from clients. But with so many payment processing tools on the market, which one should you choose? Here's a list of six payment processing platforms for 2021. 1 Different B2B Payment Processing Tools 1. QuickBooks 3.

Payment Services 80

Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payments 80

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

In the early days of running a software company, collecting payments was pretty straightforward. Fast forward to today when most software companies use a Subscription as a service (SaaS business model , and things aren’t as simple. To put it simply, recurring billing can get complicated, especially for a SaaS company.

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Payment Solutions Merchant Services Systems Review SaaS Payments 105

SaaStr

APRIL 1, 2023

Throw in the rise of social media and mobile web payment systems like Stripe and Braintree, and something revolutionary was at our doorstep. Fast Forward To 2020 The pandemic happened. 2020 wasn’t the only reason small business owners adopted software solutions, but it sure sped up the process.

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SaaStr

APRIL 6, 2021

Growth fueled by the addition of transactional revenue, not SaaS revenues. Olo’s explosive growth in the past 24 months prior to IPO wasn’t fueled so much by its SaaS revenue, but by transaction revenue as part of orders. As last as 2018, 93% of Olo’s revenue was pure SaaS. Billion valuation today.

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Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payments Payment Services 249

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

But thankfully, that’s not what your payroll process has to look like. The best payroll services help you automate paying your employees and simplify the entire process, so you can gain more control over how you spend your time. The 6 best payroll service options for 2020. That adds up to 21 full work-days a year.

Payment Services 145

Payment Services SaaS Payments Outsourcing Services Payment Solutions 145

Incredo

DECEMBER 3, 2019

We have interviewed tens of SaaS community members to understand how they perceive SaaS Christmas promotions. And here are the best answers we have received. #1 Denis Lunev Founder at DepositFix , Payment Integration for HubSpot “ The most expensive time of year to advertise on Google and Facebook is Black Friday and Christmas.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments 44

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

What you’ll see in that cloud spend box is actually Gartner’s 2020 estimate for infrastructure as a service spending for companies, which was $50 billion. And if you also look at the platform as a service category, that’s also an additional $50 billion of spend, and that’s typically with those same vendors.

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Scale Marketplace as a Service Cloud SaaS Payments 262

Incredo

DECEMBER 3, 2019

We have interviewed tens of SaaS community members to understand how they perceive SaaS Christmas promotions. And here are the best answers we have received. #1 Denis Lunev Founder at DepositFix , Payment Integration for HubSpot “ The most expensive time of year to advertise on Google and Facebook is Black Friday and Christmas.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payments Social Media 204

Payrix

MAY 14, 2024

Before joining Worldpay for Platforms, he was CRO at Chargebee, a subscription revenue management platform that manages billing subscriptions and payments for companies throughout the world. During his tenure, Chargebee experienced high growth, scaling from processing about $3 billion in revenue to $13-14 billion.

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Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 147

yoursales

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Sales Stack 2020. SALES STACK 2020: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2020: THE TOOLS. W elcome to "Sales Stack 2020 - Sales Tools for Professional Sales". Enabling the right customer journey with sales tools that power your sales process has been high on our agenda for years. Sales Tools for Professional Sales.

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Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 103

FastSpring

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Hackers are getting more sophisticated, and one area they love to attack is the online checkout experience on eCommerce websites, making secure payment forms more important than ever. We heard a wide variety of responses, such as: Using an AVS (Address Verification Service) Tokenization Stacking payment gateways Using encrypted payments.

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Payment Methods Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Features 107

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

I think it’s a challenge to folks that think we are in some sort of terrible downturn for SaaS and cloud. While Azure and Google Cloud grew at record rates, Shopify for example, its SaaS business only grew 10% last quarter. Colin here, CEO of a startup, B2B SaaS, and raising a seed round right now. Take the meeting.

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Scale SaaS Payments Scaling SaaS 245

yoursales

DECEMBER 23, 2019

SALES STACK 2020. W elcome to "Sales Stack 2020 - Sales Tools for Professional Sales". Enabling the right customer journey with sales tools that power your sales process has been high on our agenda for years. Now, in 2020, there really aren't any reasons to believe that will change. What do we mean with "best"?

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Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 103

FastSpring

JUNE 22, 2022

We don’t have to look far to find examples of B2B SaaS companies that have found traction using a self-service or product-led motion. In fact, it’s telling that the number of publicly-traded PLG-led companies nearly quadrupled between 2015 and 2020. How B2B and B2C Are Converging. How to Take Advantage of These Changes.

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Every year we ask the OpenView network to weigh in, and this time around many folks unsurprisingly made predictions around a trend most of us in SaaS had to adapt to (and, to be honest, are still figuring out) in 2020: remote work. Productizing their services and enabling contactless and frictionless selling.”.

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Stax

AUGUST 26, 2024

The year 2024 is a special one for everyone at Stax because we’re celebrating a decade of transforming the payments industry and supporting our merchants and partners with innovative technologies and unwavering support. Launching PayFac and ISV solutions In 2019 and 2020, Stax became more than just a payment processor for merchants.

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Payment Services Merchant Services Stax Payment Solutions 88

Point Nine Land

JUNE 18, 2023

Everything you always wanted to know about cohort analysis (but were afraid to ask) Back in 2012, I wrote a blog post titled “Know your user cohorts” , which began like this: “One of the most important tools to better understand the usage of a web application — or a service, a game or a mobile app, it doesn’t matter — is a cohort analysis.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments SaaS 128

OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

Pricing is a SaaS company’s most efficient profit lever, but it’s also one of the easiest things to screw up. Nailing your SaaS pricing strategy requires more than just picking the optimal price and forgetting about it. It includes the latest and greatest SaaS pricing resources, as well as some timeless staples.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Here they are… The 97 Best Sales Books in 2020. Strategy and Process. Sales Enablement. The Sales Enablement Playbook. Enablement Mastery. Blueprints for a SaaS Sales Organization. It’s a simple, timeless, and repeatable process that’s been known to help reps close 30% more sales. Spear Selling.

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales 143

Chart Mogul

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Commission structures are most often found in industries that are sales heavy or that deal with direct sale services or products but lack a storefront. If an employee sells a service or product for $1,500, they will receive a commission of $150. In turn, errors in commission payments can happen if you are not careful.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

As the team at the Saas Commerce Platform Paddle has learned, real growth is about entering new markets – and that takes thoughtful attention to pricing, making inroads into new geographic regions, deciding whether to move upmarket (or downmarket), and offering new standalone products instead of bloated features tacked onto old ones.

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Payments Scale Revenue SaaS Payments 186

SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. More than half of Kenya’s GDP is now transacted through a mobile, through arguably the most successful mobile banking and payment system called M-Pesa. We said, “How important is Giraffe to you in your recruitment process?” Want to see more content like this? How’s it guys?

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Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling SaaS Payments 223

Stax

JUNE 25, 2024

With 63% of donors preferring to make online payments with a debit or credit card, it’s important that nonprofits and charity organizations take a forward-thinking fundraising approach to maximize the impact they can make. Don’t worry: today, we’ll help you find the best charity payment solution for your nonprofit.

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Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Methods 88

Incredo

DECEMBER 3, 2019

We have interviewed tens of SaaS community members to understand how they perceive SaaS Christmas promotions. And here are the best answers we have received. #1 Denis Lunev Founder at DepositFix , Payment Integration for HubSpot “ The most expensive time of year to advertise on Google and Facebook is Black Friday and Christmas.

SaaS Payments 162

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payments Social Media 162

How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

There are more blessings coming for you in 2021 as Semrush has got some new key updates in 2020 end to amplify your content, social, and search engine marketing executions in 2021. In this article, we will be discussing the key SEMrush updates in 2020. 2018 V/S 2020. Digital entrepreneurs are blessed to have a tool like Semrush.

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Content Marketing Payment Methods Social Media Marketplace as a Service 104

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 21, 2021

All the data your startup needs Get deep insights into your company's MRR, churn and other vital metrics for your SaaS business. UXPin is a code-based design tool that simplifies and unifies product development process by bringing code components to the design stage. At that time, they used both PayLane and PayPal to process payments.

Payment Services 98

Payment Services SaaS Payments Payments Payment Solutions 98

Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Monthly recurring revenue is one of the least exciting topics to take on in 2020. Twitter hive, at @ChartMogul we’ve set out to write the MRR guide for 2020 — something that goes beyond the “How to calculate MRR” that you’re so tired of. — Ilia Markov (@nochainmarkov) August 27, 2020. It is simple (to calculate).

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Payments Revenue Payment Features SaaS Payments 145

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. There’s a lot of services. This episode is sponsored by Linode.

Payment Solutions 214

Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 214

FastSpring

AUGUST 11, 2021

In Malaysia, Sales and Service Tax (SST) is a consumption tax imposed on a wide range of goods and services. is much simpler for businesses compared with the previous Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime it replaced and the old SST framework that preceded GST. Each has their own registration, compliance, and remittance processes.

Merchant Services 78

Merchant Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Methods 78