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

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

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. — Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) April 16, 2021. Perhaps the most interesting thing is just how similar both these website-builder-plus-ecommerce companies are. Squarespace may be more design-focused, Wix the somewhat more cost-effective solution. Monetizing ecommerce via subscriptions, but not payment processing.

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Is it Really ARR? In 2021+, Yes. As Long As NRR is > 100%

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50% revenue from software (recurring), 50% from payments (not-recurring). . Half of its revenues comes from its software. And yes, it’s a software company. You pay a subscription for websites to help you sell stuff. That ends up acting a lot like a traditional SaaS software contract at a practical level.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Shopify at $5 Billion in ARR

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Zoom came out of 2020-2021 with SMBs no longer growing, but a huge boost in the enterprise. Folks that wanted to go online, stayed online. But folks that didn’t really want to sell online, sort of stopped when they didn’t have to anymore. More on that here. 5 Interesting Learnings: #1.

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

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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. Why software/SaaS companies should care. Let’s go ??.

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

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— Ari Levy (@levynews) September 22, 2021. 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? With gross margins of only 21%, is Toast really a software company? Mediocre margins in payments.

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

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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. This gets more challenging when you have stakeholders who aren’t the ones buying the software. I already have a solution.”

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