SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Billion ARR, growing a stunning 48% (!) – 111% NRR, although down from 131% in 2021 – 15 Month CAC – Gotten very efficient, +$194m net profit – Transactions growing faster than software, like Shopify – From $120m ARR in… pic.twitter.com/hYImIBKyNQ — Jason ✨Be Kind✨ Lemkin  ?? And Far Bigger.

Payment Services 336

Payment Services Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 336

SaaStr

APRIL 12, 2022

The majority of its revenue is now from Bitcoin transactions, not “traditional” payments and software. And yet … and yet … its engine is all software and really SaaS. Its software and services business is the one with the real operating margins. At least still for now.

Payments 294

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services Revenue 294

SaaStr

AUGUST 28, 2024

Only 20% of Revenue from “SaaS”, 80% From Transactions and Float (Fintech) Bill started off 100% SaaS, and slowly and deliberately added payments. Fast forward to today, and only 20% of its revenue is from software subscriptions. But both are still at their core software platforms.

Payments 285

Payments Payment Solutions SMB Acquisition 285

Tom Tunguz

MARCH 28, 2021

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. The UIPath suite includes the software to write, execute, monitor, and maintain these robots. Lastly, let’s touch on UIPath’s revenue streams.

Payment Services 359

Payment Services Metrics Payment Solutions Payments 359

SaaStr

APRIL 29, 2021

Shopify’s first quarter revenue: Q1 2021: $989 million Q1 2020: $470 million Q1 2019: $321 million Q1 2018: $214 million Q1 2017: $127 million Q1 2016: $73 million Q1 2015: $37 million Q1 2014: $19 million Q1 2013: $9 million. — Jon Erlichman (@JonErlichman) April 28, 2021. 110% growth at $4B in revenues.

Merchant Services 315

Merchant Services Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payments 315

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

— 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.

Payment Methods 320

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments Cloud 320

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

SVB collapsed, market multiples are down, yet the IPO window is re-opening, and we have a platform shift to AI that’s exciting everybody. The Macro Impact On Public Cloud Software Over The Past Year Cloud stocks dropped in 2022 in a severe market pullback event that Bessemer Venture Partners call The SaaSacre. Let’s find out.

Cloud 299

Cloud Payments Software Review Payment Solutions 299

SaaStr

AUGUST 3, 2022

Zoom came out of 2020-2021 with SMBs no longer growing, but a huge boost in the enterprise. Payments still materially accelerating overall growth to 16%, and predicting revenue growth from payments and merchant solutions to more than double that of subscriptions and SaaS. More on that here.

Payment Methods 277

Payment Methods Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 277

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Wherever you are in your revenue journey, adopting certain growth strategies can help you keep growing fast. Joined by Katie Wickham, Payrix’s Director of Marketing, Butler shares essential tips on accelerating your business to $100 million ARR and beyond. . Brex then scaled its payments business quickly.

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Payments Payment Methods Embedded Payments Scale 243

FastSpring

JUNE 21, 2024

and Google LLC from limiting third-party companies that want to distribute and monetize their own apps on Google and Apple devices. This is to prevent the platform providers from “gatekeeping” while also forcing more competition between their own apps and others on the platforms.

Merchant Services 158

Merchant Services Marketplace as a Service Payments Payment Solutions 158

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Bill.com had to develop a network that today has millions on vendors processing bills and payments on it. So they let folks use the platform the way they wanted, from paper checks to fax and more. #2. The payments / fintech side of Bill took a decade to come together. There are 6m SMBs that buy SaaS software.

SaaS Payments 62

SaaS Payments Payments Payment Services Scale 62

SaaStr

JANUARY 6, 2021

Take heart, with the stock market still performing well into 2021 and vaccines beginning distribution across the United States, things are looking up. — Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) January 4, 2021. Uzio , an HR, benefits, and compensation solution, is looking for a VP of Sales to manage a growing team of five AE’s.

Sales Hiring 337

Sales Hiring Scale Payment Solutions Payments 337

FastSpring

MAY 15, 2024

District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers’ order to allow app developers to “steer” users to third-party payment options outside of the native App Store. The article points out that according to Epic documents, Apple is still blocking developers from steering consumers to other payment options with lower pricing options.

Merchant Services 128

Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services Payments 128

FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

If you sell software internationally, you know how difficult handling cross-border payments can be. From making sure you display the right currencies for each region to supporting your customers’ preferred payment methods, global commerce can come with its fair share of challenges. Table of Contents. What is SEPA Direct Debit?

Payment Methods 148

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 148

Stax

AUGUST 16, 2024

From $412 billion in 2021 to $591 billion in 2023, the industry has expanded by more than 140%. In this landscape, embedded payments have become a great way for SaaS companies to provide value-added services on top of their core offerings to customers. The demand for embedded payments is huge.

Payments 88

Payments Embedded Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 88

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

And its payments network to roll out. 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. Both Bill.com and Shopify now get the majority of their revenues from payments and payment processing.

SaaS Payments 64

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments 64

SaaStr

MARCH 11, 2021

A lot of SaaS pricing originally comes from classic enterprise software. In the old days, a customer would pay a large fee for the software upfront, and then a smaller maintenance fee for years to come. The big upfront fee was naturally paid up front, like other software you buy. So the upfront payment for a year isn’t dead.

Merchant Services 276

Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payments 276

FastSpring

OCTOBER 19, 2021

“When we heard about it, we just stopped what we were doing,” an app developer told us on a recent call. “It Pending Apple’s appeal, the Gonzalez Rogers ruling would enable developers to link to external payment systems (like FastSpring!) Apple case mean for Apple’s 30% revenue cut? It shut down our shop for a while.

Payment Solutions 148

Payment Solutions Payments Payment Methods Payment Services 148

SaaStr

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Cristina is the CEO and Co-Founder of Cledara, a leading platform that combines management tools for teams with a payments platform to help companies take control of the software they use to run their business. In the current challenging funding environment, they just raised a $20 million round.

Payment Solutions 278

Payment Solutions Payments Enterprise Software 278

Payrix

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

billion to fraud in 2022, an increase of over 30% from 2021, according to the latest Federal Trade Commission data. For software companies embedding payments into their platform, being aware of payment fraud is critical for several reasons. What is payment fraud? Consumers reported losing close to $8.8

Payments 100

Payments Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payment Services 100

SaaStr

OCTOBER 22, 2021

— Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) October 18, 2021. It was just amazing that when iPhone launched, you could now take a picture of receipts and have them somewhat automatically “expensed” A jaw dropping, amazing use of the first generation on mobile apps. based revenue. 119% NRR from SMBs!! What do I mean?

Scale 321

Scale SaaS Payments SMB Payment Solutions 321

Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

Data cited by Statista shows that the software as service is expected to hit $299 billion by the end of 2025. Join the payments-led growth movement Sign up to keep up-to-date with the latest trends in payments, vertical SaaS, and technology from industry experts. Take a traditional business, like a furniture store.

Scale 117

Scale Payment Services Payments SaaS Payments 117

SaaStr

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The goal was to build safe AGI — AGI being autonomous systems that can perform work as well or better than humans. In 2021, they trained GPT3 on Github repositories, produced a model that could code, and released embedding that allowed people to vectorize language and search across it to perform recommendations.

ChatGPT 286

ChatGPT Scale AI Search Sales Hiring 286

FastSpring

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

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. How viable is it for companies to shop their apps outside of mainstream marketplaces?

Payment Methods 147

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Merchant Services SaaS Payments 147

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Jonathan saw them through IPO in 2021 with the highest software multiple IPO ever. Toast is a vertical software embedded payments solution for restaurants in the U.S. It’s the fastest-growing software business of all time. I t’s not entirely different from selling software to a marketing VP.

Payment Methods 262

Payment Methods Acquisition Scale Payments 262

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

As businesses grow, their software requirements grow as well. An enterprise-level company deals with more complexity in its internal processes, has to manage more people and roles, and needs more data to make informed decisions. At this point, a business needs to look for an enterprise solution that can support its growth.

Payment Solutions 117

Payment Solutions Enterprise Scale Payments 117

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.

Payment Services 80

Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payments 80

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Shopify has become the preeminent ecommerce platform. With that, developers have been hurrying to Shopify to get their apps into the Shopify App Store. But what are the best tools for Shopify App Developers in 2021? Use Baremetrics to get the most out of your Shopify Apps 1.

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions Payments Payment Methods Development 98

SaaStr

JANUARY 30, 2023

They focused on building a payment platform that empowers international talent and independent contractors to get paid on time in a compliant way while also ensuring that companies can hire international talent and make payments efficiently. This insight led Deel to focus on solving payments and compliance.

Sales Hiring 269

Sales Hiring Payment Services SaaS Payments Scale 269

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

With that being said, if you have the world’s best payroll app, you can absolutely still talk to Craft. Sacks suggests thinking of every major platform shift as a pond. Pre-AI SaaS — Pre-AI SaaS apps get turbo-charged in value by adding AI functionality. Most folks with a good business aren’t saying anything is getting worse.

SaaS Payments 276

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions AI SaaS 276

SaaStr

JULY 20, 2022

Weave started off as a dental ERP and comms platform (including VoIP / phone), and then expanded beyond that as it scaled. It IPO’d in November 2021 and today is doing $130m ARR, growing a respectable 30% year-over-year. .” 907 employees at IPO, so about $150,000 revenue per employee. Many SMBs just prefer it. #4.

SaaS Payments 278

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Methods SMB 278

SaaStr

MARCH 4, 2024

2021: “Just raise the extra capital! jasonlk) February 15, 2024 So, so much has changed since the peak crazy days of 2021. Adding another $5m, $10m, heck sometimes $50m into a startup via SAFEs to either punt on valuation issues or to extent runway can seem like a simple solution. What were we thinking. And they come first.

Finance 277

Finance Payment Solutions Payments Pricing 277

Kellblog

JANUARY 30, 2021

I certainly didn’t have “global pandemic” on my 2020 bingo card and, even if I somehow did, I would never have coupled that with “booming stock market” and median SaaS price/revenue multiples in the 15x range. That said, I’m back on the proverbial horse, so let’s dig in with a review of our 2021 predictions. 2020 Predictions Review.

Technical Review 144

Technical Review Payment Services Payments AI Search 144

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.

Payment Services 88

Payment Services Merchant Services Stax Payment Solutions 88

Buffer Resources

JULY 22, 2024

Paid advertising on social media is an immediate way to boost the reach of your content — particularly when it comes to a power platform like Facebook. With over 3 billion monthly active users , it's little wonder that Facebook is the most popular social media platform for running ads.

Payment Methods 112

Payment Methods AI Search Advertising Social Media 112

How To Buy Saas

JANUARY 1, 2021

Well, that’s enough to motivate yourself to start creating your first course using the best online course platforms. If you believe that you are an expert in a skill or niche, this is the right time to transform your decade of 2021 to 2030. Why Choose an Online Course Platform? So, confident about choosing a platform?

Payment Methods 98

Payment Methods Payments Payment Solutions Marketplace as a Service 98

Baremetrics

MAY 16, 2021

Revenue forecasting software is used to create predictions of sales. These models can then feed into the larger overall financial model for your SaaS business, and help you plan the next phase of your growth. 1 Why Use Revenue Forecasting Software? Why Use Revenue Forecasting Software? SalesDirector.ai

Payments 80

Payments Forecasting Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 80