SaaStr

DECEMBER 12, 2024

So theres a theme Ive been working on with all the SMB-focused founders I work with and have invested in: # 1. Into the #1 most important app they use, and can never rip out. Not just super-slick bookings and scheduling for salons and spas, but also payments and payroll, and front office and back office automation. Into an ERP.

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Payrix

AUGUST 21, 2024

Back to customer stories Delivering a premium payments solution to premium printers Payrix takes Inktavo’s payments to new heights with high transaction limits, greater efficiencies, and seamless access to working capital.

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Payment Solutions Payments Merchant Services Payment Methods 130

Payrix

JULY 30, 2024

Why there’s greater value in a payments integration supported by white-glove service than a DIY, documentation-driven approach The decision to embed payments into your software platform as a key part of your growth strategy is a significant starting point from which you can create new value and revenue streams for your business.

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Merchant Services Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 147

FastSpring

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Setting up a web shop for players to buy subscriptions or in-game items outside of mobile app marketplaces is a great way to create additional revenue streams for your game while saving on steep marketplace fees. But it’s only one piece of the puzzle, and you may need to set up a little more to make the system work easily and efficiently.

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Stax

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Small businesses in America and worldwide have to choose from a wide variety of accounting software solutions, and this range of choices can be overwhelming. Research shows that 64% of small businesses use accounting software and the market for accounting software solutions is projected to be worth $4.3billion by 2023.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments Payment Services 88

Subscription Flow

MAY 2, 2024

Just when you thought the world of SaaS would not be changing any time soon, the groundbreaking new shift to crypto payment solutions hit SaaS businesses like a bus full of bricks. Despite their current status as a relatively uncommon payment option in global e-commerce, accounting for less than 0.2%

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Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Services 105

SaaStr

MAY 25, 2024

Lesson #1: Invest In Customer Support Early Cloudinary strongly believes that customer success and support are enablers of PLG growth and aren’t just a cost center. Blogs Documentation That was how they drove visibility through Google searches and how developers found them. That’s huge!

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Subscription Flow

OCTOBER 16, 2024

In today’s fast-tracked financial landscape, billing software has become a need. Operating a business entails a number of processes like managing products and payments, invoices, customer engagement, revenue, unpaid invoices and much more. A billing software is the ultimate solution to your growing business’s complex needs.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Q: Are folks ready to buy Enterprise-level apps that are pre-tailored to a vertical? Vertical software is nothing new,” Jason says. There has been niche software for bookkeepers, dentist offices, and veterinarians. Q: What are your thoughts on platforms like ServiceNow or Salesforce bringing partner apps to extend that platform?

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SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

Trailblazing through their home continent, venturing successfully onto the world stage or changing from on-premise software to SaaS, these companies could have a postal code in any SaaS hotspot in the world. ContaAzul was acquired by the collaborative software platform Wabbi Software S.A. CEO : Vinicius Roveda Goncalves.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments 257

USIO

JULY 25, 2024

Hiring your own staff as a payment facilitator involves significant costs and risks. In this blog post, we’ll explore the key roles you need to fill, their estimated salary ranges, and the potential financial impact of building an in-house team. Estimated Salary: $70,000 – $120,000 per year.

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Payment Services Payment Facilitation Payments Payment Solutions 130

SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2023

Carta is a platform that helps people manage equity, build businesses, and invest in the companies of tomorrow. The company is trusted by more than 30,000 companies, over 5,000 investment funds, and half a million employees for cap table management, compensation management, liquidity venture capital solutions, and more.

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Scale Payments Payment Solutions Artificial Intelligence 245

Payrix

MARCH 27, 2024

Payment transaction types and touchpoints are becoming more accessible and diverse. Online and offline payments, credit cards, digital wallets, and ACH — the more commerce intersects with our daily lives, the higher the expectations for simple and intuitive payments. They need omnichannel payments. No problem.

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Payments Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Solutions 130

How To Buy Saas

MARCH 18, 2025

However, advanced SaaS solutions have opened up new possibilities across distinct categories. These are essentially tailored solutions that can empower game developers to fulfill unique needs and drive impact. Lowered expenses: SaaS tools, as a part of your business infrastructure, require no hefty upfront payment.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

– 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. This is one huge difference.

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Payment Services Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 340

SaaStr

MAY 29, 2019

Ellevest is on a mission to close the gender investing gap by leveraging a robo-advisor designed especially for women. Stripe’s software allows its customers to make and receive payments by providing the technical, fraud prevention and banking infrastructure to operate online payment systems.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payment Services Banking 253

SaaStr

AUGUST 21, 2024

Shopify and Bill both also get the majority of their revenue from financial fees and transaction fees, not software subscriptions. Customer Referrals Now Responsible for 14% of New Locations Invest in true customer happiness, folks. #10. But Toast even more so, at 18% of revenue. Predicting 29% Growth Going Forward, Too.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Bill.com had to develop a network that today has millions on vendors processing bills and payments on it. The payments / fintech side of Bill took a decade to come together. Rene cautioned folks to understand the regulatory and fraud elements of doing payments are significant. There are 6m SMBs that buy SaaS software.

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Payrix

APRIL 24, 2024

Andy Meadows, the Head of Partner Success at Payrix joins host Ian Hillis to continue their conversation about building a successful Embedded Payments strategy. As the last episode of a four-part series on the topic, Andy and Ian tackle how software companies can minimize attrition and why it’s important to the payments conversation.

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Payments Embedded Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions 162

Payrix

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Software-led payments have grown in popularity, and for good reason. Last year, we sat down with several of the payments experts that roam the halls of Worldpay to understand what was on the horizon for software platforms and payments. From those conversations, we made software-led payments predictions for 2024.

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Stax

JANUARY 28, 2025

Completing online payments via manual card entry can be time-consuming and off-putting for customers. This article will cover everything you need to know about Click to Pay, including its history, how it works, and how you can implement the payment method in your business. Learn More What is Click to Pay?

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Payment Methods Payment Services Merchant Services SaaS Payments 68

SaaStr

MARCH 7, 2024

What’s your most recent disclosed investment? This was precisely my experience upon meeting Toni and Carlos, the founders of Embat, in an area we’ve extensively have been exploring: treasury management and payment automation. Embat is building the next-generation treasury management software. Why did you do the deal?

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Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions Scale 285

SaaStr

APRIL 1, 2023

The SMBTech economy is very different from enterprise software, and there is massive opportunity to capture it. Throw in the rise of social media and mobile web payment systems like Stripe and Braintree, and something revolutionary was at our doorstep. There are over 400M small businesses worldwide. That’s why patience is key.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

When the Apple Watch first came out in 2015, there were 3,000 apps available for download. Fast forward five years, and now there are over 20,000 apps —21 of which are built-in. As an entrepreneur, Apple Watches can be an excellent investment, as there is a wide variety of Apple Watch apps designed with business in mind.

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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Social Media Business 145

Neil Patel

JANUARY 6, 2021

Customer relationship management (CRM) software is designed to help companies with that exact goal. My guess is that it’s because CRM software has a reputation for being massive, expensive, and really challenging to use. In fact, there are dozens of CRM software solutions that small businesses can start using this afternoon.

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Payment Solutions Software Business Scale 144

SaaStr

DECEMBER 28, 2023

What’s your most recent disclosed investment? What’s your sweet spot for investing — check size, stage, type of deal? We invest across all stages — seed, early venture, and growth, with a primary focus on early-stage. Some of our most notable investments include Figma, Datadog, Discord, Adyen and Roblox.

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Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital Payment Solutions 286

Stax

MAY 30, 2024

Field service management software is a system that helps a company monitor and coordinate their employees’ activities off the company’s premises. The software allows managers to view and modify work schedules, orders, inventory, invoices, customer account records, and other records in the database.

Payment Solutions 88

Payment Solutions Payment Services Merchant Services SaaS Payments 88

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

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. GlossGenius is a vertical SaaS and payments company for the beauty and wellness industry. Is your app part of a larger predictable work sequence?

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Cloud Payments Software Review Payment Solutions 312

SaaStr

JULY 10, 2024

Instructure is one of the leading learning management systems for education with its Canvas product. big balloon payment to pay it all off comes in 2028. That should be more than enough to service their debt, if not to make the balloon payment in 2028. Your kids may well use it. You may have in college, too.

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Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments 304

SaaStr

OCTOBER 6, 2023

They collect the payment online and take a 15% fee for every booking. Airbnb handles the payments and gets you a guest, and now your rent is covered for the next couple of months. The example doesn’t illustrate the problem/solution It’s inherent that a waiter or waitress doesn’t make a lot of money. That’s it. Don’t include it.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2023

can invest in marketing that takes a little while to pay off). In particular: Hybrid SaaS with payments and fintech usually has far, far lower gross margins than pure software. See, e.g. Shopify, whose blended gross margins with payments even at its scale are still less than 50%.

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SaaS Payments Metrics SMB Payments 285

Neil Patel

MARCH 12, 2021

Considering building an app? The mobile app industry is expected to be worth more than $407 billion (yes, with a B) by 2026. Meanwhile, the average person has more than 80 apps on their phone. That represents a ton of opportunities for app builders. How to Build Out Your App Idea. How does your app stand apart?

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments Sales Hiring 144

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

So one of SaaStr Fund’s latest investments is Mangomint, a vertical SaaS platform for spas and salons. You really have to do it all now to build a true platform for SMBs: software, payments, payroll, marketing, workflow and more. Now … that sounds niche, and it sounds crowded. Today, the customers expect it all. #2.

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Payrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

What is an integrated software vendor? An integrated software vendor more commonly known as an ISV is a software company that engages in a partnership with a payments provider in order to integrate payment processing capabilities into their platform. 3 things you should know about integrated software vendors 1.

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Payments Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions 100

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2024

By scaling your PLG motion, you can achieve higher revenue per employee because you aren’t investing as many dollars in messaging, marketing, and building the big sales teams. Selling to Developers Let’s look at software developers as your target customers, as users and buyers. Most software developers are skeptical.

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Underperforming Technical Team Enterprise Scale Payments 289

Blulogix

JANUARY 2, 2025

Here’s how businesses can use integration to their advantage: Streamlining Operations Across Systems Billing integration connects CRM , ERP , and subscription management tools , ensuring data flows seamlessly across systems. This eliminates manual processes, reduces errors, and speeds up billing cycles.

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Payment Features Payments Subscription Payment Solutions 52

Stax

JUNE 18, 2024

This could be a subscription box, a SaaS (Software as a Service) product, or even just a streaming platform like Netflix. In this blog, we’re exploring how subscription management software works: The benefits, features, and what to look for in a best-in-class solution.

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Payment Features Payment Solutions Payment Services Payments 88