SaaStr

JANUARY 15, 2025

” Mangomint focuses on being the complete solution rather than offering endless integrations that are often dead ends. But the only way it can happen if you train your sales team to be specialists in the specific business models that they’re selling to.

Scale 278

Scale Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales 278

Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

According to the US Federal Reserve in 2022, general-purpose card payments reached $153.3 On top of that, 69% of Americans online in 2023 said they used digital payment methods to make a purchase. As a business owner, you just cant afford to ignore these statistics. But selecting a good payment solution can be overwhelming.

Payment Services 88

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 88

USIO

JUNE 3, 2024

In the dynamic world of Software as a Service (SaaS), staying ahead of the curve means continuously evolving and integrating new functionalities that enhance user experience and streamline business operations. One such critical functionality is integrated payments.

Payments 130

Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments 130

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

This is part two of a three part series on sequencing business models. Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. This essay is a collaboration with Gilad Horev.

Marketplace as a Service 141

Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 141

USIO

JUNE 10, 2024

In today’s fast-paced digital world, providing a seamless payment experience is crucial for businesses of all sizes. As we venture into 2024, the landscape of payment integration continues to evolve, presenting both opportunities and challenges for merchants. Key Trends in Payment Integration for 2024 1.

Payments 130

Payments Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Methods 130

SaaStr

OCTOBER 11, 2023

That’s not just pretty epic growth at almost $7 Billion in revenue, it’s one heck of a comeback. But a Smaller and Smaller Percentage of Revenue. From a business model perspective, Shopify has in essence been a fintech and merchant product first and a SaaS product second for quite some time.

Payments 298

Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Revenue 298

Subscription Flow

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Some of the pitfalls that come with unplanned billing migration are faulty revenue reporting, data duplication, and customer churn. Our platform, SubscriptionFlow, is a billing system migration expert. Following are some of these factors: The business’s existing billing system is outdated.

Payment Solutions 105

Payment Solutions Payment Services Systems Review SaaS Payments 105

SaaStr

OCTOBER 26, 2022

It’s barely trading at 3x revenue. Payments and e-commerce drag blended gross margins down to 60%. Wix along with Squarespace and also WordPress / Automatic have pushed deeply into e-commerce and as part of that, payments. But payments can be low gross margin, and they are for Wix. Embedded fintech often has a price.

Payments 288

Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods SaaS Payments 288

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. At the peak of bull market exuberance at the end of 2021, a 1% improvement in revenue growth had the same impact on valuations as a 6% improvement in free cash flow margin. Let’s find out.

Cloud 311

Cloud Payments Software Review Payment Solutions 311

Payrix

MAY 14, 2024

No one knows this better (or more intimately) than a software company Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Adam Tesan, CRO at Worldpay for Platforms, is a seasoned executive leader with decades of experience in sales, marketing, and revenue in the software space. It was an Embedded Finance play starting with payments. [It

Payments 147

Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 147

Stax

AUGUST 20, 2024

Everything is done under one platform. And it’s all thanks to embedded finance and embedded fintech. Embedded finance isn’t entirely a new concept. Airline credit cards, payment plans for costly items, and car rental insurance are forms of embedded finance that have been around for a while.

Payments 88

Payments Payment Methods Merchant Services Finance 88

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

How can a simple offering be transformed into its own platform? Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Want to see more content like this?

Payments 174

Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 174

Payrix

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

In 2023, the Embedded Finance market was valued at $73 billion and projected to grow to $523 billion by 2032, growing at a compound annual rate of 24%, according to a recent report. It’s still early days for Embedded Finance, but the preliminary statistics coming out of this space are rather significant.

Payments 130

Payments Payment Solutions Embedded Payments Trends 130

Stax

MARCH 18, 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. Part of this can be attributed to the SaaS model’s unique aspect of relying primarily on future revenue. Take a traditional business, like a furniture store.

Scale 117

Scale Payment Services Payments SaaS Payments 117

Payrix

APRIL 3, 2024

Before we dive into the risks associated with payments, let’s review why embedding payments is good for SaaS businesses and the three payment processing solutions available to software companies today. What are the benefits of adding payments to vertical software? What is a PayFac® developer?

Payment Services 100

Payment Services Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Facilitation 100

SaaStr

MAY 12, 2022

CircleCI is a cloud-based continuous delivery platform that helps software delivery teams build, test, and ship changes to their applications. Offering its services as a freemium-based model, CircleCI recognizes driving trials as the cornerstone of a go-to-market strategy for any developer tool. . The transition to a usage-based model.

Scale 264

Scale Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services 264

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

But while the brand and market penetration is strong, the business model is challenging. It still loses money on the hardware, and the payments side is fairly low margin (28% or less). The software license is high margin, but it’s only 20% of the total revenue.

Scale 311

Scale Payment Solutions Payments Sales 311

FastSpring

MAY 20, 2024

Moving some, all, or simply more of your software offerings from a one-time perpetual license model to a software as a service (SaaS) subscription model can be daunting, but it’s so powerful for building dependable, recurring revenue. Integrating customer-facing subscription management tools on your own site.

Payments 157

Payments SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions 157

SaaStr

MARCH 7, 2024

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. This includes real-time bank connectivity, treasury forecasting, payment automation and automated accounting and reconciliation with e.g. ERPs.

Payments 284

Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions Scale 284

SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2023

With nine figures in revenue, Ariel and SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin talk about all things Navan, rebranding when you have brand equity, building B2B software for people, pricing and business models, and much more. Before Navan, there were different apps for managing expenses, events and meetings, payments, etc.

Payment Solutions 288

Payment Solutions Payments Travel Scale 288

Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 26, 2020

Today, the company is a massively successful SaaS business and another example of the flywheel business model that creates demand at the individual user and leverages that interest to sell department and company-wide contracts. TTM Revenue, $M. Revenue Growth. S&M Spend / Revenue. SmartSheet. SmartSheet.

Payment Solutions 363

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourced Development Payment Services 363

SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

Niall Wall, Box SVP of Business and Corporate Development alongside Vicki Lin, Stripe’s Head of Ecosystem and Cecilia Stallsmith, Slack’s Director of Platform Marketing discuss scaling your revenue via indirect channels and platform ecosystems. Ceci Stallsmith – Director of Platform Marketing @ Slack.

Payments 133

Payments Scale Scaling Revenue 133

Stax

APRIL 17, 2024

Companies and software providers that embed payment solutions into their services and platform are likely to attract and retain more customers. By using a cloud-based integrated payment software solution, you can provide a streamlined user experience while also earning an additional revenue stream through monetization.

Payments 68

Payments Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Services 68

Infinicept

OCTOBER 31, 2022

By Michael Bradley, Senior Vice President of Growth, Infinicept Software-led payments are driving rapid changes to financial institutions’ payment services strategies. Software companies (sometimes known as independent software vendors or ISVs) are becoming the predominant distribution platform for payment services.

Payments 98

Payments Embedded Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 98

Agile Payments

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

PayFac or Payment Facilitation enables software platforms to both brand and monetize payment processing offerings while at the same time offering instant, hassle-free customer payments onboarding.

Payfac 88

Payfac Business Model Payments Payment Services 88

Subscription Flow

OCTOBER 16, 2024

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. Sounds like a mountain of work! How do you choose the best one for you?

Payment Services 59

Payment Services Payment Solutions Payment Features SaaS Payments 59

Neil Patel

APRIL 9, 2021

OTT platforms were made popular by streaming services like Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, YouTube, and more. As you may have guessed, many platforms, like YouTube, are categorized under both VOD and OTT. As a result, you could monetize your brand faster and easier via VOD. This method is best suited to subscription-based businesses.

Payments 104

Payments Payment Methods Advertising Payment Services 104

SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2019

SaaS is about creating long-term value for your customer, and being compensated appropriately for that value as a business. Learn actionable monetization tips from a Product/Growth operator turned VC. Built out a bunch of the orb across product, data, analytics to do much of the same work, to drive retention and monetization.

Payments 113

Payments Pricing Compensation Scale 113

Payrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

A master merchant, often referred to as a payment facilitator or merchant aggregator, is a third-party agent that acts as the link between acquirers and online merchants. The master merchantis the primary account holder for a payment processing system, overseeing and managing multiple subordinate accounts, often referred to as sub-merchants.

Merchant Services 100

Merchant Services Payment Services Payments SaaS Payments 100

FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The payments landscape and how it affects businesses trying to grow in Asia. If you’re not sure how to kickstart growth for your digital products or software business in Asia, listen or watch now! Before joining FastSpring, I spent quite a number of years within the payments industry.

Merchant Services 192

Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Methods SaaS Payments 192

Subscription Flow

JUNE 27, 2024

Quickbooks Payments is a popular feature offered by Intuit’s Quickbooks accounting software service. This feature allows businesses to accept credit and debit card payments from customers helping them manage their finances more efficiently. What are Quickbooks Payments? This decreases manual data entry error risks.

Payment Services 98

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 98

FastSpring

AUGUST 11, 2020

The way we purchase products is changing—and so are our business models. When it comes to software and online purchases, those transactions are increasingly moving to a subscription-based model, where customers put their purchases on autopilot so they can have continuous access to SaaS products. What is subscription revenue?

Payment Features 113

Payment Features Payments Payment Methods Subscription 113

Baremetrics

MARCH 31, 2021

SaaS and subscription companies like yours need to collect and manage recurring payments at scale. Regular payment gateways like SagePay and WorldPay won't cut it. All the data your startup needs Collecting payments is just one step of effective subscription management. The platform's usage-based pricing (no monthly fees!)

Merchant Services 98

Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Features 98

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Before we look at the promised SaaS revenue models, let’s get a couple definitions out of the way. We need to differentiate among three similar sounding but very different concepts: revenue stream, revenue model, and business model. Revenue stream: This is a single source of revenue for a company.

Payments 102

Payments SaaS Payments Revenue Payment Solutions 102

Neil Patel

JANUARY 1, 2021

Games as a Service acts as a continuous revenue service for developers, allowing them to break their reliance on the one-time purchase. Games as a Service allows video games to be monetized even after they are released and it has been proven to keep players more engaged longer. Games as a Service Payment Options.

Payments 122

Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 122

FastSpring

APRIL 23, 2024

The company handles transactions for sellers of digital products, providing the infrastructure for global online payments while taking responsibility for tax collection and remittance, fraud prevention, and other aspects of the checkout process. FastSpring offers a more robust, fully-featured platform that can support more use cases.

Payment Methods 137

Payment Methods Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions 137

Subscription Flow

JUNE 26, 2024

Did you know that the Dutch payment processing company Mollie was only able to raise $100 million in 2020 as its growth tech investment? Lo and behold, in no time Mollie became the third largest European payment processor (after the fellow Dutch company Adyen and the London-based Checkout.com). So what happened?

Payment Features 98

Payment Features Payment Methods Payment Services Payment Solutions 98