FastSpring

MARCH 3, 2023

Recurring Disruptions to Service Are Impacting Your Revenue Perhaps you keep finding yourself in a situation where you are experiencing card declines or interruptions in service related to integrations or technical issues. One major difference between a DIY solution like Stripe and an MoR solution is support around compliance and risk.

Merchant Services 148

Merchant Services Payment Services Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 148

SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2023

IVP Partner Michael Miao explains, “The role and the scope of the modern finance team has changed dramatically in the last decade. This function can be outsourced in the early days of a startup, but it is usually brought in-house after Series B. No longer are finance teams the traditional “bean counters” of ages past.

Scale 239

Scale Finance Outsourcing Services Sales Recruiting 239

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 13, 2022

A professional employer organization (PEO) service provider can handle everything from payroll to benefits administration, workers’ comp, safety, risk mitigation, and so much more. Continue below to find the best PEO services for your company, so you can go back to running your business without HR burdens falling on your shoulders. #1

Outsourcing Services 88

Outsourcing Services Payment Services Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 88

FastSpring

APRIL 23, 2024

Depending on your needs, sellers may run into a number of potential limitations with the Paddle platform: Paddle doesn’t accept as many alternative payment methods as other MoR partners. Paddle is less experienced than other MoR partners. FastSpring is a more experienced, knowledgeable partner for your SaaS business.

Payment Methods 137

Payment Methods Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions 137

Payrix

JULY 17, 2024

Gain greater control of the customer experience Historically, software companies outsourced payments, which gave them very little say in the experience their users had once they moved from the software interface into the payment environment of a third party. Finding a partner that can guide you along the way will be key to your success.

Merchant Services 130

Merchant Services Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 130

Scytale

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

If your SaaS company handles payment card data , understanding and implementing PCI DSS controls is essential – not just for compliance but for protecting your customers, reputation, and bottom line. Third-party service providers supporting businesses that process payments. Not sure if your organization needs to comply?

Payment Services 52

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Features Payment Solutions 52

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

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. How to choose the best payroll service for you. How to choose the best payroll service for you. Number of employees.

Payment Services 145

Payment Services SaaS Payments Outsourcing Services Payment Solutions 145

FastSpring

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Today, many businesses have moved from physical to digital products and services to leverage the benefits of ecommerce. What is PCI DSS Compliance? Any service provider or merchant that is involved in processing, transmitting or storing cardholder data needs to be PCI DSS compliant. Why is PCI DSS Compliance Important?

Merchant Services 89

Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Methods compliance 89

FastSpring

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

We heard a wide variety of responses, such as: Using an AVS (Address Verification Service) Tokenization Stacking payment gateways Using encrypted payments. You can also opt for a service with a fraud protection managed services solution to monitor fraud on your behalf. Outsource Payment Forms. Use Payment Tokenization.

Payment Methods 146

Payment Methods Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Features 146

How To Buy Saas

APRIL 8, 2024

Healthcare BPO Outsourcing Choosing the right healthcare BPO outsourcing partner can help healthcare organizations improve healthcare performance and patient care. An experienced third-party vendor can help with data conversion, data cleansing, and data mining. You can also focus on the core functions of your business.

Outsourcing Services 40

Outsourcing Services Payment Services Healthcare Payments 40

Stax

APRIL 18, 2024

Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Software-as-a-Service Providers (SaaS) operate within the same market, thus creating a push-and-pull revenue dynamic. ISVs, or Independent Software Vendors, are businesses that develop and distribute software products to end-users. Consider Stax’s partner program.

Outsourcing Services 88

Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods 88

FastSpring

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Maybe you’re unsure if your software company should outsource your ecommerce operations to a full-service platform, such as FastSpring, or just stick with a basic payment service? To help you make an informed decision, we’re providing a detailed comparison of full-service platforms vs. basic payment services.

Payment Methods 72

Payment Methods Outsourcing Services Payment Services Payment Solutions 72

FastSpring

MAY 6, 2019

In-house or Outsource. But for the rest of us, outsourcing the merchant of record to a reseller is probably a better option. But for the rest of us, outsourcing the merchant of record to a reseller is probably a better option. If you’re processing global payments, it’s safer to outsource.

Merchant Services 78

Merchant Services Payment Services Outsourcing Services Payment Methods 78

FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2022

However, you’ll still be responsible for paying taxes, processing chargebacks, and for things like legal compliance, dunning, and more. Next, we explain how a MoR is different from other payment service providers. A Merchant of Record (MoR) is the business entity that sells goods or services to the buyer. Process chargebacks.

Payment Methods 148

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Services Payments 148

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

VCs are always on the lookout for the next Lyft, so they strategically partner with founders who they believe will provide them with a 10X return. Since startups are focused on growth , they’re going to dedicate all of their time and resources on their core competencies, and they’ll outsource everything else.

Outsourcing Services 106

Outsourcing Services Scale Startup Outsourced Development 106

Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2021

The US market during COVID-19 is one such market where global expansion, and the need for some local workforce or partners, is both a risk and opportunity. McKinsey notes that B2B decision-makers are pushing to e-commerce and e-commerce-like sales cycles, and up to 80% prefer either digital self-service tools or to contact teams remotely.

Outsourcing Services 90

Outsourcing Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Transportation 90

Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The closing process typically takes about 4 weeks, which allows for legal documentation negotiation, account opening (if the lender is a bank), and the completion of all necessary compliance documents. How does the company underwrite and service assets? What partners or licenses are required? outsourced servicers), and so on.

Outsourcing Services 129

Outsourcing Services Software Review Scale Banking 129

Trint

JANUARY 28, 2021

When it comes to data privacy laws like the GDPR , compliance is not optional and that extends to any third-party organizations that you work with. If you’re outsourcing your sensitive transcription to a human transcription service, that’s a huge risk, especially considering human error is the leading cause of data breaches.

Outsourcing Services 130

Outsourcing Services Data Artificial Intelligence Scale 130

CloudGeometry

APRIL 13, 2023

The goal is to shift key burdens off of your dev team so they can focus solely on writing and improving code that delivers winning results from your product and services. It’s been around in offerings like Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Function as a Service (FaaS, aka ‘serverless’). We’re talking to you, ChatGPT.)

DevOps as a Service 130

DevOps as a Service Outsourcing Services Outsourced Development Cloud 130

SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

There can be many, many winners when you have compounding interest from users and from services. There’s not that many founders in the world that’s interested in doing global tax compliance for, let’s say, invoicing. 50% of our revenue today comes from alliance partners. I’ll talk a lot more about that.

Payment Solutions 182

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 182

Scytale

JUNE 25, 2024

The SOC 2 Bible Everything you need to know about SOC 2 compliance. DOWNLOAD WHITEPAPER SOC 2 SOC 2 is a reporting framework that can be considered the security blueprint for service organizations. The Trusted Service Criteria (TSC) Requirements There are five Trusted Service Criteria (TSC) that make up the backbone of SOC 2.

Outsourcing Services 98

Outsourcing Services Startup Technical Advisors Technical Review 98

SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2021

So the whole world of software as a service and cloud has just exploded and will continue to grow enormously. And if we look at the specifics of the word SaaS, software as a service. And service many times means it’s human beings doing it. So how does this even work with software as a service.

Outsourcing Services 165

Outsourcing Services Marketplace as a Service Outsourced Development Scale 165

Stax

JANUARY 22, 2024

Digital payments only take a few seconds, but they flow through many different layers of partners and technology. Consider the following: Merchants are the sellers, businesses, or service providers seeking payment for their offerings. How it works: A payment facilitator acts as a payment aggregator partner to smaller merchants.

Payment Services 88

Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Facilitation 88

Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 29, 2024

Or if you’ve raised a warehouse, you can now fund and originate loans that will be repaid by a financing partner. Credit Agreement and Funding Mechanics The credit agreement, that lengthy document dedicated to formalizing your credit arrangement with the lender, outlines many of the key terms and ratios necessary for compliance.

Payment Services 93

Payment Services Payment Solutions Development Team Review Outsourcing Services 93

FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

It’s especially important to note that Digital River is a merchant of record (MoR), which means that many payment service providers may not include the kind of comprehensive services you’re used to with an MoR. A merchant of record (MoR) is the entity that actually sells the goods and services to the customer.

Merchant Services 78

Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Services Payments 78

SaaSOptics

MARCH 10, 2022

Is your company taking advantage of CFO tools like automated invoicing, database management, and automatic tax-compliance updates? As the world’s #1 CRM platform, Salesforce can do everything from providing more insight into customers or sales to improving inter-company communication for better customer service. If not, read on.

Payment Services 87

Payment Services SaaS Payments Payments Payment Solutions 87

ChurnZero

JANUARY 13, 2022

Amir will lead all post-sales functions, helping customers use the full scope of their products and services to unleash the power of CentralSquare in their communities. “Not only have we accomplished major milestones in terms of organic growth, but our acquisitions have made us a force within the compliance industry.

VP of Engineering 98

VP of Engineering Customer Success Outsourcing Services Technical Review 98

BetterCloud

MAY 25, 2023

The rapid growth of SaaS adoption, expansion of the SaaS marketplace, need for cost optimization and efficiency, lack of visibility and governance, security and compliance concerns, and an increasing business focus on ROI and value optimization are all driving the increased importance of managing SaaS expenditure.

Outsourcing Services 52

Outsourcing Services Marketplace as a Service Management SaaS 52

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Recurring billing happens when a merchant automatically charges a customer for a service on a prearranged schedule. After that, the vendor makes recurring charges with no further permissions required. Therefore, companies typically outsource the entire process to a payment service provider, such as Stripe.

Payment Services 89

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Features Payments 89

Frontegg

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

One of the most common methods is distributing through partners: a situation where a SaaS company decides to distribute through partner companies like consultants and value-added resellers (VARs). This model allows SaaS companies to leverage their sales and marketing capabilities of their partners and reach wider audiences.

Outsourcing Services 52

Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring B2B compliance 52

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

We’ve got everything from self-service all the way up to the enterprise. So how we accomplish something at the enterprise level in a one to few or a one-to-one or a one to few is very different to how you would accomplish it in a self service model. I don’t want to be $10 in services for every $1 in software.”

Payment Methods 273

Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 273

FastSpring

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Regardless of how cutting-edge your innovation may be, if you’re unable to display your products on your site and effectively demonstrate its benefits to potential customers , your company will struggle to close sales of your software or service. Does your company have the bandwidth to support these necessary functionalities?

Payment Methods 68

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Outsourcing Services Payment Services 68

Scytale

AUGUST 29, 2023

Most businesses rely on third-party vendors for their business processes, whether it’s through partnerships or outsourcing. It’s important for organizations to assess the security compliance of these vendors before engaging in any business transactions. Why Are These Questions Necessary?

Outsourcing Services 52

Outsourcing Services Development Team Review Technical Review compliance 52

Scytale

MARCH 18, 2024

The SOC 2 Bible Everything you need to know about compliance Download the Whitepaper Overview of the NIST CSF NIST CSF was formed to provide guidance to help organizations manage cyber risks. They lay out what’s expected of employees and how to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and industry best practices.

Cybersecurity 52

Cybersecurity Outsourcing Services Government compliance 52

Audacix

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Opting for cloud security as a service from the best SaaS provider and shifting left is the way to move forward. Some of your more security-conscious customers will ask you to implement single sign-on (SSO) for ease of deployment as well as to increase compliance with their own security solutions.

Outsourcing Services 52

Outsourcing Services Cloud Outsourced Development Software Review 52

User Pilot

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Combining self-service support with full-service support allows users to overcome even the most complex issues. In PLG , the role of sales teams is reduced as well because a lot of the conversions happen via self-service channels. Similarly, a full self-service support strategy might not work. What’s the result?

Outsourcing Services 103

Outsourcing Services Onboarding Customer Support Customer Lifetime Value 103

Mucker Capital

MAY 8, 2024

Early Financial Support Startups should engage financial and accounting services as soon as they begin transactions, even before receiving funding. This includes setting up initial accounting practices and systems, HR, payroll, banking, financial controls, and tax compliance. It's easy to integrate with external apps and services.

Payment Services 52

Payment Services Finance Systems Review Development Team Review 52