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. But it then loses real money on onboarding, at -124% margins, and real money on hardware, at -183% margins. Historically, Weave gave away several “free” phones with each new account.

SaaS Payments 287

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Methods SMB 287

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 276

Sales Hiring Payment Services SaaS Payments Scale 276

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 30, 2022

This is especially important for small teams, where you need to operate at a scale far beyond your headcount (without burning out your team by working around the clock). Can we easily onboard new employees or teams as our numbers grow? How much training will this tool require for onboarding and maintenance? Questions to ask.

Scale 163

Scale Payment Services Startup AWS 163

Stax

JULY 1, 2024

Yet it isn’t always cost-effective to hire an in-house team to manage payroll, especially for businesses with a small headcount. TL;DR Small businesses have specific payroll needs thanks to challenges such as growing headcount, limited resources, and a lack of internal payroll expertise. Premium: Quote-based pricing.

Payment Solutions 88

Payment Solutions Payment Services Payment Methods Payments 88

Payrix

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Software companies embark on their embedded payments journey only to discover they’ve underestimated the complexity that’s involved and struggle to launch. If you’re thinking about Embedded Payments for your platform, make time to listen to this episode of the PayFAQ Embedded Payments podcast. We’ve seen it far too often.

Payments 100

Payments Merchant Services Embedded Payments Payment Services 100

SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Matt Garratt: And it’s not just going to be we think in things like work from home tools like Zoom or IT solutions like VPN, but it’s really going to transform how business is getting done, whether that’s online education and learning. Right now, learning for companies is only at 10% online. There’s a link here.

Sales Hiring 213

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 213

Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

What started as Dimitris (now my Co-founder at Outseta ) writing a few lines of code to collect rent payments from tenants he had living in a duplex in Providence, Rhode Island, turned into something worth hundreds of millions of dollars 15 years later. While these revenues are pay-per-use, rent payments are both large and regular.

SaaS Payments 145

SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Services 145