SaaStr

MARCH 29, 2021

Salesforce’s biggest source of new revenue isn’t CRM or even support. It’s partners and platform. It took more than a decade after Salesforce was founded: Shopify’s partner ecosystem is also huge, comprising 20% of its revenue in 2020. There are 1000s of startups any BigCo can and does partner with.

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Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services Investment 306

SaaStr

APRIL 12, 2022

The majority of its revenue is now from Bitcoin transactions, not “traditional” payments and software. Its software and services business is the one with the real operating margins. Its software and services business is the one with the real operating margins. businesses. #4. At least still for now.

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Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services Revenue 306

SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2019

By: Rob Nathan, EVP, Integrated Solutions at CardConnect. With thousands of new startups emerging everyday and the average turnover rate for business applications trending at 39% annually, the SaaS industry couldn’t be more competitive. Making payments accessible overseas. Securing payments. A 2017 U.S.

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USIO

AUGUST 15, 2024

Why Payment Gateway API Integration Matters for Your Business In today’s digital-first world, businesses must provide seamless and secure payment experiences to meet customer expectations and stay competitive. What is a Payment Gateway API?

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Payments Payment Methods Payment Services Payment Solutions 130

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

So one thing that’s back now is customers asking for longer payment terms. And it’s super stressful on startups, especially earlier-stage ones. Your champion likely doesn’t benefit from longer payments terms themselves. Make sure you are budgeting at least for longer payment terms. That’s great.

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Payments Payment Services Finance Payment Features 278

SaaStr

JULY 20, 2021

Secrets to Aligning Marketing and Revenue Strategies with Marqeta’s CMO. Mahmoud Abdelkader, CEO @ Very Good Security & Christina Monets, Senior Director of Operations @ Very Good Security. Fundraising for a Startup vs Fundraising for Banks with Treasury Prime’s CEO and Piermont Bank. with Notion Capital.

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Payments Payment Services SaaS Payments Banking 279

FastSpring

OCTOBER 13, 2023

If you’re currently using 2Checkout or Stripe to sell digital goods or SaaS but are considering switching — to the other, or to other options such as FastSpring — you may be wondering whether there are substantial differences between the platforms and their services. Payment Gateways , Payment Processing , PSPs, MoRs — What’s the Difference?

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Payments Payment Methods Payment Services Merchant Services 126

USIO

AUGUST 12, 2024

Innovative SaaS Payment Gateways for Startups In the highly competitive world of startups, managing payment processing can indeed be a significant challenge. Furthermore, the complexities, high costs, and time-consuming processes can easily divert your focus from what truly matters: growing your business.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments 130

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.

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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

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Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 147

Stax

JULY 9, 2024

Physical wallets are phasing out, left behind in favor of digital wallets and other digital payment options. There’s no question that cashless payment systems and digital payment adoption have accelerated over the last few years. In 2019, 77% of US consumers were using at least one type of digital payment system.

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SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2024

They weren’t a 3H startup. SaaS + hardware, SaaS + payments, etc. Rag & Bone is selling to Guess $GES for $56m on ~$250m of revenue. Yes, HubSpot didn’t get to 100% NRR until well past $30m ARR. But we aren’t all HubSpot. And even there — they were still very disciplined in the burn. can be great.

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Churn Startup SaaS Payments Venture Capital 307

Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

The contracts are identical twelve month contracts except for the payment terms. Contract B relaxes payment terms to monthly payment, 12 monthly installments for the next year. The payback period metric doesn’t capture the difference in the quality of the revenue/cash collections.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 6, 2023

If you’re a seed-stage startup, Michael shares the best ways for you to present your company to startup investors. 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. That’s it.

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Payment Methods Startup Payment Solutions Sales Hiring 278

SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2023

At SaaStr, our partners are an integral part of our events. Carta is a platform that helps people manage equity, build businesses, and invest in the companies of tomorrow. Make enables individuals, teams, and enterprises across all verticals to create powerful custom solutions that scale their businesses faster than ever.

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Scale Payments Payment Solutions Artificial Intelligence 245

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?

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Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 171

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.

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Scale Payment Services Payments SaaS Payments 117

SaaStr

DECEMBER 2, 2021

They help B2B SaaS marketers turn organic search into a source of repeatable revenue through software and coaching. Panther helps remote startups hire anyone, anywhere, in just a click. They handle global payroll, taxes, compliance, and benefits — so startups can focus on work that matters.

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Payment Features Payment Services Payments Sales Hiring 262

SaaStr

DECEMBER 1, 2022

With the world’s most distributed compute platform — from cloud to edge — we make it easy for businesses to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away. Paddle offers SaaS companies a completely different approach to their payments infrastructure. appeared first on SaaStr.

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Merchant Services Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments 278

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

But those three things are what got Starbucks its first profitable coffee shop in Seattle, not what allowed that shop to morph into an $80 billion business with 30,000 cafes around the world. This is Season Two of Scale , Intercom’s podcast series on moving from startup to scale-up. That kind of growth? Salesforce?

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Payments Scale Revenue SaaS Payments 186

SaaStr

JANUARY 6, 2021

To help you with your search, we’ve compiled a list of sales leadership opportunities from around our community to help connect leading startups with the best candidates. . 10 Rules to Being a VP of Sales in a Startup. Now is the perfect time to find your destined VP of Sales position, even if you’re still in the Bay Area.

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Sales Hiring Scale Payment Solutions Payments 340

SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2021

A lot of our SaaS older times don’t quite know what to make with a lot of B2B startups these days, let alone some public SaaS companies. So many startups these days are claiming they have “ARR” from revenue that … doesn’t recur. Doesn’t ARR stand for Annual Recurring Revenue?

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Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 360

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

PST, Stephanie Opdam, Partner at Notion Capital, shares four business model changes that will allow SaaS companies to build resilience and staying power over time. Change #2: Headcount Driven Growth Is No Longer Since the start of 2020, companies have focused on more than just revenue per head. Strive for $150k of revenue per FTE.

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Business Model SaaS Payments Payments Headcount 306

Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 31, 2022

In the last six months, 103 web3 companies generated revenue on-chain, the smallest of which recorded a few hundred dollars of sales & the largest, Ethereum, tallied $401m. Total Revenue, $M. of Revenue spent on Software. At a 10x revenue multiple, web3 software should support about $0.75b to $2.3b

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Payment Solutions B2B Software Payment Services 351

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

The story of payment processors begins in 1998 when Confinity (later X.com, but you probably know it as PayPal) was released. This early payment processor did very little and wasn’t all that important to global commerce. That history might be interesting to some, but the real questions are: What are payment processors?

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Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 97

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.

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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.

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Payment Solutions Payments Travel Scale 288

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

At SaaStr, our partners are an integral part of our events. Through our #1 SaaS-based Global Employment Platform , we help find, hire, onboard, pay, and manage team members, quickly and compliantly, to expand growth opportunities for everyone, everywhere – without the hassle of setting up local subsidiaries or branch offices.

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Payment Methods Payments Payment Solutions Education 246

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 30, 2022

By building a strong business tech stack for your startup – covering everything from incorporation to growing long-lasting customer relationships – you can not only win back time and establish best practices, but create a solid foundation for your business to grow. Ready to take your startup to the next level?

Scale 163

Scale Payment Services Startup AWS 163

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.

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Sales Hiring Payment Services SaaS Payments Scale 278

SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2023

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%. Yet, I see most “Hybrid SaaS” startups ignore this and spend as if they had 80% margins. It depends. They don’t.

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SaaS Payments Metrics SMB Payments 284

Tom Tunguz

JUNE 5, 2023

90% of startups have plans or have released an AI feature, 54% of those features will launch in 2023, but only 30% of companies are hiring new people to do it, according to ProductBoard’s survey. Startups have aggressively prioritized these features on their roadmaps with 54% launching a feature this year.

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Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning AI Payments 293

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2022

Millions of companies – from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups – use Stripe to accept payments, grow revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. We’re excited to work with Stripe to help make their customers’ experiences more personal through Stripe’s Intercom App.

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Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Customer Support 118

SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

ContaAzul is a business management platform for small businesses created in Brazil. Its focus is on helping companies handle financial routine and streamlining processes related to accounting, banks, stock, and electronic invoicing, among others. from 500 Startups, Redpoint eventures, and others. RD Station.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments 257

USIO

AUGUST 19, 2024

Ah, the glorious world of payments! That’s right, “ Payments as a Service ” (PaaS) is here to save us from the monotony of traditional payment processing, and Usio is leading the charge. Buckle up, because we’re diving into why you should consider Usio for payments. Why, you ask? We don’t just adapt; we anticipate.

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Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments Payment Methods 130

FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Chargebee is a robust subscription management platform. However, there are certain aspects of collecting recurring payments that you would still be responsible for when using Chargebee, such as: Connecting to payment gateways manually. Reconciling payments, fulfillment, refunds, etc. Process chargebacks.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Services Payments 141

Payrix

JANUARY 30, 2024

That simple idea eventually led to fitDEGREE, Nick’s growing software startup for class-based fitness studios that want a more community-driven way to manage their local business. Nick realized that adding payments to the software product was the only way he could continue to compete in the space, so he took the opportunity.

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