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A Vendor’s Guide to B2B Ecommerce

FastSpring

While we’ve been shopping for items like clothes or shoes online for years, another trend is now emerging—business-to-business (B2B) ecommerce. It’s easy to think of online sales as a marketplace where we buy items for ourselves, but more and more B2B and SaaS sales are now happening online.

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Tap to Pay: What It Is and How It Works

Stax

Since the first plastic credit card was issued by American Express in 1959 , payment tech progress has been growing exponentially. Magnetic stripe payments enjoyed a 30-year reign between the ’70s and ’90s. Contactless payments became a must-have during COVID. NFC technology is in the midst of an evolution.

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SaaStr Podcast 436: The State of the Cloud 2021 with Bessemer Venture Partners

SaaStr

Shopify, since last year, has nearly tripled in market cap driven by the rise of e-commerce, but also the digital payments and the QR code system they provide for contactless payments. Then if we look at the top five public cloud companies. Then if we look at the top five public cloud companies.

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What are Merchant Accounts and How Do They Work?

Stax

Accepting payments is the most important functionality that a business needs to start selling. But to accept payments seamlessly and securely, you need a merchant account. A merchant account refers to a business bank account that allows businesses to accept electronic payments for goods and services.

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Get More Out Of Q4: 2022 SaaS and Software Holiday Spend Report

FastSpring

For example, hobby, toy, and game stores earn 35% of their total annual revenue around the holidays. We then looked at their revenue from 2019, 2020, and 2021 to identify trends. Use the holidays to show appreciation to your existing or VIP customers through extra generous promotions, gifts, giveaways, or personalized offers.

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What Are The Top 50 SaaS Companies in 2020?

SmartKarrot

In this blog we’ll talk about SaaS business and top 50 SaaS companies in 2020. Source: Byteant , December 2019. Here’s an interesting blog on how should SaaS providers spend on Customer Success. 5000 Rank in 2019 in the security industry. billion valuation in 2019. And the result is visible!

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5 Key Steps to Evolving Your Offering Into a Platform with Eventbrite and Stripe (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

The idea for Stripe, I’m sure most of you know in the early days was to have just a few lines of code and lead developers accept payments in the apps and services. It was a distribution API in a very rudimentary form, and it allowed us to be present in other properties than our website.

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