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ISVs vs SaaS: What’s the Difference?

Stax

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.

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Payment Facilitator vs Payment Gateway: Key Differences and Similarities

Stax

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.

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Xero vs QuickBooks Online: Which Accounting Software is Best for Your Business?

Stax

Payroll – Companies in need of payroll will also find Xero the winner through its partnership with Gusto to give you full-service payroll integrations. Customer support – Xero’s customer service is first class. All customer service employees are also Xero employees — no outsourced support.

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CFO Tools You Should be Using in 2022

SaaSOptics

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. Stax prides itself on being more than just an invoicing platform. They have a whole host of CRM tools to browse. Sales Tax and Compliance Tools.

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8 Best Chargebee Alternatives and Competitors (And How They’re Different)

FastSpring

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. You can act as your own MoR or you can outsource the entire process to FastSpring. What It Means to Have FastSpring as Your Merchant of Record. And more…. …