SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2021

Perhaps the most interesting thing is just how similar both these website-builder-plus-ecommerce companies are. It’s growing at the same rate (~30%), booming from ecommerce (+78% for Squarespace, +60% for Wix). Over $500,000 revenue per employee. Monetizing ecommerce via subscriptions, but not payment processing.

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Stax

JULY 9, 2024

We can hail a ride from a mobile app, and our transactions for all sorts of goods and services can be easily paid for from our phones. Physical wallets are phasing out, left behind in favor of digital wallets and other digital payment options. In 2019, 77% of US consumers were using at least one type of digital payment system.

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SaaStr

APRIL 29, 2021

Shopify’s first quarter revenue: Q1 2021: $989 million Q1 2020: $470 million Q1 2019: $321 million Q1 2018: $214 million Q1 2017: $127 million Q1 2016: $73 million Q1 2015: $37 million Q1 2014: $19 million Q1 2013: $9 million. Cloud and ecommerce may end soon, but it hasn’t ended yet. 110% growth at $4B in revenues.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 18, 2020

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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SaaStr

MAY 4, 2022

These days, as the business lead for invoicing at Stripe, Xie has earned her own stripes in navigating the unique challenges of building and thriving in the SaaS marketplace. What makes a SaaS business so hard? As your business grows in complexity, these drags on your infrastructure can impact your product development.

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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. Vindi is a PCI-certified online payment platform for recurring billing.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Bill.com is a bit — OK, maybe a lot — more lower profile than many of the SaaS Unicorns to IPO lately, but it’s one of my personal favorites. 110% Net Revenue Retention and 8 2% Customer Retention from 81,000+ SMB Customers. Bill.com sells to very small businesses that do churn at a higher rate. Almost always.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 25, 2019

Keeping up with the latest and greatest in ecommerce can be a lot of work. Between new legislation going into effect and shifting consumer preferences, the ecommerce landscape is anything but stagnant. As your global ecommerce partner, we make it our mission to stay on top of the latest trends. But don’t worry, we got your back.

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FastSpring

JUNE 11, 2019

To help you accomplish this, we’re sharing a short list of helpful ebooks, webinars, podcasts, books, and blog posts to help you kick off your growth plan for 2019. Ways to improve ecommerce conversion rates. Podcast: Ecommerce Conversations by Practical Ecommerce. Maximizing your revenue potential with global sales.

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Stax

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

ACH transfers, or payments made through the Automated Clearing House network, account for billions of dollars in payments annually. In fact, NACHA, the nonprofit that governs the ACH payments network reported 6.1% in payment volume growth in Q4 2021. TL:DR ACH Payments are essentially digital check payments.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 29, 2020

Keeping up with the latest and greatest in ecommerce can be a lot of work. Between new legislation going into effect and shifting consumer preferences, the ecommerce landscape is anything but stagnant. As your global ecommerce partner, we make it our mission to stay on top of the latest trends. But don’t worry, we got your back.

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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. Weave has a base to build on, and has done a good job steadily increasing NRR, up from 97% in 2019. #2. Historically, Weave gave away several “free” phones with each new account.

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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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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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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The first thing SMBs did was look at their credit card payments and cancel everything they could. Anyone processing a lot of SMB and credit-card deals saw churn probably double. Even in the darkest days of 2019, enterprises still. Almost irrationally. But second, enterprise customers all renewed. Almost all of them. functioned.

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Payrix

JANUARY 30, 2024

Back to customer stories A cut above the rest Why Real Green Systems, the leading software platform for lawn care businesses, chose Payrix. Real Green’s journey to embedded payments is also rooted in innovation. Our first integrated payment solution was a referral agreement with a third-party ISO.

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Stax

MARCH 14, 2024

During the 2020s, almost all businesses will have been looking at b2b payments processing solutions to meet changing consumer needs. Online and contactless adoption multiplied, and digital payments rose. Between 2019 and 2020, the number of U.S. But what about in the business-to-business (B2B) sector?

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 5, 2019

We recently analyzed the reviews on our G2 profile and found some common themes as to why our customers chose our platform. Our Platform is Easy to Use. We make it a priority to keep our customers’ perspective in mind as we develop and improve our platform’s usability. Our Platform is Easily Customizable.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Revenue vs. profit vs. income: The terms may seem synonymous and are sometimes even used interchangeably, but they tell different stories about a company. Revenue growth suggests an expanding business and in-demand product, but whether there is any financial gain for the business is determined by the income.

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 13, 2022

We confirmed this by reviewing sales data from over 300 SaaS and software companies that use our billing platform. We discovered that Q4 is by far the best-performing quarter of the year for both business and consumer sales. In November, software companies see 11% to 24% over the average monthly revenue. About Our Data.

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 31, 2019

When you hear the word “haunted,” odds are the first thing that comes to mind is not ecommerce. But in keeping with the Halloween theme, I’m going to discuss five key factors in ecommerce that you don’t want to come back to haunt your software company. Goblins, Ghouls, and Global Regulations | GDPR & PSD2. The root of the cause?

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Stax

DECEMBER 27, 2023

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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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Over the past decade, India’s central bank—the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)—has become one of the most proactive regulators in the world, advancing the digitization of payments and financial services at a rapid pace. By 2019, the government had issued a unique ID to nearly every adult resident in India; today, the system is used by 1.3

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Neil Patel

MARCH 25, 2021

TikTok is a video sharing platform that allows users to create and share dynamic short-form (maximum of 60 seconds) videos. Plus, integrations with Shopify and other strong eCommerce platforms have made it easy for brands to sell products directly on TikTok. How to Set up an Account in TikTok That Will Drive Sales.

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yoursales

DECEMBER 12, 2018

SALES STACK 2019 SALES TOOLS FOR. PROFESSIONAL SALES SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS I t’s 2019 and we’re back at the sales tools workshop, working out the best sales tools for your sales process. You’ll get lots of content from us along with advice for your sales process.

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yoursales

DECEMBER 12, 2018

SALES STACK 2019 SALES TOOLS FOR. PROFESSIONAL SALES SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS I t’s 2019 and we’re back at the sales tools workshop, working out the best sales tools for your sales process. You’ll get lots of content from us along with advice for your sales process.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Enter the platform company. Or if you’ve ever gotten a 2 cent and a 4 cent deposit into your account as you’re trying to set up direct deposit or payments transfers, that’s a pre-Plaid world. Zach : So in our back end, we’ve integrated with about 10,000 financial institutions in the U.S. Zach : About 260.

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Stax

AUGUST 26, 2024

The year 2024 is a special one for everyone at Stax because we’re celebrating a decade of transforming the payments industry and supporting our merchants and partners with innovative technologies and unwavering support. Launching PayFac and ISV solutions In 2019 and 2020, Stax became more than just a payment processor for merchants.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Micro startup acquisitions are a move away from buying businesses with established products or even proven revenue streams. These businesses usually consist of 2 to 3 people, and companies are taking bets on their products that aren’t even fully realized yet. The platform is free, private, and has no middlemen.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Are you looking to monetize your blog or earn a passive income? This is a complete guide to choosing the right affiliate network for your platform, including what an affiliate network is, why you should consider joining one, and a rundown of the top networks on the market. Durations can vary drastically from platform to platform.

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 11, 2021

FastSpring-powered stores will need a new storefront to accept new subscription purchases from India. This process is straightforward, and we describe it in detail below.). The Reserve Bank of India first issued its directive related to subscription charges in 2019. Storefronts are a subset of your larger store.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 8, 2020

By 2019, Watch had 270 million monthly users, and by 2020, that number had shot up to over 1.25 In this post, I’ll dive deep into how to use Facebook Watch for marketing, now that the platform has matured. In 2019, Facebook’s head of global creative strategy Rick Van Veen told Variety , We’re still figuring it out and learning.

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Casey Accidental

JUNE 9, 2020

At the end of 2019, I presented Eventbrite’s product plans to the board for 2020. Retention is not only the primary measure of product value and product/market fit for most businesses; it is also the biggest driver of monetization and acquisition as well. One of our board members asked: “I understand these goals for the year.

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yoursales

JANUARY 28, 2022

It'll track any Google-based Sales Professional's efforts across email, calendar, and phone, and share interaction clients have had with emails, websites, or when they've called back. With the launch of the Pipedrive Marketplace a very wide range of third party apps & integrations. Drive Revenue. Grow Your Pipeline.

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FastSpring

JUNE 19, 2019

A lot of the findings are expected (there are more internet users than ever, and we’re becoming more obsessed with social media and ecommerce). We’re Personalizing Customer Experiences More Than Ever Before. But for those who have a smartphone, nearly a quarter are “almost constantly” online.

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Unbounce

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

PPC is a method of digital advertising in which you aim to get your ads to rank as the highest result displayed for user searches, and you, as the advertiser, pay a fee each time it’s clicked. This means that when a user types in words related to your business, your customized ad will be the first result they see— sometimes.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 14, 2021

Historically, freelancers have had a number of platforms to connect with potential employers, including Upwork and Fiverr. As the demand for freelance work increases, it stands to reason that the number of platforms mirrors this growth. The platform will focus on work like consulting, writing, marketing, and graphic design.

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