SaaStr

JUNE 22, 2025

Every IPO other than Sailpoint is trading up, and we’ve got a jolt of momentum here for the first time since … well … 2021. initial public offering on Friday, becoming the latest enterprise software company to test increasingly receptive public markets. The IPO market has been … on fire in 2025. But we may have our first.

B2B 189

B2B Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services 189

SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2025

But a very different one from the 2021 wave: Deal volume is surging : 2025 has been a “green light” year for IPOs, with 52 new U.S. 21 billion 2021 valuation, $1.6B+ revenue Navan (formerly TripActions) – Corporate travel and expense management, confidentially filed June 2025. IPOs priced so far—up 62.5%

Payments 185

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services AI 185

SaaStr

JULY 10, 2025

larger revenue base by 2025. larger revenue base by 2025. Free Cash Flow: Nearly break-even (partner payment timing impact) Toast: The Growth Juggernaut Q4 2024 Metrics: Revenue: $1.34B (+29% YoY) ARR: $1.6B (+34% YoY) Operating Income: $32M (2.4% Sometimes the bigger market wins, even with lower initial margins.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Payments Scale Payment Solutions 175

SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2021

So many startups these days are claiming they have “ARR” from revenue that … doesn’t recur. Doesn’t ARR stand for Annual Recurring Revenue? ARR now really means revenue with 100%+ Net Revenue Retention. 50% revenue from software (recurring), 50% from payments (not-recurring). .

Merchant Services 360

Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 360

SaaStr

AUGUST 11, 2022

So in the Boom Times of later 2020 and 2021, almost every VC pushed SaaS companies to at least become a little bit of a fintech. It seemed such an easy way to bolt on more revenue to an underlying SaaS platform. Shopify now gets 2x the revenue from payments and merchant services than it does from SaaS subcriptions.

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SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 316

SaaStr

APRIL 12, 2022

The majority of its revenue is now from Bitcoin transactions, not “traditional” payments and software. And yet … and yet … its engine is all software and really SaaS. Its software and services business is the one with the real operating margins. At least still for now. It’s core.

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Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services Revenue 301

Stax

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Acquisition of BlockChyp brings new technology and industry expertise to Stax, furthering its evolution as a leading payment processor ORLANDO – October 1, 2024 – Stax , a leading payment technology provider, today announced its acquisition of BlockChyp , further expanding the company’s end-to-end processing capabilities.

Merchant Services 197

Merchant Services Stax Payments Payment Services 197

SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2021

. — Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) April 21, 2021. automating the back office and payments and billing for SMBs), and doing it with 120%+ NRR. This is pretty impressive, although on reflection, perhaps what one would expect from a mission-critical SMB app. Making more and more money on each payment.

Payment Solutions 347

Payment Solutions Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services 347

Tom Tunguz

MARCH 28, 2021

UIPath offers software to build robots, programs that automate repetitive work. Robots read pdfs that customers provide and input that data into other computer systems. The UIPath suite includes the software to write, execute, monitor, and maintain these robots. Lastly, let’s touch on UIPath’s revenue streams.

Payment Services 359

Payment Services Metrics Payment Solutions Payments 359

SaaStr

AUGUST 28, 2024

Only 20% of Revenue from “SaaS”, 80% From Transactions and Float (Fintech) Bill started off 100% SaaS, and slowly and deliberately added payments. Fast forward to today, and only 20% of its revenue is from software subscriptions. But both are still at their core software platforms. At least at scale. #2.

Payments 292

Payments Payment Solutions SMB Acquisition 292

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

— Ari Levy (@levynews) September 22, 2021. And they are both incredibly impressive — 118% growth at $3B run-rate and $500m in ARR in software alone may be an all-time record — but also, perhaps not SaaS? With gross margins of only 21%, is Toast really a software company? Mediocre margins in payments.

Payment Methods 325

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments Cloud 325

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Billion ARR, growing a stunning 48% (!) – 111% NRR, although down from 131% in 2021 – 15 Month CAC – Gotten very efficient, +$194m net profit – Transactions growing faster than software, like Shopify – From $120m ARR in… pic.twitter.com/hYImIBKyNQ — Jason ✨Be Kind✨ Lemkin  ?? And Far Bigger.

Payment Services 339

Payment Services Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 339

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. — Jon Erlichman (@JonErlichman) April 28, 2021. 110% growth at $4B in revenues.

Merchant Services 316

Merchant Services Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payments 316

SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2021

. — Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) April 16, 2021. Squarespace may be more design-focused, Wix the somewhat more cost-effective solution. Over $500,000 revenue per employee. Monetizing ecommerce via subscriptions, but not payment processing. This ecommerce revenue was $143m in 2020, about 22% of total revenue.

Payment Methods 337

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payments Payment Services 337

SaaStr

AUGUST 3, 2022

Zoom came out of 2020-2021 with SMBs no longer growing, but a huge boost in the enterprise. Payments still materially accelerating overall growth to 16%, and predicting revenue growth from payments and merchant solutions to more than double that of subscriptions and SaaS. More on that here. Or quite get right.

Payment Methods 283

Payment Methods Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 283

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The Macro Impact On Public Cloud Software Over The Past Year Cloud stocks dropped in 2022 in a severe market pullback event that Bessemer Venture Partners call The SaaSacre. A 1% improvement in revenue growth today has the same impact on valuations as a 2% improvement in free cash flow margin. What does this mean for Cloud companies?

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Cloud Payments Software Review Payment Solutions 306

SaaStr

OCTOBER 22, 2021

— Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) October 18, 2021. It was just amazing that when iPhone launched, you could now take a picture of receipts and have them somewhat automatically “expensed” A jaw dropping, amazing use of the first generation on mobile apps. based revenue. 119% NRR from SMBs!! What do I mean?

Scale 326

Scale SaaS Payments SMB Payment Solutions 326

FastSpring

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Note: Apple announced that it would be reducing the App Store fee from 30% to 15% for most developers starting on January 1st, 2021. For app entrepreneurs and ecommerce store owners, the battle to be noticed in the marketplace is ongoing. How viable is it for companies to shop their apps outside of mainstream marketplaces?

Payment Methods 147

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Merchant Services SaaS Payments 147

FastSpring

OCTOBER 19, 2021

“When we heard about it, we just stopped what we were doing,” an app developer told us on a recent call. “It Pending Apple’s appeal, the Gonzalez Rogers ruling would enable developers to link to external payment systems (like FastSpring!) Apple case mean for Apple’s 30% revenue cut? It shut down our shop for a while.

Payment Solutions 148

Payment Solutions Payments Payment Methods Payment Services 148

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

As businesses grow, their software requirements grow as well. At this point, a business needs to look for an enterprise solution that can support its growth. As businesses grow and adapt, software shouldn’t hold them back. It might sound like a simple task, but choosing an enterprise CRM solution is difficult.

Payment Solutions 114

Payment Solutions Enterprise Scale Payments 114

Baremetrics

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Shopify has made it more profitable than ever to sell apps in the Shopify App Store. We’ve already discussed many of the huge updates they’ve announced for Shopify app developers. At the Shopify Unite 2021 event, Shopify announced a drastic reduction of their revenue share. Table of Contents.

Payments 105

Payments Payment Solutions Revenue Payment Methods 105

FastSpring

MAY 15, 2024

District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers’ order to allow app developers to “steer” users to third-party payment options outside of the native App Store. The article points out that according to Epic documents, Apple is still blocking developers from steering consumers to other payment options with lower pricing options.

Merchant Services 130

Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services Payments 130

FastSpring

JUNE 21, 2024

and Google LLC from limiting third-party companies that want to distribute and monetize their own apps on Google and Apple devices. This is to prevent the platform providers from “gatekeeping” while also forcing more competition between their own apps and others on the platforms.

Merchant Services 158

Merchant Services Marketplace as a Service Payments Payment Solutions 158

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Wherever you are in your revenue journey, adopting certain growth strategies can help you keep growing fast. Brex then scaled its payments business quickly. Then, it built an entire ecosystem around it, soon launching Shopify payments, an embedded payment tool that quickly became the largest piece of the business.

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Payments Payment Methods Embedded Payments Scale 243

Neil Patel

JANUARY 26, 2021

If you’re looking to grow your small business in 2021 and beyond, you need to organize every aspect of your company. This can be difficult if your small business doesn’t have the cash or resources to put systems in place that lead to long-term organization. Here’s how to stay organized in 2021 and beyond.

Payment Methods 144

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payment Services Strategy 144

SaaStr

MARCH 4, 2024

2021: “Just raise the extra capital! jasonlk) February 15, 2024 So, so much has changed since the peak crazy days of 2021. Adding another $5m, $10m, heck sometimes $50m into a startup via SAFEs to either punt on valuation issues or to extent runway can seem like a simple solution. What were we thinking. And they come first.

Finance 283

Finance Payment Solutions Payments Pricing 283

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

With that, developers have been hurrying to Shopify to get their apps into the Shopify App Store. But what are the best tools for Shopify App Developers in 2021? In this article, we are going to go over the 10 best tools for Shopify App Developers (plus a bonus one). Top Shopify App Developers use Data generator 4.

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions Payments Payment Methods Development 98

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Jonathan saw them through IPO in 2021 with the highest software multiple IPO ever. Toast is a vertical software embedded payments solution for restaurants in the U.S. It’s the fastest-growing software business of all time. I t’s not entirely different from selling software to a marketing VP.

Payment Methods 267

Payment Methods Acquisition Scale Payments 267

SaaStr

JULY 20, 2022

It IPO’d in November 2021 and today is doing $130m ARR, growing a respectable 30% year-over-year. ” But it’s also a reminder how hard it is to combine services, hardware and software and make money from SMBs. #3. 907 employees at IPO, so about $150,000 revenue per employee. So why the terrible revenue multiple?

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SaaS Payments Scale Payment Methods SMB 284

Baremetrics

MAY 16, 2021

Revenue forecasting software is used to create predictions of sales. 1 Why Use Revenue Forecasting Software? Why Use Revenue Forecasting Software? Revenue forecasting software allows companies to forecast revenue and efficiently allocate resources in a way that optimizes growth and cash flow.

Forecasting 80

Forecasting Payments Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 80

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. Listen to your team.

Sales Hiring 274

Sales Hiring Payment Services SaaS Payments Scale 274

FastSpring

JUNE 22, 2022

We talked about one of the biggest trends playing out in the software industry: the convergence of B2B and B2C. Currently, there are fewer examples of B2B SaaS expanding into the consumer space, but I believe this will continue to become more common as software companies think “users first” (e.g., What does that mean exactly?

B2C 148

B2C Payments SaaS Payments B2B 148

Baremetrics

MAY 20, 2021

Financial forecast software helps you create projections of financial outcomes within a specified area of your company. In this article, we list the top 10 financial forecast software options for 2021. Are you interested in how your business would benefit from intelligent financial forecasting software?

Payment Solutions 87

Payment Solutions Forecasting Payments SaaS Payments 87

Baremetrics

MARCH 30, 2021

Your business requires a fast and reliable tool for sending and receiving payments from clients. But with so many payment processing tools on the market, which one should you choose? Here's a list of six payment processing platforms for 2021. 1 Different B2B Payment Processing Tools 1. Payment-tracking.

Payment Services 80

Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payments 80

yoursales

JANUARY 29, 2021

Sales Stack 2021. Welcome to Sales Stack 2021 - one of the most expansive lists of sales technology out there. As in 2020 the focus for 2021 is going to follow this prioritized order: Which customer journey experience are you creating? Sales Tools for Professional Sales. SALES STACK 2020: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2020: THE TOOLS.

Scale 106

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 106

FastSpring

DECEMBER 22, 2020

On average, our customers’ revenue grew by nearly 20% relative to 2019. Many of their software solutions sold by our customers facilitate remote work environments, and most customers have expanded their customer bases meaningfully during the pandemic. We helped facilitate record growth for our customers. We acquired SalesRight.

Payment Methods 131

Payment Methods Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments 131

How To Buy Saas

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Here, you will get the filter to categorize the product based on validity( whether it’s a monthly, yearly, or lifetime deal), based on the SaaS types(Accounting, CRM Software, HR Manager, Email Marketing, Time Tracking, and many more). If you are satisfied with the software you can continue, else you can claim a refund.

SaaS Payments 108

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Software Review 108