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The Vertical SaaS Gold Rush: Why Non-Tech B2B Is Growing 250%+ Faster

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The Numbers Tell the Story: Monday.com Q1 2025 : 30% growth, $282M revenue Asana 2024 : Single-digit growth, struggling with churn Mostly Same Product Category, Mostly Different Customers Both companies build “work management” software. A restaurant isn’t dropping Toast’s POS system to save money.

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The 7 Best Mobile POS Systems for Small Businesses in 2024

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Whether businesses are on the road or staff are simply moving about in-store, mobile point of sale systems (mPOS systems) are becoming an increasingly popular POS option for small businesses. In fact, mPOS systems are gradually gaining market share from the fixed cash-register-style POS market.

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Your 2024 Guide to Payment Integration

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As we venture into 2024, the landscape of payment integration continues to evolve, presenting both opportunities and challenges for merchants. This enables you to accept various forms of payment, such as credit cards, digital wallets, and bank transfers, directly through your website, mobile app, or point-of-sale (POS) system.

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5 Best Paddle Alternatives in 2024

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It can also be used to sell physical products, both online and in person, with Stripe Terminal serving as a Point of Sale (PoS) solution, too. 2Subscribe is a subscription management system that offers features such as recurring billing and churn prevention. 2Monetize is the most similar product to Paddle.

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Almost Everyone’s Gotten Radically More Efficient in SaaS

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Toast dominates the restaurant POS space but its model has some inherent challenges in getting to positive operating margins: it sells to SMBs with a sales-driven model (harder), it has high hardware costs that it loses money on, and it has high services costs onboarding these small customers. While Still Growing 43% at $1.1

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Payment Gateway vs Payment Processor: What You Need to Know

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If the transaction is deemed legitimate and the customer has sufficient funds, the payment gateway will finalize the sale and relay the approval. In other words, a payment gateway is essentially an online POS terminal for your business. Shopify Payments, PayPal, Stripe) Often provided by banks or payment service providers (e.g.,

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How Adopting Mobile Payments Can Help Your Business Grow in 2024

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Fast forward to now where much has changed, and research anticipates contactless mobile payments to exceed one billion users globally by 2024. Customers can pay with their watch or phone just by tapping it on a card reader, and businesses can host an entire POS system on a mobile phone. How is This Relevant to Your Business?