Stax

AUGUST 20, 2024

Airline credit cards, payment plans for costly items, and car rental insurance are forms of embedded finance that have been around for a while. This infrastructure helps businesses provide financial solutions, such as digital payments, directly on their websites or mobile apps. Today, you don’t even have to exit the app.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Building on the definitions from that essay and introducing a few new ones, here are the types of business models we’ll cover: SaaS: software that businesses access online and purchase via a subscription e.g. Slack, Adobe, Atlassian. When price is most important to customers, they sacrifice quality. Just look at airlines.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

That’s why understanding surcharging—including its definitions, types, calculating methods, and best practices—can help you incorporate surcharging into your operations. TL;DR Surcharges are additional fees consumers pay on top of the base price of goods or services. Payment processing surcharge. Let’s dive in. Fuel surcharge.

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BitPay

MAY 8, 2023

Here are some of the most well-known companies accepting crypto as payment and what’s driving the adoption. 6 Major Companies Accepting Crypto as Payment Accepting crypto payments as a business isn’t just for the tech-focused industries. AT&T AT&T is just one of the utilities companies enabling crypto payments.

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Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 30, 2023

With this faster method of calculating, what might have taken weeks could now take seconds. Early KKR executive Donald Herdrich is said to have bought an Apple IIe in 1980 for his children, got a demo of VisiCalc at the electronics store, and that turned into a decisive advantage for KKR going forward. The curves simply do not meet.

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Point Nine Land

MAY 22, 2020

As consumers, we can order almost anything online in a few clicks: books, taxis, cars or manicures, you name it. Businesses, on the other hand, are stuck in the dark ages, often relying on the phone, email, fax and even pen and paper when it comes to ordering goods or services.

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Stax

MARCH 12, 2024

But in reality, companies often have to spend considerable time and resources chasing down late payments that are stuck in Accounts Receivable. Promptly collecting payments from your customers is essential to run a sustainable business. In fact, 81% of large retailers say that real-time payments are critical to their operations.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

In the streaming-video realm, Netflix , Hulu , and HBO all provide high-quality entertainment for a low price. Access to products: personal care, food, pet care. Difference #1: Recurring payments. Unlike one-time purchases, subscription payments happen on a scheduled basis—most often each week, month, quarter, or year.

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Software Platform Consulting

MAY 16, 2017

Before We Get to Software… Warren Buffett recently announced that he was buying airline stocks. This is a man whose greatest quotes include many disparaging remarks about the airline industry (see here ). So why would the Oracle of Omaha invest in airlines now? Oligopolies Extend Well Beyond Airlines.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

Angus is an amazing person — who never went to college. Angus is an amazing person — he never went to college. In 1995, while a high school student Rhode Island he was an early employee at Intelecom Data Systems, one of America’s first commercial internet service providers and website developers. Show Introduction [00:09].

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Building on the definitions from that essay and introducing a few new ones, here are the types of business models we’ll cover: SaaS: software that businesses access online and purchase via a subscription e.g. Slack, Adobe, Atlassian. When price is most important to customers, they sacrifice quality. Just look at airlines.

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Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 40

Software Platform Consulting

MARCH 23, 2016

And don’t get me started on the airlines–which may be colluding ! By the way, the list of retailers who have paid penalties when the shelf price did not match the checkout price is too long to detail here.). virtual card fees piled on an invoice and late payment process. More Dirty Little Supplier Secrets.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

It could be pricing, a lack of a certain feature, poor support or anything else. For instance, as a content marketer, one of the things I do on a daily basis is see what websites have linked to our site to find opportunities to partner up on content or just to send a quick email to say thanks. You can also find them in Baremetrics.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As for Robert, prior to MessageBird, he was co-founder and CEO of Zaypay.com which focused on driving mobile payments into 50+ countries, enabling 1.5bln users to pay for virtual goods through their phones (sold to Mobile Interactive Group (MIG). billion users to pay for virtual goods through their phones.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2019

Robert Vis: So, I was working on my previous company called ZayPay, which was an API to pay for virtual goods on your mobile phone bill, and we ran into this problem where we needed to use text messaging as a way to verify user’s phone numbers. Then we couldn’t process the payments. What are your thoughts?

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Scale Payment Methods Scaling SaaS Payments 105

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2019

Robert Vis: So, I was working on my previous company called ZayPay, which was an API to pay for virtual goods on your mobile phone bill, and we ran into this problem where we needed to use text messaging as a way to verify user’s phone numbers. Then we couldn’t process the payments. What are your thoughts?

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In the last few years, we have witnessed digital wallet apps taking over the market, especially after Covid 19, and cashless payments became all the rave. Almost all of us are acquainted with the best digital wallet apps and use them daily for online shopping, bill payments, and splitting with our friends.

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User Pilot

MAY 7, 2025

Procreate app on the App Store. Pro tip: Add a short, high-impact demo video and compelling screenshots to your app store listing. Build recurring revenue with a subscription model What it is: Offer ongoing access to your apps features or content in exchange for a recurring payment. Notions pricing plans. per download.

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How To Buy Saas

MARCH 3, 2025

So, whats in store for 2025? And It Doesnt Stop There… Retail SaaS helps stores track inventory, personalize promotions, and optimize pricing. Education SaaS enables personalized learning, student tracking, and AI-driven tutoring. The rapid evolution of SaaS has changed how we work and compete.

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