SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

Trailblazing through their home continent, venturing successfully onto the world stage or changing from on-premise software to SaaS, these companies could have a postal code in any SaaS hotspot in the world. ContaAzul was acquired by the collaborative software platform Wabbi Software S.A. We can’t wait to meet them.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments 257

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Software is inherently global and easily transcends borders—localizing it can be as easy as translating the language. In addition, a software company that wants to sell its product globally needs to integrate multiple payment methods; if a prospective customer’s preferred local payment method isn’t supported, the company risks losing sales.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Airline Affiliate Credit Cards. Certain credit cards are associated with specific airlines. Your perks will be even better when you travel with that airline. For example, you might get free checked bags, lounge access, double rewards points on all purchases through that airline, and complimentary upgrades.

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SaaStr

APRIL 7, 2022

We’re in the business of robots, software robots, an industry … There was a great presentation earlier, you all probably heard with the category awareness, category urgency, and I’d add one more, company urgency. Contact Centers for airlines can respond to an email instead of 48 hours or the smart response in four minutes.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 19, 2018

Zenoti creates software for the wellness industry (spas, salons, yoga studios and fitness centers), which puts a premium on service. Zenoti offers real-time support through chat to customers when they first switch from another software platform. These changes can already be seen at companies such as Dutch airline KLM.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Soon afterwards, instead of paying a one-time fixed price to use the software, customers subscribed to access the software. In other words, instead of buying one engine and a service contract, a major airline would buy 100,000 flight hours from GE with a guaranteed level of engine uptime. Now it’s a subscription.

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Airlines Payment Services Business Payments 111

Payrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Interested in learning more about software-led payments or joining the current Embedded Payments conversations in your organization? Terms related to integrated payment technology Application programming interface (API) A set of routines, protocols, and tools that are used for building software applications.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

I talked to a number of people and asked them, “If every airline took away the miles and you couldn’t get those free trips anymore, would you continue to fly on that airline?” I remember getting ready to buy a software program, and one of the questions I asked was, “I know you’re a really big company.

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Airlines Technical Review Sales Hiring Scale 145

Tom Tunguz

APRIL 25, 2013

When backend software meets the real world through a mobile phone, that’s an IRL experience. The payments systems are in place, the integrations with airlines and taxis and inventory systems and physical things like locks exist. IRL apps require radical simplicity in their design.

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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Airlines Payments 100

Software Platform Consulting

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The complaint provides fascinating reading about pricing and software platforms. Revenue Management Software Revenue management, or pricing optimization, software is an essential tool for many businesses. (To be fair, though, most of these businesses do not share consumer prices.) It isn’t an optional process.”

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Software Platform Consulting

MAY 16, 2017

The recent news reminds me just how many markets are becoming oligopolistic–especially those dominated by platform software. Before We Get to Software… Warren Buffett recently announced that he was buying airline stocks. So why would the Oracle of Omaha invest in airlines now? Software Platform Oligopolies.

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Kraftblick

MARCH 31, 2020

How did COVID-19 influence the purchase process of banking and finance companies – clients of software companies? – Are you planning to purchase custom software services for your company now or in the next following months? No plans to purchase custom software any time this year. Kraftblick is on its way to find out.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 21, 2021

In the news here today, there’s an airline I won’t name that canceled over 2,500 flights over the past couple of days. I talked about this airline a moment ago. And about 30 minutes before the webinar was about to start, the webinar software wasn’t working. It was about restoring my trust in the software.

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Payment Methods Airlines Payment Services Software Review 129

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. A business is SaaS or SaaS-like if it sells anything else software-related. Just look at airlines.

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Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 141

Stax

JANUARY 24, 2024

For example, a customer looking for urgent airline tickets to travel to a funeral may log several online searches for specific travel dates—data that can then be factored into price adjustments. For example, airlines use time-based pricing because flights at certain times of the day, week, or year will see higher demand.

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Payment Methods Pricing Airlines Payment Solutions 88

Baremetrics

JANUARY 10, 2022

Plane tickets and checked bags While plane tickets are not cheap, discount airlines have slashed their prices by making you pay extra for everything—added leg room, checked bags, use of the overhead compartment, drinks, food, priority boarding, seat choice, and whatever else they can think of. Try the free trial today !

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Chargebee

JULY 3, 2024

From meal kits to airlines, the shift to subscriptions has been prominent across industries. Subscription businesses have seen rapid growth in the last decade. One of the reasons behind this popularity is recurring revenue.

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Point Nine Land

MAY 22, 2020

Before cargo.one After Not only did they build a front-end to enable seamless booking on the demand (freight forwarder) side, but they also built a SaaS tool on the supply side to help airlines digitize their back-office and manage their revenue. If we look at B2C marketplaces, they generally build software for the supply side (the B in B2C).

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Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 30, 2023

Lockheed Martin makes F-35s by assembling atoms, and has a 13% gross margin; Salesforce makes software by assembling bits, and has a 74% gross margin. United Airlines can’t simply hire and train 10,000 new call center reps in 12 hours when terrible weather shows up, but dynamic compute can solve this. billion, against almost $2.8

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Chargebee

DECEMBER 3, 0002

From meal kits to airlines, the shift to subscriptions has been prominent across industries. Subscription businesses have seen rapid growth in the last decade. One of the reasons behind this popularity is recurring revenue.

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Payment Features Subscription Airlines Software 40

OPEXEngine

JUNE 2, 2021

Smart pricing enabled process management software provider Cherwell to get the most from its subscribers while new businesses languished. Cherwell was founded in 2004 as an IT process improvement software company and later expanded into other process areas within companies, including HR, facilities, and finance. ” Key metrics.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 18, 2019

Once you’ve figured that out, the software will naturally follow. Or an airline at 34. The trick is to think from the outside in – rather than try to build a product and find a market to sell it to, you need to find a demographic and a customer that no other company is serving and then champion them.

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User Pilot

MAY 14, 2024

Examples include supermarkets, gas stations, budget airlines, and so on. However, software businesses can also take advantage of it through personalized in-app customer marketing. Examples include businesses offering consumer goods, services, and software products.

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SaaStr

APRIL 11, 2019

” And the company was called JBara software. ” Or, “You are the next generation account management software.” And so since we were actually still in the process of rebranding from JBara software to Gainsight, we needed a name. What do you think?” It was based in St. Anthony Kennada : Totally.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

It’s been a staple of industries—publications, utilities, and, more recently, software—since it first emerged in the 17th century. Many software companies (us included!) now offer their software on a subscription basis (SaaS) instead of as a one-time purchase. Access to services: SaaS, utilities, insurance, leasing.

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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. Today, you don’t even have to exit the app. Everything is done under one platform. And it’s all thanks to embedded finance and embedded fintech. Embedded finance isn’t entirely a new concept.

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Payments Payment Methods Merchant Services Finance 88

Sales Hacker

MAY 29, 2020

Or maybe your inventory management software displayed the wrong quantities, and you had to refund customers. Airlines and travel agents across the world weren’t expecting a global pandemic, mass flight cancellations, and border closures — no one was. Processes and tools. Maybe your eCommerce website builder crashed. Be Prepared.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

We have many e-commerce clients and we bring a lot of experience marketing in this space, including business-to-business (B2B) software-as-a-service (SaaS). One such company is passagenspromo, which compares airline prices to help you find the cheapest flights. SMB Digital Marketing Case Studies. Neil Patel Digital Brazil Case Studies.

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

You could probably charge Salesforce like $10 million for like a $50 piece of software, but we have some budget and we have a brand and if we promote you to 10,000, 20,000 CEOs and founders, there’s downstream benefits, right? They went from having no business to relatively small startups literally. SaaStr is not tiny.

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Software Platform Consulting

MARCH 23, 2016

And don’t get me started on the airlines–which may be colluding ! The post Ferreting out Suppliers’ “Dirty Little Secrets” appeared first on Software Platform Consulting. Last week, The New York Times had another great example from the private equity industry.

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 17, 2020

OpenView’s goal for the Expansion SaaS Benchmarks Report is to recalibrate the conversation around what success actually looks like and what it really means to be a top performing software company. Enterprise software is recession-proof. Listen to the episode below, or scroll down to read the rest of this story.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 24, 2019

And she worked her way up to be one of the United Airline’s first female pilots. It’s the software that people can do tons of different things with. Like I said, fairly enterprise-oriented software companies like Notion have super fans. There are people who started the Cloud Appreciation Society.

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Upscope

AUGUST 25, 2021

She tells you the flight she took previously, the airline, the best landing time to go straight to check-in at the airbnb. Now you can hire the next expert to help you find a co-founder and build your first software as a service business. Once you've selected it, she books it for you. She books it for you.

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Upscope

AUGUST 25, 2021

She tells you the flight she took previously, the airline, the best landing time to go straight to check-in at the airbnb. Now you can hire the next expert to help you find a co-founder and build your first software as a service business. Once you've selected it, she books it for you. She books it for you.

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Airlines Social Media Web Development Web Developers 52

BetterCloud

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

When it comes to enterprise software, the build vs. buy conundrum is a common one that many companies grapple with. At MIT’s 2014 CIO Symposium, ThomasNet President Mark Holst-Knudsen said his greatest business/technology failure was building software when they could have bought it. 52% of projects were challenged, and 19% failed.

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VP of Engineering Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development Airlines 45

Sales Hacker

APRIL 22, 2019

Showpad’s all-in-one platform empowers sales and marketing teams to engage buyers through industry leading training and coaching software and innovative content and engagement solutions. Showpad is the leading sales enablement platform for the modern seller. That’s how I got my introduction during internet 1.0

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Development Team Review Scale Software Review Sales Hiring 66

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. A business is SaaS or SaaS-like if it sells anything else software-related. Just look at airlines.

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Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 40