SaaStr

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Replace manual GRC efforts, reduce costs, and save time preparing for audits and maintaining compliance. Drata is the world’s most advanced security and compliance automation platform with the mission to help companies earn and keep the trust of their users, customers, partners, and prospects.

Scale 54

Scale Onboarding Government compliance 54

How To Buy Saas

MAY 29, 2025

For example, machine learning models can forecast sales, optimize pricing, and evaluate investment scenarios in real time. Key benefits of AI-driven decision support include: Predictive Insights: Machine learning forecasts customer demand and market shifts by analyzing historical and real-time data.

Artificial Intelligence 59

Artificial Intelligence Payment Services Payments SaaS Payments 59

FastSpring

APRIL 29, 2025

Spend less time managing your payments and compliance and more time making great games: FastSpring is a payments partner you can trust for your players and which you can use to sell games or in-game items on your website, web shop, or embedded directly into your game with fully customizable and branded checkouts.

Payment Services 133

Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods 133

BetterCloud

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Grabbing the card still makes up a substantial portion of SaaS sales in other areas of the world, too. Since employees can easily buy it, SaaS accounts — with your organizations data largely grow unknown and unchecked by IT. Risk 3: Shadow IT poses a compliance risk Related to security risk is compliance risk.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence compliance Systems Review Technical Review 52

SaaStr

MAY 4, 2022

A good pricing strategy can align your product with your user’s needs, optimize value-capture, and streamline your first time to a sale. For example, Twilio used machine learning to retry cards at an optimal time and increased their authorization rates by two percent. Plan for compliance implications of your growth.

Payment Features 257

Payment Features Payment Services Outsourcing Services Payment Solutions 257

SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2024

Integration and scaling challenges Governance Limited expertise Cost Complexity We used to talk about how important it was to get the data model correct and leverage the correct LLM. Today, we’re moving toward building models that are tuned and trained on a specific domain, industry, and business need. This is common.

AI 173

AI Artificial Intelligence Government Scale 173

FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2024

This year’s themes cover the big topics in tech, including the Creator Economy, Gaming and eSports, B2B, and, of course, Artificial Intelligence. We’ll manage your checkout , VAT and sales taxes , compliance , and more, freeing you to focus on what you do best: building great software.

Merchant Services 150

Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Methods Artificial Intelligence 150

Panintelligence

DECEMBER 9, 2024

But Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been the catalyst for enormous change. AI SaaS further elevates this model by providing scalable, cloud-based AI technologies - such as Machine Learning (ML), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Causal AI - without requiring heavy investments in infrastructure or specialized talent.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Services Artificial Intelligence 52

Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 18, 2018

This will occur in all major SaaS categories, products serving VPs of Marketing, Sales, Engineering, and Customer Support. Machine learning fades as a buzzword. Startups begin to siphon off important but underserved segments of SaaS incumbent’s customer bases. 1% of Salesforce’s revenue makes a unicorn. To an extent.

Blockchain 208

Blockchain Technical Review Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence 208

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

JANUARY 8, 2019

The chart below shows the sales technology landscape - there are over 800 vendors listed and 38 different categories. Source: Sales Hacker It’s fair to say that the sales enablement category has mirrored the impressive growth of the sales technology landscape as a whole (up and to the right). There’s a big unmet need.

Sales Enablement 112

Sales Enablement Technical Review Technology Scale 112

SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

In the last two years there have been so many new services around security, around machine learning that literally did not exist. Megan Leuders: So a great example of that is when we’re selling to a large financial institution and we do sell to kind of the Global 2000. What about compliance? Where is your storage?

Cloud 172

Cloud Scale Trends Machine Learning 172

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 8, 2018

A sales CRM is a foundational tool for modern sales organizations. That is why keeping track of customers could spell the difference between a closed sale and a lost opportunity. Any sales-dependent company without a decent CRM platform to support its sales team is entering the battlefield unarmed.

Artificial Intelligence 99

Artificial Intelligence Blockchain Machine Learning AI 99

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Let’s explore each of these data analytics trends to understand how they can be leveraged in your company: Smarter analytics with artificial intelligence : AI enhances data analytics by making processes faster, more scalable, and cost-effective, enabling better user behavior prediction and product optimization.

Trends 102

Trends Artificial Intelligence Data Outsourced Development 102

Stax

APRIL 3, 2025

of retail sales in 2025, amounting to $6.862 trillion. Talk to sales Understanding Ecommerce Payment Solutions An eCommerce payment solution is the underlying infrastructure that allows eCommerce businesses to accept and process card and online payments seamlessly and securely. This is expected to grow to 22.6%

Payment Methods 88

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 88

Valuize Consulting

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Understanding Predictive Analytics for Customer Intent At its core, predictive analytics leverages historical data, machine learning algorithms, and statistical techniques to forecast future behaviors and trends. Enhancing the Support Experience Predictive models also streamline and improve the support experience.

B2B 52

B2B Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Outsourced Development 52

BetterCloud

MARCH 7, 2025

This is called shadow IT and its a constant battle, but theres a new, more sophisticated invader on the scene: Artificial Intelligence (AI). Marketing teams are using AI-powered content creation tools, sales is leveraging AI for lead scoring, and even HR might be experimenting with AI-driven resume screening.

AI 52

AI Software Review Technical Review Software 52

User Pilot

JULY 14, 2024

Sales-led companies had higher core feature adoption rates than product-led ones (26.7% Average core feature adoption rate by industry With the core feature adoption rate of 24.8%, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning SaaS companies were the closest to the average. respectively). vs. 24.3%). vs. 24.3%).

Benchmarks 105

Benchmarks Artificial Intelligence Underperforming Technical Team Onboarding 105

Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Contact sales What is an ISV Partnership? For example, in fintech, ISVs provide specialized payment processing solutions that integrate with point-of-sale (POS) systems, enhancing transaction security and efficiency. Security & compliance Security is a top priority, especially when dealing with sensitive customer data.

Payments 88

Payments Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Solutions 88

User Pilot

OCTOBER 20, 2023

TL;DR Product-led growth is becoming the go-to growth strategy and PLG tactics can help sales-led companies to improve customer experience. So even if your product or sector requires a sales-led approach , incorporating some elements of PLG will help you improve the user experience. Let’s get right to it.

Trends 105

Trends Artificial Intelligence Management AI 105

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Salesforce is a customer relationship management software built to help sales teams. It uses quote-based pricing and includes enterprise features such as custom roles, permission management, premium integrations, priority support, activity logs, security audits, SOC 2/GDPR compliance, and more. Conversational intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence 105

Artificial Intelligence Social Media Software Review AI Search 105

FastSpring

JANUARY 9, 2023

A MoR also takes the lead on chargebacks, tax audits, legal compliance, and more. Finally, you’ll need to maintain a large team of tax and legal experts to maintain global compliance (because solutions like Stripe don’t help with any legalities). can provide payment processing, order fulfillment, financing options, and more.

Payment Methods 147

Payment Methods Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Features 147

Sales Hacker

MARCH 21, 2018

Given my experiences over the past 20 years in the B2B sales industry, I’ll let you be the judge! . While a recent post focused on creative ways to de-stress and re-energize , this article takes a targeted approach to identifying and tackling five stressors in sales. 1) Stressor: Sales targets, quotas, KPIs. So let’s dive in.

Sales 87

Sales Artificial Intelligence B2B Social Media 87

Payrix

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Those partners should enable omnichannel capabilities that connect a broad range of payment acceptance devices to different sales channels and deliver on preferred payment methods that meet evolving customer demands, including digital wallets like Apple Pay and Google Pay. compliance to let this be your reminder to do so.

Payment Services 100

Payment Services Merchant Services Payments Payment Solutions 100

Tom Tunguz

JULY 14, 2013

At the outset, the company targets the less sophisticated SMB segment which doesn’t demand the compliance, heavy security and integration features needed by enterprise customers. Characteristic 4: Efficient Sales Model. In SaaS, sales and marketing execution are critical to the success of the business.

Sales Hiring 100

Sales Hiring Venture Capital SaaS Machine Learning 100

FastSpring

JANUARY 31, 2023

Functionality and feature comparisons Payment Processing Calculating and remitting sales tax, VAT, and GST Checkout Subscription Management Reporting and Analytics Pricing Customer Reviews Note: Information in this article is true at the time of writing but is subject to change. Detailed reports and analytics. And much more.

Payment Services 147

Payment Services Payment Methods Merchant Services Software Review 147

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Sales Technology has EXPLODED over the last few years. And just like the explosion of Martech, if you’re on the cutting edge of the sales tech revolution, you’ll reap the rewards. 6 Sales Tech Trends. 2020 will be the year of acquisitions in sales tech. 2: AI & machine learning will become more than just a buzzword.

Artificial Intelligence 53

Artificial Intelligence Interviewing Trends Sales 53

Panintelligence

JULY 24, 2024

This includes innovations such as blockchain, Artificial Intelligence , and Machine Learning, which enable more sophisticated financial services and solutions. Embedded lending The "buy now, pay later" (BNPL) model is a prime example of embedded lending.

Payments 52

Payments Merchant Services Payment Services Finance 52

Stax

MAY 16, 2024

Here’s a step-by-step strategy you can use to boost sales for your EHR tools: TL;DR Electronic health records, or EHR, is a software used to maintain patient records across multiple facilities. Learn More Understand Your Market If you want high ROI for your sales efforts, you need to sell to your target market.

Payment Solutions 88

Payment Solutions Payments Payment Methods Software Review 88

FastSpring

JANUARY 10, 2023

In broad strokes, recurring billing consists of four steps: Setting up trials, recurring billing intervals, and pricing models. Checkout (including payment processing and gathering sales tax, GST, and VAT). Reconciling payment with accounts and remitting sales tax, GST, and VAT. However, many countries are now requiring it.

Payment Solutions 146

Payment Solutions Payment Features Payment Methods Software Review 146

Payrix

AUGUST 14, 2024

Applications may be rejected due to falsified or inconsistent information provided on the application, sales of prohibited or high-risk items, or known links to fraudulent or risky activities. Step 4: Application decision The payment processor will approve or reject the application. But it doesn’t have to continue like this.

Merchant Services 100

Merchant Services Payment Services Payments Software Review 100

User Pilot

MARCH 24, 2025

A professional with a strong grasp of app performance, security, compliance, and platform guidelines. A job seeker with experience building AI-powered consumer products, preferably with ML or LLMs. A person with no background in AI, ML, or LLM-powered products. Experience building consumer products leveraging ML or LLM.

Mobile 52

Mobile Underperforming Technical Team Management Scale 52

Panintelligence

AUGUST 5, 2024

Transactional data: Records of purchases, sales, and transfers help identify spending patterns, detect anomalies, and predict future financial behaviors. Using historical data, statistical algorithms, and machine learning, these tools predict revenue, expenses, and profitability.

Finance 52

Finance Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Forecasting 52

User Pilot

MAY 1, 2024

TL;DR A customer engagement platform is a collection of multiple tools that monitor, analyze, and interpret customer behaviors to increase and optimize engagement, leading to more conversions, larger sales, improved CSATs, and stronger customer loyalty. Drift is the best customer engagement software for sales and marketing teams.

Engagement 105

Engagement Social Media Artificial Intelligence AI 105

SaaSOptics

MARCH 10, 2022

Is your company taking advantage of CFO tools like automated invoicing, database management, and automatic tax-compliance updates? As the world’s #1 CRM platform, Salesforce can do everything from providing more insight into customers or sales to improving inter-company communication for better customer service. If not, read on.

Payment Services 87

Payment Services SaaS Payments Payments Payment Solutions 87

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In the article, we look at 12 solid contenders for this title, covering a few most common use cases: In-app user engagement Sales funnel management Customer support Analytics and reporting Marketing Collaboration and project management Let's dive right in! For details, you need to contact their sales team. G2 rating 4.7/5

Payments 105

Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 105

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Questions about returns would be sent directly to a support rep, while questions about new products would be routed to a sales rep. I’m referring to features like CRM integrations, chat history, custom widgets, admin monitoring, helpdesk features, HIPAA-compliance, calendar integrations, appointment scheduling, etc.

Software Review 142

Software Review Software Scale Systems Review 142

Sales Hacker

MAY 19, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Tom Williams , Cofounder and CEO at DealPoint. DealPoint is the first sales platform for customer-centric sales teams. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Welcome to the Sales Hacker Podcast. But the ultimate milestone isn’t the contract. We’re on iTunes.

Scale 110

Scale Payment Methods Payment Services Sales Hiring 110