FastSpring

JANUARY 17, 2023

Legal compliance. Plus, you’ll need to consider whether or not the billing platform supports businesses like yours. Plus, FastSpring takes on the liability of transactions, which means we manage chargebacks, fraud prevention, gathering and remitting consumption tax, and legal compliance. Fraud prevention and chargebacks.

Payments 84

Payments Payment Features Payment Methods Payment Services 84

Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Thanks to the advent of cloud computing, SaaS businesses are no longer selling their products in the forms of hardware. This has greatly facilitated the widespread implementation of subscription based billing models. Moreover, as SaaS businesses expand there are more affairs that need to be taken care of.

Payment Services 59

Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Features Payment Facilitation 59

FastSpring

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Payment processors verify that all necessary information is present and in the correct format and then carry it to the issuing bank or credit card network for final authorization. MasterCard or Visa), issuing bank, or electronic wallet (a.k.a., e-wallet) that you want to accept. Local Payment Processors. Learn more here.

Payment Services 122

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 122

Stax

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

For best practices, integrate it with your other systems, offer flexible plans for optimized cash flow, and ensure data security compliance to industry standards. These are only a glimpse of what automated SaaS billing software brings to the table for a subscription-based business model. Accounting and bank reconciliation.

Payments 88

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services Merchant Services 88

Stax

JANUARY 29, 2024

This model is well-suited for industries where usage varies from month to month. Key Features of Billing Software Recurring billing and automated subscription management and payment processing One of the main benefits of a subscription business model is revenue forecasting and product flow predictability.

Stax 88

Stax Payments Payment Services Payment Features 88

SaaStr

JANUARY 12, 2022

Lost a bank customer we had served well for 5 years and up to.5M 5M in ARR b/c we were too small a co and compliance dept blocked renewal (shoulda raised price I guess…) ” — Jared Hansen, CEO Thrilling Foods. “Dig deep about their business model before sending them a proposal.”

CTO Hire 268

CTO Hire Sales Hiring New CTO CTO 268

User Pilot

AUGUST 6, 2023

Data security or compliance risks. Don’t hesitate to adjust your strategy or even pivot your business model when necessary. Bank of America Bank of America’s omnichannel strategy revolves around empowering customers to carry out tasks with the same ease regardless of which channel they’re using.

Investment 95

Investment Banking Social Media Customer Lifetime Value 95

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 13, 2018

As Workplace’s global head, Julien Codorniou has been spending the past few years exploring how to make his department align with Facebook’s mission while executing an entirely different business model that relies on companies promoting community within their workforce. Unlocking a new business model.

Scale 151

Scale Marketplace as a Service Mobile Sales Hiring 151

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

And in that sense the financial crisis actually was a good thing for us because that was really kind of our beachhead in the market, because suddenly all of the large banks needed to comply to a lot of new regulation, seek RC, BCBS, all of those things, which ultimately are all data regulations. It was initially compliance focus.

Sales Hiring 177

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Government 177

OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

“Industry-Centric” SaaS business models offer an alternative SaaS company categorization to the “Customer-Centric” SaaS model, which is defined based on the “go-to-market” strategy used by a management team. When SaaS business models originated, the most successful venture-backed startups used a horizontal model.

Business Model 52

Business Model SaaS Business Scale 52

Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The platform can handle payment methods such as credit cards, ACH Direct Debit, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Amazon Pay, and more—plus offline payments such as bank transfers and checks. Smart Dunning To avoid lost revenue as a result of payment failures, Chargebee includes a variety of dunning features. Our suggestion?

Payment Services 59

Payment Services Payment Methods Technical Review Payment Features 59

SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Speaker video: Stripe is really a set of developer tools for building and operating an online business. We work with hundreds of thousands of companies around the world on accepting payments, expanding globally, and increasingly on innovating their business models for the internet and for mobile. So what did Stripe do?

Scale 152

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Scaling 152

FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Here, we’re validating all the assumptions that we had to make in the initial business case to put together an offer. And they’re literally going to ask for bank statements. They’ll tie the bank statements to your financials to your like Stripe account, like make sure everything adds up and was represented correctly.

Software Review 128

Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review Branding 128

Stax

JANUARY 17, 2024

Automated Clearing House (ACH) payments are a type of electronic bank-to-bank payment system in the US. TL;DR A payment facilitator (PayFac) is essentially a SaaS vendor or software provider that enables its users (businesses) to accept online payments from their customers through the platform itself.

Payment Services 88

Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Facilitation 88

Stax

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

There are two main ways that an ISV can become a payment provider—by adopting the ISO model or the PayFac model. In the ISO model, an ISV partners with a third party that handles merchant account setup, payment processing, risk, and compliance.

Payment Services 88

Payment Services Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Methods 88

SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Claire Johnson: So before Stripe, an online company that wanted to accept payments had to go prove themselves to a bank, which was like a weird catch 22 because the banks would say, “Can you please show us your payment and your revenue history?” It’s pretty brutal actually. Claire Johnson: So what did Stripe do?

Scale 116

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Sales Hiring 116

SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2023

Basics: The Building Blocks of the Finance Team To understand how finance teams impact an organization, it’s helpful to break down various functions and how they support the business. Strategic Finance optimizes a company’s underlying business model to create long-term value by increasing revenue and decreasing costs.

Scale 167

Scale Finance Outsourcing Services Sales Recruiting 167

Subscription Flow

JANUARY 19, 2024

They handle everything from underwriting to compliance and merchant onboarding. Additionally, they are established independent sales organizations (ISOs) with sponsorship from an acquiring bank. The best part is that it makes the entire procedure for businesses simpler. It is not just about processing payments.

Payment Services 59

Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Facilitation 59

Baremetrics

APRIL 16, 2021

Not so much in the Valley, but across the rest of the country, especially if you’re a SaaS business, not the case for B2C. A product already in market that’s generating revenue, a business model you are proving out with metrics, a thoroughly thought through and rational capital plan and some thoughts around potential exits.

Venture Capital 66

Venture Capital Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team SaaS 66

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

It would take days or weeks to even get approved, but you also had to go through all these hoops of PCI compliance. Romain Huet : For Stripe, we had normally this idea of, this has to be much simpler, you can sign up in minutes, but you can also start accepting payments without going through all these craziness of PCI compliance processes.

Payments 118

Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 118

ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

It’s a course that’ll help you drive growth in your subscription business by giving you clarity and certainty around which tasks drive growth at your current stage. Because their team also knows subscription business models are new and… can be confusing. The MoneyLion team is now altering the plan to $9.99

Sales Recruiting 40

Sales Recruiting Payment Services Payment Methods Sales Hiring 40

SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

We essentially have a saying that is, “If our customers go live, we won’t churn them,” because the stickiness of the complexity of rolling out in 190 countries, setting up tax compliance, managing really, really complicated B2B processes is very, very high. But the reality is that a SaaS business is essentially a bank.

Payment Solutions 146

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 146

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Our bank account takes a hit. Welcome to the world of sales, where the one constant you can bank on is the noise from so-called experts and thought leaders who want to convince you everything has changed and that you need their latest tools , toys, or tricks to stay even or get ahead of the pack. How did forget?”

Scale 141

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Payment Methods 141

SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

The easiest way for us to think about it is just if you took eight hours of in-person meetings a day that maybe we previously would have been if we were at a big CPG company or a bank or a retailer or a life sciences company, that whole model has blown up. Previously, it just wasn’t the case. Jason Lemkin: They will, they will.

Sales Recruiting 145

Sales Recruiting Cloud CTO Hire Scale 145

Panintelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The origins of Fintech SaaS From its origins as a B2C payment enabler to a staple across insurance, lending, compliance and more, Fintech SaaS now boasts a solid foothold within B2B and B2B2X markets. Mike Fisher, Mutual Vision It’s not news that the investment blueprint hasn’t changed—VCs want profitable, sustainable business models.

SaaS Payments 75

SaaS Payments Payments Technical Review Payment Services 75