SaaStr

JANUARY 26, 2025

Here’s what it really took for Attentive to go from $0 to $500M ARR in just 7 years, sending over 32B text messages and generating $20B+ in revenue for their 8,000+ customers. Their patented TwAP technology that lets customers opt-in with a single click, automatically opening their messages app with a pre-composed text.

Technical Review 268

Technical Review Payment Solutions Scale Payment Services 268

Payrix

APRIL 28, 2025

For many, daily activities are now often accompanied by apps we cant live without. As the attachment to these apps grows, theres an expectation that theyll consistently deliver convenience and flexibility. That expectation has driven software companies to build and grow their platforms rooted in customer centricity.

Merchant Services 113

Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments 113

Payrix

APRIL 10, 2025

In todays competitive software market, forward-thinking trade and field service platforms are no longer asking if they should modernize their payment infrastructure, theyre working diligently to source the right payments partner to implement innovative solutions before their competitors beat them to the punch.

Payments 100

Payments Payment Services Outsourcing Services Payment Solutions 100

Payrix

APRIL 17, 2025

What is a payment facilitator? A payment facilitator (or PayFac) is a software platforms all-in-one payment processing solution. Think of it as becoming the payments "master account" for all your customers. Think of it as becoming the payments "master account" for all your customers.

Payment Services 100

Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Facilitation 100

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2025

ServiceTitan, the operating system for the trades, continues to scale impressively, with $772M in FY25 revenue, $800m+ ARR and a clear path to $1B ARR. Net Dollar Retention >110% and GDR of >95%: The Power of Being a True Operating System ServiceTitans NRR consistently exceeds 110%, even with SMB-heavy customers.

Payments 147

Payments Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 147

FastSpring

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Setting up a web shop for players to buy subscriptions or in-game items outside of mobile app marketplaces is a great way to create additional revenue streams for your game while saving on steep marketplace fees. There are solutions that make this process much easier — more on that below.)

Payments 89

Payments Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Methods 89

Payrix

MARCH 20, 2024

In a market shaped by fierce competition, emerging technologies, and dominating customer expectations, B2B software companies have evaluated many angles of differentiation to keep the attention of their customers. Among the most recent strategies proving successful for software companies is Embedded Payments.

Payments 147

Payments Embedded Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 147

FastSpring

JANUARY 9, 2025

the future of monetizing your game direct to consumer looks brighter than ever. That said, you might be wondering what strategies work within the confines of today’s rules and if it’s even possible to earn 50% or more of your game’s revenue through D2C. With changes to legislation in the EU and lawsuits in the U.S.,

Payments 165

Payments Mobile Payment Methods Revenue 165

Subscription Flow

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Billing system migration is the process of replacing your existing billing system with a new one. Companies opt for this process to adopt new tools, and upgrade their functionality. Billing system migration is painstaking without a proper plan in place. It cannot handle complex payment scenarios.

Payment Solutions 105

Payment Solutions Payment Services Systems Review SaaS Payments 105

SaaStr

AUGUST 11, 2022

It seemed such an easy way to bolt on more revenue to an underlying SaaS platform. Shopify now gets 2x the revenue from payments and merchant services than it does from SaaS subcriptions. Especially if you spend 50% of your revenue on Sales & Marketing, it can take many years to really get profitable in SaaS.

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SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payments Payment Solutions 320

SaaStr

DECEMBER 12, 2024

You can still make them super happy, but a subset of small businesses will churn at that rate anyway. # Into the #1 most important app they use, and can never rip out. They improve onboarding, and integrations, and training, and sales comp plans, and more, and that all helps and is crucial. Into an ERP.

Churn 277

Churn SMB Payments Payment Solutions 277

Payrix

JULY 30, 2024

Why there’s greater value in a payments integration supported by white-glove service than a DIY, documentation-driven approach The decision to embed payments into your software platform as a key part of your growth strategy is a significant starting point from which you can create new value and revenue streams for your business.

Merchant Services 147

Merchant Services Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 147

Payrix

AUGUST 21, 2024

Back to customer stories Delivering a premium payments solution to premium printers Payrix takes Inktavo’s payments to new heights with high transaction limits, greater efficiencies, and seamless access to working capital.

Payment Solutions 130

Payment Solutions Payments Merchant Services Payment Methods 130

SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2019

By: Rob Nathan, EVP, Integrated Solutions at CardConnect. With thousands of new startups emerging everyday and the average turnover rate for business applications trending at 39% annually, the SaaS industry couldn’t be more competitive. Making payments accessible overseas. Securing payments. A 2017 U.S.

SaaS Payments 236

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 236

SaaStr

AUGUST 24, 2024

Dear SaaStr: How Do Enterprise SaaS Companies Deal With Late Payments? Yes, in the end, you have to be willing to switch off the platform. They’ll get the check for you if in the end, A/R doesn’t with a dedicated process like the above. provide some in-app notification of overdue accounts. That works well. ….

SaaS Payments 290

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments 290

Payrix

APRIL 24, 2024

Andy Meadows, the Head of Partner Success at Payrix joins host Ian Hillis to continue their conversation about building a successful Embedded Payments strategy. As the last episode of a four-part series on the topic, Andy and Ian tackle how software companies can minimize attrition and why it’s important to the payments conversation.

Payments 162

Payments Embedded Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions 162

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

By Rob Nathan, EVP, Integrated Solutions at CardConnect. Payments can be facilitated on a mobile device in a variety of ways. This is a huge advantage for SaaS companies looking to diversify recurring revenue streams in a way that also delights customers. Protect payment information. Train your employees.

Mobile Payments 191

Mobile Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payments 191

Stax

MAY 13, 2025

With the right provider, merchant services can improve your checkout experience, increase cash flow, and unlock valuable business insights. In this blog, we’ll explore how to approach credit card processing like an opportunity instead of just another expense.

Merchant Services 88

Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Methods SaaS Payments 88

Payrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

What are integrated payments? Integrated payments are payment processing capabilities that are incorporated into a software companys platform to provide their user base with the ability to accept and manage payments for their businesses. Learn more about Embedded Finance.

Payments 100

Payments Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Methods 100

SaaStr

JANUARY 26, 2023

Check is a payroll-as-a-service API that lets you embed payroll directly in your vertical SaaS, HR, or time-tracking platform. Cumul.io ‘s powerful embedded analytics platform lets you build interactive dashboards with simple drag & drop, and integrate them in your own application in just a few lines of code.

Payments 52

Payments Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Software Review 52

USIO

AUGUST 26, 2024

SaaS Payment Solutions for Streamlined Business In today’s competitive business landscape, efficiency is key to staying ahead. One way to enhance efficiency is by implementing SaaS payment solutions. These solutions offer numerous benefits that can significantly streamline your business operations.

Payment Solutions 130

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Payment Services 130

SaaStr

MARCH 24, 2022

BlueSnap helps businesses accept payments globally. Our All-In-One Payment Platform is designed to increase sales and reduce costs for all businesses accepting payments. Printfection is a swag management platform that simplifies the buying, managing, and distribution of swag and branded merchandise.

Payments 260

Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 260

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

But, there are still many interesting things we can learn from Shopify, especially since it sells to so many SMBs, has been late to go upmarket, and combines a payments/fintech element with pure SaaS. Subscriptions can fuel payments and merchant revenue. It’s now bigger than Shopify’s SaaS revenue, by far: 3.

Payments 363

Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Scale 363

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

is a software training company that focuses on helping end users and companies be more productive. From the beginning, the company’s goal has been to help users achieve more with their software tools. Over the years, BrainStorm has evolved from a training services company to a world-class SaaS platform. BrainStorm, Inc.

Payment Services 278

Payment Services Merchant Services Payments Embedded Payments 278

SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2021

Squarespace may be more design-focused, Wix the somewhat more cost-effective solution. It’s pretty incredible in fact that both these two businesses can hit $700m and $1B in ARR, both growing 30%, neither able to clip the wings of the other. Over $500,000 revenue per employee. 30% of its revenue outside the U.S.

Payment Methods 338

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payments Payment Services 338

FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2025

Read more and get helpful links in this November 2023 post, Potential Apple App Store Policy Changes Due to EUs Digital Markets Act (DMA).) FastSpring allows you to offload the complexity of global payments, sales tax and VAT compliance, player payments support, and many other aspects of payments management.

Payment Methods 141

Payment Methods Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 141

Blulogix

MAY 16, 2025

By BluLogix Team Why IoT Monetization FailsAnd How to Fix It Before It Costs You Millions Lets be honest. Its a systemic monetization failure that eats into margins, frustrates customers, and scales into a monster as your device count grows. Your billing process lives in Excel. But flexible billing and monetization?

Payments 52

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 52

Infinicept

MARCH 9, 2023

As the idea of delivering payments through software platforms has picked up steam, the options available to companies that want to create that experience have evolved rapidly to meet the demand. Take the terms Integrated payments and embedded payments. They sound similar.

Payments 105

Payments Embedded Payments Payment Solutions Development 105

SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2021

automating the back office and payments and billing for SMBs), and doing it with 120%+ NRR. This is pretty impressive, although on reflection, perhaps what one would expect from a mission-critical SMB app. Transaction fees (on payments) are now half of revenue and are the key to scaling. Pretty impressive.

Payment Solutions 347

Payment Solutions Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services 347

SaaStr

APRIL 12, 2022

The majority of its revenue is now from Bitcoin transactions, not “traditional” payments and software. And yet … and yet … its engine is all software and really SaaS. Its software and services business is the one with the real operating margins. businesses. #4.

Payments 306

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services Revenue 306

SaaStr

OCTOBER 11, 2023

That’s not just pretty epic growth at almost $7 Billion in revenue, it’s one heck of a comeback. Software Important. But a Smaller and Smaller Percentage of Revenue. From a business model perspective, Shopify has in essence been a fintech and merchant product first and a SaaS product second for quite some time.

Payments 298

Payments Merchant Services Revenue Payment Solutions 298

SaaStr

AUGUST 28, 2024

Only 20% of Revenue from “SaaS”, 80% From Transactions and Float (Fintech) Bill started off 100% SaaS, and slowly and deliberately added payments. Fast forward to today, and only 20% of its revenue is from software subscriptions. But both are still at their core software platforms.

Payments 297

Payments Payment Solutions SMB Acquisition 297

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

ChartMogul is an analytics platform to help you run your subscription business. Our mission is to build powerful and secure cloud software for subscription businesses of all sizes, with a strong emphasis on good design and ease of use. Embedded finance has everything to do with the flow of money.

Payments 264

Payments Payment Services GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Payment Solutions 264

Stax

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Small businesses in America and worldwide have to choose from a wide variety of accounting software solutions, and this range of choices can be overwhelming. Research shows that 64% of small businesses use accounting software and the market for accounting software solutions is projected to be worth $4.3billion by 2023.

Payment Methods 88

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments Payment Services 88

Payrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

What is a payment processor? A payment processor facilitates the flow of transactions typically made with credit cards, debit cards, and other digital payments. To operate as an integrated software vendor (ISV) or payment facilitator, a software company requires a relationship with an acquiring bank and a payment processor.

Payment Services 100

Payment Services Payments Merchant Services SaaS Payments 100

Payrix

MARCH 27, 2024

Payment transaction types and touchpoints are becoming more accessible and diverse. Online and offline payments, credit cards, digital wallets, and ACH — the more commerce intersects with our daily lives, the higher the expectations for simple and intuitive payments. They need omnichannel payments. No problem.

Payments 130

Payments Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 130

SaaStr

AUGUST 18, 2022

ChurnZero is Customer Success software for growing SaaS and subscription businesses. Our platform is uniquely designed to integrate with CRM systems and tightly into an application or service. With Quolum ‘s SaaS Card you only pay for SaaS that you use. appeared first on SaaStr.

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Stax Payment Services Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 55