FastSpring

JANUARY 9, 2025

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. Why these strategies actually can result in >50% revenue coming from D2C. I’m your host, David Vogelpohl.

Payments 165

Payments Mobile Payment Methods Revenue 165

SaaStr

JANUARY 20, 2025

The platforms that move first are seeing 70%+ revenue uplifts and dramatically improved retention. But the window for being early won’t last forever. Embedded finance isn’t just a feature – it’s becoming a core part of how the best SaaS companies monetize and retain customers.

Payments 246

Payments Finance Payment Services SaaS Payments 246

Payrix

MAY 29, 2025

As a software company committed to your customers, you want to do everything you can to set them up for success. 60% of merchants (your software customers) cited adverse effects on their companys reputation, staff workload, and expenses associated with tracking and resolving failed payments. What causes a false decline?

Payments 100

Payments Embedded Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services 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. Instead of your customers needing to create their own merchant account to process payments, you as the PayFac developer handle all the payments setup and complexity for them.

Payment Services 100

Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Facilitation 100

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

Stax

MAY 6, 2025

As your business grows, the tools powering it need to evolve tooand that includes your payment solution. From handling higher transaction volumes to enabling new revenue models, the right system should grow with you and streamline both your operations and your customers checkout experience.

Payment Solutions 88

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services Payments 88

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 141

Payments Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 141

Stax

MAY 23, 2025

If youre a software provider looking to boost revenue, streamline operations, and deliver more value to your users, ISV integrated payments can be a game-changer. Embedding payments directly into your platform can unlock tremendous benefits both for you and your users. The best part?

Payments 88

Payments Payment Services Merchant Services SaaS Payments 88

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.

SaaS Payments 310

SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payments Payment Solutions 310

SaaStr

JUNE 22, 2025

initial public offering on Friday, becoming the latest enterprise software company to test increasingly receptive public markets. Navan’s move could signal the opening of long-awaited floodgates for B2B software companies that have been waiting on the sidelines since the market downturn of 2022-2023. But Figma is a crazy outlier.

B2B 184

B2B Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services 184

Payrix

JUNE 10, 2025

White label merchant processing enables third parties like integrated software vendors (ISVs) or independent sales organizations (ISOs) to customize and sell the payment processing technology and services of a payments provider under their own brands. What is white label merchant processing?

Merchant Services 100

Merchant Services Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 100

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. Overall subscription solutions revenue is up just 21%, while payments and merchant solutions are up 35% — from a much, much larger base. #2.

Payments 286

Payments Merchant Services Revenue Payment Solutions 286

Stax

MAY 5, 2025

In recent years, businesses have seen this massive shift from desktop to mobile devices which has forced them to develop apps with built-in integrated payment gateways. But when it comes to payments, mobile apps have to contend with a few unique challenges.

Payments 88

Payments Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions 88

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. At least still for now. It’s core.

Payments 294

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services Revenue 294

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

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

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.) What Is a Gaming Payment Gateway ?

Payments 89

Payments Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Methods 89

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. Improve and maintain network security.

Mobile Payments 182

Mobile Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payments 182

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 345

Payment Solutions Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services 345

SaaStr

MAY 24, 2025

Billion in ARR The company now serves approximately 85,000 customers and 140,000 locations using Toast across the US, Canada, and the UK, and has reached over a billion dollars in revenue while still having approximately 85% of the market left to conquer. 5 Interesting Learnings from Toast at $1.1

Strategy 147

Strategy Payment Solutions Payment Methods SMB 147

SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2021

So many startups these days are claiming they have “ARR” from revenue that … doesn’t recur. Doesn’t ARR stand for Annual Recurring Revenue? ARR now really means revenue with 100%+ Net Revenue Retention. 50% revenue from software (recurring), 50% from payments (not-recurring). .

Merchant Services 360

Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 360

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

And they are both incredibly impressive — 118% growth at $3B run-rate and $500m in ARR in software alone may be an all-time record — but also, perhaps not SaaS? #1. With gross margins of only 21%, is Toast really a software company? Wix just has more software revenue to blend the total margins higher.

Payment Methods 320

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments Cloud 320

SaaStr

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Every day, billions of people around the world connect with their favorite brands to shop online, play the latest video games, log into mobile banking apps, learn remotely, share videos with friends, and so much more. They can complete tasks, view status, send updates, make notes, and more —through the portal, email, or mobile app.

Merchant Services 269

Merchant Services Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments 269

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. At least at scale. #2.

Payments 285

Payments Payment Solutions SMB Acquisition 285

SaaStr

APRIL 19, 2023

So one large category of software spend is on Point of Sale systems. But “POS” systems and software are everywhere, and are a lot more than just Toast and Square. And their mix of software, payments and hardware revenue drives up the total deal size — but puts a lot of pressure on margins.

Payment Solutions 278

Payment Solutions Point of Sale Payments SaaS Payments 278

SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2025

21 billion 2021 valuation, $1.6B+ revenue Navan (formerly TripActions) – Corporate travel and expense management, confidentially filed June 2025. CEO says could “theoretically” go public in 2025 Stripe – Payments infrastructure, $95 billion valuation. Last valued at $12.5 HubSpot, Box, Shopify).

Payments 179

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services B2B 179

Subscription Flow

OCTOBER 16, 2024

In today’s fast-tracked financial landscape, billing software has become a need. Operating a business entails a number of processes like managing products and payments, invoices, customer engagement, revenue, unpaid invoices and much more. A billing software is the ultimate solution to your growing business’s complex needs.

Payment Services 59

Payment Services Payment Solutions Payment Features SaaS Payments 59

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

JANUARY 26, 2023

Finix makes it easy for software platforms of all sizes to process payments while increasing revenue and reducing cost. Finix is trusted by startups and publicly traded companies alike to build and scale their payments infrastructure. appeared first on SaaStr.

Payments 51

Payments Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Software Review 51

SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2021

Squarespace may be more design-focused, Wix the somewhat more cost-effective solution. Over $500,000 revenue per employee. Monetizing ecommerce via subscriptions, but not payment processing. But in contrast to Wix and Shopify, it doesn’t keep much of the revenue from merchant services itself. 85% NRR.

Payment Methods 334

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payments Payment Services 334

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

They want a slick site that does more, from eCommerce to payments to marketing and more. That’s the power of recurring revenue. 43% of Revenue Outside the U.S / North America. This may be in part due to Wix’s original Israeli roots, but an impressive 43% of revenue is outside the U.S. Especially post-Covid.

Payment Methods 300

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments SMB 300

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. Salesloft is the provider of the leading sales engagement platform that helps sellers and sales teams drive more revenue. Totally unified.

Payments 254

Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 254

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

– 111% NRR, although down from 131% in 2021 – 15 Month CAC – Gotten very efficient, +$194m net profit – Transactions growing faster than software, like Shopify – From $120m ARR in… pic.twitter.com/hYImIBKyNQ — Jason ✨Be Kind✨ Lemkin  ?? Much less than revenue grew. And Far Bigger. 10x in 4 Years.

Payment Services 336

Payment Services Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 336

SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2022

Payhawk is the financial system of tomorrow that combines credit cards, payments, expenses, cash management, and pre-accounting into one integrated experience to give you maximum control and visibility over your business spend. Zoho offers beautifully smart software to help you grow your business. Grab tickets here.

Payments 49

Payments Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting Onboarding 49

SaaStr

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Q: Are folks ready to buy Enterprise-level apps that are pre-tailored to a vertical? Vertical software is nothing new,” Jason says. There has been niche software for bookkeepers, dentist offices, and veterinarians. Q: What are your thoughts on platforms like ServiceNow or Salesforce bringing partner apps to extend that platform?

Sales Hiring 290

Sales Hiring Payment Solutions AI SaaS Payments 290

SaaStr

AUGUST 3, 2022

Payments still materially accelerating overall growth to 16%, and predicting revenue growth from payments and merchant solutions to more than double that of subscriptions and SaaS. Gross Margins declining toward 50% as payments, merchant services and more outpace the growth of SaaS subcriptions.

Payment Methods 277

Payment Methods Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 277

SaaStr

MAY 4, 2022

As difficult as SaaS companies can be to build, that can go double for things like setting up billing systems and automating revenue. Maybe your billing system is not ready, your invoicing is a patchwork, or your reconciliation and invoicing have to be done manually. The explosion of low and no-code solutions.

Payment Features 255

Payment Features Payment Services Outsourcing Services Payment Solutions 255