SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2025

Integration challenges are mounting. Moving from AI pilots to production-grade implementations requires solving hard technical problems around data pipelines, security, compliance, and workflow integration. Many organizations are stuck in “pilot purgatory”—running successful experiments but unable to scale them.

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AI Payment Services Payments Scale 233

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

FastSpring

APRIL 29, 2025

When payment partners fail to adapt to player demand and scale quickly, players leave your web shop empty handed, creating dissatisfaction that could have been prevented. We empower you to offload the complexity of global payments, sales tax and VAT compliance, player payments support, and more.

Payment Services 133

Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods 133

Stax

JUNE 3, 2025

The term SaaS platform gets tossed around a lotbut what does it actually mean, and why does it matter for today’s software companies? Whether you’re building your first product or scaling an established solution, understanding the SaaS platform model is essential for long-term growth.

Payment Services 88

Payment Services DevOps as a Service SaaS Payments Payments 88

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.

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Payments Payment Services Outsourcing Services Payment Solutions 100

FastSpring

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Selling internationally can get complicated very quickly if you’re trying to manage cross border payments yourself. And typical payment service providers won’t help you with most of those concerns. Read on to learn: Why cross border payments are key to taking your business global.

Merchant Services 158

Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Methods Outsourcing Services 158

Stax

MAY 6, 2025

As your business grows, the tools powering it need to evolve tooand that includes your payment solution. While many platforms are built for getting started, not all are designed to support scale. Talk to sales What Does It Mean for a Payment Solution to Be Scalable? The right system simplifies growth.

Payment Solutions 88

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services Payments 88

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

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Wherever you are in your revenue journey, adopting certain growth strategies can help you keep growing fast. Joined by Katie Wickham, Payrix’s Director of Marketing, Butler shares essential tips on accelerating your business to $100 million ARR and beyond. . Brex then scaled its payments business quickly.

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Payments Payment Methods Embedded Payments Scale 243

Stax

MAY 13, 2025

In this blog, we’ll explore how to approach credit card processing like an opportunity instead of just another expense. We’ll also outline how to choose the best payment solutions for your unique business needs. Talk to sales What Are Credit Card Merchant Services?

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Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Methods SaaS Payments 88

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

In this week’s episode we’ve dug down into the podcast vaults to bring you some of the best insights shared by our guests about scaling sales. It’s no surprise that one of the key levers for growth as you go from startup to scale-up is your sales team. Hiring for sales with John Barrows.

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Scale Sales Hiring Scaling Payment Services 172

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. Your billing process lives in Excel.

Payments 52

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 52

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Want more leads, pipeline, influence, and awareness in 2024? Leading Public Cloud Company: “We got 110 qualified opportunities and converted 40 to sign-up for our offer. ” Public Fintech #2: “Our sales team walked away with over 100 qualified leads. .” Our prospects were there.

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Scale Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 273

USIO

MAY 16, 2025

The way businesses pay vendors, employees, gig workers, and customers is changing fast. And prepaid card issuing is leading the charge. If your business still leans on traditional payout methods like paper checks or manual ACH, it’s time to consider what you might be missing. So, Which Is Best for Your Business?

Payment Methods 130

Payment Methods Payment Services Banking Scale 130

Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

One core area of focus is customer support, which adds immense value to every business when done correctly. When adding payment features for software users, the importance of including customer support for payment processing is no different. The Pros of Outsourcing Payments Support 1.

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Outsourcing Services Payments Payment Services Merchant Services 88

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

This episode is an excerpt from a session at SaaStr Scale. So for the audience, cloud giants are turbocharging startup sales, and the predominant reason for this is because they’re fundamentally changing IT budgets at the customers that we’re all selling to. Jabari Norton, VP WW Partner and Alliances, Sumo Logic.

Scale 259

Scale Marketplace as a Service Cloud SaaS Payments 259

Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

Join the payments-led growth movement Sign up to keep up-to-date with the latest trends in payments, vertical SaaS, and technology from industry experts. Part of this can be attributed to the SaaS model’s unique aspect of relying primarily on future revenue. Take a traditional business, like a furniture store.

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Scale Payment Services Payments SaaS Payments 117

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. Expecting a bit of a rebound later in the year, with more merchants joining the platform in 2H’22 than 1H’22. #4.

Payment Methods 283

Payment Methods Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 283

SaaStr

AUGUST 24, 2022

Driving up sales rep efficiency is key to driving up margins. SMB sales (most of Toast) is very tough to do without a highly efficient and effective sales force. At least 20% of your customers from referrals and second-order revenue. #4. As the brand scales, they get more of a boost from inbound. #5.

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SaaS Payments Scale SMB Payment Solutions 326

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

But while the brand and market penetration is strong, the business model is challenging. It still loses money on the hardware, and the payments side is fairly low margin (28% or less). The software license is high margin, but it’s only 20% of the total revenue. It did what it had to with its sales team.

Scale 306

Scale Payment Solutions Payments Sales 306

SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2023

With nine figures in revenue, Ariel and SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin talk about all things Navan, rebranding when you have brand equity, building B2B software for people, pricing and business models, and much more. Is Rebranding Okay When You Have Brand Equity? Navan used to be TripActions.

Payment Solutions 282

Payment Solutions Payments Travel Scale 282

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Powered by a modern business messenger , it scales your ability to answer more questions from more customers without increasing headcount, budget, or hours logged. Future-proofing your support tech stack to meet both business objectives and the needs of modern customers starts with laying the right foundations. Team Inbox.

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Technical Review Customer Support Payment Methods Payment Solutions 250

SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Manual processes first. Know your forever user.

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Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Scaling 160

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

We’ll share the answers in today’s brand new episode of CRO Confidential, where our host Sam Blond, partner at Founders Fund, sits down with Toast CRO, Jonathan Vassil to talk about their proven customer acquisition strategies that led to its record-breaking growth. Jonathan joined Toast as the SVP of Sales in 2017.

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Payment Methods Acquisition Scale Payments 266

SaaStr

MAY 8, 2021

Close say a $125k contract, even after a healthy sales commission, that’s $100k+ in the bank right now! bills, “payment terms”, and often, repeated follow-up. Forcing your sales team to do collections is OK in the early days, but doesn’t work perfectly either, and doesn’t scale.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Scale Payments 312

Stax

AUGUST 20, 2024

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. Airline credit cards, payment plans for costly items, and car rental insurance are forms of embedded finance that have been around for a while.

Payments 88

Payments Payment Methods Merchant Services Finance 88

FastSpring

AUGUST 30, 2024

The physical exhibition aims to cater to a diverse range of visitors, from business professionals to families, while official streaming programs and the virtual venue will provide various news and experiences across the world. Spend less time managing your payments and compliance and more time making great games!

Merchant Services 148

Merchant Services Payments Payment Services Payment Methods 148

Subscription Flow

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Businesses may never know how much revenue might be leaking from overlooked nooks and crannies. The purpose of the revenue growth management strategy is to steer a business in an organized, and sustainable direction. After all, no business wants its success to be short lived.

Payments 52

Payments Payment Services SaaS Payments Revenue 52

FastSpring

JUNE 4, 2025

During a very eventful week of gaming conferences , the FastSpring team was on site at Game Developers Conference San Francisco to meet game publishers and devs and find out how FastSpring can help them monetize their mobile games. Learn more about Nexuss game-optimized web shops with FastSpring payments and tax compliance here.

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Payments Scale Payment Methods Payment Services 78

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 10, 2022

With lockdowns preventing in-store experiences, shoppers have gravitated towards brands that can provide the best online experience possible. In fact, 75% of consumers were more likely to favor brands that exhibited clear and frequent communication during the pandemic. But what’s the best way to stay ahead of these expectations?

Payment Methods 209

Payment Methods Technical Review Payments Payment Solutions 209

FastSpring

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

As you work to expand your SaaS, software, mobile games, or other digital product business worldwide, having the right payment methods available to global customers is key to ensuring they all feel comfortable purchasing. If you want to offer more payment methods around the world, don’t miss this episode of Growth Stage.

Payment Methods 158

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments Merchant Services 158

FastSpring

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Many companies that expand globally reach a point where they can’t properly support their international customers with their current payment platform. An international payment gateway can help with some of these issues, but it’s only one piece of the puzzle. What is an international payment gateway? Table of Contents.

Payment Services 148

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 148

SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

We will gather 300 leading SaaS founders, executives and investors for three days packed with opportunities and rich exchange of knowledge to push the whole ecosystem forward. ContaAzul is a business management platform for small businesses created in Brazil. CEO : Vinicius Roveda Goncalves. RD Station. Founded : 2015.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments 257

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 24, 2018

Most internet businesses want a personal way to communicate with customers; they just need the right tools to do it at scale. Messenger apps : The Messenger can now be integrated with the third-party apps and tools you use everyday. Why messengers are the future of business to customer communication.

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Payment Methods Scale Business Payment Solutions 223

FastSpring

MARCH 3, 2023

When you’re using a DIY payment solution like Stripe, making it work for your business falls on your developers. From testing out plugins to setting up new payment methods, maintaining Stripe can be very time-consuming. And this leads to our third point. Below, you’ll find highlights from our conversation.

Merchant Services 148

Merchant Services Outsourcing Services Payment Services SaaS Payments 148

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 26, 2022

Since the pandemic, consumer habits have really changed – shoppers have migrated online en masse, their expectations are higher than ever, and brand loyalty is harder to maintain. Marketing, sales and support should be accessible on all channels to create a cohesive experience no matter how or where a customer reaches out.

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Payment Methods Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments 220

SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Enter the platform company. Or if you’ve ever gotten a 2 cent and a 4 cent deposit into your account as you’re trying to set up direct deposit or payments transfers, that’s a pre-Plaid world. Zach : So in our back end, we’ve integrated with about 10,000 financial institutions in the U.S. Zach : About 260.

Payments 205

Payments SaaS Payments Banking Underperforming Technical Team 205