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ISVs vs SaaS: What’s the Difference?

Stax

Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Software-as-a-Service Providers (SaaS) operate within the same market, thus creating a push-and-pull revenue dynamic. SaaS, or Software as a Service, companies host and deliver software applications over the internet on a subscription basis.

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Measurement: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 3

CloudGeometry

SaaS business metrics are not hard to find ; we won’t analyze them in-depth here. As it turns out, SaaS operational platform metrics are also abundant. However, it is still too often the case that business metrics and operations metrics live in parallel universes.

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Vertical SaaS vs Horizontal SaaS: 8 Differences and Similarities

Stax

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. Users will pay a recurring monthly or annual fee to access a specific set of services. What is Horizontal SaaS?

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What Is an ACH Payment Facilitator?

Stax

As such, an ACH payment facilitator is simply a PayFac that allows users to accept payments through an electronic bank-to-bank network. PayFacs typically partner with a payment processor or a bank to provide merchant services. This is pretty much similar to the service that PayPal offers.

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Beyond the hype: Practical advice on building a platform

Intercom, Inc.

The litmus test is if you’ve created a marketplace: are people actually building on your product because there’s value that you’ve created, or is it just a nifty integration? For instance, you build an iOS because you know you’re going to get users through it. That’s quite a high bar, but it’s what I like to strive for.

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Ecommerce Terms You Need To Know To Manage Your Digital Business

FastSpring

Amazon Marketplace. Selling on the Amazon Marketplace can significantly boost volume through your store. Amazon charges fees on every sale through the Marketplace. A marketing concept where a business offers several related products or services and sells them as one package solution, often at a reduced price. Cross-sell.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Bernadette Nixon, Jay Snyder, Nick Mehta, Loren Padelford, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

And we’re constantly aligning the metrics in that business plan back to the technology and understanding which dials we need to turn, which types of implementational product feature functions do we need to use that will directly equate to these types of things. So it starts there. That business case becomes the success plan, right?