SaaStr

JULY 11, 2023

Gorgias, an eCommerce customer service platform, discovered that their customers’ main pain points were a lack of centralized customer support channels and poor integrations. Platform: Will any integrations or partnerships be beneficial or a “must” to attract customers? Who will be looking for this product? Mid-Market?

Sales Hiring 203

Sales Hiring SMB Sales Recruiting Payment Methods 203

SaaStr

MARCH 28, 2025

SMB customers. Your suppliers might actually be your customers 30% of Bill.com’s core revenue comes from suppliers making payment choices, completely reframing their TAM calculations. “It’s a lot of human capital to make it work across 50 states and a trillion dollars of revenue.” From Zero to $1.4

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SMB Payments Payment Services SaaS Payments 130

Stax

MARCH 17, 2025

Adding PayPal to your list of accepted payment methods opens up a range of benefits for you and your merchants alike. Benefits for merchants Increase conversions – The primary advantage of adding PayPal, Venmo, and Pay Later as payment options is that they enable merchants to boost conversions.

Merchant Services 88

Merchant Services Stax PayPal SaaS Payments 88

Payrix

MARCH 12, 2024

Embedded Payments have become a popular initiative among vertical specific software companies looking to deliver a more seamless customer experience, introduce new revenue into the business, and stay competitive in today’s digital world. How do they think about attaching payments to those existing customers?

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Payments Embedded Payments Merchant Services SaaS Payments 100

Payrix

JUNE 25, 2024

Embedded Finance is more than just a buzzword; it represents a fundamental shift in how financial services are delivered and consumed today. Ian Hillis, Head of Growth at Worldpay for Platforms discusses this new term and what the opportunity may await software providers on our latest episode of PayFAQ: The Embedded Payments podcast.

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SaaStr

MAY 26, 2019

Its growth has been more slow-and-steady than traditional rocketship, crossing $69m in Q4 revenues (let’s call that $280m+ in ARR, so soon to be $300m) — growing 17% a year by revenue, and 10% a year by customer count. That is a similar revenue growth rate to Salesforce’s core CRM product. A few learnings: 1.

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Scale SaaS Payments Payments Payment Services 273

Payrix

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

In 2023, the Embedded Finance market was valued at $73 billion and projected to grow to $523 billion by 2032, growing at a compound annual rate of 24%, according to a recent report. It’s still early days for Embedded Finance, but the preliminary statistics coming out of this space are rather significant.

Payments 130

Payments Payment Solutions Embedded Payments Trends 130

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

What we learned from ’08-’09 in SaaS: First, SMB churn went through the roof — as SMBs went under much more quickly and often. As soon as the economy went south, SMBs started to simply go bankrupt and/or shut down. And even before they did, panic set in in businesses with no cash reserves. functioned.

SaaS Payments 280

SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale SMB 280

Payrix

MAY 14, 2024

No one knows this better (or more intimately) than a software company Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Adam Tesan, CRO at Worldpay for Platforms, is a seasoned executive leader with decades of experience in sales, marketing, and revenue in the software space. It was an Embedded Finance play starting with payments. [It

Payments 147

Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 147

SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

ContaAzul is a business management platform for small businesses created in Brazil. Its focus is on helping companies handle financial routine and streamlining processes related to accounting, banks, stock, and electronic invoicing, among others. Vindi is a PCI-certified online payment platform for recurring billing.

SaaS Payments 257

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments 257

Payrix

OCTOBER 1, 2024

In the latest episode of PayFAQ: The Embedded Payments Podcast, host Ian Hillis sits down with Candice Raybourn, Head of Partner Activation at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms, to discuss the crucial topic of PCI compliance. These standards are designed to protect cardholders from data breaches and fraud.

Payment Services 113

Payment Services Merchant Services Payments compliance 113

SaaStr

JUNE 13, 2019

Today I’ve got a lot of data to share with you and I’m really excited because it’s really interesting. I write a blog at tomtunguz.com that focuses a lot of early stage start-ups and uses a lot of data in order to illuminate different topics. Can we get the slides on the presentation? Ready to go? What does this mean?

Scale 254

Scale Sales Hiring SMB Payment Services 254

SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2019

SaaS is about creating long-term value for your customer, and being compensated appropriately for that value as a business. Learn actionable monetization tips from a Product/Growth operator turned VC. This is a mobile solution for SMB’s to send an invoice and get paid. Want to see more content like this? Hi, everybody.

Payments 112

Payments Pricing Compensation Scale 112

Tom Tunguz

JULY 15, 2019

I analyzed the data set and added a few columns to it to see if there are any trends. But this data suggests the distribution will be markedly different in a few years. Applications are software used by business users. Platform includes products that help developers to build applications: payment gateways and low code platforms.

Enterprise 214

Enterprise Payments Payment Solutions SMB 214

Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 23, 2024

When I think about AI, the most important thing is how do we leverage the data that we have to actually create that trust environment for our customers. René: The core cornerstone of everything that’s happening with AI is you have to have the right data to be able to create the models. That data is not public.

Payments 110

Payments Forecasting Payment Services Sales Hiring 110

Stax

APRIL 11, 2024

SMB owners wear many hats, managing everything from staff to sales. Adding to the already tough job of managing a small or medium business is the complex task of understanding how payment processing works, including managing the fees, equipment, accounts payable and more. Learn More What is a Payment Management System?

Payment Services 88

Payment Services Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Methods 88

FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

When FastSpring’s Chief Product Officer Kurt Smith worked with growth-stage to Fortune 100 companies at Accel-KKR, he consistently saw pricing as one of the most essential growth levers they employed to meet their next revenue goal. How FastSpring’s platform allows companies to test their pricing (2 minutes): Full Videos.

Pricing 146

Pricing Payment Solutions Payment Services Scale 146

FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

He then sent out a link to this page inside payment failure notification emails. Users could now forward the payment failure email to the right person, without that person having an Enchant account. Use the wealth of data you have on your customers to analyze your churn metrics. Vinay writes, “The benefit of this was huge!

Merchant Services 146

Merchant Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 146

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 23, 2020

These zero-dollar-per-month platforms are packed with great features. HubSpot CRM – Best free marketing CRM Really Simple Systems – Best free sales CRM Agile CRM – Best free customer service CRM Flowlu – Best for SMB finance Apptivo – Best for basic business management. You’ve got options.

Payment Solutions 139

Payment Solutions Software Review Software Payments 139

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

And if you also look at the platform as a service category, that’s also an additional $50 billion of spend, and that’s typically with those same vendors. So the ability to do flexible payment plans, financing, retire that pre-committed spend has been a really significant a way for us to accelerate and amplify our transactions.

Scale 262

Scale Marketplace as a Service Cloud SaaS Payments 262

Tom Tunguz

JUNE 26, 2013

Mobile messaging and big data are knee-jerk reactions at this point. I count seven major categories of innovation to date: Math Based Currencies/Payment Networks - Bitcoin might be the most well-known and best publicized math-based currency, but there are a handful of others in the market, like OpenCoin and LiteCoin.

Merchant Services 100

Merchant Services Payments Point of Sale Startup 100

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Clockify – Best Reporting Features Time Doctor – Best for Employee Monitoring Toggl Track – Best for Holding Everyone Accountable TSheets – Best for GPS Monitoring Tick – Best for SMB Time Management. The products I like pull all your data into clear visualizations. Monitoring. Time Clock Software.

Payment Solutions 140

Payment Solutions Software Payment Methods Payments 140

SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Leveraging survey data from 66+ enterprise SaaS companies, Matt Garratt, Managing Partner of Salesforce Ventures shares the landscape of how businesses are shifting their sales & GTM strategies to react to today’s uncertain times. We have all this data online, if you want to see more results from the survey.

Sales Hiring 213

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 213

FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Lifetime Value (LTV) is a metric that shows the average revenue generated by a customer before they churn. By calculating your customer’s LTV, you can get a better idea of how much each new customer will add to your overall revenue and how much you can justify spending on customer acquisition. In doing so, their LTV tripled.

Scale 148

Scale Payment Methods Payments SaaS Payments 148

How To Buy Saas

MAY 26, 2025

Easy to use: The platform is straightforward and beginner-friendly , so even non-accountants can navigate invoicing and simple bookkeeping. Customizable templates: Skynova provides invoice templates you can personalize with your logo and business details, helping invoices look professional. Its very basic by design.

Software Review 40

Software Review Systems Review Technical Review Payment Solutions 40

OPEXEngine

MAY 18, 2021

SaaS metrics are viewed differently at different stages of growth and for different sales models, primarily whether a company is selling into an SMB or enterprise marketplace. Growth Stage – Scaling the Business, and . SaaS Metric #1 – Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR). Almost all revenue is from new contracts.

SaaS Payments 98

SaaS Payments Metrics Payments Payment Services 98

Andreessen Horowitz

JUNE 3, 2024

trillion in annual global productivity , and global payments company Klarna recently said it saves $10 million in costs every year by using GenAI to generate images and reduce their reliance on external marketing partners. The data loop also occurs in real time, allowing for real-time iteration. via Captions ). make a product sticky.

AI Search 121

AI Search AI Outsourcing Services Payment Solutions 121

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

We celebrate businesses like that, and of course, the platform we’re on today with Zoom, that has really become a communications platform that’s defining this COVID era. If you look at the IAS vendors, they passed $130 billion revenue milestone this year. It is staggering. We call that a second act.

Sales Hiring 234

Sales Hiring Scale Payments Cloud 234

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Fi v e9 – Best for Blended Call Centers Aircall – Best for Collaboration 8×8 Contact Center – Best for Enterprise Dialpad – Best for Startups Talkdesk CX Cloud – Best for Best for Salesforce Integration. Integrations, APIs, and SDKs. Does it integrate with your current security stack?

Payment Solutions 144

Payment Solutions Software Review Payment Methods Software 144

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

As businesses grow, their software requirements grow as well. An enterprise-level company deals with more complexity in its internal processes, has to manage more people and roles, and needs more data to make informed decisions. At this point, a business needs to look for an enterprise solution that can support its growth.

Payment Solutions 115

Payment Solutions Enterprise Scale Payments 115

wepay

AUGUST 5, 2020

Vagaro providing resources to reopening, physical changes, and safety measures to its customers for contactless payments, virtual check-in capabilities, revamped floor plans, and other necessary business changes. We also discussed the findings from our State of Small Business Payments 2020 survey. We surveyed 1,000 U.S.

Payment Methods 40

Payment Methods Payments Payment Solutions SMB 40

Stax

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Although credit cards have been around since the 1950s, in recent years, they’ve started to dethrone cash from its position as king of payment methods. With a whopping 84% of American adults owning at least one credit card (the average is 3 credit card accounts per person), card payments reached $9.43 trillion in 2021.

Payment Services 88

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Features 88

Chart Mogul

AUGUST 15, 2019

Revenue-based financing is quickly becoming a popular way for startups to raise funds without sacrificing equity. You may have heard of Revenue-based financing (RBF), venture debt or hybrid structures blending a revenue or profit share concept with an equity ownership stake. A high-level look at Revenue-based financing (RBF).

Finance 85

Finance Payments Revenue Payment Solutions 85

yoursales

DECEMBER 12, 2018

During this year we’ll also start sharing the country sales tools stacks series entitles “Sales Tools made In…” Finally all that is being tied together in integrated tool stacks with some of our friends at the companies listed here. Salesforce.com – The Customer Success Platform To Grow Your Business.

Scale 100

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yoursales

JANUARY 28, 2022

With the launch of the Pipedrive Marketplace a very wide range of third party apps & integrations. Scroll to the right in the table below and filter for integrations to find what works for you. ContactBase - See your contact data come to life. Drive Revenue. DealPoint - Fix Your Customer's Problem as a Platform.

Scale 113

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 113

Stax

MAY 30, 2024

Thankfully apps are constantly making it easier to track and organize important data. Here’s a list of the ten best accounting apps for your business. TL;DR Bookkeeping is essential for business profitability, and finding the right accounting apps can simplify this task.

Payment Solutions 88

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services Technical Advisors 88

yoursales

JANUARY 29, 2021

Salesforce.com – The Customer Success Platform To Grow Your Business. Salesforce.com – The Customer Success Platform To Grow Your Business. Mimiran – More Leads and More Deals for SMB Services Business. Membrain - Complete Platform for Complex B2B Sales. Repsly – Mobile Data Collection.

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