USIO

AUGUST 1, 2025

A candid look at payment monetization and why so many SaaS platforms are still waiting for results. If you’re a SaaS CFO or finance leader who decided to monetize payments, the pitch probably sounded like a no-brainer: embed payments, flip the switch, and watch a new revenue stream flow in.

Payments

SaaStr

JULY 11, 2025

Cross-Industry Use Cases That Drive Revenue 1. Financial Services: Mortgage & Loan Processing Help users explore mortgage options by collecting key inputs like purchase price, credit score, down payment, and property location, then presenting tailored loan choices with current rates. Who Should Evaluate Syllable.ai

Payment Solutions

SaaStr

JULY 4, 2025

The SaaS PE market is heating up again, and Thoma Bravo just made a big statement buying SaaS restaurant pioneer Olo for $2 Billion. Quick Stats: Founded: 2005 (20-year-old company) 2024 Revenue: $285M (up 25% YoY from $228M in 2023) Q1 2025 Revenue: $80.7M (up 21% YoY), $323M annualized run rate Profitability: $1.8M

SaaS Payments

SaaStr

AUGUST 4, 2025

We just witnessed something remarkable in the eCommerce data that every B2B founder in the broader space needs to understand. At its peak, the platform processed $4.6 Shopify reduced operating expenses as a percentage of revenue from 52% in Q4 2022 to 32% in Q4 2024. What This Means for Every SaaS Business 1.

Payment Methods

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.

Payments

USIO

JULY 1, 2025

Let’s be honest: payments used to be a pain. If you’re a SaaS founder, product leader, or engineer, you’ve probably stared down the barrel of a tangled payment integration wondering, “Why does something so essential feel so unnecessarily complicated?” The truth is, the world of embedded payments has evolved—dramatically.

Payments

Stax

JUNE 18, 2025

That’s the main premise of vertical SaaS. Unlike horizontal SaaS solutions that serve a broad range of businesses, vertical SaaS solutions are designed with deep knowledge of specific markets—making them more intuitive, efficient, and impactful. What is Vertical SaaS? Since vertical SaaS platforms are niche-focused (e.g.,

Merchant Services

USIO

MARCH 7, 2025

Managing payments efficiently isnt just a convenienceits a necessity. For companies handling high volumes of transactions, traditional payment systems often lead to inefficiencies, hidden costs, and unnecessary complexity. Integrated payment solutions offer a streamlined approach, helping businesses cut costs while boosting revenue.

Payments

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

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. Contact sales What is a SaaS Platform?

Payment Services

SaaStr

JUNE 29, 2025

👉 10 Things Deel Did to Get from $1M to $100M ARR in 20 Months Deel recently announced it had crossed $1 billion in ARR, joining the exclusive club of B2B companies that have reached true unicorn revenue status. I dream about clients telling me, ‘Hey, I did not receive my payment today. But how did they actually get there?

Payment Services

Payrix

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Embedded Finance is reshaping SaaS, and for good – and exciting – reasons. Meet some of our experts driving this shift for our software partners and see how Embedded Finance can enhance your platform’s revenue, customer loyalty, and growth potential. Meet Ian Hillis, Head of Growth Why is Embedded Finance taking the industry by storm?

Payments

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. It’s the vertical SaaS rocketship: $840m ARR Still growing a stunning 29% (!) Lesson for SaaS Founders : If youre in vertical SaaS, aim to be the OS for your niche.

Payments

USIO

JULY 14, 2025

That’s where embedded payments come in. Whether you’re building a SaaS product, launching a curated box service, or running a subscription model, embedded payments aren’t just a backend upgrade. What Are Embedded Payments? Think of it as a native, invisible payment layer working in the background.

Payments

SaaStr

JULY 22, 2025

The Math Behind the Bottleneck Stanford’s data provides the clearest picture yet of the unicorn exit landscape. They’re not just growing revenue—they’re building sustainable competitive moats. 306 have exited at $1-2 Billion. Only 33 at $10B … so far. billion, accounting for 57.9% of all VC-backed funding.

AI Search

SaaStr

JUNE 22, 2025

Instead, the company pivoted aggressively into expense management and payments, expanding beyond its travel roots. Navan represents something different: a mainstream B2B software company with enterprise clients and subscription revenue models that institutional investors understand. “We are not far from that.”

B2B

SaaStr

JULY 26, 2025

A look back here at the top 10 learnings from his deep dive with Sam Blond on SaaStr CRO Confidential Most SaaS companies sell horizontally to desk workers across multiple industries. Density Changes Everything About Territory Design The Traditional Approach : Most SaaS companies segment territories by company size or revenue potential.

SMB

SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2025

The data is clear: the IPO renaissance isn’t coming—it’s already here. And for SaaS companies with strong fundamentals, the opportunity window is wide open. 21 billion 2021 valuation, $1.6B+ revenue Navan (formerly TripActions) – Corporate travel and expense management, confidentially filed June 2025.

Payments

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. Some of the pitfalls that come with unplanned billing migration are faulty revenue reporting, data duplication, and customer churn.

Payment Solutions

Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

According to the US Federal Reserve in 2022, general-purpose card payments reached $153.3 On top of that, 69% of Americans online in 2023 said they used digital payment methods to make a purchase. To address evolving customer demands and accept electronic payments, you need a payment processing system.

Payment Services

SaaStr

JULY 31, 2025

More on how HubSpot grew from 75% NRR to 100%-110% here: Still it can be done, and has been done by almost all the leaders: Upsell and Cross-Sell Like Crazy You need to find ways to expand your revenue from existing customers. Bill.com, for example, added payments as a feature and saw their NRR shoot up to 110%, and later to 121%.

Payments

FastSpring

JULY 29, 2025

SaaS, software, and mobile app companies are always chasing the next logos, stacking pipeline, and are obsessing over booked revenue. If you look just underneath the surface, you find annual recurring revenue (ARR) telling you who showed up to make a purchase. Below, we’ll cover: What NRR is and how it differs from ARR.

Merchant Services

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

Stax

APRIL 3, 2025

But launching your eCommerce store is just half the equationaccepting payments efficiently and effectively is a whole different ball game. On the surface, it seems effortless, with customers only taking a few seconds to initiate and complete payments. The eCommerce payment solution infrastructure involves several key players.

Payment Methods

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. In this blog, you will find out the meaning of revenue growth management, its importance, components, and challenges.

Payments

Stax

APRIL 15, 2025

For subscription-based businesses achieving consistent and predictable revenue growth is the holy grail. In fact, monthly recurring revenue (MRR) is one of the most important metrics subscription businesses should be aware of. TL;DR MRR is the average revenue that a company expects to receive each month.

Payments

Blulogix

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

By BluLogix Team Revenue Recognition: Ensuring Compliance and Accuracy What is RevRec and how does it impact accurate reporting for compliance and financial integrity? Ready to see how BluIQ can transform your billing process and help you achieve integrated, automated, and accurate complex monetization?

Payment Services

Stax

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Navigating the world of payments can be complicated, especially when you’re running a software business with many moving parts. Embedding payments is a great first step, but encouraging merchants to adopt payments and onboarding them is another hurdle many ISV/SaaS businesses run into.

Stax

Stax

MAY 16, 2025

The rapid evolution of embedded payments is reshaping industries and unlocking new opportunities, particularly for small business sectors that have often been overlooked. Adam Gray , Chief Transformation Officer at Stax, recently sat down with Hal Levey of PYMNTS to discuss emerging trends in payment processing and vertical integration.

Payments

FastSpring

JULY 22, 2025

Software companies, SaaS platforms, mobile apps businesses, and AI solutions need flexible tools that adapt to their business. At FastSpring, we’ve always operated as a developer-first platform, building tools and services to help you create, customize, and optimize every part of the subscription lifecycle.

Payment Features

Subscription Flow

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Operating a business entails a number of processes like managing products and payments, invoices, customer engagement, revenue, unpaid invoices and much more. That is why most modern SaaS and subscription-based businesses have transitioned to using a good billing software, reducing their workload by a great deal.

Payment Services

Stax

MARCH 16, 2025

That said, industry experts agree that your SaaS companys goal churn should be below 2%. As a SaaS business leader, reducing software user churn is an important part of maintaining your customer base and increasing revenue. TL;DR The average software industry churn rate is 14%, but SaaS companies should aim for under 2%.

Payment Solutions

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2025

Think B2B SaaS platforms (“CRUD”), apps handling some sensitive data, products with complex workflows and user management. Think B2B SaaS platforms (“CRUD”), apps handling some sensitive data, products with complex workflows and user management. This isn’t casual browsing. Plan accordingly.

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Stax

JANUARY 28, 2025

Completing online payments via manual card entry can be time-consuming and off-putting for customers. This article will cover everything you need to know about Click to Pay, including its history, how it works, and how you can implement the payment method in your business. Learn More What is Click to Pay?

Payment Methods

How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 20, 2024

2024 is coming to a close, and it has been a terrific year for SaaS businesses as the industry has witnessed quite a favorable growth. For SaaS companies, accounting becomes one of the most crucial processes to understand their financial and overall business health, and then make informed decisions about future steps.

Payment Services

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

What if you could boost revenue without having to invest a small fortune in new customer acquisition? In this article, you will explore why customer expansion matters for your SaaS growth, discover various customer expansion tactics, and learn how to embed them in successful expansion campaigns. Why is customer expansion so important?

Strategy

Blulogix

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

When it comes to revenue prediction, traditional estimation tools have long been used to give a general sense of what to expect. This is where the concept of real invoice calculation comes in, fundamentally changing the way organizations approach revenue projection. Schedule a Demo Today What is Real Invoice Calculation?

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