SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Both Bill and Shopifty have morphed over the years from almost pure SaaS companies to payments platforms built on top of a SaaS core. The rest of the growth is from its Divvy platform, which is bought in 2021 for $2.5 But payments and transaction are far bigger at $800m run rate — and growing faster at 38%. #2.

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Payment Services Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 271

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. Going global is tougher in payments and fintech.

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Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services Revenue 249

Stax

JANUARY 29, 2024

Innovative ISVs and SaaS companies know that one of the best ways to provide value to merchants—while improving your bottom line—is to provide integrated payments. For example, if you’re an invoicing software provider that lets SMBs manage their billing, then it makes sense to add payment processing tools to your platform.

Merchant Services 88

Merchant Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Payments 88

FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

What makes a company choose one SaaS payment processing provider over another? But we wanted to hear directly from technical founders and software developers about what you look for in a SaaS payment processing service. Integrations? How does the provider protect against payment fraud? Is it the interface?

Payment Services 114

Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions 114

Subscription Flow

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Subscription pricing with the help of automated billing software has transformed many industries and provided businesses with a dynamic way to generate revenue, especially in the SaaS space. Now let’s discuss the benefits of using a SaaS subscription services billing platform in your SaaS company: 1.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 95

FastSpring

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

There are an infinite number of ways you can integrate FastSpring into your applications and systems in order to offload complexity and help drive success for your SaaS, software, video game, or digital product business. Of course, our support and sales engineering specialists are also able to help if you need assistance.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services Payment Methods 103

SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

Niall Wall, Box SVP of Business and Corporate Development alongside Vicki Lin, Stripe’s Head of Ecosystem and Cecilia Stallsmith, Slack’s Director of Platform Marketing discuss scaling your revenue via indirect channels and platform ecosystems. Ceci Stallsmith – Director of Platform Marketing @ Slack.

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Payments Scale Scaling Revenue 118

Infinicept

OCTOBER 12, 2021

You will be an integral part of a small team that builds and maintains a platform that revolutionizes payment facilitation. We focus on mission-critical applications and integrations that are the engine of our business. Our systems deal with large amounts of structured data and. Source.

Software Engineering 75

Software Engineering Payment Solutions Engineering Payments 75

Sales Hacker

MARCH 29, 2021

Building the right partner tech stack can dramatically increase the revenue flowing from your partners, even if your partnership team is small. The growing role of partnerships in driving revenue. Businesses are continuing to streamline their purchasing. Processing and remitting payments.

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Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 100

Infinicept

OCTOBER 15, 2021

You will be an integral part of a small team that builds and maintains a platform that revolutionizes payment facilitation. We focus on mission-critical applications and integrations that are the engine of our business. Our systems deal with large amounts of structured data and. Source.

Software Engineering 59

Software Engineering Payment Solutions Engineering Payments 59

Blulogix

JANUARY 23, 2024

The ROI of Your Subscription Billing Platform By BluLogix Team Selecting a powerful subscription billing platform is a strategic move with the potential to revolutionize your business operations and yield considerable returns on investment (ROI). Why Choose BluIQ by BluLogix?

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Payment Features Payment Services Payments Subscription 52

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In that essay , we also talked about how a more common route for a SaaS business is to become a platform. Platforms can create an immense amount of long-term value for companies, or be a minor component of their product strategy to maintain product/market fit. The Types of Platforms. Integration Platforms.

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Payments Business Model Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 55

Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 4, 2020

And is Stripe a good choice as your billing and payment provider? When Stripe was launched in 2010, dealing with payments online wasn’t a straightforward matter. Fast forward 10 years and setting up shop and accepting payments has become a lot easier, thanks to a large extent to Stripe.

Payment Methods 105

Payment Methods Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 105

Blulogix

JANUARY 23, 2024

What is the ROI of a Subscription Billing Platform? By BluLogix Team Selecting a powerful subscription billing platform is a strategic move with the potential to revolutionize your business operations and yield considerable returns on investment (ROI). Why Choose BluIQ by BluLogix?

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Payment Features Payment Services Payments Subscription 52

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Your SaaS company likely uses a CRM and/or payment processing software, and the data required to compute these core metrics can be all over the place. Integrating innovative software that can cull MRR values from CRM and payment processing systems is a valuable shortcut. Table of Contents.

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SaaS Payments Engineering Payment Methods Payment Solutions 111

Infinicept

OCTOBER 9, 2021

You will be an integral part of a small team that builds and maintains a platform that revolutionizes payment facilitation. We focus on mission critical applications and integrations that are the engine of our business. Our systems deal with large amounts of structured data and. Source.

Software Engineering 49

Software Engineering Payment Solutions Engineering Payments 49

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.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 206

FastSpring

DECEMBER 9, 2022

SaaS billing software automates one or more of the various aspects of the recurring billing process — payment processing, fulfillment, dunning, and more. You’ll still need a separate solution for payment processing, taxes, chargebacks, and more. 3 Payment Processors. Payment Processing.

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Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Methods SaaS Payments 119

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. It includes: Live chat.

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Technical Review Customer Support Payment Methods Payment Solutions 249

Tom Tunguz

JUNE 5, 2023

Training, deploying, & optimizing machine learning models has historically required teams of dedicated researchers, production engineers, data collection & labeling teams. Stripe did the same, simplifying credit card payments. The last one is the most striking. Today, it’s a matter of days or weeks.

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Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning AI Payments 228

FastSpring

OCTOBER 13, 2023

If you’re currently using 2Checkout or Stripe to sell digital goods or SaaS but are considering switching — to the other, or to other options such as FastSpring — you may be wondering whether there are substantial differences between the platforms and their services. Payment Gateways , Payment Processing , PSPs, MoRs — What’s the Difference?

Payments 115

Payments Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Methods 115

SaaStr

JANUARY 30, 2023

They focused on building a payment platform that empowers international talent and independent contractors to get paid on time in a compliant way while also ensuring that companies can hire international talent and make payments efficiently. This insight led Deel to focus on solving payments and compliance.

Sales Hiring 211

Sales Hiring Payment Services SaaS Payments Scale 211

SaaStr

OCTOBER 20, 2023

In 2021, they trained GPT3 on Github repositories, produced a model that could code, and released embedding that allowed people to vectorize language and search across it to perform recommendations. After digging into the platform and appreciating its capabilities, she found OpenAI. From there, the pace picked up rapidly.

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ChatGPT AI Search Scale Sales Hiring 218

FastSpring

AUGUST 2, 2023

As a startup with only two or three people, it would be absolutely impossible to go international without this kind of platform.” Are you looking for a merchant of record that will partner with you to grow your business internationally? Igor said they haven’t had any major issues using the FastSpring platform. Here’s why.

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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Merchant Services AI Search 136

FastSpring

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Explore the Power of Changelog Integration in Our Documentation Navigating the Tax Landscape: Key Changes That Demand Your Attention in 2024 Quarterly B2B Onboarding Update: Your Complete Guide to Seamless Transactions! Fraud, Chargebacks, and Mitigation Strategies Need FastSpring support? Visit our Support page.

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Payment Methods Customer Support Merchant Services Payments 78

SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2024

It’s sort of a death spiral: High churn, but no burn = struggle, but the engine self-perpetuates to an extent. SaaS + hardware, SaaS + payments, etc. Rag & Bone is selling to Guess $GES for $56m on ~$250m of revenue. The burn was at a stunning $2m a month, and the churn had spiked. Look, this is tough. can be great.

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Churn Startup SaaS Payments Venture Capital 211

FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Release notes is our monthly highlight of our great features coming out on the FastSpring platform so you’ll be able to pick up and go with the latest features for your store. If you want to know more about FastSpring, reach out to our sales team for a demo , or try it yourself. Take a look at our documentation for more information about ACH.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments User Experience 142

Buffer Resources

AUGUST 16, 2023

Merchant Fees At Buffer, we rely on Stripe, Google, and Apple for our payment processing needs. Stripe payments make up 98.5 percent of our total revenue and 83 percent of our fees. Google and Apple payments make up 2.5% of our total revenue and 17 percent of our fees.

Merchant Services 77

Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Features Payments 77

FastSpring

MARCH 9, 2022

From our own research, we know that sellers that display local currencies and payment methods convert at up to twice the rate of those that don’t. Note: SaaS companies can support 20+ currencies and other popular local payment methods from around the globe using FastSpring’s localized checkout platform. Learn more here.

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SaaS Payments Pricing Payments Payment Methods 122

Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 4, 2020

And is Stripe a good choice as your billing and payment provider? When Stripe was launched in 2010, dealing with payments online wasn’t a straightforward matter. Fast forward 10 years and setting up shop and accepting payments has become a lot easier, thanks to a large extent to Stripe.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 52

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? Firstly, payment should be easy for customers.

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Sales Hiring SMB Sales Recruiting Payment Methods 151

SaaStr

JANUARY 20, 2021

It’s expanded its product portfolio to build an incredible observabillity engine approaching $1B ARR. 100k+ customers generate 75% of revenue, even though just 7% of customers. That means the top 7% of customers generate 75% of revenue. “Chunk up” payments some annual deals.

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Payments Cloud Engineering Revenue 299

SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2024

Strong growth, break-even margins, and very high quality revenue. But engineering / product and G&A still grew. #4. Just Starting to Get into Payments, Working Capital and Insurance / Fintech Procore is just starting to get into payments and fintech … at $1 Billion in ARR. 5 Interesting Learnings: #1.

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Scale Payment Services Payment Features Construction 195

Blulogix

JANUARY 5, 2024

Key Definitions in Subscription Billing: Demystifying the Jargon By BluLogix Team Welcome to the fourth installment of our comprehensive guide on selecting the right subscription billing platform. It’s the engine that drives revenue predictability and customer relationships.

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 18, 2023

These tools encompass everything from the social platforms you choose to build your presence on to the community-building app where you engage with your audience. Just type in a keyword and get a plethora of autocomplete data from major search engines like Google. Add Buffer to your content creation toolkit today.

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Payment Services Payments AI Search Payment Methods 127

Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Before reading through yet another “Top-29 SaaS billing platforms” feature comparison post, decide how you want the billing tool to play with the rest of your operations stack. I recommend that a startup should consider three questions when choosing a SaaS billing platform: What is the specific billing logic the platform should provide?

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Software Review 52

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 31, 2021

We’re excited to announce that you can now send transactional messages using Intercom, empowering you to send all your customer messages from one easy-to-use platform. Payment expirations. These transactional messages are an integral part of any customer communication strategy. No need to learn to navigate new platforms.

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Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Subscription 218