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The Sheer Momentum You Need For an Enduring IPO in SaaS: 63% Average Growth

SaaStr

billion Business : Restaurant management platform with POS, payments, and software Toast achieved moderate but steady growth with revenue increasing from approximately $668 million in 2019 to $823 million in 2020, representing 23% year-over-year growth.

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The Complete Guide to SaaS Pricing Strategy

Tom Tunguz

Challenges sales compensation : Building effective compensation plans for sales teams is more difficult because the value of an account can’t be fully measured at the point of sale. Teams must reinvent their GTM strategy with new quota structures, sales materials, and margin calculations.

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10 Things That Are Different in Vertical SMB Sales with Toast’s CRO

SaaStr

Even more impressive: Toast closed its largest deal in company history with Applebee’s and signed enterprise agreements with Topgolf, showing their expansion beyond traditional SMB into enterprise accounts. Here are 10 key lessons from Toast’s remarkable journey scaling vertical SMB sales: 1. Where do you start?

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The Rise of Vertical SaaS: Achieving 110% NRR from SMBs with Mangomint’s CEO

SaaStr

For restaurants, it’s the back end, front end, point of sale, payroll, ERP, and workforce management. How to Make Onboarding Work for SMBs While in some cases, selling to SMBs is easier than Enterprise in many ways, one way in which it’s fundamentally harder is onboarding. There will likely be multiple Toasts for SMBs.

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The Top 8 Embedded Payment Processors of 2025

USIO

Adyen Adyen is purpose-built for enterprise merchants with international operations. Support : Available but built for large-scale, enterprise users. Lightspeed Lightspeed builds POS systems and embedded payments for the hospitality and retail industries. Support : Enterprise account teams available. Support Rating: 3.5/5

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What is a Payment Processing System and How Does It Work?

Stax

It links the merchants eCommerce store or point of sale (POS) system and the financial networks involved. Heres a step-by-step breakdown of a typical transaction: Customer initiates payment – The customer initiates a payment by entering their payment details online, in a mobile app, or a POS system.

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What is Vertical SaaS?

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Activant Capital reports : Vertical SaaS is outpacing traditional enterprise software growth by a significant margin. While enterprise software grew at 11.1% Benefits of Vertical SaaS The growth of the vertical SaaS industry continues to follow an upward trend. in 2023 with a projected CAGR of 9.6% through 2034.