SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Some of the changes we’ve seen in the last year or two include: CAC reduction Headcount optimization Price complexity Quality of revenue A different environment means a different strategy, and Notion Capital lays out four business model changes that could be helpful based on what peers are doing. You don’t want to be there.

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Business Model SaaS Payments Payments Headcount 251

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.

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Sales Hiring Payment Services SaaS Payments Scale 233

SaaStr

JULY 20, 2022

Weave started off as a dental ERP and comms platform (including VoIP / phone), and then expanded beyond that as it scaled. But it then loses real money on onboarding, at -124% margins, and real money on hardware, at -183% margins. Historically, Weave gave away several “free” phones with each new account.

SaaS Payments 244

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Methods Payments 244

User Pilot

APRIL 7, 2022

UX analytics stands for user experience data and it’s all about gathering and interpreting data about user’s behavior on a website or in-app by tracking actions like: moves of a cursor(mouse) within web pages. There are two methods of user research — qualitative and quantitative. Get a demo and see how! ” moment.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Data Payment Solutions 52

Payrix

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Software companies embark on their embedded payments journey only to discover they’ve underestimated the complexity that’s involved and struggle to launch. If you’re thinking about Embedded Payments for your platform, make time to listen to this episode of the PayFAQ Embedded Payments podcast. We’ve seen it far too often.

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Payments Merchant Services Embedded Payments Payment Services 100

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 30, 2022

This is especially important for small teams, where you need to operate at a scale far beyond your headcount (without burning out your team by working around the clock). Can we easily onboard new employees or teams as our numbers grow? How much training will this tool require for onboarding and maintenance? Questions to ask.

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Scale Payment Services Startup AWS 163

Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

What started as Dimitris (now my Co-founder at Outseta ) writing a few lines of code to collect rent payments from tenants he had living in a duplex in Providence, Rhode Island, turned into something worth hundreds of millions of dollars 15 years later. While these revenues are pay-per-use, rent payments are both large and regular.

SaaS Payments 145

SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Services 145