Stax

JANUARY 8, 2024

For SaaS companies, becoming a payment facilitator (or PayFac) offers a ton of advantages—including but not limited to—boosting retention and profitability while exercising greater control over the customer experience. For example, the breakdown of old hardware, human errors, or malware can cause a hindrance to payments.

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Merchant Services Payfac Payment Services SaaS Payments 88

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Plus, the price tag on those more established businesses often run into the billions. That’s an expensive mistake if you make the wrong investment. Micro startup acquisitions are a move away from buying businesses with established products or even proven revenue streams. The solution? Micro startup acquisitions.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Small and Mid-Market (SMM) SaaS Companies serve customers with annual revenues of $1 million to $1 billion and with a typical employee base of 100 to 1,000. SMB customers will want high-touch sales engagement and service delivery but SMM SaaS companies will likely not have the budget necessary to justify providing this level of sales support.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 52

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The profit and loss statement details the revenue, expenses, and any profit or loss (hence the name) during a specified period of time, usually monthly, quarterly, or annually. There are many ways to draft the profit and loss statement depending on the detail desired and the complexity of the business. Try Baremetrics free.

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Payments Payment Methods Payment Services Payment Solutions 98

ProfitWell

APRIL 1, 2020

White-labeling services for SaaS products have become very popular over the past decade. When done correctly, an entire brand can be built around a SaaS white-label product, but you’ll need to price it correctly in order to maximize revenue. Either they use it as their own, or they resell said platform to another company.

Payment Solutions 59

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Payment Services 59

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 22, 2020

To have a successful e-commerce platform, you have to pay to play. You could also invest in some tools that will make working with influencers simpler. The added incentive of discounts has the potential to attract new customers by drawing them in with savings and payment options. Dealspotr’s Influencer Marketplace.

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Payment Methods Branding Payment Services Payment Solutions 139

Baremetrics

AUGUST 6, 2021

Bookkeeping: What not to do SaaS metrics with Baremetrics Key Bookkeeping Terminology The importance of bookkeeping for your small business Putting your bookkeeping data to work. SaaS metrics with Baremetrics But what if you have too many receipts and invoices to be able to do that? Table of Contents.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions Business 105

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 13, 2022

It requires rethinking everything from billing and revenue forecasting, to the role of Account Executives, to how to drive a customer success mindset across the entire organization. High interest rates will suck up government revenues. Toast generated $823M in revenue in 2020. Governments are likely to resist this.

Pricing 82

Pricing Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 82

Stax

JANUARY 17, 2024

Automated Clearing House (ACH) payments are a type of electronic bank-to-bank payment system in the US. Unlike payments facilitated by card networks like Visa or Mastercard, ACH payments are managed by a body called the National Automated Clearing House Association (NACHA). Let’s get started.

Payment Services 88

Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Facilitation 88

Unbounce

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Thousands of businesses are willing to spend unbelievable amounts of money to rank at the top of search engine results pages (SERP) and in the most relevant places for their users around the web. In 2019, small businesses spent between $9,000 and $10,000 per month on PPC , with Google making an average of $116.5 Retargeting.

Payment Methods 145

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments AI Search 145

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

How can a simple offering be transformed into its own platform? Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Want to see more content like this?

Payments 125

Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 125

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Grasswire, it was because we had no team and no monetization strategy, which I do not recommend. You could be missing all of your metrics, but you know, you’re not the Twitter guys. Uber is a classic marketplace company. It’s a two-sided marketplace. You had town car services before. What am I missing?”

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Acquisition Software Review Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 145

How To Buy Saas

JULY 26, 2021

Launched in 2012 as ZenPayroll, this company supports over +100,000 businesses nationwide. The platform is easy to use. It offers you the best of services including Expert HR. One of the most recognizable and best startup tools for hosting web service is best for speed, reliability, and excellent support. Sendinblue.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Startup Payment Solutions Payments 52

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Check out this 2018 Europa session with Guillaume Princen, Head of France and Southern Europe @ Stripe, where he talks about the metrics you need to be focused on in your startup. If you don’t have the time to watch the whole session, here are the main metrics you should be mindful of. Average Revenue per Customer.

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SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 236

Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. Because horizontal SaaS companies serve both startups and enterprise businesses, scalability is a key selling point.

SaaS Payments 88

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 88

OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

It documents the business your product is building. And yet it’s often tucked away in a financial update while a medley of product metrics enjoy the spotlight. It needs to be treated as a top-level operational metric that a founder must know and understand. Pick a common anchoring metric that measures a core customer activity.

Scale 52

Scale Payment Methods Payment Services Systems Review 52

FastSpring

JANUARY 8, 2019

A type of performance-based marketing in which a business rewards partners (also known as affiliates) for each visitor or customer brought by the affiliate’s marketing efforts. Amazon Marketplace. The largest 3rd party ecommerce platform. Selling on the Amazon Marketplace can significantly boost volume through your store.

Payment Methods 61

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Services Outsourcing Services 61

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

MAY 14, 2023

Algolia went from zero to seven figures in revenue in 12 months, and the launch of their search as a service product, and grew pricing from $19 a month to $100,000, which sounds amazing. They built themselves into a core platform for HR 2.0 web services. And then Enterprise is more like a standardized process.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Provide a platform, not a tool, that can be a consolidator and something that can drive costs, but still have all the features necessary to get the business results. But then instead of a success plan, it’s a business plan. That business case becomes the success plan, right? I don’t know anyone right now.

Payment Methods 205

Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 205

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

I was working on a startup that was an early mobile payment platform. It was basically using Bluetooth and an app on PalmPilots to do wireless payments in restaurants. And there’s a lot of benefit to running a software as a service, in general. You might sell it through Facebook marketplace.

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SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 268

ProfitWell

MARCH 11, 2020

But as cost containment becomes a priority for businesses looking to thrive in the modern digitally-transformed marketplace, keeping existing customers happy and loyal is now a primary concern. Where is the revenue leakage happening? We're about to go diving for metrics. That's what metrics give you.

Retention 52

Retention Metrics SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 52

ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

That’s never been truer for software businesses in particular than in the past 10-15 years, with the internet stimulating an explosion in the number of viable revenue models. Let’s take a look at some of the most popular revenue models used today — why they’re popular, why they work, and why they will (or won’t) work for you.

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Payments Revenue Payment Methods SaaS Payments 40

SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

We looked at the world in 2008, 2009, and we said, “How come it’s almost impossible to connect two companies to do business, especially if they have complex business processes, but we can all connect as consumers on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, every single day we want to do business?”

Payment Solutions 154

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 154

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Integrity Selling for the 21st Century. Strategy and Process. Predictable Revenue. Leveraging transparency and vulnerability in your presentations and your negotiations leads to faster buyer consensus, larger deals, faster payments, longer commitments and more predictable sales forecasts. Agile Selling. Spin Selling.

Scale 141

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 13, 2018

While this may sound simple, it can be incredibly challenging to find new opportunities for growth and customer acquisition in an increasingly crowded marketplace. Before I joined Intercom, I led all of Intuit’s small-business products and services, including QuickBooks accounting, payroll and payments.

Acquisition 156

Acquisition Strategy SaaS Payments Payments 156

Outseta

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Indie.VC (V3) Website: [link] Key Personnel: Bryce Roberts Revenue Requirement: Post revenue, but no minimum requirement. Board Seat: No Investment Docs: [link] Application Deadline: March 1, 2019 Apply Here: [link] Indie VC is the OG on this block and describes itself as “growth revenue for post-revenue companies.”

SaaS Payments 102

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments SaaS 102

SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. They process billions annually for platforms like Constant Contact, GoFundMe, Ecwid, Infusionsoft, Meetup, Freshbooks & Zoho. Want to see more content like this?

Payment Services 135

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 135

Backlinkfy

JULY 30, 2019

Amazon also hosts a marketplace wherein other Internet purveyors may display and sell products, and offers several software-as-a-service and infrastructure-as-a-service solutions for business. In today’s world most merchants started out use Amazon marketplace to test out products before opening an online store.

Payment Methods 40

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Solutions 40

SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Matt Garratt: So for those that aren’t familiar with Salesforce Ventures, we are the strategic investment arm for Salesforce. So I think that is somewhat of a good news in this in that SaaS businesses are sticky. I was an account executive covering financial services vertical and covering in New York.

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Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 168

SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

To date, Eric has raised over $12m for Zylo from some of the best in the business, including Byron @ Bessemer, Salesforce, GGV, Semil @ Haystack, and the team at High Alpha. Prior to founding Zylo, Eric was the VP of Sales @ Sprout Social leading the revenue operations for over 11,000 customers. Harry Stebbings: Totally get you.

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Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 149

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 3, 2020

I think in general the idea is that if you use a thing every day, or even multiple times a day, then it’s potentially ROI positive for you to invest in the best possible version of it. But I bet they probably still do more revenue online. Emmet: It ushered in the gig economy, the two sided marketplace etc. Even services.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions Technical Review Technology 118

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2020

That’s exactly what Nick did when he made an early investment in ChartMogul’s content. Looking around at the market, Nick saw an appetite for content about growing a SaaS business. Tomasz Tunguz and David Skok – they were publishing a lot of content around SaaS metrics and these kinds of things. They email.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Payments Payment Services 183