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Understanding Risk Management Strategies as a PayFac

Stax

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. However, several complex types of risks come along with this. Let’s get started.

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What Every ISV and SaaS Company Needs to Know When Switching to a New Payments Partner

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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.

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5 Best Paddle Alternatives in 2024

FastSpring

When considering Paddle alternatives, it’s important to note that Paddle is a merchant of record (MoR). Depending on your needs, sellers may run into a number of potential limitations with the Paddle platform: Paddle doesn’t accept as many alternative payment methods as other MoR partners. Set up a demo or try it out for yourself.

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Card Machines: 6 Ways to Save Money on Payment Processing Equipment

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Then when you layer in the need for payment processing, the complexity of managing your finances escalates significantly. The leasing agreement is often between the merchant service provider. Small businesses can also benefit from t ax deductions on their lease payments more than they would if they paid in full.

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Best Merchant Services

Neil Patel

Merchant services exist to help businesses process credit card payments. Regardless of what you call them, choosing the best merchant service isn’t easy. That’s why, in this guide, I’m catering to each type of business and finding the right merchant service for your needs. Aggregators.

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SaaS Companies: Four Signs You’ve Outgrown Stripe

FastSpring

When you’re using a DIY payment solution like Stripe, making it work for your business falls on your developers. From testing out plugins to setting up new payment methods, maintaining Stripe can be very time-consuming. Fred is a prior customer of FastSpring and now serves as an advisor. And this leads to our third point.

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Secure Payment Forms: 6 Ways to Secure Customer Information During Checkout

FastSpring

Hackers are getting more sophisticated, and one area they love to attack is the online checkout experience on eCommerce websites, making secure payment forms more important than ever. We heard a wide variety of responses, such as: Using an AVS (Address Verification Service) Tokenization Stacking payment gateways Using encrypted payments.