SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Our suite of financial tools makes it easy to turn recurring revenue into flexible growth financing. The Intellum Platform includes all the tools an organization needs to create, manage, track and improve highly-personalized learning experiences for customers, partners and even employees. Welcome to Payfac-as-a-service.

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Stax

MAY 5, 2025

In recent years, businesses have seen this massive shift from desktop to mobile devices which has forced them to develop apps with built-in integrated payment gateways. But when it comes to payments, mobile apps have to contend with a few unique challenges.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. In this essay, we’ll go deeper into the gradients of marketplace models that a company can sequence to, and as a follow up, we will do the same for platforms.

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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.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The Walmart Marketplace is among the fastest-growing e-commerce stores out there, so if you’re looking for an Amazon alternative, it’s a serious contender. But how do you make the most of Walmart Marketplace ? Well, let’s take a look, starting with how the platform operates. What is Walmart Marketplace?

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Stax

JANUARY 22, 2024

In a world where we’re spending more and more time online and every click is a potential transaction, it’s no surprise the eCommerce and digital payments sectors are experiencing exponential growth. In this article, we’ll dive into the intricacies of two types of players in the eCommerce ecosystem: payment gateways and payment facilitators.

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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.

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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?

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Payrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

A master merchant, often referred to as a payment facilitator or merchant aggregator, is a third-party agent that acts as the link between acquirers and online merchants. The master merchant simplifies the onboarding process for sub-merchants by handling the complexities of payment integration, security requirements, and compliance.

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Payrix

JANUARY 30, 2024

Storable , the leading provider of all-in-one software for the self-storage industry, has a vision for its payments solution that is reminiscent of the industry it serves. As John Durrett, General Manager of Payments for Storable, recently explained in a sit down with Payrix, Storable wants to make payments “invisible” for its customers.

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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?

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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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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The country recently published guidance requiring providers of electronic services — select digital products and services — to register for VAT if they meet certain criteria and thresholds. Foreign e-services provider requirements What are Thailand’s VAT rates for E-Services? What are Thailand’s VAT rates for E-Services?

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FastSpring

MARCH 8, 2024

SocialBee , a social media management platform and SaaS based in Romania, first started using FastSpring in 2018. After adopting FastSpring as their merchant of record, SocialBee even saw 2x year-over-year growth in monthly recurring revenue (MRR) after their first year with FastSpring. Set up a demo or try it out for yourself.

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Payrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Interested in learning more about software-led payments or joining the current Embedded Payments conversations in your organization? This blog post is your ultimate guide to understanding the most used payments terms today. This blog post is your ultimate guide to understanding the most used payments terms today.

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Stax

APRIL 17, 2025

At the heart of this transformation is a growing ecosystem of Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) building applications that plug into broader platforms and solve specialized problems. As these ecosystems evolve, ISV partnerships have become essential for companies looking to scale, reach new markets, and offer integrated ISV solutions.

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Buffer Resources

APRIL 10, 2024

Fast-forward a decade, and the landscape of creator monetization has changed completely.   Whether you have 3,000 or 300,000 followers, you can monetize your Instagram with the right strategy. And this might be where your next monetization idea comes from. Let’s get into it.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Getting the best inventory management software for your business will make all of it a reality. And if that isn’t enough, the software tool can also help you reduce operating costs, increase revenue, and most importantly, ensure greater customer satisfaction. But how do you know which platform you should choose?

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Stax

JUNE 20, 2024

An ISV partner is a software vendor that partners with an ISV and provides additional services or technology. However, the significance of selecting the right ISV partner program for cloud services or SaaS companies can’t be overstated. Its purpose? To foster symbiotic relationships that drive mutual growth.

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Natalia Luneva

APRIL 24, 2025

Imagine cutting years off payment system setup. The number of Payment Facilitators (PayFacs) has grown 13.8% For businesses, this means they can use payment systems without starting from scratch. PayFac as a Service lets companies add payment processing to their platforms.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 29, 2020

These tools make it easy for anyone to launch an ecommerce business by building a website from scratch. So if you’re interested in selling products or services on the web, you’ll need to find an ecommerce builder to create your online store. Beginners should aim for platforms that don’t require coding. Dropshipping.

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Buffer Resources

MAY 8, 2024

As a creator or influencer, I’m willing to bet a good chunk of your content involves sharing products, tools, and services you love. Affiliate marketing is performance-based online marketing, where a business pays another business or person for referring a sale or new customer. Scroll on for resources that will help.)

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Subscription Flow

MARCH 25, 2024

A Merchant of Record ecommerce solution acts as a vital middleman, taking on the vital duty of financial and legal facilitation in transactions, acting as the visible party for both consumers and regulatory bodies. Tasks in this diverse role include managing payments, complying with tax laws, and reducing risks such as chargebacks and fraud.

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Stax

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Accepting payments is the most important functionality that a business needs to start selling. But to accept payments seamlessly and securely, you need a merchant account. A merchant account refers to a business bank account that allows businesses to accept electronic payments for goods and services.

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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.

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Stax

JANUARY 3, 2024

Around since the 2000s, mPOS systems have come a long way from their origin as a glitchy solution used primarily by micro-businesses to process payments. Today, they’re known for their robust services, enhanced security, user-friendly interfaces, and the integration of advanced data analytics.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 20, 2019

The Wikipedia contributors define product innovation as “the creation and subsequent introduction of a good or service that is either new, or an improved version of previous goods or services.”. But people switch from their boring old stale spreadsheets to Airtable for its flexibility, ease of use, integrations, and templates.

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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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Stax

JANUARY 10, 2024

As well as improving profit margins, these activities can also enhance the customer experience and give merchants a competitive advantage in the marketplace. Credit card fees, including interchange, assessment, and payment processor fees, impact businesses on a per-transaction or recurring basis.

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Subscription Flow

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In today’s blog, to help you streamline your financial processes, we will be going over Square integration with QuickBooks which can easily integrate to help you simplify accounting duties and streamline business operations. Read more: Empower Your Business with a Square Subscription System Section 1: What is Square?

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

So how did they go from product-market fit to actually scaling a sales org around a repeatable sales process? To find out, we sat down with Jeanne de Witte , Head of North America Revenue & Growth at Stripe. billion in revenue) so it’s safe to say Jeanne and her team have helped do exactly that. What’s not to like?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 14, 2022

If you’re short on time, here are a few quick takeaways: Focus on building services and products that meet your customer’s needs – not just today’s, but also tomorrow’s. My main focus at the time was not industry – I didn’t know anything about payments. How are you feeding back customer insights to the product team?

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. In this essay, we’ll go deeper into the gradients of marketplace models that a company can sequence to, and as a follow up, we will do the same for platforms.

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Blulogix

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Streamlining Success: What is the Role of Automation in Customer Lifecycle Management for Recurring Revenue? This blog post explores how employing automation in CLM can revolutionize the way businesses nurture their customer base, enhance engagement, and secure recurring revenue streams.

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Subscription Flow

JANUARY 11, 2024

By concentrating entirely on product initiatives to simplify a more complicated problem to a straightforward plug-and-play option for medium to small business (SMEs) owners and accountants all over the world, Xero has grown to become one of the most well-liked business accounting platforms on the market.

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How To Buy Saas

APRIL 19, 2024

In recent years, Software as a Service (SaaS) has revolutionized the way businesses operate, offering scalable solutions accessible over the internet. This shift has not only transformed internal business operations but has also significantly impacted external market dynamics.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 27, 2022

After running the first editions of the conference by himself, Alex sold B2B Rocks and, in 2019, he founded Collect , a platform that helps businesses collect and manage client documents, in the hopes that by putting this process on autopilot, teams can be more productive and focus their energy on bigger things.

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