Payrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

This setup is commonly used in marketplaces, software platforms, or businesses that facilitate payments for a network of sellers, service providers, or smaller businesses. This model allows sub-merchants to focus on their core activities while benefiting from streamlined access to payment services.

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Merchant Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Payments 130

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

By forcing self-service, they inadvertently created stronger customer champions who had to deeply learn the product themselves. The “Feature Request Arbitrage” Strategy Hidden gem in their marketplace origin: They turned their biggest product weakness (feature request backlog) into their greatest strength.

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Sales Recruiting Marketplace as a Service Underperforming Technical Team Scale 208

SaaStr

JULY 13, 2022

Co-founder and CEO of Insider , Hande Cilingir, talks about what it takes to write a successful revenue growth story. Only go-getters survive in the SaaS marketplace. From increasing competition to new products in the marketplace, there are too many variables for a salesperson to control. Mistake 1: Not accepting your mistakes.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 22, 2018

Fast forward to today, and Eventbrite is the world’s largest self-service event ticketing and registration platform – processing more than 3 million tickets each week. Going back a bit, Brian was a co-founder at SkillSlate, a local services marketplaces similar to Thumbtack. We raised a $1.5-million

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Marketplace as a Service Scale Payment Solutions Payment Services 189

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Upwork is one of those products and marketplaces many of us use all the time — including Team SaaStr — but we don’t often see discussing that much as a public SaaS / Cloud company. I would have expected lower than 100% net revenue retention from Upwork, given that much of the spend can be episodic. But it should be.

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Marketplace as a Service SMB Cloud Enterprise 336

USIO

APRIL 15, 2025

SaaS Platforms: Enable Instant Payouts Use Case: SaaS platforms in gig economy, marketplaces, or fintech. Example: A SaaS that manages freelance marketplaces can offer FedNow-enabled payouts to gig workers, boosting satisfaction and retention. Revenue Opportunity: Add value and potentially monetize speed via tiered services.

Payments 130

Payments Payment Services Merchant Services SaaS Payments 130

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Our suite of financial tools makes it easy to turn recurring revenue into flexible growth financing. Pilot’s leading team of US-based experts, supported by elegant software, delivers world-class bookkeeping, tax, and CFO services trusted by growing businesses like yours. Welcome to Payfac-as-a-service.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services PayFac as a Service Marketplace as a Service 246

FastSpring

JUNE 21, 2024

Per Kyodo News , “The law will prohibit the providers of Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android smartphone operating systems, app stores and payment platforms from preventing the sale of apps and services that directly compete with the native platforms’ own.” which have grown to wield significant influence over digital services around the world.”

Merchant Services 158

Merchant Services Marketplace as a Service Payments Payment Solutions 158

SaaStr

MARCH 16, 2022

Revenue up 91%, Customer Count Up “Just” 34%. As part of going upmarket, Monday’s 10+ seat customers are now 72% of total revenue, up from 63% just a year ago. Almost $400,000 in revenue per employee. This is pretty darn efficient, and Monday leverages its self-service roots to scale pretty efficiently. #7.

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Marketplace as a Service Technical Review Scaling Revenue 64

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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Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 141

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

70% of Cvent’s revenue comes from its events software. but 30% comes from its so-called “Hospitality Cloud” which is really a marketplace for event services. The marketplace side took a bigger hit from the events shutdown during Covid (and also has lower gross margins), but is still a material contributor. #3.

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Marketplace as a Service Software Review Cloud B2B 329

Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 14, 2023

While the marketplace business model is evergreen, every new platform changes how and where transactions happen. Now, we believe generative AI promises to revolutionize marketplaces again. It will not only transform how products and services are sold — but also how they are made.

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Marketplace as a Service AI Search AI Outsourcing Services 139

FastSpring

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Effective ways to market web shops outside of games to avoid violating anti-steering rules in mobile marketplaces. As the leading Support-a-Creator platform, Nexus assists publishers and studios in driving web shop traffic through dynamic, revenue-share-based partnerships with content creators.

Payments 157

Payments Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Services 157

SaaStr

MAY 4, 2022

These days, as the business lead for invoicing at Stripe, Xie has earned her own stripes in navigating the unique challenges of building and thriving in the SaaS marketplace. As difficult as SaaS companies can be to build, that can go double for things like setting up billing systems and automating revenue. Platforms-as-a-service.

Payment Features 259

Payment Features Payment Services Outsourcing Services Payment Solutions 259

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

What you’ll see in that cloud spend box is actually Gartner’s 2020 estimate for infrastructure as a service spending for companies, which was $50 billion. And if you also look at the platform as a service category, that’s also an additional $50 billion of spend, and that’s typically with those same vendors.

Scale 259

Scale Marketplace as a Service Cloud SaaS Payments 259

SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2022

30% New Customer Growth Fueling 37% Revenue Growth. 30% of their revenues are still from customers running Jira and friends on their own servers. Headcount up 7%, while revenue is up 37%. But that only increases total headcount 7% which revenues went up 37%. 5 Interesting Learnings: #1. Impressive leverage.

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SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2021

Managing the Quote-to-Cash process can be complex, since it covers the entire sales cycle, software licensing fulfillment, and revenue recognition, and it’s typically spread across many applications. Integration platform as a service ( iPaaS ) standardizes how integrations are built and managed across your organization. Quote-to-Cash.

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Sales Hiring Scale Technical Review Marketplace as a Service 322

SaaStr

DECEMBER 16, 2022

How do you enter a highly competitive marketplace, carve a niche for yourself, and then scale the business to $100 million+ ARR? Sam Blond, Partner at Founders Fund, joined Matt Plank, VP of Sales at Rippling, to unlock the secrets to exponential revenue growth. Entering a hyper-competitive marketplace . Logo acquisition (i.e.,

Outsourcing Services 282

Outsourcing Services Scale Sales Hiring Outsourced Development 282

SaaStr

MARCH 24, 2022

BlueSnap supports payments across all geographies through multiple sales channels such as online and mobile sales, marketplaces, subscriptions, invoice payments and manual orders through a virtual terminal. Salesloft is the provider of the leading sales engagement platform that helps sellers and sales teams drive more revenue.

Payments 257

Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 257

FastSpring

OCTOBER 23, 2024

So where do you start if you want to provide more global payment solutions to your player base while chipping away at the hefty 30% fees that mobile marketplaces charge? Very simply, a merchant of record (MoR) is a legal entity that sells services or goods to a customer. How Is an MoR Different From a Payment Service Provider ?

Merchant Services 148

Merchant Services Payments Payment Methods Payment Services 148

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 23, 2023

“Because of our overall differentiation, more than 18,000 organizations now use Azure OpenAI service, including new-to-Azure customers.” ” “Higher-than-expected AI consumption contributed to revenue growth in Azure.”

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AI Search AI Cloud Azure 312

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Over the years, BrainStorm has evolved from a training services company to a world-class SaaS platform. G2 is the largest and most trusted software marketplace, helping 80 million people every year make smarter software decisions based on authentic peer reviews.

Payment Services 274

Payment Services Merchant Services Payments Embedded Payments 274

SaaStr

DECEMBER 11, 2020

And with nearly 70% of global revenue for ISVs currently derived from third-party channel sales , no other approach to distribution ensures the exposure and revenue of the channel. These include product offering, scalable fulfilment, revenue operations, sales and marketing enablement, partner ecosystem and team culture.

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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. To drive the most revenue, both the CRM and PRM play integral parts in the partner tech stack.

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Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 111

FastSpring

JANUARY 23, 2025

Podcast Full Interview: Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. Podcast Full Interview: Video Transcript Jesse Paliotto (00:04) Hello, everyone, and welcome to Growth Stage podcast, where we discuss how digital product companies grow revenue, build meaningful products and increase the value of their business.

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Scale Entrepreneurship Scaling Underperforming Technical Team 120

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Atlassian’s Chief Revenue Officer, Cameron Deatsch, walks us through how Atlassian grew over the course of 20 years and became one of the most successful startups today. They have grown to over $3 billion in revenue while keeping sales and marketing spending under 15% of revenue for all 20 years they’ve been in business.

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Scale Scaling Marketplace as a Service Entrepreneurship 261

SaaStr

MAY 25, 2022

How do you make your fledgling business seen and heard in a competitive business marketplace? Your top-line revenue is growing. Nobody wants to refer a service that may not be able to deliver. Conan Economics or How to Crush Your Enemies with Expensify’s CEO: David Barrett. even if they say they did. Nothing else matters.

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Scale Marketplace as a Service Advertising Business Model 306

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Why it’s hard to build a two-sided marketplace [13:38]. And the ones that aren’t are generally, kind of related industries, IT services and those sorts of things. And the other thing I learned is it’s very, very hard to build a two-sided marketplace, Sam. Show Introduction [00:10].

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Marketplace as a Service Sales Recruiting CTO Hire Scale 111

SaaStr

OCTOBER 15, 2020

TaxJar’s AutoFile can also completely automate your sales tax filing, using the information it receives from your ecommerce providers and marketplaces to prepare and submit returns to each state, along with remittance. 2 Bookkeeping. If your team wasn’t spread out across the country before COVID-19, it probably is now. 4 User support.

Business 329

Business Marketplace as a Service AI Search compliance 329

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?

Payment Services 148

Payment Services Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service Payment Solutions 148

SaaStr

APRIL 14, 2020

It turns out, that what separates these elite revenue organizations from everybody else is an entirely new framework for uniting seller efforts with buyer needs. . In today’s fast-paced B2B marketplace of instant communication and process automation , businesses cannot afford to rely on the classic definition of a deal.

Technical Review 315

Technical Review Marketplace as a Service Construction Software Review 315

Tom Tunguz

JUNE 19, 2017

Online advertising serves as a potential model for how the machine learning software as a service ecosystem might evolve. This created an opportunity for companies like BlueKai and others to build a Data Management Platform, which aggregated all the publishers’ first party data and allow them to sell their data on a marketplace.

Artificial Intelligence 186

Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Advertising Marketplace as a Service 186

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In sum -> Learning and understanding how to maximize the revenue per lead. No Revenues”. Drive your revenue per lead way up, and put you in place to jump on and close every practical piece of business that comes through the door. How do you deal with FUD in the marketplace? . Sales Strategy. No best efforts stuff.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 363

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Wherever you are in your revenue journey, adopting certain growth strategies can help you keep growing fast. An ICP aligns your product, sales, marketing, service, and executive teams to all focus on your highest-value accounts. Let’s examine how an ICP focus has helped two businesses win in a competitive marketplace. .

Payments 243

Payments Payment Methods Embedded Payments Scale 243

SaaStr

AUGUST 29, 2022

10.000 SaaS CEOs, Founders, Revenue Leaders, and VCs will join us for 3 days of tactical content, networking, and epic evening events when the Cloud comes to San Mateo. Scaling Revenue in 2022: What’s the Same and What’s Different? If you haven’t already, sign up here for tickets before we sell out.

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Sales Hiring Scale Marketplace as a Service B2B 284

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 24, 2022

So, it’s no wonder that it has been a massive year in the Cloud Marketplace business. At Tackle, we have seen our sellers experience huge revenue growth, the product catalog is expanding rapidly for buyers, and budgets are growing at unprecedented rates. For sellers, that means larger, more accessible budgets are opening up.

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Marketplace as a Service Cloud Trends Software 98

SaaStr

MARCH 30, 2022

It’s a pull, not a push, when it comes to revenue expansion. So, Atlassian wants to empower other builders to serve all kinds of teams, and the company embraces its ecosystem made up of 1500 marketplace products and third-party apps. Use the GTM motion that’s the opposite of the traditional GTM motion.

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Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service Construction 274