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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.

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

Stax

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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How to Find the Best SaaS Billing Platform: A Complete Guide

Stax

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) businesses need to constantly evolve their offerings to stay fresh and relevant. But if you’re a B2B solution, there’s a high likelihood that businesses will be interested in being able to accept customer payments, rather than just sending them a PayPal link or to a generic payment gateway.

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10 Business Tips for Shopify App Developers

Baremetrics

Unfortunately, things only get more difficult when it comes to running the whole business as a Shopify app developer. This article will cover 10 business tips for improving your Shopify app’s development, marketing, and sales. 10 business tips for Shopify app developers 1. The Shopify QA team are your friends 6.

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Sequencing Business Models: The Types of Marketplaces

Casey Accidental

Managed marketplace: a network model that facilitates transactions between supply and demand by processing payments and ensuring quality of transaction by establishing trust e.g. Etsy, Ebay, Airbnb. Early on, when Gilad joined Eventbrite, accepting payment and selling tickets online was still the biggest challenge for event creators.

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Do SaaS Affiliate Programs Work? [+7 Related Stories from SaaS people]

Incredo

Software to track analytics, transfer payments, manage inventory, create videos and for many other things. In its turn, SaaS company is responsible for optimizing conversions and successful onboarding so the visitor becomes a paying customer. Process is simple but would we write about it if everything was that easy?

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What Brands Look for When Considering Acquiring Software Companies

FastSpring

As the Director of Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships at WP Engine , Carl has worked on many acquisitions and partnerships, including brands like Flywheel, Perfect Dashboard, Block Lab, and recently, Delicious Brains. “This is everyday for me, so I love talking about it,” says Carl Hargreaves about mergers and acquisitions.