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5 Best Paddle Alternatives in 2024

FastSpring

The company handles transactions for sellers of digital products, providing the infrastructure for global online payments while taking responsibility for tax collection and remittance, fraud prevention, and other aspects of the checkout process. It’s a capable solution, but by no means is Paddle a universal, one-size-fits-all option.

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

Stax

Then when you layer in the need for payment processing, the complexity of managing your finances escalates significantly. Thankfully, your small business can find alternatives to renting or buying equipment at full price. The leasing agreement is often between the merchant service provider.

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ISVs vs SaaS: What’s the Difference?

Stax

Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Software-as-a-Service Providers (SaaS) operate within the same market, thus creating a push-and-pull revenue dynamic. TL;DR ISVs develop and distribute software products independently and often collaborate with hardware manufacturers and platform providers. Learn More What are ISVs?

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The New Discipline Web3 Software Companies Must Develop

Tom Tunguz

Perhaps you’ll sell infrastructure to help other startups scale or software to manage internal operations. When a startup sells software to users outside their home country and receives payment in foreign currencies, they must manage foreign-exchange risk. By hodling, the business implicitly operates a hedge fund.

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Unlocking Growth in the Internet Economy: a Perspective from Stripe Head of Invoicing, Suzanne Xie (Video)

SaaStr

As your business grows in complexity, these drags on your infrastructure can impact your product development. You can deploy subscriptions as a service, billing as a service, fraud prevention as a service. You get a service, you get a service, you get a service—everything is a service now.”.

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In-House or Outsourced: Which Ecommerce Solution is Best for Your Business?

FastSpring

There comes a point in your company’s lifecycle when you must decide between outsourcing your ecommerce operations or continuing to keep everything in-house. Complete customization — One of the perks of moving your ecommerce operations in-house is that the solution is geared specifically to meet your business needs.

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Transforming B2B enterprise SaaS billing with SubscriptionFlow

Subscription Flow

Subscription pricing with the help of automated billing software has transformed many industries and provided businesses with a dynamic way to generate revenue, especially in the SaaS space. Moreover, developing a profitable pricing strategy requires consistent model testing and compliance with international tax laws.