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Payment facilitation and risk management: What do vertical software companies need to know?

Payrix

Before we dive into the risks associated with payments, let’s review why embedding payments is good for SaaS businesses and the three payment processing solutions available to software companies today. What are the benefits of adding payments to vertical software? What is a PayFac® developer?

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Payment Facilitator vs Payment Gateway: Key Differences and Similarities

Stax

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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How to Streamline Your SaaS Clients’ Merchant Underwriting Process—and Improve Adoption Rates

Stax

Offering payment processing services is a move that makes sense for a lot of SaaS companies, particularly if your software helps your customers run their business. Adding payments to your suite of features and offerings enables you to provide more value to your users. What Is Merchant Underwriting?

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Thanks to Capchase, Intellum, Pilot, SafeBase, and Tilled for Sponsoring SaaStr Annual 2022!

SaaStr

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 101: Roadmap for Monetizing Payments

Embedded solutions have taken the software industry by storm and disrupted the traditional distribution network for financial services, like payment processing. The payment facilitation (payfac) model and partnership offerings create a near- and long-term roadmap for SaaS growth and transformation.

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7 Must-Haves in a Payment Facilitation Partner

Agile Payments

As the idea of Payment Facilitation gains traction, more and more SaaS companies are exploring becoming a PayFac. Conceptually, it is an attractive feature to introduce: fast, easy, onboarding and new means of revenue generation. In fact, independent software vendors and SaaS companies are poised to generate $4.4

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Payment Facilitation: What Can Possibly Go Wrong?

Agile Payments

For the SaaS provider, potential advantages in becoming a Payment Facilitator (aka Payment Aggregation ) are compelling: payment facilitation drives ease of client onboarding and unlocks a new stream of revenue generation.