SaaStr

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

But what has changed in the last five years is that you have all now embedded financial services (Stripe, etc.) Consumers now also expect to talk to businesses through digital means. Now, there’s payroll processing, payments online or in person, recurring billing, and so on — effectively expanding the market and TAM.

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Payrix

JANUARY 28, 2025

In this episode of PayFAQ: The Embedded Payments Podcast, host Ian Hillis welcomes Matt Downs, President of Worldpay for Platforms, to discuss software-led payments predictions for 2025 and beyond. This cycle promises significant advancements for end-users and software platforms alike.

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USIO

APRIL 4, 2025

Healthcare is evolving quicklyand payment expectations are evolving with it. With Usio HIPAA-compliant, PCI Level 1 certified fintech payment solutions, youre not just embedding payment functionalityyoure enhancing the entire healthcare payment ecosystem. Convenience drives satisfactionand retention. Its mandatory.

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Stax

MAY 23, 2025

If youre a software provider looking to boost revenue, streamline operations, and deliver more value to your users, ISV integrated payments can be a game-changer. Embedding payments directly into your platform can unlock tremendous benefits both for you and your users. The best part?

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USIO

MAY 23, 2025

But here’s the good news: digital disbursements offer a faster, smarter, and far more secure way to manage outbound payments. Lets break down how secure digital disbursements can protect your businessand streamline your operations in the process. Digital Disbursements Reduce Fraud and Payment Errors 1. They get stolen.

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Selling internationally can get complicated very quickly if you’re trying to manage cross border payments yourself. And typical payment service providers won’t help you with most of those concerns. Read on to learn: Why cross border payments are key to taking your business global.

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FastSpring

APRIL 29, 2025

When payment partners fail to adapt to player demand and scale quickly, players leave your web shop empty handed, creating dissatisfaction that could have been prevented. We empower you to offload the complexity of global payments, sales tax and VAT compliance, player payments support, and more.

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USIO

MAY 16, 2025

The way businesses pay vendors, employees, gig workers, and customers is changing fast. If your business still leans on traditional payout methods like paper checks or manual ACH, it’s time to consider what you might be missing. Users can swipe, tap, or shop online with ease. So, Which Is Best for Your Business?

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Stax

MAY 13, 2025

In this blog, we’ll explore how to approach credit card processing like an opportunity instead of just another expense. We’ll also outline how to choose the best payment solutions for your unique business needs. Together, these tools form the foundation of your ability to process payments reliably and securely.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 26, 2025

Here’s what it really took for Attentive to go from $0 to $500M ARR in just 7 years, sending over 32B text messages and generating $20B+ in revenue for their 8,000+ customers. Because while the payment problem was solved, the marketing side of mobile commerce remained broken. Black Friday playbook) 3.

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Payrix

JANUARY 10, 2025

Ian Hillis welcomes David Blair, Senior Director of Product Management at Worldpay for Platforms, on PayFAQ: The Embedded Payments podcast to explore the critical roles of merchant underwriting and onboarding for software providers.

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SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2021

Perhaps the most interesting thing is just how similar both these website-builder-plus-ecommerce companies are. It’s growing at the same rate (~30%), booming from ecommerce (+78% for Squarespace, +60% for Wix). Over $500,000 revenue per employee. Monetizing ecommerce via subscriptions, but not payment processing.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

They prioritize revenue growth, market share and profit maximization differently. Maximization (Revenue Growth) - maximize revenue growth in the short term. Many mid-market software companies price with the goal of revenue maximization, negotiating for the highest possible price in each sale.

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Payrix

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Ensuring secure, seamless payment processing is more essential – and complex – than ever today. At Payrix from Worldpay, we have an internal team of risk management experts dedicated to helping software companies, like yours, manage payment processing, fraud prevention, and compliance. Here’s what they want to know.

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USIO

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Efficient and reliable payment systems play a crucial role in maintaining vendor relationships, the backbone of every successful business. Digital disbursements have emerged as a powerful tool, not only streamlining payment processes but also fostering trust and collaboration between companies and their vendors.

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

As you work to expand your SaaS, software, mobile games, or other digital product business worldwide, having the right payment methods available to global customers is key to ensuring they all feel comfortable purchasing. How FastSpring is supporting digital product and gaming companies with these methods.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

This week, we’re looking at the tools and infrastructure needed to facilitate the move Online. For today’s consumers, the line between ecommerce and commerce has been blurred almost to invisibility. For today’s consumers, the line between ecommerce and commerce has been blurred almost to invisibility.

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SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2019

By: Rob Nathan, EVP, Integrated Solutions at CardConnect. With thousands of new startups emerging everyday and the average turnover rate for business applications trending at 39% annually, the SaaS industry couldn’t be more competitive. Making payments accessible overseas. Securing payments. A 2017 U.S. purchases made.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 3, 2022

Folks that wanted to go online, stayed online. But folks that didn’t really want to sell online, sort of stopped when they didn’t have to anymore. Shopify returned to earth, and is now growing just at the overall rate of ecommerce. #2. From CEO Tobi Lutke: “It’s now clear that bet didn’t pay off.

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USIO

MAY 13, 2024

With a large scale company needing checks to be processed and done, the expense of materials is very high. A business organization needs envelopes, stamps, check paper, printer, and ink for printing the checks. Digital disbursements offer several benefits over traditional payment methods, such as checks or cash.

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Stax

JANUARY 28, 2025

Completing online payments via manual card entry can be time-consuming and off-putting for customers. Research shows that 55% of customers will abandon their cart if they have to re-enter checkout information like credit card details, negatively affecting your business conversion rate. Learn More What is Click to Pay?

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Payrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

What are integrated payments? Integrated payments are payment processing capabilities that are incorporated into a software companys platform to provide their user base with the ability to accept and manage payments for their businesses. Learn more about Embedded Finance.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Many companies that expand globally reach a point where they can’t properly support their international customers with their current payment platform. An international payment gateway can help with some of these issues, but it’s only one piece of the puzzle. What is an international payment gateway? Table of Contents.

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Note: Apple announced that it would be reducing the App Store fee from 30% to 15% for most developers starting on January 1st, 2021. For app entrepreneurs and ecommerce store owners, the battle to be noticed in the marketplace is ongoing. Epic Games wants to take control of their online sales with its own marketplace.

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Stax

OCTOBER 13, 2024

There are many good products in the market that provide you with all of the features you need, but we will only focus on Quicken software and Intuit’s QuickBooks Online. We will compare both software solutions by outlining their key features so that you can decide which is best for your small business. Quicken Inc.

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USIO

AUGUST 19, 2024

Payment integration —sounds like something straight out of a sci-fi movie, doesn’t it? But before you start imagining robots processing your transactions, let’s break it down. Payment integration is simply the process of connecting your payment systems to work seamlessly with other parts of your business.

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SaaStr

APRIL 29, 2021

Shopify’s first quarter revenue: Q1 2021: $989 million Q1 2020: $470 million Q1 2019: $321 million Q1 2018: $214 million Q1 2017: $127 million Q1 2016: $73 million Q1 2015: $37 million Q1 2014: $19 million Q1 2013: $9 million. Cloud and ecommerce may end soon, but it hasn’t ended yet. 110% growth at $4B in revenues.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 26, 2023

Check is a payroll-as-a-service API that lets you embed payroll directly in your vertical SaaS, HR, or time-tracking platform. Cumul.io ‘s powerful embedded analytics platform lets you build interactive dashboards with simple drag & drop, and integrate them in your own application in just a few lines of code.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

What makes a company choose one SaaS payment processing provider over another? For example, at FastSpring, we have a lot of data about online shopping carts. But we wanted to hear directly from technical founders and software developers about what you look for in a SaaS payment processing service. Integrations?

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SaaStr

MARCH 25, 2021

BigCommerce is an interesting eCommerce case study on many levels. It’s done it by going more upmarket, and better monetizing partners and services. Driving existing customer revenue up more than new logos. Its new $2k+ customer count only grew 10% year-over-year, but its revenue from them grew 31%.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Wherever you are in your revenue journey, adopting certain growth strategies can help you keep growing fast. Joined by Katie Wickham, Payrix’s Director of Marketing, Butler shares essential tips on accelerating your business to $100 million ARR and beyond. . Brex then scaled its payments business quickly.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Remember when it seemed like websites were just a commodity? They want a slick site that does more, from eCommerce to payments to marketing and more. That’s the power of recurring revenue. eCommerce and Business Tools Are Key Drivers to Accelerating Growth. But much lower in Payments.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 18, 2020

While we’ve been shopping for items like clothes or shoes online for years, another trend is now emerging—business-to-business (B2B) ecommerce. It’s easy to think of online sales as a marketplace where we buy items for ourselves, but more and more B2B and SaaS sales are now happening online.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 26, 2022

Since the pandemic, consumer habits have really changed – shoppers have migrated online en masse, their expectations are higher than ever, and brand loyalty is harder to maintain. For example, you can create messaging campaigns based on customers’ answers, personalize support content, and more.

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USIO

JUNE 3, 2024

In the dynamic world of Software as a Service (SaaS), staying ahead of the curve means continuously evolving and integrating new functionalities that enhance user experience and streamline business operations. One such critical functionality is integrated payments.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 26, 2022

It’s barely trading at 3x revenue. That’s Freemium at scale. Payments and e-commerce drag blended gross margins down to 60%. Wix along with Squarespace and also WordPress / Automatic have pushed deeply into e-commerce and as part of that, payments. It makes sense, as ecomm adds a ton of value to a standard website.

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Blulogix

MAY 16, 2025

By BluLogix Team Why IoT Monetization FailsAnd How to Fix It Before It Costs You Millions Lets be honest. Its a systemic monetization failure that eats into margins, frustrates customers, and scales into a monster as your device count grows. Your billing process lives in Excel. Your billing process lives in Excel.

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