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. Navigating market dynamics in 2025 and beyond Matt emphasized the cyclical nature of the payments industry, likening it to a pendulum.

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SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2021

Monetizing ecommerce via subscriptions, but not payment processing. Billion in GMV processed, up a stunning 91% from 2019. But in contrast to Wix and Shopify, it doesn’t keep much of the revenue from merchant services itself. Rather, it charges for software subscriptions to take payments on its websites.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Well, fast forward to today and it’s truly an SMB powerhouse. How is SMB SaaS doing today? Transaction Fees Growing Far Faster (38%) Than Software / SaaS License (21%). Both Bill and Shopifty have morphed over the years from almost pure SaaS companies to payments platforms built on top of a SaaS core.

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SaaStr

APRIL 29, 2021

The Covid Boost for SaaS. It would be so helpful to know, as the #1 leader in SMB eCommerce, and also one of the very top leaders in SaaS SMB overall. When you add in payments, i.e. merchant services, NRR for 2018+ is about 110%, based on the below new chart. Its SMBs are growing even faster.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

I was lucky to catch up recently with one of my very favorite SaaS founders, René Lacerte, CEO Bill.com. Bill.com has become an SMB powerhouse, with 120,000+ customers and a stunning $25B+ market cap. Bill.com had to develop a network that today has millions on vendors processing bills and payments on it. But it paid off.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 29, 2022

SMB SaaS has a lot going for it: – Millions of them – Short sales cycles – Easier compete. But, it's often hard to get to $100m ARR selling just to SMBs. sell just to SMBs pic.twitter.com/Po1I2aMaBK. So many VCs and others have gotten more and more excited about SMB SaaS. Much higher.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

So when we first started writing about Bill.com at its IPO , it was a sleep SMB accounting product. And its payments network to roll out. But yes, it’s the most incredible SMB growth story in SaaS we’ve ever seen. Don’t let anyone tell you it can’t be done with SMBs. #2. 131% NRR.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

So one of SaaStr Fund’s latest investments is Mangomint, a vertical SaaS platform for spas and salons. There are multiple vendors in different segments, including Mindbody which IPO’d a SaaS generation ago and then taken private in a $2B Vista acquisition. And why is Vertical SaaS thriving today? Pretty cool!

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SaaStr

AUGUST 24, 2022

Toast isn’t accelerating the way some SaaS leaders are, but still, 59% growth at $800m in ARR is something a few years back we would never have thought possible. #2. SMB sales (most of Toast) is very tough to do without a highly efficient and effective sales force. Overall, Toast isn’t quite a SaaS company.

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SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

The Latin American SaaS landscape is hustling and bustling, having seen more IPOs in the last 6 months than the previous 20 years combined. We will gather 300 leading SaaS founders, executives and investors for three days packed with opportunities and rich exchange of knowledge to push the whole ecosystem forward. Founded : 2013.

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SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2021

Bill.com is one of the quiet SaaS success stories. Now they’ve scaled to $200m+ ARR growing 38% selling just to 100,000+ SMBs, solving a hard problem (i.e., automating the back office and payments and billing for SMBs), and doing it with 120%+ NRR. 121% NRR from SMBs — up from 110% at IPO.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

So, despite SaaS multiple and the public markets being at near record highs, we’ve seen things start to … wobble a bit overall in tech: The WeWork IPO simply failed , and the Peloton and Direct Smile IPOs were broken. One of the greatest SaaS companies of all times, but still, it turned out to be mortal. Slack is mortal.

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SaaStr

MARCH 25, 2021

It’s done it by going more upmarket, and better monetizing partners and services. A reminder that adding a bit of fintech to your SaaS can be a huge accelerant. A reminder that adding a bit of fintech to your SaaS can be a huge accelerant. Services and partners are also a big part of their growth story.

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SaaStr

APRIL 1, 2023

Throw in the rise of social media and mobile web payment systems like Stripe and Braintree, and something revolutionary was at our doorstep. 2020 wasn’t the only reason small business owners adopted software solutions, but it sure sped up the process. Efficient Go To Market There are a lot of ways to GTM as an SMB.

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SaaStr

MAY 10, 2021

Let’s take a look at a few Cloud leaders that show this quantitatively: #1 Shopify’s NRR has grown from 100% to 110% as its merchant services (payments) has exploded. Pretty good for SMB SaaS. In fact, now it’s more than 2x the size of its SaaS software alone. More on that here.

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Merchant Services SaaS Payments SMB Payment Solutions 251

Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

They span single digit ARR businesses to publicly traded SaaS companies. These businesses sell at every price point and sell to every operational buyer. We processed the data with 1000+ lines of R code to parse the insights from the data and test for statistical significance. In the SMB, month to month is more common.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 17, 2021

Coupa is one of our favorite enterprise SaaS leaders at SaaStr, and one more folks should know about. It dominates the enterprise segment of a huge space — Spend Management — and completely eclipsed its predecessor, SAP/Ariba, which was an early SaaS leader. This is a bigger task than SMB, but a huge market.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 22, 2021

1M in ARR per employee could be a new efficiency record at IPO for SaaS. GRR of 86% and NRR of 119% are very impressive for SMBs … although they only count customers with 5+ seats. Their tiniest customers still have higher churn, as with almost every other SaaS company. An SMB sale, but less and less a single seat sale.

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SaaStr

JULY 11, 2023

In a special session of Workshop Wednesday, Gorgias Founder & CEO Romain Lapeyre and Gorgias VP of Sales & Partnerships Aasif Osmany share their learnings, advice, and hacks for optimizing your sales process. For example, Gorgias knew they were targeting not only eCommerce but also customer service. Sign up for free.

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SaaStr

JULY 20, 2022

It’s something we don’t see too often these days, as $200m+ ARR sort of became the new floor to IPO in SaaS. Today, it crosses dentistry, optometry, veterinary, physical therapy, specialty medical services, audiology, plumbing, electrical, HVAC and other home services. Many SMBs just prefer it. #4.

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SaaStr

MARCH 28, 2025

SMB customers. Regulatory compliance can be a moat, not just overhead Spending five years securing money transmitter licenses across 50 states created a significant barrier to entry that competitors can’t easily replicate. The compliance risk is significant,” Ren says. Founded in 2006, Bill.com has grown to: $1.4

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Stax

MARCH 17, 2025

The best ISVs go beyond simply providing merchant services. Talk to sales Why Enable PayPal for Your Merchants? Adding PayPal to your list of accepted payment methods opens up a range of benefits for you and your merchants alike. They also invest in their client’s success and help them thrive.

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SaaStr

MAY 26, 2019

SurveyMonkey is one of the Old School SaaS companies that has followed an interesting path. days, for years it was run by a tiny team and dominated the self-service side of surveys. self-service customers, at some point, you can potentially have the entire world as customers and mature out in SMB. With 670,000+ (!)

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FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

Small tweaks to your SaaS billing practices can make a huge impact on the customer experience. For example, Jon Torres — a digital marketing consultant specializing in SaaS commerce — noticed that, for some of his clients, refund requests spiked around renewal time. “It 7 growth hacks from the SaaS experts. Learn more here.

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SaaStr

APRIL 19, 2023

One leader in SMB commerce is Lightspeed Commerce, founded way back in 2005. And their mix of software, payments and hardware revenue drives up the total deal size — but puts a lot of pressure on margins. Software subscriptions are only growing 9%, vs. 41% for payments / transaction revenue. #2. Not EBIDTA positive yet.

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SaaStr

JULY 14, 2020

With SaaS sales, annual price or monthly price that’s billed annually? This removes friction from the sales process, leading to a higher and faster close rate. It may be the most successful SMB-focused app of our current generation. Bigger customers, though, find most monthly payments a huge accounting headache.

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Payrix

MAY 14, 2024

Before joining Worldpay for Platforms, he was CRO at Chargebee, a subscription revenue management platform that manages billing subscriptions and payments for companies throughout the world. During his tenure, Chargebee experienced high growth, scaling from processing about $3 billion in revenue to $13-14 billion.

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SaaStr

JUNE 27, 2019

This removes friction from the sales process, leading to a higher and faster close rate. It may be the most successful SMB-focused app of our current generation. Bigger customers though find most monthly payments a huge accounting headache. Let’s take a look at Zoom. Zoom does not play games. View original question on quora.

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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.

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Payrix

MARCH 12, 2024

Embedded Payments have become a popular initiative among vertical specific software companies looking to deliver a more seamless customer experience, introduce new revenue into the business, and stay competitive in today’s digital world. How do they think about attaching payments to those existing customers? But where to begin?

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Note: From global payment processing to global VAT and sales tax management, FastSpring is the easiest way to sell around the world. This includes internal data we pulled from 271 global SaaS and software sellers using FastSpring to process transactions last year. Stream both interviews below and see highlights from each.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

But that’s easier said than done, which is why we’ve published our new book Intercom on Sales : a deep dive into the many lessons we’ve learned about how selling works at scale, covering everything from hiring tactics to the needs of modern buyers to fundamental processes for forecasting and managing deals. We have a great sales force.

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SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Leveraging survey data from 66+ enterprise SaaS companies, Matt Garratt, Managing Partner of Salesforce Ventures shares the landscape of how businesses are shifting their sales & GTM strategies to react to today’s uncertain times. And I think adjusting really is the operative word here. Matt Garratt: Next slide. There we go.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2023

They learned from some of the biggest in SaaS — Aaron Levie and Jeff Lawson. Before Navan, there were different apps for managing expenses, events and meetings, payments, etc. The new app was extremely customer-focused and solved problems for people, like Doordash or Netflix might do, but within Enterprise and SMB.

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Payment Solutions Payments Travel Scale 276

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Nothing scares away new business like hard-to-reach customer service or disorganized sales calls. I make calls when I’m thinking about committing to a new product or service. Dialers decrease an agent’s down-time considerably and completely eliminate the manual grind process of making calls from their cognitive workload.

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OPEXEngine

MAY 18, 2021

We’ve talked to dozens of our SaaS customers, as well as investors to learn more about what is happening with these key metrics. SaaS metrics are viewed differently at different stages of growth and for different sales models, primarily whether a company is selling into an SMB or enterprise marketplace.

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Aaron Beashel

MARCH 9, 2018

I’ve been fortunate to work in a number of SaaS businesses in my career. In the case of a B2B SaaS company, your Go To Market model outlines the way in which you acquire customers. On the other hand, if your target market is the Fortune 500 then your market size is much smaller, and an inside sales process may make more sense.

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