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What is a Payment Management System?

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Adding to the already tough job of managing a small or medium business is the complex task of understanding how payment processing works, including managing the fees, equipment, accounts payable and more. Here’s where a Payment Management System (PMS) can swoop in as your financial hero to understand your business better.

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Innovative Strategies: How These SaaS Turned Payments into Profit Centers

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SaaS companies are continually seeking innovative strategies to not just maintain but amplify their growth trajectory and increase revenue. One pivotal yet often overlooked area is payments. We’ll delve into how SaaS companies are leveraging Usio Integrated Payment Solutions to propel their growth and increase revenue.

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Benefits of Integrated Payments with Usio

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Integrated payments are gaining popularity among businesses as they enable seamless transactions and streamlined processes. A 2022 study by the National Retail Federation revealed that 63% of customers prefer integrated payments like Apple Pay and Google Pay. Businesses can explore solutions like Usio for integrated payments.

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What are omnichannel payments? (plus the benefits of offering a unified payment experience)

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Payment transaction types and touchpoints are becoming more accessible and diverse. Online and offline payments, credit cards, digital wallets, and ACH — the more commerce intersects with our daily lives, the higher the expectations for simple and intuitive payments. They need omnichannel payments. No problem.

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6 Reasons Why Your Integrated Payments Strategy Could Fail

If you're in the software industry grappling with integrating payments into your business model, understanding where others have stumbled can be a game-changer for your revenue goals. It's crucial to understand the nuances of operational efficiencies and the importance of a user-friendly payment experience.

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Integrated Payments vs. Payfac-as-a-Service: What Developers Need to Know

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Two prominent solutions that have emerged in recent years are integrated payments and Payfac-as-a-Service. While both aim to simplify payment processes, understanding the nuances between the two is crucial for businesses to make informed decisions about which solution best suits their needs.

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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?

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The Path to Payment Control: How SaaS Companies Can Maximize Enterprise Value

For software company executives, maximizing revenue, profitability, and enterprise value is of utmost importance. A key factor in achieving these goals is having a solid integrated payment strategy in place — one that allows for control, ownership, and leverage over customer relationships and payment service contracts.

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More Freedom. Because It's Hard to Control Payments When Your Payments Provider is Controlling You.

As software companies become a larger part of the payments world, they will have to determine how much of a role they want to play and how far up the payments revenue food chain they want to go.

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How Do SaaS Companies Fit Into the Payments Revenue Food Chain?

This guide explains how that fee is divvied up and how SaaS companies are becoming a more important player (gaining a larger share) by embedding payments into their solution. Ever wondered who gets a share of that 3% credit card transaction fee?

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Get More Help With Merchant Onboarding and Get Payments Going Your Way

As software companies become a larger part of the payments world, you will have to determine how much of a role you want to play and how far up the payments revenue food chain you want to go.

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Take Payments Without Losing The Profits

If you are a vertically focused software company and hate giving up a big piece of your revenue pie to third parties, explore becoming a payment facilitator. Transform your business by increasing your revenue share, taking control of your merchant’s experience, and owning your risk management decisions.

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The SaaS Payments Journey: Important Steps to Consider

For many SaaS companies, becoming a Payfac is an opportunity to benefit from a new revenue stream and gain more control over the customer experience. But because payments are outside the typical software company’s core offerings and expertise, bringing them in-house can seem daunting. What does it really take to become a Payfac?

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"I Love Filling Out 12-Page Applications and Waiting Weeks For a Response,” Said No Merchant Ever

For the Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) providing business solutions to their merchants, the legacy payments ecosystem does not operate in their favor. Learn how becoming a payment facilitator can improve a merchant’s experience and your revenue.

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3 Ways Innovators Can Capitalize on Embedded Payments

Software companies are looking, feeling, and acting more like merchant services providers. They risk losing a source of stable, low-cost deposits and non-interest revenue market share, but don’t be fooled. It’s everywhere. This can be sobering for financial institutions – for good reason. FIs still have crucial roles to play.