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. 3 things you should know about integrated payments 1.

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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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SaaStr

MAY 25, 2024

Cloudinary VP of Developer Experience Sanjay Sarathy shares his journey to more than $100M and the lessons he learned along the way for building a PLG motion and an Enterprise sales motion. They didn’t initially envision being a large Enterprise sales organization. Let’s first start with how Cloudinary came to be. The takeaway?

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FastSpring

MAY 20, 2025

Supporting country-specific debit networks, mobile wallets, and bank transfer schemes gives buyers seamless and trusted payment options. But dont take our word for it; the results from a Baymard study speak for themselves: Businesses that enable regionally preferred payment methods see 21% higher growth rates than those that dont.

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Stax

JUNE 3, 2025

The term SaaS platform gets tossed around a lotbut what does it actually mean, and why does it matter for today’s software companies? Whether you’re building your first product or scaling an established solution, understanding the SaaS platform model is essential for long-term growth.

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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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Payrix

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The world of Embedded Payments saw remarkable developments in 2024, shaping strategies and innovations across the industry. In a compelling discussion on PayFAQ: The Embedded Payments podcast, Ian Hillis hosted payments veterans Ella Aguirre and Michael Veatch to reflect on the past year.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

And, when you do, do you even think about sale tax compliance? vary on how they handle sales tax and SaaS. It can be confusing to understand how and where you should charge sales tax. Let’s explore a few more ways in which sales tax compliance could impact your growing business. Here’s why you should. .

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Payrix

APRIL 17, 2025

What is a payment facilitator? A payment facilitator (or PayFac) is a software platforms all-in-one payment processing solution. Instead of your customers needing to create their own merchant account to process payments, you as the PayFac developer handle all the payments setup and complexity for them.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

In this week’s episode we’ve dug down into the podcast vaults to bring you some of the best insights shared by our guests about scaling sales. It’s no surprise that one of the key levers for growth as you go from startup to scale-up is your sales team. Hiring for sales with John Barrows.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 20, 2023

OpenAI’s Head of Sales, Aliisa Rosenthal, joined OpenAI a year and a half ago — before ChatGPT launched. After the launch of ChatGPT, they went from 30 leads a week to 10,000. The goal was to build safe AGI — AGI being autonomous systems that can perform work as well or better than humans. How did they get here?

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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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Stax

JUNE 11, 2025

Finance executive brings 35+ years of financial expertise to spearhead Stax Payments’ next chapter of strategic expansion, building on the company’s solid foundation and customer-first approach. ORLANDO – June 11, 2025 – Stax Payments , Inc. a leading payment technology provider, has appointed Kevin Wall as Chief Financial Officer.

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SaaStr

JULY 31, 2020

Last year, the company doubled its headcount, tripled revenue and landed on G2’s Top 100 Global Software list. . Keep in mind that Conversation Intelligence is the fastest-growing segment in sales technology, with much traction in the enterprise. No doubt, Chorus provides this at scale. Yet the growth is likely to accelerate.

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Payrix

APRIL 10, 2025

In todays competitive software market, forward-thinking trade and field service platforms are no longer asking if they should modernize their payment infrastructure, theyre working diligently to source the right payments partner to implement innovative solutions before their competitors beat them to the punch.

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Stax

MAY 13, 2025

We’ll also outline how to choose the best payment solutions for your unique business needs. Talk to sales What Are Credit Card Merchant Services? Credit card merchant services are the systems, tools, and agreements that allow businesses to accept payments via credit and debit cards.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 15, 2021

Agile principles can be a North Star for time-strapped support teams, helping them to keep the customer’s needs at the heart of their decisions so they can provide fast, personal support at scale. Agile teams start small and move fast, collecting and incorporating feedback to iterate their way to bigger and better solutions quickly.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2023

The company is trusted by more than 30,000 companies, over 5,000 investment funds, and half a million employees for cap table management, compensation management, liquidity venture capital solutions, and more. Our vision is a world where everyone has the power to innovate without limits. We are Worldline.

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SaaStr

APRIL 1, 2023

The SMBTech economy is very different from enterprise software, and there is massive opportunity to capture it. Throw in the rise of social media and mobile web payment systems like Stripe and Braintree, and something revolutionary was at our doorstep. There are over 400M small businesses worldwide.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

But, there are still many interesting things we can learn from Shopify, especially since it sells to so many SMBs, has been late to go upmarket, and combines a payments/fintech element with pure SaaS. Sales might want a tighter “gate” to convert to paid. Subscriptions can fuel payments and merchant revenue.

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Stax

MAY 5, 2025

In recent years, businesses have seen this massive shift from desktop to mobile devices which has forced them to develop apps with built-in integrated payment gateways. But when it comes to payments, mobile apps have to contend with a few unique challenges.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

It still loses money on the hardware, and the payments side is fairly low margin (28% or less). The software license is high margin, but it’s only 20% of the total revenue. It forced reps to close 13% more locations per sales rep. At least for now: Sales continues to grow at an epic 29% at $1.5 So what did it do?

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The business builds software to help other crypto companies grow. Perhaps you’ll sell infrastructure to help other startups scale or software to manage internal operations. The customer roster brims with the best names, each client increases their spend every year, and the sales team outpaces its quota handsomely.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

The contracts are identical twelve month contracts except for the payment terms. Contract B relaxes payment terms to monthly payment, 12 monthly installments for the next year. All of the sales and marketing dollars invested to obtain persuade the buyer to put digital ink to pdf have been recouped immediately.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

This episode is an excerpt from a session at SaaStr Scale. So for the audience, cloud giants are turbocharging startup sales, and the predominant reason for this is because they’re fundamentally changing IT budgets at the customers that we’re all selling to. Jabari Norton, VP WW Partner and Alliances, Sumo Logic.

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SaaStr

JULY 30, 2024

Product-led outperformers generate ten percentage points higher in ARR and 50% higher in valuations than sales-led growth outperformers. How do you scale PLG? How do you build a stellar developer experience and continue to scale when the user base skyrockets overnight? What does scaling Enterprise ARR mean?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 21, 2024

Grew Restaurant Locations 29% Year-Over-Year to 120,000 Perhaps the most important metric at scale. Shopify and Bill both also get the majority of their revenue from financial fees and transaction fees, not software subscriptions. Restaurants have $1 Trillion in sales and are about 4% of the U.S. Only 18% of Revenue From SaaS.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 22, 2021

It was just amazing that when iPhone launched, you could now take a picture of receipts and have them somewhat automatically “expensed” A jaw dropping, amazing use of the first generation on mobile apps. Sometimes, the self-serve / PLG engine stalls out at a certain scale. Fintech is the engine of growth at scale.

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SaaStr

APRIL 19, 2023

So one large category of software spend is on Point of Sale systems. But “POS” systems and software are everywhere, and are a lot more than just Toast and Square. And their mix of software, payments and hardware revenue drives up the total deal size — but puts a lot of pressure on margins.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

With a modern conversational support solution, you can combine proactive , self-serve , and human support capabilities, so your team can get ahead of known problems with targeted messages , automatically answer repetitive queries with bots , and quickly resolve complex issues with automation and a human touch.

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SaaStr

MAY 12, 2022

CircleCI is a cloud-based continuous delivery platform that helps software delivery teams build, test, and ship changes to their applications. Jim Rose, CEO of CircleCI, leverages his experience marketing to software developers to discuss the merits of moving from a subscription-based to a usage-based business model.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 29, 2022

SMB SaaS has a lot going for it: – Millions of them – Short sales cycles – Easier compete. ACVs are so much lower that there’s a lot of pressure on sales productivity. So I was wondering, how much of the market cap of the leading SaaS companies is all or primarily SMB focused? I took a rough stab at it.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Bill.com had to develop a network that today has millions on vendors processing bills and payments on it. The payments / fintech side of Bill took a decade to come together. It was much more than adding an API, especially at scale. Bill.com has a direct sales force, even at $2k ACV. Word-of-mouth scales forever.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Want more leads, pipeline, influence, and awareness in 2024? Leading Public Cloud Company: “We got 110 qualified opportunities and converted 40 to sign-up for our offer. ” Public Fintech #2: “Our sales team walked away with over 100 qualified leads. .” Our prospects were there.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2024

Instructure is one of the leading learning management systems for education with its Canvas product. It was founded in 2008 but took a while to get going, hitting $1m in revenue in 2011 selling to Utah schools — and then scaled from there. big balloon payment to pay it all off comes in 2028. For better or worse. #9.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

What makes a company choose one SaaS payment processing provider over another? In my conversations with software developers and technical founders over the years, I’ve heard how complicated these tech stack choices are to make. And one of the cornerstones of any solution’s security measures should be PCI DSS compliance.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 27, 2022

That’s why we give boards and leadership teams an elegant solution that simplifies governance. With customers in higher education, nonprofit, healthcare systems, government, and corporate enterprise business, OnBoard is the leading board management provider. Qwilr is the tool of choice for scaling B2B sales teams.

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