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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Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods 133

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.

Merchant Services 158

Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Methods Outsourcing Services 158

Stax

MAY 6, 2025

As your business grows, the tools powering it need to evolve tooand that includes your payment solution. While many platforms are built for getting started, not all are designed to support scale. The right system simplifies growth. Talk to sales What Does It Mean for a Payment Solution to Be Scalable?

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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services Payments 88

SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2025

The shift from “innovation budget” to “operational budget” means AI tools must compete directly with established software investments—and many aren’t winning those comparisons yet. Many organizations are stuck in “pilot purgatory”—running successful experiments but unable to scale them.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2025

ServiceTitan, the operating system for the trades, continues to scale impressively, with $772M in FY25 revenue, $800m+ ARR and a clear path to $1B ARR. Net Dollar Retention >110% and GDR of >95%: The Power of Being a True Operating System ServiceTitans NRR consistently exceeds 110%, even with SMB-heavy customers.

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Payments Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 144

Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Many mid-market software companies price with the goal of revenue maximization, negotiating for the highest possible price in each sale. Penetration pricing leads to land-and-expand sales tactics. There are exceptions: Oracle’s database, Tanium’s security product, Workday’s human capital management software.

SaaS Payments 283

SaaS Payments Pricing Strategy Scale 283

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?

Payments 88

Payments Payment Services Merchant Services SaaS Payments 88

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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Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Facilitation 100

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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Scale Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Development 312

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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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.

Payments 88

Payments Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions 88

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.

Merchant Services 88

Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Methods SaaS Payments 88

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.

Payments 100

Payments Payment Services Outsourcing Services Payment Solutions 100

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.

Payment Services 147

Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions 147

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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Payment Solutions Outsourced Development Software Review Software 263

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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Payment Services compliance SaaS Payments Scale 335

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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Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Scale 363

Stax

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Small businesses in America and worldwide have to choose from a wide variety of accounting software solutions, and this range of choices can be overwhelming. Research shows that 64% of small businesses use accounting software and the market for accounting software solutions is projected to be worth $4.3billion by 2023.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments Payment Services 88

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.

Payment Solutions 284

Payment Solutions Point of Sale Payments SaaS Payments 284

Neil Patel

AUGUST 27, 2020

Some years ago, POS systems were a luxury reserved for only big enterprise businesses. . But, with too many options came a new challenge: Choosing the best POS system that’s right for your business is now an uphill battle. Our team has done the heavy lifting of reviewing dozens of POS systems in the market. Ease of Use.

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Point of Sale Payment Solutions Payment Methods Systems Review 145

SaaStr

OCTOBER 20, 2023

OpenAI’s Head of Sales, Aliisa Rosenthal, joined OpenAI a year and a half ago — before ChatGPT launched. The goal was to build safe AGI — AGI being autonomous systems that can perform work as well or better than humans. A friend joined Jasper as president and asked her to run the sales team. They’re on a rocket ship.

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ChatGPT Scale AI Search Sales Hiring 292

Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

As a SaaS business owner, you are always looking for ways to improve your software and boost your bottom line. When adding payment features for software users, the importance of including customer support for payment processing is no different.

Outsourcing Services 88

Outsourcing Services Payments Payment Services Merchant Services 88

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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Scale SMB Merchant Services Payment Methods 245

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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Sales Hiring Scale Payments Payment Solutions 352

SaaStr

DECEMBER 28, 2023

At a recent Workshop Wednesday , SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin answered the community’s most pressing questions about SaaS — from investor appetites and IPOs in 2024 to managing and hiring a Head of Sales as a solo founder to AI and the future of customer success. People build more products in sales, which spurs more innovation.

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Sales Hiring Payment Solutions AI SaaS Payments 297

SaaStr

AUGUST 3, 2022

Payments still materially accelerating overall growth to 16%, and predicting revenue growth from payments and merchant solutions to more than double that of subscriptions and SaaS. Gross Margins declining toward 50% as payments, merchant services and more outpace the growth of SaaS subcriptions. Or quite get right.

Payment Methods 283

Payment Methods Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 283

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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Scale Payment Solutions Payments Sales 306

Stax

MARCH 6, 2025

The desire for frictionless payments skyrocketed contactless transactions to 8.1 The system generates a one-time encrypted code for each transaction, preventing fraudsters from stealing payment data. This is why 90% of shoppers still prefer contactless payments post-pandemic. billion during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Payment Methods 88

Payment Methods Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions 88

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.

Merchant Services 240

Merchant Services Payment Solutions Onboarding Payments 240

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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SaaS Payments Payments Payment Services Scale 63

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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Scale Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 301

Tom Tunguz

MARCH 28, 2021

UIPath offers software to build robots, programs that automate repetitive work. Robots read pdfs that customers provide and input that data into other computer systems. The UIPath suite includes the software to write, execute, monitor, and maintain these robots. Some examples include streamlining customer onboarding.

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Payment Services Metrics Payment Solutions Payments 359

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.

Scale 235

Scale Payment Methods Payment Services Scaling 235

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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Scale Artificial Intelligence Payments Payment Services 359

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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Scale Payments Payment Solutions Artificial Intelligence 245

FastSpring

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

These events are more than just sales — they are massive ecommerce festivals that drive consumer behavior, presenting significant opportunities for even SaaS, software, mobile game, and other digital product companies to boost revenue. Among these, Singles’ Day on November 11 stands out as the biggest.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Payments Scale 171

SaaStr

AUGUST 24, 2022

Of course, their margins are lower than a pure software play (more on that below). Driving up sales rep efficiency is key to driving up margins. SMB sales (most of Toast) is very tough to do without a highly efficient and effective sales force. As the brand scales, they get more of a boost from inbound. #5.

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SaaS Payments Scale SMB Payment Solutions 326