Payrix

JANUARY 30, 2024

Pumped up profits, with less heavy lifting How Payrix gave a growing, health and fitness industry software strength to compete. That simple idea eventually led to fitDEGREE, Nick’s growing software startup for class-based fitness studios that want a more community-driven way to manage their local business.

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Stax

APRIL 18, 2024

Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Software-as-a-Service Providers (SaaS) operate within the same market, thus creating a push-and-pull revenue dynamic. TL;DR ISVs develop and distribute software products independently and often collaborate with hardware manufacturers and platform providers. Learn More What are ISVs?

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Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods 88

SaaStr

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Dear SaaStr: My Startup Doesn’t Have a Free Trial or Freemium Option. We require payment right away. Ask yourself: Can someone deploy your app in minutes? easy image from here ) The post My Startup Doesn’t Have a Free Trial or Freemium Option. Should we change this? Not necessarily a freemium version, though.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 6, 2023

If you’re a seed-stage startup, Michael shares the best ways for you to present your company to startup investors. They collect the payment online and take a 15% fee for every booking. Airbnb handles the payments and gets you a guest, and now your rent is covered for the next couple of months. That’s it.

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Payment Methods Startup Payment Solutions Sales Hiring 204

FastSpring

JANUARY 10, 2023

There are tons of monthly recurring billing software solutions available, so it can seem difficult to determine which one is right for your business. Checkout (including payment processing and gathering sales tax, GST, and VAT). Handling failed payments and customer notifications. Table of Contents.

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Payment Solutions Payment Features Payment Methods Payment Services 109

SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2024

They weren’t a 3H startup. SaaS + hardware, SaaS + payments, etc. But they often have much lower gross margins than pure software. Yes, HubSpot didn’t get to 100% NRR until well past $30m ARR. But we aren’t all HubSpot. And even there — they were still very disciplined in the burn. can be great.

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Churn Startup SaaS Payments Venture Capital 208

Subscription Flow

APRIL 23, 2024

A robust recurring billing software can make all the difference for your subscription business but win 2024 we are taking no gambles. Invest in the right billing and subscription-management software to automate your workflows after carefully assessing three of the best options in the market.

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Payment Solutions Payments Payment Services SaaS Payments 66

FastSpring

APRIL 17, 2024

Through interactive roundtable discussions and refreshment breaks, you’ll be able to share ideas, brainstorm solutions to your most pressing challenges, and form meaningful connections. We handle every payment need from subscription management to tax collection, remittance and more so your business can go farther, faster.

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Payment Services Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 133

FastSpring

AUGUST 2, 2023

When TestDome was created, CEO and co-founder Mario Zivic knew the pre-employment testing software company wouldn’t be able to rely on domestic sales to succeed. “As As a startup with only two or three people, it would be absolutely impossible to go international without this kind of platform.” Here’s why. Now, Stripe offers it.

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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Merchant Services AI Search 136

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. Most US web2 software companies might progress through their lifespans without ever uttering the words treasury management in a board meeting.

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Payment Solutions Outsourced Development Software Review Software 241

Stax

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) businesses need to constantly evolve their offerings to stay fresh and relevant. They must engineer a well-rounded solution that makes handling subscriptions a breeze (and yes, it is as hard as it sounds). How do you add payment processing capabilities to your software?

Payments 88

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services Merchant Services 88

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

In the early days of running a software company, collecting payments was pretty straightforward. A customer buys a license for your software, and they get the product (either through a download, a CD or even more old school—floppy disks). Enter the world of SaaS billing systems. how you receive the payment).

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Payment Solutions Merchant Services Systems Review SaaS Payments 105

SaaStr

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Every day, billions of people around the world connect with their favorite brands to shop online, play the latest video games, log into mobile banking apps, learn remotely, share videos with friends, and so much more. They can complete tasks, view status, send updates, make notes, and more —through the portal, email, or mobile app.

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Merchant Services Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments 219

FastSpring

DECEMBER 9, 2022

SaaS billing software automates one or more of the various aspects of the recurring billing process — payment processing, fulfillment, dunning, and more. You’ll still need a separate solution for payment processing, taxes, chargebacks, and more. 3 Subscription Management Software. 3 Payment Processors.

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Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Methods SaaS Payments 119

How To Buy Saas

MARCH 21, 2024

But what exactly are these services, and should your startup business be using them? In this blog post, we’ll try to answer these questions and explain which solutions may be helpful to your business. One way to think of Software as a Service (SaaS) is as renting software instead of owning it. What Is SaaS?

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions Payment Methods 40

Blulogix

JANUARY 4, 2024

Key Considerations When Evaluating Subscription Billing Solutions By BluLogix Team Welcome back to our series on selecting the right subscription billing platform for your business. Now, let’s delve into the key considerations you should keep in mind when evaluating subscription billing solutions. Subscription Billing 1.

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Payment Solutions Payment Services Payment Features Payments 52

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. SAP for Startups? Our vision is a world where everyone has the power to innovate without limits. It’s an unexpected story!

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Putting narrative order on the past decade, a 10-year-period that has somehow remained stubbornly nameless, is quite the challenge, but it’s impossible to make sense of the 2010s without understanding the role of software. To give some perspective, there were about 300 million smartphones sold in 2010.

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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Software SaaS Payments 259

Baremetrics

MARCH 31, 2021

SaaS and subscription companies like yours need to collect and manage recurring payments at scale. Regular payment gateways like SagePay and WorldPay won't cut it. All the data your startup needs Collecting payments is just one step of effective subscription management. It's the No.1 Try Baremetrics free. Square Fees: 3.5

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Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Features 98

Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

While running my financial modeling software business Flightpath (Now Forecast+) , we often get the question “Which SaaS billing platform should we use” from our customers. I recommend that a startup should consider three questions when choosing a SaaS billing platform: What is the specific billing logic the platform should provide?

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Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Software Review 52

Baremetrics

APRIL 1, 2021

When choosing a payments processor, businesses have a lot of goals in mind. So, when it comes to comparing platforms, major players like Stripe and Shopify Payments are likely to top your list. Both of these platforms are excellent, particularly for budding startups, but are they the right fit if you want to scale up fast?

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Payment Methods Payment Services Merchant Services SaaS Payments 98

USIO

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In the fast-paced world of digital transactions, businesses are constantly seeking innovative solutions to enhance efficiency and control over their financial operations. Akimbo Card’s Digital Disbursements revolutionizes payroll management by providing a seamless and automated system.

Payment Services 130

Payment Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payment Facilitation 130

Baremetrics

MARCH 30, 2021

Your business requires a fast and reliable tool for sending and receiving payments from clients. But with so many payment processing tools on the market, which one should you choose? Here's a list of six payment processing platforms for 2021. 1 Different B2B Payment Processing Tools 1. Payment-tracking.

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Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payments 80

FastSpring

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Are you a startup founder, employee or enthusiast? If so, join FastSpring at the Austin Startup Week November 6-10th! Started in 2011, Austin Startup Week is a celebration and showcase of everything entrepreneurial in Austin. Don’t miss out on the biggest party in Austin since 2011- Startup Crawl!

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Merchant Services Startup Payment Methods Payment Services 88

FastSpring

APRIL 18, 2024

For many SaaS and software companies, international sales are a key part of their growth trajectories. These include how to account for local pricing and preferred local payment methods, varied buyer behaviors, how to display checkouts with local languages, and much more — all of which can be different for every country you want to sell into.

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Payment Methods Payments SaaS Payments Merchant Services 78

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The problem with selling your startup is the long exit time. Who wants to wait almost a decade to buy a startup when the face of tech is evolving at such a rapid pace? The solution? Micro startup acquisitions. Micro Startup Acquisitions: What Are They, and Why Should I Care? What does this mean for startups?

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Technical Review Payment Methods Acquisition Development Team Review 144

How To Buy Saas

MARCH 23, 2024

CRM software helps sales and service teams to satisfy and retain customers easily. In this article, we’ll discuss and compare these CRM solutions. What is customer relationship management (CRM) software? What is customer relationship management (CRM) software? How to choose the right CRM software for your business?

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Payments SaaS Payments Scale 52

SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2021

A lot of our SaaS older times don’t quite know what to make with a lot of B2B startups these days, let alone some public SaaS companies. So many startups these days are claiming they have “ARR” from revenue that … doesn’t recur. 50% revenue from software (recurring), 50% from payments (not-recurring). .

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Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 354

Tom Tunguz

MARCH 19, 2020

Speaking with startups, I’ve collected a list of disciplines that are going to become very important in the next period. This is important to project churn rates, assess timing of software payments, and estimate the impact on cash flows/burn. Some startups may face meaningful attrition within their customer bases.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 4, 2022

With the summer of Defi behind us and a new year for web3, I wondered which categories of web3 startups generate the most revenue. Gaming, Wallets, Infrastructure, Consumer Apps, Insurance and Asset Management chart negligible share. Exchanges place second. Right behind, NFT exchanges rank third. Revenue Share. Market Cap Share.

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Payments Revenue Payment Solutions Blockchain 363

FastSpring

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Web Summit gathers policymakers, heads of state and the founders and CEOs of technology companies and fast-growing startups to ask a simple question: Where to next? The Atlantic says that Web Summit is “where the future goes to be born”, and the New York Times that Web Summit assembles “a grand conclave of the tech industry’s high priests”.

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Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payment Services 138

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

With that being said, if you have the world’s best payroll app, you can absolutely still talk to Craft. Co-pilots — Co-pilots are where startups and founders can do new things that big companies won’t go after. Pre-AI SaaS — Pre-AI SaaS apps get turbo-charged in value by adding AI functionality. Software isn’t going away.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions AI SaaS 198

SaaStr

APRIL 1, 2023

The SMBTech economy is very different from enterprise software, and there is massive opportunity to capture it. PST — Jeff Richards, GGV Capital Managing Director, and Tiffany Luck, GGV Capital Partner, share what it takes to win as a SMBTech startup in today’s economy. There are over 400M small businesses worldwide.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2022

We’re delighted to share that Intercom has launched as one of the first apps in the new Stripe App Marketplace, announced last month at Sessions. Millions of companies – from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups – use Stripe to accept payments, grow revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities.

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Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Customer Support 118

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Many companies believe excellent product design comes from hiring the best engineers and signing up for the latest software instead of building from the users’ perspectives. Stripe’s CTO, David Singleton, shares how they use a system of feedback, iteration, and fast shipping to create products that meet users’ expectations.

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Subscription Flow

MARCH 28, 2024

By giving the MoR for SaaS authority over tasks like paying taxes, processing payments, and conversions of currencies, SaaS companies are able to concentrate on their core services, improve customer support, and spur innovation in their products. MoR-based solution: Tax compliance issues are taken care of by the MoR.

Merchant Services 52

Merchant Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 52

SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2023

In particular: Hybrid SaaS with payments and fintech usually has far, far lower gross margins than pure software. See, e.g. Shopify, whose blended gross margins with payments even at its scale are still less than 50%. Yet, I see most “Hybrid SaaS” startups ignore this and spend as if they had 80% margins. They don’t.

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SaaS Payments Metrics Payments SMB 188