Payrix

JANUARY 30, 2024

Nick realized that adding payments to the software product was the only way he could continue to compete in the space, so he took the opportunity. Nick considered partnering with an ISO, but was reluctant to hand off his studio owners — and the relationships he built with them — to a payment processor. It’s too much work,” Nick said.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

But if you’re a B2B solution, there’s a high likelihood that businesses will be interested in being able to accept customer payments, rather than just sending them a PayPal link or to a generic payment gateway. How do you add payment processing capabilities to your software? What is a SaaS Billing Platform?

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Blulogix

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Streamlining Success: What is the Role of Automation in Customer Lifecycle Management for Recurring Revenue? This blog post explores how employing automation in CLM can revolutionize the way businesses nurture their customer base, enhance engagement, and secure recurring revenue streams.

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SaaStr

APRIL 12, 2022

The majority of its revenue is now from Bitcoin transactions, not “traditional” payments and software. Its software and services business is the one with the real operating margins. Its software and services business is the one with the real operating margins. businesses. #4. At least still for now.

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Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services Revenue 270

Stax

JANUARY 29, 2024

In today’s fast-paced business landscape, efficient and seamless payment processing is paramount to your bottom line. As industry leaders in billing software, our mission is to help our customers work more efficiently, recover more revenue, and effortlessly collect invoices. Learn More What is a Billing Platform?

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 19, 2023

If you’re selling video games direct-to-consumer (DTC), there’s a good chance you may be taking advantage of a “merchant of record” payment platform like Xsolla and others. Reduce Downtime Risk Sometimes, technical issues arise that create downtime for your primary payment provider.

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Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Customers can pay for goods and services according to their consumption ( pay-as-you-go ), scale their service usage up or down in accordance with business needs, and have their subscriptions automatically renewed thanks to subscription billing and revenue management. What Entails Effective Subscription Revenue Management?

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Stax

JANUARY 22, 2024

In a world where we’re spending more and more time online and every click is a potential transaction, it’s no surprise the eCommerce and digital payments sectors are experiencing exponential growth. In this article, we’ll dive into the intricacies of two types of players in the eCommerce ecosystem: payment gateways and payment facilitators.

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Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Facilitation 88

SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

Niall Wall, Box SVP of Business and Corporate Development alongside Vicki Lin, Stripe’s Head of Ecosystem and Cecilia Stallsmith, Slack’s Director of Platform Marketing discuss scaling your revenue via indirect channels and platform ecosystems. We’re a cloud content management platform.

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Blulogix

JANUARY 12, 2024

The Role of Data Integration in Selecting a Billing Platform By BluLogix Team Welcome to the eleventh entry in our in-depth series on choosing the ideal subscription billing platform. In this installment, we turn our focus to an often-underestimated yet vital element for success in subscription billing : data integration.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

SVB collapsed, market multiples are down, yet the IPO window is re-opening, and we have a platform shift to AI that’s exciting everybody. Announcements of several blockbuster acquisitions, most notably from Adobe acquiring Figma, which was the highest valuation multiple offered in an acquisition for any software company at scale.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

In this conversation, a16z General Partner Angela Strange talks with J eff Sloan, former CEO of Global Payments, about how he was early to spot significant industry trends, how to make bets that move an organization, and the sea change that AI represents for the financial services industry. Angela: Why Global Payments? Jeff: Yeah.

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Payment Solutions Payments Payment Services SaaS Payments 83

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Wherever you are in your revenue journey, adopting certain growth strategies can help you keep growing fast. Joined by Katie Wickham, Payrix’s Director of Marketing, Butler shares essential tips on accelerating your business to $100 million ARR and beyond. . Brex then scaled its payments business quickly.

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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. Subscriptions can fuel payments and merchant revenue. It’s now bigger than Shopify’s SaaS revenue, by far: 3.

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Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Scale 344

Stax

MARCH 26, 2024

Online payment systems are the standard. Online terminals (sometimes referred to as virtual terminals) power various types of transactions, including eCommerce and payments made over the phone. This article covers the what, why, and how of online terminals; all a business owner needs to know to dive in and thrive.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 29, 2021

Building the right partner tech stack can dramatically increase the revenue flowing from your partners, even if your partnership team is small. The growing role of partnerships in driving revenue. Businesses are continuing to streamline their purchasing. Processing and remitting payments.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 22, 2021

Subscription revenue can be defined most simply as a model which generates income from customers through recurring fees that are paid at regular intervals. These can be weekly, monthly, or annual payments. Before we get into the more complicated stuff, let’s consider the difference between earning revenue and collecting revenue.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 17, 2023

Most subscription billing platforms let you: Automate invoicing and payments. Provide a self-service portal to customers so they can manage their accounts (including payment information, seats, and more). Gather metrics and view reports on monthly recurring revenue. Optimize Your Checkout Process to Increase Conversions.

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Blulogix

JANUARY 1, 2024

The Ultimate Guide to Choosing a Subscription Billing Platform By BluLogix Team In today’s subscription-driven business landscape, selecting the right subscription billing platform can be a game-changer. It impacts not only your billing processes but also your customer satisfaction, revenue growth, and scalability.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 26, 2022

It’s barely trading at 3x revenue. That’s Freemium at scale. Payments and e-commerce drag blended gross margins down to 60%. Wix along with Squarespace and also WordPress / Automatic have pushed deeply into e-commerce and as part of that, payments. But payments can be low gross margin, and they are for Wix.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Both Bill and Shopifty have morphed over the years from almost pure SaaS companies to payments platforms built on top of a SaaS core. The rest of the growth is from its Divvy platform, which is bought in 2021 for $2.5 But payments and transaction are far bigger at $800m run rate — and growing faster at 38%. #2.

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Payment Services Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 292

Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 23, 2024

They also talked about the difficulties — and potential advantages — of selling into small businesses, taking alternative approaches to interviewing candidates, and the importance of keeping culture a vital part of a company as it scales. Alex: The other side of the equation on customer acquisition is monetization.

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Payments Forecasting Payment Services Payment Solutions 107

SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2023

At SaaStr, our partners are an integral part of our events. Carta is a platform that helps people manage equity, build businesses, and invest in the companies of tomorrow. Make enables individuals, teams, and enterprises across all verticals to create powerful custom solutions that scale their businesses faster than ever.

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FastSpring

MARCH 3, 2023

When you’re using a DIY payment solution like Stripe, making it work for your business falls on your developers. From testing out plugins to setting up new payment methods, maintaining Stripe can be very time-consuming. This often happens when your setup requires complex integrations that are difficult to maintain.

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Merchant Services Payment Services Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 138

Blulogix

JANUARY 8, 2024

How the Right Platform Enhances Your Subscription Billing Experience By BluLogix Team Welcome back to our series on selecting the ideal subscription billing platform. Selecting the right subscription billing platform is a strategic decision that can significantly impact your business’s success.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Amazon Associates is one of the most trusted affiliate marketing platforms where anyone can start an income stream from the comfort of their home. Once you get the hang of the basics, however, it’s relatively easy to monetize your content. Here is how to get started and drive revenue with Amazon Associates.

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SaaStr

MARCH 25, 2021

It’s done it by going more upmarket, and better monetizing partners and services. Driving existing customer revenue up more than new logos. BigCommerce, like many SaaS vendors at scale, is doing a better job at getting more revenue out of existing accounts than adding new ones. Not competing (directly) on price.

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Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

One way to do that is through marketing and revenue-generating strategies such as freemium and product demos which are critical to growing one’s clientele. This can be done through a variety of platforms, including social media, email marketing, online ads, and content marketing. YouTube and LinkedIn (and even TikTok these days!)

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Stax

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

So, of course when it came to revenue-driving activities, Ford knew that success in marketing—and business—wasn’t about how much your marketing spend is, but how efficiently you spend it. Enter the SaaS Magic Number, which measures the return on sales and marketing spend in generating new subscription revenue.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Sales teams feel constant pressure to speed up time-to-revenue and quickly close deals. To help take some of the pressure off, companies focus on technology investments to help their sales teams increase win rates and accelerate revenue while automating a lot of the tedious, manual processes that prove to be a bottleneck in the sales cycle.

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SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2021

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. Transaction fees (on payments) are now half of revenue and are the key to scaling. Pretty impressive.

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SaaStr

APRIL 19, 2023

And their mix of software, payments and hardware revenue drives up the total deal size — but puts a lot of pressure on margins. 39% of their revenues from software, and going down. Payments are the largest segment (like Toast and Shopify as well), but at least low-margin hardware is a small percent of revenue.

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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. The platform's usage-based pricing (no monthly fees!)

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Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Features 98

Subscription Flow

DECEMBER 13, 2023

B2B payments enable the smooth flow of transactions between businesses of all sizes. But what’s changing in the B2B payments landscape and what should you be on the lookout for? But what’s changing in the B2B payments landscape and what should you be on the lookout for? What Makes B2B Payments Different?

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Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments Payment Methods 59

FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Revenue vs. profit vs. income: The terms may seem synonymous and are sometimes even used interchangeably, but they tell different stories about a company. Revenue growth suggests an expanding business and in-demand product, but whether there is any financial gain for the business is determined by the income.

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Blulogix

JANUARY 3, 2024

Why BluIQ by BluLogix Should Be Your Top Choice for Subscription Billing By BluLogix Team In the previous installment of our series on selecting a subscription billing platform , we discussed the importance of choosing the right platform and outlined key considerations for your evaluation. Say goodbye to manual subscription renewals.

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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%. Non-Recurring Revenue Doesn’t Count, At Least Not as Much. Pass-Through Revenue Simply Doesn’t Count.

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