SaaStr

JULY 4, 2025

The SaaS PE market is heating up again, and Thoma Bravo just made a big statement buying SaaS restaurant pioneer Olo for $2 Billion. share, 65% premium) Why This Deal Matters for B2B and SaaS This isn’t just another PE rollup. They’re clearly bullish on B2B software again. That’s $10.25

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USIO

JUNE 19, 2025

Picture this: You’re building an awesome SaaS tool—maybe for managing booster clubs (like BoosterHub) or for streamlining medical offices (like PracticeSuite). But then you think, “Why not also offer payments to our users?” It’s a powerful value-add that makes your software more useful and opens up a new stream of revenue.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Jason starts with the meta-question we’ve been asking a lot of SaaS leaders lately ( Klaviyo , ZoomInfo ) — ‘are we in a downturn?’ This gets more challenging when you have stakeholders who aren’t the ones buying the software. Going Long We’ve written before on the power of going long in SaaS.

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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.

Payment Services 88

Payment Services DevOps as a Service SaaS Payments Payments 88

Stax

JUNE 18, 2025

Software tailored to your industry? That’s the main premise of vertical SaaS. Unlike horizontal SaaS solutions that serve a broad range of businesses, vertical SaaS solutions are designed with deep knowledge of specific markets—making them more intuitive, efficient, and impactful. What is Vertical SaaS?

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Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments 167

USIO

APRIL 24, 2025

For most businesses, the payment process is relatively straightforward. But in healthcare, payments are more complexlayered with government programs, private insurers, co-pays, and patient responsibility. Your software plays a critical role in streamlining that process.

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

In the SaaS industry, the checkout experience can make or break a sale. A seamless, localized checkout process is crucial for converting potential customers, especially in global markets. Focusing on these three key areas can help your SaaS business win more customers: Language. Payment methods. Currency display.

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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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Payments Embedded Payments Merchant Services Payment Services 130

Payrix

APRIL 17, 2025

What is a payment facilitator? A payment facilitator (or PayFac) is a software platforms all-in-one payment processing solution. Think of it as becoming the payments "master account" for all your customers. Think of it as becoming the payments "master account" for all your customers.

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SaaStr

JULY 9, 2025

For SaaS founders, NVIDIA’s journey offers critical lessons about platform strategy, timing major transitions, and building infrastructure that becomes indispensable. The B2B Parallel : Like the best B2B companies, NVIDIA created switching costs through their software stack (drivers, development tools, APIs).

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 11, 2024

When you’re expanding your software business into new regions, industry benchmarking data can help you make better strategic decisions by answering important questions about business in the region. Here’s what we uncovered: Key Insights Into How Asia-Region Customers Renew SaaS Subscriptions 1. or EU, or are they different?

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Merchant Services SaaS Payments Benchmarks Payment Features 158

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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Payrix

JANUARY 28, 2025

In this episode of PayFAQ: The Embedded Payments Podcast, host Ian Hillis welcomes Matt Downs, President of Worldpay for Platforms, to discuss software-led payments predictions for 2025 and beyond. remains the largest interchange and software market, Matt predicts a loosening of regulatory constraints.

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Payrix

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Embedded Finance is reshaping SaaS, and for good – and exciting – reasons. At Payrix from Worldpay, we see the potential in empowering software platforms to deliver valuable financial products seamlessly within their user experience. SaaS businesses that embed financial products are seeing a 2-5x revenue increase per user.

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Stax

JULY 2, 2025

In today’s competitive SaaS landscape, simply acquiring customers isn’t enough. The real key to sustainable growth and increased revenue lies in maximizing payment attachment – the adoption and usage of integrated payments by your existing customer base. Krahl highlighted the lucrative payment residual stream.

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Payrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

What is a payment processor? A payment processor facilitates the flow of transactions typically made with credit cards, debit cards, and other digital payments. The processor is responsible for processing and settling the transactions initiated by the payment facilitators merchants, but they can also offer so much more.

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Payrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

A master merchant, often referred to as a payment facilitator or merchant aggregator, is a third-party agent that acts as the link between acquirers and online merchants. The master merchant simplifies the onboarding process for sub-merchants by handling the complexities of payment integration, security requirements, and compliance.

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Merchant Services Payment Services Payments SaaS Payments 130

Stax

MAY 13, 2025

Credit card merchant services are often viewed as a back-office function or necessary cost. When leveraged strategically, these services can become a key driver of business growth. With the right provider, merchant services can improve your checkout experience, increase cash flow, and unlock valuable business insights.

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Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Methods SaaS Payments 88

USIO

JULY 14, 2025

That’s where embedded payments come in. Whether you’re building a SaaS product, launching a curated box service, or running a subscription model, embedded payments aren’t just a backend upgrade. What Are Embedded Payments? Think of it as a native, invisible payment layer working in the background.

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USIO

JUNE 24, 2025

Embedded payments have become the financial backbone of modern SaaS, fintech, and marketplace platforms. In 2025, choosing the right embedded payment processor is about more than just rates and APIs — it’s about revenue share potential, support quality, payout flexibility, and long-term partnership.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2025

It’s the vertical SaaS rocketship: $840m ARR Still growing a stunning 29% (!) Theyve built a true operating system for the tradeshandling everything from CRM to payments to field service management. Lesson for SaaS Founders : If youre in vertical SaaS, aim to be the OS for your niche.

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Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

According to the US Federal Reserve in 2022, general-purpose card payments reached $153.3 On top of that, 69% of Americans online in 2023 said they used digital payment methods to make a purchase. To address evolving customer demands and accept electronic payments, you need a payment processing system.

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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. The spending data captures signatures and payments, not the decision-making process that began quarters earlier.

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SaaStr

JUNE 22, 2025

initial public offering on Friday, becoming the latest enterprise software company to test increasingly receptive public markets. Navan’s move could signal the opening of long-awaited floodgates for B2B software companies that have been waiting on the sidelines since the market downturn of 2022-2023. But Figma is a crazy outlier.

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Subscription Flow

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Billing system migration is the process of replacing your existing billing system with a new one. Companies opt for this process to adopt new tools, and upgrade their functionality. It cannot handle complex payment scenarios. It does not support multiple payment gateways, and modern compliance standards.

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Stax

MARCH 16, 2025

The average churn rate for the software industry as a whole is 14%. That said, industry experts agree that your SaaS companys goal churn should be below 2%. As a SaaS business leader, reducing software user churn is an important part of maintaining your customer base and increasing revenue. Looking to measure churn?

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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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SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2025

And for SaaS companies with strong fundamentals, the opportunity window is wide open. The B2B SaaS companies everyone has been waiting for are finally filing and preparing to go public: Already Filed (2025 IPOs Highly Likely) Figma – Cloud-based design platform, confidentially filed April 2025. Stop waiting.

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SaaStr

JULY 22, 2025

What Separates Future Decacorns The companies that will break through the $10 billion barrier share specific characteristics that go far beyond traditional SaaS metrics: Scale Requirement s True decacorn candidates operate with 500-2000+ employees and demonstrate the ability to scale operations across multiple geographies and market segments.

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USIO

MAY 9, 2025

Whether youre a product leader, fintech founder, or payments partner, understanding the language behind embedded finance platforms is mission-critical. This blog post is your jargon-free guide to all the advanced embedded finance terminology you’ll encounterfrom OAuth to multi-rail payment strategies.

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Payments Merchant Services Payment Services Finance 130

Subscription Flow

OCTOBER 16, 2024

In today’s fast-tracked financial landscape, billing software has become a need. Operating a business entails a number of processes like managing products and payments, invoices, customer engagement, revenue, unpaid invoices and much more. A billing software is the ultimate solution to your growing business’s complex needs.

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Stax

APRIL 3, 2025

But launching your eCommerce store is just half the equationaccepting payments efficiently and effectively is a whole different ball game. On the surface, it seems effortless, with customers only taking a few seconds to initiate and complete payments. The eCommerce payment solution infrastructure involves several key players.

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USIO

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Medical practices, Software as a Service (SaaS) providers, Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems, and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions are constantly seeking ways to streamline their processes and enhance their offerings.

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Subscription Flow

OCTOBER 22, 2024

But when it comes to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) businesses, this statement stands even truer. So why is SaaS sales tax so challenging? The reason is, there doesn’t exist any single standardized system internationally to preside over SaaS sales tax. What is SaaS Sales Tax? Is SaaS taxable?

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