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ISVs vs SaaS: What’s the Difference?

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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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What Every ISV and SaaS Company Needs to Know When Switching to a New Payments Partner

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Innovative ISVs and SaaS companies know that one of the best ways to provide value to merchants—while improving your bottom line—is to provide integrated payments. That’s why it’s not uncommon for SaaS companies and ISVs to find payment partners (like Stax Connect) who can help them implement payment services.

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APIs, ISVs And The End Of Business As Usual

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To that end, said Daniela Mielke, CEO at RS2 Software , in an interview with Karen Webster, application programming interfaces (APIs) can help integrated software vendors (ISVs) and payment facilitators (PayFacs) make payments “invisible” as part of the merchant and consumer experience — and offer those merchants a range of value-added services.

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How ISVs And PayFacs Can Survive — And Even Thrive — During A Recession

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Where consumers are pulling back, where firms across all verticals are seeing headwinds and declines in top and bottom lines — and could be tapping small business loans to stay afloat — there may be opportunity for independent software vendors (ISVs) and payments facilitators (PayFacs) to serve merchants’ changing needs.

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How PayFacs And ISVs Can Survive (And Thrive) In Uncertain Times

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And for the payment facilitators (PayFacs) and independent software vendors (ISVs) that serve merchants through software and services that help those firms to accept payments, as Daniela Mielke, CEO of RS2 Software, told Karen Webster, the ripple effects will be enormous. This is not an economic or financial crisis,” said Mielke.

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Can ISVs And ISOs Thrive Amid Payments Megadeals?

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So far, 2019 has been a year of mergers, refashioning the roster of big (and getting bigger) payments solution providers, bringing myriad services under collectively fewer roofs, and perhaps leaving independent sales organizations (ISOs) and integrated software vendors (ISVs) wondering what’s next. Rewiring the Payments Ecosystem.

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Monetizing Payments Data In The Age Of IoT

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As Mielke told Webster, data is becoming a critical part of independent software vendor (ISV), payment facilitator (PayFac) and super independent sales organization (ISO) offerings as they serve merchants. However, tapping into data, and monetizing it up and down the value chain, has a few steps.

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