The ROI of
Payments-Led Growth

Learn how vertical SaaS platforms expedite growth, increasing monthly recurring revenue under the Payments-Led Growth framework.

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How Payments-Led Growth is Changing the Way Vertical SaaS Companies Grow

Problem: It’s getting harder and harder for SaaS companies to grow. Especially in today’s macroeconomic climate, with the SaaS industry facing intense hardships and plateauing growth.

More than 120,000+ tech workers in the U.S. have been laid off so far in 2023

SaaS’s first recession–industry drew down by 53% from Q3 2021 to Q1 of 2022

The average company market cap is down 57% from its 12-month highs

You Do SaaS Stuff.
We Do Payments.

Stax Connect builds partners’ payment capabilities under our Payments-Led Growth framework. We wanted to find out the true impacts of our professional services and technology in order to better understand what’s working, and how our partners have successfully grown their businesses with complementary payment solutions.

Here’s the low-down: Our partners can and have seen 141% ROI from integrating payments using our products and services. That’s Payments-Led Growth.

stax connect benefits

  • Monetization income of $913,000

    Develop an additional pillar of revenue that goes beyond the MRR, and in some cases, surpasses your customer's monthly subscription fee. Revenue growth also improves with multiple payment types that your customers can accept.

  • $380,000 in risk mitigation savings

    Our robust due diligence and underwriting is proven to show a reduction in disputes across our partners' platforms. Payments Expertise gives you the confidence to accept payments, knowing that your risk is not on the line.

  • Marketing support valued at $38,000

    We work extensively with you to market payment processing services to your merchants. Our experts save the composite organization over $38,000 in professional marketing services and deliverables.

Don’t Just Take it From Us. Hear From Our Partners.

"The amount of people that are willing and able to help us is just incredible with Stax. There’s so much fraud being committed by merchants and there are end users that are committing fraud to these merchants as well." -COO of an E-Commerce Organization

“We have five processors we work with for varying amounts of volume and customers and the monetization that occurs with those are all very different. Stax is on the high end in terms of the amount of monetization we make from the processed volume.” -EVP of Payments for a Professional Services Organization

“We have an intimate relationship with them to where we get more direct support versus going through a chain of people.” -VP of Payments at a Healthcare Software Organization

Extraordinary Benefits That Can't Be Measured

  • Payments expertise to streamline underwriting and merchant enrollment. Our knowledge of payments compliance and security effectively guides our partners with efficient approval and fraud prevention.

  • Flexible technology that provides a broad range of payment types and merchant enrollment. Partners can quickly go to market with our technology by white-labeling the Stax API.

  • Adoption expertise with white-glove customer service and fast problem resolution. Our robust team supports and addresses partner concerns as they come up and efficiently address issues raised by merchants.

Get the Total Economic Impact Study of Stax Connect and Payments-Led Growth

We consulted Forrester to conduct interviews with our real customers, collecting data and quantifying the real benefits they’ve seen since integrating with Stax Connect under the Payments-Led Growth framework. Money talks—and our results have done just that.

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