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Knowledge
September 21, 2021

When is it worth it to become a PayFac?

If you’re a B2B software company interested in adding payment processing to your product, you may be wondering when it will be worth it to become a payment facilitator (PayFac) yourself. The short answer? Probably never. For some software companies processing upwards of $2 billion a year in payments, it may be a bit more […]

Knowledge
September 7, 2021

Integrated payments to increase your TAM

For vertical SaaS businesses, it’s easy — and attractive — to look at unicorn companies like Mindbody and Toast and believe your product can become the ubiquitous solution for your industry. But one question you’ll have to answer first, for both yourself and for your investors: Is your market segment big enough to justify a […]

Knowledge
August 10, 2021

What does it mean to monetize payments?

If you’re a software company that has integrated payment processing capabilities into your offering, more than likely you see it as a service that comes at either a cost to your bottom line or as a pass-through line item that your customers cover. But what if you could monetize payments, changing payment processing from a […]

Knowledge
July 27, 2021

PayFac-as-a-Service Glossary

When we begin talking with new customers interested in how PayFac-as-a-Service with Tilled can benefit their B2B software business, we often find it’s not long before we’ve completely lost them with our terminology and industry jargon. And that’s ok — we’ve been in the boardrooms of companies processing billions of dollars a year through their […]

Apple Pay payment
Feature Releases/Product Upgrade
July 13, 2021

Tilled Launches Apple Pay

At Tilled, our ethos is to make payments simple for our partners, allowing you to focus on your core product while we handle all of the complexities, requirements, and processes that come with embedded payments. And while that has always been our north star as we’ve developed our initial product, we’re proud to say it […]

Knowledge
June 3, 2021

Integrated Payments 1.0 vs. 2.0

In the world of payment processing, the turn of the decade represented a massive transition for the industry. With companies like Stripe, Square and PayPal pioneering the payment facilitator or “PayFac” model, the era of Integrated Payments 2.0 began.  The PayFac model was defined by the idea that one company could register as a “Master […]

Knowledge
February 25, 2021

Interchange Plus pricing vs. flat rate pricing

If you know anything at all about credit card processing, you’ve probably heard the phrase “2.9% and 30 cents” as the “standard” pricing model for processing fees. Companies like Stripe, Square and Braintree have done an incredible job at making it seem like that is the best, most transparent and simplest pricing model available — […]

Industry Trends
February 4, 2021

Is your data portable?

One important question that every B2B software company should be asking before deciding on a payments partner is, is your data portable? And by that we mean, what happens if, for any reason known or unknown, at some point you decide to leave your current payment processor and move to another platform, can you bring […]