Platforms and Marketplaces

Built This Way: Revenue Streams

In the first edition of 'Built This Way', read how Revenue Streams helped a platform identify payments that should have been settled to their customer, but never were and how, without causing customer frustration, they solved the problem.

Our 2024 Review and Look Ahead

Our theme this year was…definitely tie-dye. All colours of the rainbow, a little funky and a whole lot of fun. A ton of progress too.

The Path to Profitability: Payment Method Insights

No more shooting in the dark! Boost Payment Method insights gives unparalleled visibility into payment method buy and sell rates.

Revenew Playbook: P2P Marketplaces

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) marketplaces have redefined the way individuals engage in commercial transactions. They leverage technology to connect suppliers directly with consumers, enabling them to buy, sell, or rent products and services without the need for traditional intermediaries. The historical evolution of P2P marketplaces, dating back to the 1990s, has significantly disrupted traditional business models, leading to the emergence of a thriving and dynamic online ecosystem which is reshaping online commerce. According to Statista, the sharing economy was valued at US $150 billion in 2023, and is projected to grow to a staggering US $794 billion by 2031.

Revenew Playbook: Vertical SaaS

“software is eating the world” - Hard to believe that it has already been more than a decade since Marc Andreessen’s famous claim. Since its introduction, Software-as-a-service (SaaS) has been one of the most transformative changes to have happened to business software over the last 20 years. But within the SaaS market, there is an increased focus on vertical SaaS (VSaaS) – industry-specific or niche-focused functionality that follows the SaaS playbook.

Platform Scoops 4: Kendall Partie (Director of Finance, Dockwa)

This is a masterclass in how your platform’s Finance department can succeed. Kendall insight is valuable for established teams and individual Finance professionals alike.

Control with Context: Pricing Insights now in beta

We’re excited to announce the Beta launch of Pricing Insights, a new way for platforms to supercharge their pricing strategy by evaluating multiple pricing models against their real payment volumes.

Card Present Insights

One key factor influencing the cost of card payment processing is whether a card is physically present. We've made it easier for platforms to understand these cost differences so they can factor them into their pricing strategy.

Cut Losses on Low-Value Payments with Intelligent Pricing

Without intelligent payment pricing tools that can adjust sell rates based on Gross Merchandise Value (GMV), platforms risk negative margins, which means they're not just giving their services away—they're actually paying to do so. Perhaps surprisingly, low value payments are often a key source of negative margins.

Revenew Playbook: Freelance Platforms

Over 80% of employees want location flexibility, according to a Future Forum study, and 93% want schedule flexibility. As more employees take on side-gigs, they see themselves as ‘solopreneurs’ renting their time to their employer client. According to Yahoo! Finance, the global market for Freelance Platforms is projected to reach US$13.8 Billion by 2030 growing at a CAGR of 16.2%. Freelance platforms are constantly evolving - and the ways in which they monetise along with it. This has given rise to the need and importance of insights and tools that will enable them to manage their payments, increase their margins and streamline financial and revenue operations.

Revenew Playbook: Health & Wellness Platforms

For most platforms, managing payments is a painful experience with resources dedicated to manually sifting through copious amounts of spreadsheets - and even then you may still find yourself in the dark. In this article, we'll explore how health and wellness platforms can leverage Revenew to transform and simplify how they manage platform payments.

Revenew Playbook: Hotel Management Platforms

In 2023, the global hospitality market reached over 4.7 trillion U.S. dollars and was forecast to grow to around 5.5 trillion U.S. dollars in 2024. But managing payments globally and understanding the complexity of the business model has only gotten harder. In this article, we'll explore how hotel management platforms can use Revenew to simplify and transform how they manage their platform payments.

Revenew Playbook: E-Learning Platforms

In today’s world, where technology permeates nearly every aspect of our lives, education has undergone a significant transformation. Since the COVID-19 outbreak, online learning has become more centric in people's lives. Capitalising on this growing trend, online learning platforms are making it simple for educators to share knowledge and build thriving businesses. As this market evolves and online learning platforms leverage technology to cater to an international audience, they’ve had to implement complex payment strategies to support a wide range of payment methods.

Filter by Payment Method

One of the main drivers in introducing the filter bar was that we wanted to streamline the process of adding more filters (a common request from our users) to the Revenew app and improve the UX when adding several filters at once.

Platform Scoops 3: Jarron Aizen (CEO & Founder, Hapana)

In this episode I sat down with Hapana's CEO & Founder, Jarron Aizen. Hapana has been on a run recently, with a recent $17m raise boosting their ability to offer their comprehensive gym management platform to global franchises. Jarron knows his stuff and you'll be learning a lot about launching and scaling a complex platform like his.

Revenew Playbook: Ticketing Platforms

Ticketing platforms are the backbone of the event industry; they connect event organisers with passionate audiences. Managing the financial side of this equation, however, can be rather complex. Between processing fees, hidden costs, and the need to accommodate diverse payment methods, maximising margins can become complicated. In this post, we'll look into how Revenew can help ticketing platforms unlock new revenue streams, eliminate loss-making payments, and improve the overall payment experience for ticketing platforms and their customers.

Platform Scoops 2: Jonatan Tsuff (Co-Founder & CEO, Noovy)

In this episode I spoke to another Revenew early access user Jonatan, who is the CEO and Co-founder of the comprehensive hotel property management system Noovy. Jonatan's an awesome guy with a lot of experience in the hotel space and someone that has mastered their payments challenges, with his fair share of war stories to share.

GMV & Margin Graph

As a platform you will usually have a high GMV (General Merchandise Value, ie. the full absolute payment amount in currency made through it, eg. a 100$ for a night at an Airbnb), compared to ultra-thin margins (the service fee that Airbnb gets minus payment processing fees). Even though there is this huge discrepancy between your GMV and your net revenue (the dollar amount you actually take home), it should be the case that when your GMV goes up, so does your net revenue. But we often see that not being the case. And this graph shines a light on it.

Platform Scoops 1: Joāo Moreira (Director of Product, Monite)

In Episode 1, I had the pleasure to interview Monite's Head of Payments, Joāo Moreira. He's been running their Monite's payments operations, managing relationships with Payment Service Providers like Stripe, Airwallex and Yappily.

Platform Scoops Intro Episode: Nick Thomson (Co-Founder, Revenew)

Our Intro Episode is a Revenew on Revenew Episode, with Revenew Co-Founder Nick Thomson and Host Frederik von Mohl. We cover what Revenew is and why we're creating a community and this podcast.

Monite Case Study

Monite is a B2B Fintech Infrastructure SaaS business. They enable their customers, B2B platforms, such as banks, neobanks, payment providers, verticalized SaaS, embed financial workflows like invoicing, payables automation, expense management, and accounting for their clients. They’re on an exciting growth path having recently added $6M to their seed round as they are gearing up for US expansion. So it’s now more than ever that their payments strategy needs to be on lock.

Noovy Case Study

Noovy is an all-in-one property management solution for thousands of independent hotels globally. They have been successfully helping hotels run their operations from a single platform: bookings, staff availabilities, housekeeping, you name it. Enabling their hotels to take payments through Noovy was top of the feature request list, further rounding out their product offering, making Noovy a one-stop-shop software solution for anyone running independent hotels.