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Let’s call it - payment operations is a commodity. Vertical SaaS can choose from an endless number of processor gateways or limited purpose payfacs that provide fast underwriting, streamlined onboarding, full compliance and all the rest. Vertical SaaS that are winning the revenue game are partnering with providers that can deliver in these two areas: 1. They’re offering a user experience that’s so convenient, it’s habit-forming. Paying by text and voice, adding authorized payers, paying multiple invoices at once and making future dated payments. These effectively drive adoption rates, usage and transaction revenue. 2. They’re giving their business customers an experience so useful, it’s indispensable. Flexible user fees, unique payment and recon flows for each business location, real time postback for instant verifications, subscription billing and robust reporting. Business owners have a turnkey program for managing their AR, much more than just adding a pay button. Exceptional experiences are the primary differentiator that separates market leaders from commoditized competitors. This is where we shine. While competitors focus on perfecting back-end operations, we think that the user and business experiences are the ultimate revenue driver. Our VSaaS clients agree.

"Every time you click that export button for data, that data is immediately stale data." Nathan Garing in Episode 3. He has built NetSuite for 500-plus companies. The same habit shows up almost everywhere. Pull the numbers into Excel to work on them. By the time you look at the result, orders have shipped. Payments have landed. Refunds have posted. The spreadsheet is a photograph. The world it pictured is already gone. If your team runs the business on yesterday's export, the scan shows you the cost. https://lnkd.in/evwREgHf #HighVolumeAccounting #Finance #CFO

If you’re centralizing accounting across dealerships, there is no better moment to automate the processes your team has already built. You are already standardizing and clarifying who does what. That’s a rare window when you can build accounting process automation into the new way of working. The payoff isn’t just cleaner books. It’s freeing up your team’s time from rekeying and reconciling to the analysis and judgment that moves the group forward. If a centralization project is on your roadmap, read this before you lock in the new process. Read it here: https://lnkd.in/gcH8YTQd

Your DMS is your system of record. But is it your system of truth? Those aren’t the same thing. The DMS records what you tell it. It doesn't check whether what you told it was accurate. Dealership accounting teams deal with 40 to 45 data sources a month, mostly entered by hand: factory statements, third-party reports, payroll, benefits, flooring, parts, F&I, all on different schedules and speaking different languages. The accounting team has to make it all speak the same language, and that translation process involves a ridiculous amount of manual work. A system of record stores your numbers. A system of truth makes sure they’re accurate before they ever get there. I spent ten years running consolidated accounting for a 35-rooftop group, and that distinction is everything. I wrote about it here: https://lnkd.in/gV_9ture

It’s a myth that the UK doesn’t have money. London is the second largest financial centre in the world, a global powerhouse with deep pools of capital. The issue isn’t a lack of capital, it’s where that capital is going. If we want to shape the future ourselves, to have a say in how AI is used, to solve climate change, to be a provider not just a purchaser of deep tech and frontier science driven technologies, we need to unlock that capital for use by the boldest companies building to solve the most ambitious problems. That’s not just an economic opportunity, it’s a strategic imperative. Dan, Mads, Lomax and Dilek dig into this topic on a recent episode of Upside. We talked about what’s broken, what’s changing, and what needs to happen next. ____ Backing deep tech requires conviction, not consensus. I share insights on my journey building 7percent Ventures, backing the most determined founders solving the world’s most challenging problems. Follow me, Andrew J Scott for more and pls do share if you liked this post.

“Changes in sentiment often precede GDP changes, they don’t just follow it…Optimism and pessimism have a real effect…” On Upside with Dan Bowyer and Mads Jensen (full episode in the comments section) we discuss how the sunny optimism associated with California - and indeed America as a whole - often doesn’t feel authentic to Brits or indeed Europeans. But THAT is a problem, as constantly being pessimistic does us absolutely no favours. How about instead rooting ourselves in reality? ➡️ The technical expertise from European founders is staggeringly good. ➡️ The follow-on funding market is improving every year. ➡️ We have strong democracies; shared values; world class institutions. ➡️ Wealthy consumers and big companies: there are ~6,000 listed businesses in Europe, many >€100M in market cap, and thousands of more private. Of course there are challenges, but these strengths are also true. We have to foundations to deliver global winning tech companies - we just need the confidence to back ourselves! _____ Backing deep tech requires conviction, not consensus. I share insights on my journey building 7percent Ventures, backing the most determined founders solving the world’s most challenging problems. Follow me, Andrew J Scott for more and pls do share if you liked this post.

Think your retirement healthcare is "covered"? Make sure you don't get caught off guard by these three healthcare costs. If you have a question about your specific healthcare cost assumptions for your retirement, send me the question using the submission form at the bottom of the article. https://lnkd.in/e6QA4gq4