{"id":4853,"date":"2020-04-15T17:46:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T17:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paymentfacilitator.com\/?p=4853"},"modified":"2021-06-15T16:32:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T16:32:33","slug":"planning-now-for-a-sustainable-post-covid-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/infinicept.com\/payment-facilitator\/archive\/planning-now-for-a-sustainable-post-covid-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Planning Now for a Sustainable Post-COVID Future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>While attention for many software companies is currently\nfocused on getting through the COVID-19 outbreak \u2013 and rightly so \u2013 managers can\u2019t\nafford to ignore the future of their companies. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Our partners at Infinicept recently published an article\non how becoming a payment facilitator can help SaaS companies increase and\ndiversify their revenue: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infinicept.com\/arm-yourself-with-a-plan-to-exit-the-covid-19-crisis-on-top\/\"><strong>Before\nYou Enter Your Zoom Boardroom: Arm Yourself with a Plan to Exit the COVID-19\nCrisis on Top<\/strong><\/a><strong>. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the article points out, the outbreak has likely changed\nthe long-term view for many companies. While software companies in particular have\nbeen ramping up their growth aggressively, the economic impact of the virus has\nshown the need to create a more sustainable future by maximizing the revenue\navailable to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fortunately, there is an opportunity to gain more revenue\nthat is easily within the grasp of software providers that are enabling\npayments through their platforms. The bulk of the processing fees attached to\nthose transactions are going to <em>someone<\/em> \u2013 often to third parties. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But by becoming payment facilitators and bringing the\npayments capability in-house, software companies can take advantage of an\nexisting revenue stream that is already a fundamental component of the product\nand the customers the company has worked hard to build and maintain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As board members look to company management to define the\ncompany\u2019s strategy for that more sustainable future, taking on payments can be\na key part of that strategy for the right software companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more on the opportunity this creates and why a future shaped\nby the impact of the coronavirus on consumer behavior makes now an optimal time\nto take advantage of it, see the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infinicept.com\/arm-yourself-with-a-plan-to-exit-the-covid-19-crisis-on-top\/\">here<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While attention for many software companies is currently focused on getting through the COVID-19 outbreak \u2013 and rightly so \u2013 managers can\u2019t afford to ignore the future of their companies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1015],"tags":[195,404,437,646,651,820,1002],"class_list":["post-4853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-covid","tag-infinicept","tag-isvs","tag-payment-facilitators","tag-payments","tag-software-companies","tag-zoom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/infinicept.com\/payment-facilitator\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/infinicept.com\/payment-facilitator\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/infinicept.com\/payment-facilitator\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infinicept.com\/payment-facilitator\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infinicept.com\/payment-facilitator\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/infinicept.com\/payment-facilitator\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6900,"href":"http:\/\/infinicept.com\/payment-facilitator\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4853\/revisions\/6900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/infinicept.com\/payment-facilitator\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infinicept.com\/payment-facilitator\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infinicept.com\/payment-facilitator\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}