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Founders often ask about Rainforest’s operating cadence. How do we keep our hybrid/remote team aligned on objectives when everyone is moving fast, priorities change based on customer needs, and there’s zero room for error? Here's how...

What happens when a customer tries to make a purchase but doesn’t have enough funds? Partial auth allows customers to pay the authorized amount on one card and complete the purchase with another payment method.

The biggest challenge for a lot of platforms moving to embedded payments is merchant support. That's why Rainforest has created pre-built helpdesk articles and made them available for all platform partners!

Interchange passthrough is the primary driver of payment processing costs. Here's how to optimize it...

Rainforest was designed to make it easy for software platforms to offer intuitive in-context payments reporting, but sometimes merchants just need to download their payment data.

While the highest-cost provider isn’t necessarily the best, no one becomes the lowest-cost provider without compromising on quality or service. These compromises have material consequences that often outweigh the superficial savings.

I’m thrilled to announce that we have closed a $20M Series A led by Matrix Partners. In this post, I’ll share some thoughts on the raise and the path ahead.

Embedded payments can bring a lot of benefits to vertical SaaS platforms, including increased revenue, increased engagement, and reduced churn. But wherever there’s payment processing, there’s also fraud. This article outlines what SaaS platforms need to know about credit card fraud, and how to work with your payment provider to minimize fraud.

As a SaaS platform, you only earn payments revenue from merchants who actually use your platform to accept payments. When merchant onboarding is fast and easy, more merchants sign up to take payments, processing volume increases, and your revenue increases with it. 

Our team just helped a SaaS platform save 50 bps on their credit card fees before that platform even finished onboarding. This is how we did it.

By Joshua Silver, founder and CEO Today, after a lengthy private beta, we are publicly announcing our seed raise and making our platform generally available.  I couldn’t be more thrilled to announce that we have closed an $11.75 million seed funding round led by Accel, with participation from Infinity Ventures, BoxGroup, The Fintech Fund, Tech […]

By Joshua Silver, founder and CEO After a successful exit from my first startup, Patientco, a patient financial engagement company, I spent several years running a consulting firm focused on helping software companies embed payments and other financial services to their products. Through dozens of engagements, a few consistent patterns emerged: The most successful software […]