abinandhan

22 • Product → Sales
Building in public: Sales, Brands & Growth + Random stuff

[abinandhan @abixzor]

Five things about myself:

1. 22 year old
2. Enterprise Salesman
3. Into the corporate game
4. PCB designer/Freelancer
5. Occasional Photographer

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@internetartsy @buildwithboo The internet has made it easier to build it by providing leverage

What's hard to find is consistency, direction, and actually making use of that leverage 🙂

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@velnix_wp @dodopayments 💯

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A lot of people building micro SaaS products have been posting screenshots of their payment dashboards.

That's when I first came across @dodopayments.

There are already well known platforms like Razorpay, Stripe, and several others.

So, a question came to mind:

Why do people use Dodo Payments when so many payment processing platforms are already available?

Yesterday, I was researching Dodo Payments and how it differs from other payment processors.

That's when I came across the concept of Merchant of Record (MoR).

What an MoR does is fundamentally different.

Payment processing is just one part of it.

Micro SaaS founders and organisations looking to expand across borders primarily want to focus on growing revenue and improving their products.

But expanding internationally comes with its own set of challenges:

- Regulatory compliance
- Sales tax management
- Fraud management
- Reporting and reconciliation
- And much more.

Smaller companies and individual founders often have limited time and resources to manage all these operations while focusing on their core product.

That's where an MoR comes in.

An MoR acts as the legal seller of the product or service.

It takes responsibility for the transaction, including payment processing, tax collection and remittance, and other compliance related responsibilities.

Payment processing is only a small part of what an MoR actually does.

For founders looking to sell globally,

How are you handling payments, taxes and compliance?

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@meiringdw @dodopayments True! That's a real headache for small teams with limited resources.

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@i_mika_el @dodopayments New to all this, but the MoR tax handling is what stood out to me. Curious about when higher fees start to sting compared to Stripe.

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@gsthina_me 🔥

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Happy Diwali!!! 🎉

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@KevinSzabo14 Writing with AI is fine.
But writing slop is not.

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Looks like Bengaluru wants me to say "traffic" if someone asks me what's famous about the city 😂

I was driving back to Coimbatore for the Diwali holidays yesterday. Even a kid would know that the city would be experiencing peak traffic in the evening.

Why would the authorities choose this particular time to demonstrate their sincerity through maintenance work?

They weren't fixing potholes. Instead, they were painting road dividers and cleaning the roads, blocking traffic near the Electronic City flyover.

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@_Aquarelle crazy stuff!

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Got Diwali gifts 🤩

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@madhugogineni97 It’s been a year and a half with this account

Posting on and off

Loving it here because of the quality of the people

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@santoshstack Sales taught me that sales is everything, along with some patience

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@KevinSzabo14 Fact!

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@saloniiio A lot of layoffs are happening due to AI

Access to intelligence is also opening a lot of opportunities at a rate history has never seen before

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@Nehakathare Don't

If you can reduce manual efforts and time, then you're in the right direction

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Wrote a simple email automation script with Apps script on Google sheets for outreach

- Outreach tripled
- Reply rates doubled
- Followups made easy

Lets close some dealssss!!!

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@renegadegenesis @Tristanrhee3 Market first so you actually know if anyone wants it.

Building before demand is just expensive guessing.