Blackthorn.io Achieves SOC 2 Type 2 Compliance! 🎊

We’re thrilled to announce that Blackthorn.io is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant! Unrelenting Security: Passing with Flying Colors The SOC 2 audit is a rigorous, multi-month process. We partnered with the industry experts at SecureFrame to design custom tests that met every applicable SOC 2 control requirement. Then, independent auditors meticulously reviewed our systems and […]

Blackthorn.io Raises $16M to Fuel Growth and Innovation in the Salesforce AppExchange

Blackthorn.io continues to focus on our evergreen stability initiatives to provide the best, most reliable events and payments experience on Salesforce. Salesforce users worldwide, from nonprofit organizations to higher education institutions, have implemented Salesforce technology into their operations to digitize processes and collect information critical for customer engagement, retention, and revenue in a modern application. […]

Blackthorn.io Announces Blackthorn Events, Blackthorn Payments, and Blackthorn Compliance Have Been Enabled with AppExchange Chat

Customers can now connect with Blackthorn.io directly to get their questions answered in real-time. New York, Oct 22, 2021 Blackthorn.io, a leading developer of Salesforce-native apps, announced it has embedded AppExchange Chat functionality within Blackthorn Events, Blackthorn Payments, and Blackthorn Compliance on Salesforce AppExchange, empowering customers to connect with Blackthorn experts in real-time and make better […]

New Brand. Same Company. Next-Level Support

Wow! Over the last 18 months we’ve received amazing feedback from you, our customers and partners, about and how our apps are making payment processing and event management easier. Your success is what drives our business, so we’ve used those insights to inspire even more innovation and improvements for you. We feel it’s important to […]

Pledge 1%

“There’s no prize for the richest person in the graveyard” is one of my favorite expressions. I believe an allocation of funds should go to helping others and our planet. As such, Blackthorn is pledging 1%, following in the footsteps of Salesforce.com and Marc Benioff’s “1-1-1” pledge, in pledging 1% of: Employee time Product (our […]

5 Virtual Holiday Experiences for Teams or Customers

Being part of a team that’s always been 100% remote, I cherish the times we get to connect virtually. Our team gets together via Zoom every Friday afternoon for a Happy Hour game. Last week, the subject came up about doing something fun for the holidays and it made me realize there are probably a […]

Thoughts on our first company trip

Wow. It was awesome. 16 people flew from 9 US states plus India, China, and Spain to meet in Orlando for 8 days. We’ve been in business for four years. To date, we’ve never all met in-person. Some of us have never met outside of video chat. We’ve also doubled our team size in the […]

Four Tips To Bring Teams Together When You’re Apart

Written By Kristen Hicks, tips curated by the Blackthorn team. I worked in a traditional office setting for over ten years before becoming a remote coworker. If there’s one thing I’m grateful for right now aside from healthy family, friends, and coworkers of course is that work-life hasn’t changed drastically due to recent social distancing […]

Scaling Billing In Salesforce for SaaS Companies

I was recently on a call with the founder of a Salesforce Implementation company new to Blackthorn, explaining how our customers and our own company use our Payments app to automate our subscription billing processes. Chris. Wow. This is so intuitive and so easy. I want to use it myself, let alone offer it to […]

Blackthorn.io is a Certified Great Place to Work!

Blackthorn.io Earns 2021 Great Place to Work Certification New York, NY Blackthorn.io is proud to now be Certified as a Great Place to Work! The prestigious award is based entirely on what current employees say about their experience working at Blackthorn.io. This year, 100% of Blackthorn.io employees said it’s a great place to work 41 […]