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FastSpring at SaaStock USA 2024!

FastSpring

Since 2016, SaaStock has helped more founders, investors, and operators connect, learn, and grow than any other SaaS conference globally. Through interactive roundtable discussions and refreshment breaks, you’ll be able to share ideas, brainstorm solutions to your most pressing challenges, and form meaningful connections.

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How Adopting Mobile Payments Can Help Your Business Grow in 2024

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Fast forward to now where much has changed, and research anticipates contactless mobile payments to exceed one billion users globally by 2024. Customers can pay with their watch or phone just by tapping it on a card reader, and businesses can host an entire POS system on a mobile phone.

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Choosing the Right Billing System for Your SaaS Business [Updated for 2020]

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So you're building an awesome subscription business — great! Building your own billing system can be a world of pain, risk and complexity, so what options are out there for integrating a third party product? Billing is the lifeline of your subscription business. The importance of a billing system shouldn’t scare you, though.

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Our New Transparent Pricing Dashboard: Where Your Money Goes When You Buy a Buffer Subscription

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We’ve shared a number of parts of Buffer’s business transparently over the years — and one piece we’ve always wanted to expand on is where your money goes when you pay for a Buffer subscription. This means our software is hosted on the cloud and used over an internet connection via a web browser or mobile app.

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Is it Really ARR? In 2021+, Yes. As Long As NRR is > 100%

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50% revenue from software (recurring), 50% from payments (not-recurring). . Half of its revenues comes from its software. Well, if it were 2016, we’d say no. With an incredible 121% NRR from SMBs, it all essentially recurs. And yes, it’s a software company. But it isn’t.

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Epic Games Versus The App Store: A Fight for Autonomy and Freedom in the Ecommerce Era

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Note: Apple announced that it would be reducing the App Store fee from 30% to 15% for most developers starting on January 1st, 2021. For app entrepreneurs and ecommerce store owners, the battle to be noticed in the marketplace is ongoing. How viable is it for companies to shop their apps outside of mainstream marketplaces?

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5 Interesting Learnings from Toast at $500m in ARR, and a $3B Total Run Rate

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And they are both incredibly impressive — 118% growth at $3B run-rate and $500m in ARR in software alone may be an all-time record — but also, perhaps not SaaS? #1. With gross margins of only 21%, is Toast really a software company? Wix just has more software revenue to blend the total margins higher.