FastSpring

DECEMBER 18, 2019

To recap a fantastic year at FastSpring, we want to take a look back at our top 10 blog posts from 2019. As a partner in growth for thousands of software companies around the world, one of our goals is to provide blog content that is helpful, interesting, and informative. Navigating Ecommerce Sales Tax and VAT.

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Stax

JANUARY 24, 2024

This makes the apparent new direction of Intuit, the developer of QuickBooks, symptomatic of the wider transition within the SaaS space towards cloud-based software solutions. Existing QuickBooks Desktop users face the choice of upgrading to a newer version, switching to QuickBooks Online, or exploring alternative accounting software.

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SaaStr

MAY 8, 2021

— Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) September 4, 2020. I felt like when I was a SaaS CEO and had to go profitable, they helped saved my rear. bills, “payment terms”, and often, repeated follow-up. Most start-ups don’t have a good enough finance person or firm to be good at collections.

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Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 13, 2021

Existing customer renewal is a high priority for 59% of SaaS companies and a medium priority for 27%. This article will answer the main questions that SaaS founders and market ers have about losing SaaS customers, in other words, user churn: What is SaaS churn definition and why lowering it matt ers?

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 30, 2020

How do you manage the process of accepting money from your customers? This guide serves as a comprehensive overview of the options available for SaaS businesses. In this guide, we’re going to teach you what you need to know about SaaS billing systems and how to choose them. Payment gateway.

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2021

Shopify, since last year, has nearly tripled in market cap driven by the rise of e-commerce, but also the digital payments and the QR code system they provide for contactless payments. Then if we look at the top five public cloud companies. First up is the incredible growth in cloud multiples.

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

But based on the number of requests for worst-case scenarios we've gotten from customers in the past two weeks, there's a non-zero chance you are losing sleep over this if you are a SaaS founder. We want to help, and I believe my experience with other SaaS companies may be useful to you as you plan out your company’s new future.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

For example, HR and finance SaaS vendor Workday bought Scout RFP (a San Francisco startup with a team of 8) for $540 million. For example, when Instagram bought Luma (its first acquisition), the tiny three-person team was part of the deal. As of 2020, the net worth of Android is estimated to be over $2.5 Key Features.

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 16, 2023

Our hosting costs include service providers like AWS, Cloudflare, MongoDb, Twitter, etc. Merchant Fees At Buffer, we rely on Stripe, Google, and Apple for our payment processing needs. Stripe payments make up 98.5 Google and Apple payments make up 2.5% percent of our total revenue and 83 percent of our fees.

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Incredo

DECEMBER 3, 2019

We have interviewed tens of SaaS community members to understand how they perceive SaaS Christmas promotions. And here are the best answers we have received. #1 Denis Lunev Founder at DepositFix , Payment Integration for HubSpot “ The most expensive time of year to advertise on Google and Facebook is Black Friday and Christmas.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 24, 2020

Without further ado, let's look at nine subscription-based companies absolutely nailing it in 2020. Software-as-a-subscription (SaaS), is the go-to business model for software. The ways in which companies price may vary but all SaaS companies rely on recurring revenue as a business model. 6 Popular Subscription Services in 2020.

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Incredo

DECEMBER 3, 2019

We have interviewed tens of SaaS community members to understand how they perceive SaaS Christmas promotions. And here are the best answers we have received. #1 Denis Lunev Founder at DepositFix , Payment Integration for HubSpot “ The most expensive time of year to advertise on Google and Facebook is Black Friday and Christmas.

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OPEXEngine

JUNE 9, 2020

In this third installment of our blog series ‘React, Adjust, Recover – Strategies for Professional Service Organizations During the COVID-19 Outbreak’, we focus on strategies to help businesses recover faster as restrictions begin to lift. So, what are some of those strategies for professional service organizations?

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Baremetrics

JANUARY 24, 2021

Anyone managing a SaaS or subscription business is aware of customer churn. The Problem In January of 2020, we realized that one of the major problems holding back our company was a customer churn rate of 19%. The graph below, taken from our Baremetrics account, shows our customer churn throughout January 2020.

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FastSpring

JUNE 6, 2024

Xsolla is a merchant of record (MoR) payment provider that serves the video game industry. The platform includes a broad feature set that provides game developers with the infrastructure needed to sell online and accept online payments globally, without having to manage localization, sales tax and VAT, or fraud prevention on their own.

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 2, 2019

More and more SaaS companies are starting to realize how important it is, and so they’re investing more time and effort into it. With 2020 fast approaching, now’s the perfect time to make sure you’re using the right tools for the job. We’re going to look at the five best customer success tools for 2020.

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OPEXEngine

MARCH 15, 2022

In the first 10 years of the SaaS industry, US SaaS companies didn’t need to go overseas to build highly valuable companies. But that dynamic has changed in lockstep with the growth of the SaaS market. High Growth SaaS Companies Get A Significant Portion of Revenues Internationally. Source: OPEXEngine. Market Dynamics.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Manual processes first. Dare I say SaaS.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 9, 2019

From the rise of SaaS to the sudden glut of subscription boxes, the subscription business model has never been more popular. So much so that Gartner research predicts that in 2020, all new entrants to the software market and 80% of existing companies will offer some sort of subscription package. Table of Contents: Do your research.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 24, 2020

2020 is the year of Corona Virus thus far but it’s also the year in which the subscription business model is excelling. We’re taking a look at X popular subscription-based companies and types in 2020. We’re taking a look at X popular subscription-based companies and types in 2020. 6 Popular Subscription Services in 2020.

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 22, 2020

New business pipeline has fallen off a cliff and will likely remain depressed through 2020. And major layoffs have been announced, even among SaaS companies recently touted as possible 2020 IPO candidates. Do you offer functionality that enables companies to successfully work remotely?

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SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. I’m probably the most hated person in the room right now, but please indulge me. More than half of Kenya’s GDP is now transacted through a mobile, through arguably the most successful mobile banking and payment system called M-Pesa. They didn’t have any cell phone credit.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MARCH 25, 2021

Let’s see the process of acquiring new customers. Acquiring your customers is just a first step in the fruitful partnership process and retaining them is the next big thing. Financial Mathematics of a SaaS business model. SaaS business models are different from traditional business models. Let’s talk about why?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. There’s a lot of services. This episode is sponsored by Linode.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

SaaS companies have transformed the way global businesses work. Ever since its inception in the 1960s, SaaS has evolved from a mere time-sharing system to innovative and efficient applications that can be accessed on multiple computers. In this blog we’ll talk about SaaS business and top 50 SaaS companies in 2020.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 6, 2020

We also have 10 must-have features for subscription billing platforms in 2020. Plus, how to price for SaaS success in the new year. 2020: the year of subscription growth and iteration. The “active user” will be a company’s crown jewel , with customer acquisition at top of mind in 2020. Your top subscription news.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

This builds on the first essay in the series of how there has been an increase in interest of SAAS-like models interested in becoming marketplaces over time. In that essay , we also talked about how a more common route for a SaaS business is to become a platform. Integration platforms are ubiquitous in SaaS.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. I’ve worked at multiple high growth SaaS businesses as a growth leader, and the data we’re seeing right now … This is from … is that CAC is increasing both in B2B and B2C, and you’re going to see how that relates, right? Want to see more content like this?

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Hull

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

This guest blog post was written by Aazar Shad, Head of Growth at Userpilot. Different post-payment feature adoption strategies you can use on Facebook. User adoption is the process of making your trial or new customers addicted to your product. This method also works on expansion, retention, churn and user/feature adoption.

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SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2020

Christoph has invested in more than 20 SaaS startups and lives and breathes SaaS, everything from “A as in AI-enhanced B2B software” to “Z as in Zendesk”. In 2008 he became an angel investor and discovered Zendesk, Clio, FreeAgent – and his love for SaaS. Christoph Janz: So what does it take to raise capital in SaaS?

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Incredo

DECEMBER 3, 2019

We have interviewed tens of SaaS community members to understand how they perceive SaaS Christmas promotions. And here are the best answers we have received. #1 Denis Lunev Founder at DepositFix , Payment Integration for HubSpot “ The most expensive time of year to advertise on Google and Facebook is Black Friday and Christmas.

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yoursales

JANUARY 28, 2022

When it comes to sales technology quite often sales tech isn't picked based on what YOU need, but based on what your network have been using for their sales process. What you should be making decisions based on is, which sales processes generates the best outcomes you're after - and for your customers.

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020. For those of you who did not clap, Stripe is a set of developer APIs that help businesses accept payments online and do all sorts of innovative things in moving money in the cloud. Want to see more content like this session? FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW. Vicki Lin – Head of Ecosystem @ Stripe.

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yoursales

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Sales Stack 2020. SALES STACK 2020: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2020: THE TOOLS. W elcome to "Sales Stack 2020 - Sales Tools for Professional Sales". Enabling the right customer journey with sales tools that power your sales process has been high on our agenda for years. Sales Tools for Professional Sales.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Free services must meet users’ basic needs, while also encouraging them to upgrade to the paid version once those basic needs are met. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. We are an early stage VC, mostly focused on SaaS all over Europe and and beyond. Want to see more content like this? Joaquim Lecha | CEO @Typeform. My pleasure.

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yoursales

DECEMBER 23, 2019

SALES STACK 2020. W elcome to "Sales Stack 2020 - Sales Tools for Professional Sales". Enabling the right customer journey with sales tools that power your sales process has been high on our agenda for years. Now, in 2020, there really aren't any reasons to believe that will change. What do we mean with "best"?

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ProfitWell

MARCH 3, 2020

Then, we hear from Kyle Poyar over at OpenView on bringing sales into a self-service business. And finally, the evolution of B2B SaaS billing. Call your fellow CEOs or Chief People Officers in your portfolio peer group, or peruse online and read documents. I love to see companies start by really honing that self-service motion.

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