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5 Best Paddle Alternatives in 2024

FastSpring

The company handles transactions for sellers of digital products, providing the infrastructure for global online payments while taking responsibility for tax collection and remittance, fraud prevention, and other aspects of the checkout process. The subscription management system doesn’t support multi-product transactions.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Lightspeed Commerce at $750,000,000 in “ARR”

SaaStr

One leader in SMB commerce is Lightspeed Commerce, founded way back in 2005. And their mix of software, payments and hardware revenue drives up the total deal size — but puts a lot of pressure on margins. 39% of their revenues from software, and going down. Subscription fees were essentially flat. #3.

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Subscription Management and What You Should Know

Baremetrics

Read what you should know about subscription management and why it is important in recent times! Many products and services online are beginning to adopt subscription-based systems for their billing processes. Interested in reading about true experiences, challenges, and what the road to success really looks like for businesses?

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Everything You Need to Know About Freemium Pricing

OpenView Labs

Product led businesses need to get their products in the hands of would-be users as efficiently as possible–hopefully at near zero CAC. Not satisfied with reaching $1 billion in annual revenue, Atlassian furthered its commitment to product led growth by jumping on the freemium bandwagon. Freemium benchmarks.

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How To Grow Your Startup By Asking Better Questions

Hitenism

Google Analytics didn’t keep track of users over time which meant it was virtually impossible to track multiple visits, purchases, and subscription payments. When we started Crazy Egg in 2005, it was pretty hard to get new customers without spending money on paid acquisition. Talk To Your Customers.

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Recur Now 9/11: Watch out Apple, Spotify Wants to be #1

ProfitWell

Today's Top Subscription News. Stripe, the online payment processing system for internet businesses, is expanding across Europe. Podcasts can attract new listeners and increase the amount of time people spend on the platform, because audio stories can be accessed on multiple devices and listened to while multitasking.

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The UK Is a Fintech Regulatory Superpower

Andreessen Horowitz

The UK is home to some of the largest payments companies and most successful neobanks in the world, Wise, Starling, and Monzo among them. The UK has had real-time payments since 2005, via the Faster Payments network. Today, consumers in the UK use contactless payments for nearly 90% of face-to-face payment transactions.