ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Ever since John Koenig first coined the term “SaaS” back in 2005, the software-as-a-service industry has been one of the fastest-moving and creative in the world. The SaaS business model powering all of this activity is startlingly unique, still young, and inextricably tied to the power of cloud computing. Recurring payments.

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FastSpring

AUGUST 11, 2020

The way we purchase products is changing—and so are our business models. When it comes to software and online purchases, those transactions are increasingly moving to a subscription-based model, where customers put their purchases on autopilot so they can have continuous access to SaaS products. The best part?

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Payment Features Payments Payment Methods Subscription 93

FastSpring

JANUARY 25, 2019

This way, we can ensure that we’re not only improving our ecommerce solution to better meet your needs, but also the ever-changing demands of the digital economy. Want to learn more about the 5 ecommerce payments trends shaping 2019? In 2018, Cyber Monday online sales totaled $7.9 A push for smarter payment processing.

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Payment Methods Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions 62

Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In this episode, a16z partner Seema Amble talks with Dimitri Dadiomov, the co-founder and CEO of payment operations platform Modern Treasury, about the challenges of creating a new category, hiring for marketing before you hire for sales, and why developing new features is similar to birding. And that was the origin story.

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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services Payments 105

Stax

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

According to the Pew Research Institute , in 2022, a whopping 41% of Americans said they don’t use cash at all for any of their weekly purchases—a significant jump from 29% in 2018. FIS Global reports that in Norway, Sweden, and other Scandinavian countries, more than 90% of transactions processed at point-of-sale (POS) in 2023 were cashless.

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Payment Services Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Methods 88

FastSpring

MAY 30, 2019

Perhaps one of the biggest benefits of implementing a subscription model is that it allows software companies to avoid the unpredictability of one-time sales by guaranteeing a steady stream of revenue. With such a big push for subscriptions, it’s important that your digital business has a firm understanding of SaaS metrics.

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Payments Finance Subscription Payment Features 62

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

I was working on a startup that was an early mobile payment platform. It was basically using Bluetooth and an app on PalmPilots to do wireless payments in restaurants. And there’s a lot of benefit to running a software as a service, in general. So if you’re ERP, boom, Workday.

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SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 259

ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

From hygiene products to software to bacon (yes, bacon), you can purchase a subscription for just about anything today. Why is this model so popular? It’s a mutually beneficial system. This knowledge makes it easy to predict revenue growth for the future and track how customers’ perception of value changes over time.

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Payment Features Payments Subscription Trends 49

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

Editor’s Note: This article was first published on August 9, 2018. Product led businesses need to get their products in the hands of would-be users as efficiently as possible–hopefully at near zero CAC. Is Freemium The Right Business Model? Deciding between paid and free models isn’t just about what’s appealing.

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Pricing Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 82

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Check out this 2018 Europa session with Guillaume Princen, Head of France and Southern Europe @ Stripe, where he talks about the metrics you need to be focused on in your startup. Or maybe ARR, depending on your model. Average Revenue per Customer. The last kind of constituent here is investors and business owners.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

A bulletproof subscription renewal and revenue recovery process is something every SaaS founder should strive for—the right renewal process can boost your bottom line and ensure that customers stick with your company for the long haul. For example, SaaS customers pay a monthly or annual subscription fee for access to software.

Payment Features 49

Payment Features Subscription Payment Methods Merchant Services 49

FastSpring

MAY 30, 2019

Perhaps one of the biggest benefits of implementing a subscription model is that it allows software companies to avoid the unpredictability of one-time sales by guaranteeing a steady stream of revenue. With such a big push for subscriptions, it’s important that your digital business has a firm understanding of SaaS metrics.

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Finance Subscription Payment Features Payments 67

Baremetrics

JANUARY 24, 2021

Transitioning to SaaS On January 1st 2020, we transitioned the company out of a strategic partnership (we were operating the platform under a non SaaS business model!). We were looking to relaunch the user-driven, SaaS side of our businesses. This means that our revenue churn was very low.

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Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 13, 2021

This obsession with getting new customers is natural: the more customers you convert, the more revenue you will make. However, the subscription business model can’t survive if you keep on acquiring new custo mers but the old ones keep on walking away. In the inner cycle, they are. 3 Educate, educate, educate.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Churn Payment Services 105

ProfitWell

JANUARY 17, 2020

Over the past decade, ecommerce subscription companies have doubled down on the subscription model to monetize their relationships with customers. That’s why we’ve put together the platforms, tools, and strategies you need to make subscriptions work for your company. It’s one of the truest forms of monetized relationships.

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Payment Methods Payments Payment Features Merchant Services 12

SaaStr

JULY 18, 2019

Lucidchart has been recognized as one of the most mature Product Lead Growth business models in the market, driving over 700,000 registrations per month, combined with a hyper-efficient B2B business model. I’m the CEO and one of the co founders at Lucid Software. Here is our original payment page.

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Marketing Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments 107

Chargify

MARCH 6, 2018

The company has both a B2C product for parents and a B2B product for private tuition businesses (in the U.S. they’re more often referred to as “tutor businesses”). The B2B product allows tuition businesses to add numerous student accounts, which scales easily as their businesses grow. EdPlace, 2018.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. Hear about the early days of Glassdoor; tactical lessons on scaling—from building a business model and recruiting an all-star management team to advice on building a compelling, innovative company culture; and learn whyGlassdoor’s $1.2

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Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 124

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

So I’m providing an updated model for SaaS CEOs and founders looking to improve their financial model from a number-crunching exercise to an operational tool. This model allowed me to work with dozens of SaaS startups using spreadsheets, while we built our financial modeling software Flightpath. Operating Model.

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Deferred Revenue SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Services 111

ProfitWell

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Some companies report revenue churn, others only share customer or user churn numbers, and often there’s no distinction between whether churn numbers are annual or monthly. I mean, just take a look at all these different surveys: A 2018 KBCM Technology Group survey reported a median annual revenue churn rate of 13.2%

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ProfitWell

MARCH 9, 2020

The subscription business model has seen an immense rise in popularity in recent years, and with good reason. The subscription-based economy grew 350% between 2012 and 2019, and subscription businesses grew revenues about five times faster than S&P 500 company revenues during that time. Convenience.

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Subscription Payment Features Payment Methods Marketing 64

BetterCloud

AUGUST 16, 2018

This was originally presented at the Google Washington DC HQ Tech Talk on August 7th, 2018. And while there is a focus on G Suite security, I’m happy to answer questions about how to secure any system using these tips. In fact, they explicitly acknowledge that routine password changes make your systems LESS secure.

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