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Cyber Weekend Benchmarking Data: 2023 SaaS and Software Holiday Spend Report

FastSpring

Q4 sales numbers usually outperform the rest of the year thanks to year-end holidays and their associated shopping cycles — but how much does that trend carry over into software and SaaS sales? We’ve analyzed aggregate sales data to give you insights into just how important Q4 can be for your software, SaaS, or other digital goods business.

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7 Predictions for SaaS in 2018

Tom Tunguz

Several landscape altering SaaS acquisitions will come to fruition because of cash availability from repatriation and because there are enough public SaaS companies at scale to add material revenue and market cap to buyers. Blockchain in the enterprise takes the reign as the buzzword for 2018. Some ideas: Google buys Salesforce.

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29 Latin American SaaS Superstars

SaaStock

The Latin American SaaS landscape is hustling and bustling, having seen more IPOs in the last 6 months than the previous 20 years combined. We will gather 300 leading SaaS founders, executives and investors for three days packed with opportunities and rich exchange of knowledge to push the whole ecosystem forward. Founded : 2011.

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Know Your Customer (KYC): What It Is and How to Comply

Stax

That’s the amount of non-cash payments made in the U.S. Financial crime can take on several faces, including (cyber) fraud, cryptocurrency scams, and money laundering—and companies offering financial services can lose out on serious bucks. in 2021, according to the Federal Reserve. Request Quote What Exactly is KYC? Within the U.S.,

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Is Quickbooks Desktop Being Phased Out?

Stax

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. When it’s become so easy for users to access and share data remotely and sync changes in real-time, desktop applications are appearing increasingly cumbersome.

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ISV vs PayFac: The Similarities and Differences Between Independent Software Vendors and Payment Facilitators

Stax

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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Lowering your SaaS Churn Rate: The Ultimate List of Tips and Suggestions

Natalia Luneva

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?