FastSpring

OCTOBER 25, 2023

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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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The ultimate goal of any developer with an idea for some useful software is monetization. Software monetization is simply the act of generating revenue from software. Let’s say you have developed an app that provides enough value to potential clients that you can charge money for its use. Payment ii.

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FastSpring

MARCH 14, 2023

You have to consider: Whether or not you’re required to collect and remit indirect tax (SaaS companies didn’t always have to remit indirect taxes, however, many countries now have new tax laws that target non-resident software companies). That’s why most businesses turn to tax software and/or tax consultants to help them manage indirect tax.

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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. In this article, we’ll break down two popular terms used in the payment processing industry—ISV and PayFac —and see what they exactly mean.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Revenue refers to the total earnings a company generates through its core operations like sales of products or services, rents on a property, recurring payments , interest on borrowings, etc. This model is common in a software and specialized content context. The Future of Revenue: Subscription Revenue.

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Stax

AUGUST 26, 2024

The year 2024 is a special one for everyone at Stax because we’re celebrating a decade of transforming the payments industry and supporting our merchants and partners with innovative technologies and unwavering support. ” The early years (2014-2018) The first four years of Stax were the quintessential startup experience.

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Stax

JANUARY 24, 2024

There’s been a lot of discussion in recent months about the apparent phase-out of QuickBooks Desktop software. Will I still be able to use my existing QuickBooks Desktop software? Do I need to transition to a new system altogether? Intuit also announced plans to stop selling several QuickBooks Desktop subscriptions to new U.S.

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 16, 2023

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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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

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.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

We spoke to Buffer’s CEO Joel Gascoigne about his experience building Buffer and the role and place subscription data plays for the company. For the first 2-3 years of Buffer’s existence, Joel and his team did not need a specialized solution for subscription analytics. The Solution: Invest in a revamped data infrastructure.

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Subscription Flow

MAY 16, 2024

Did you know that the value of all card payments grew to more than $8 trillion in 2018? A major payment gateway that handled all this was CardConnect. A few important reasons why businesses flocked to CardPointe was because it simplified the payment process for their end consumer. What is CardPointe?

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FastSpring

MAY 30, 2019

We’ve all heard how effective subscriptions can be for growing companies. 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. What is Annual Recurring Revenue?

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FastSpring

JANUARY 29, 2020

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 five ecommerce payment trends shaping 2020? Push for smarter payment processing. More businesses will transition to a subscription model.

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Stax

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Worldpay stands as a leading global payments company, offering a comprehensive suite of payment processing solutions to merchants and financial institutions across the globe. With a robust presence in over 146 countries, Worldpay is equipped with a team of seasoned experts who bring extensive experience in the payments industry.

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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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Chart Mogul

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

First came the race to 99 cents, then the rise of freemium and in-app purchase models. In 2016, Apple rolled out expanded support for the subscription model in iOS apps — suggesting that subscriptions were the future for publishers on the App Store. So what’s the state of play in 2018?

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FastSpring

MAY 30, 2019

We’ve all heard how effective subscriptions can be for growing companies. 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. What is Annual Recurring Revenue?

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 17, 2020

Nowadays, it seems like you can buy just about anything on a recurring monthly plan: razors, clothing, knick-knacks, candles, etc. Over the past decade, ecommerce subscription companies have doubled down on the subscription model to monetize their relationships with customers. What are ecommerce subscription companies?

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SaaSOptics

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

There’s a reason most late payments are rewarded with fines: cash is king, and companies need to know when they can expect to be paid. In this post, we’ll discuss the main tool companies use to manage these delayed payments and mitigate potential damage to their cash flow: the Accounts Receivable (AR) Aging report.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

This allows anyone building an app that applies blockchain technology to do so by building directly on top of QuikNode’s globally distributed Web3 infrastructure. Trusted by top blockchain projects, QuikNode has launched over 3,000 nodes and has been helping advance the blockchain ecosystem since 2018. Table of Contents.

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Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 13, 2021

However, the subscription business model can’t survive if you keep on acquiring new custo mers but the old ones keep on walking away. The period refers to a month or year depending on which payment option you offer or which of them is more popular. Software companies that serve large organizations experience a 6-10% churn rate.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 18, 2020

A 2018 survey found that nearly half of companies make 50–74% of all their corporate purchases online. Streamlining how other businesses buy products, software, and services free up employees within a business to tackle different tasks when they’ve historically been tied up in lengthy sales meetings and demos.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 1, 2021

Games as a Service refers to games that operate without initial purchasing costs and instead, make their profits on subscriptions or in-game purchases. Features like unique billing and subscription services have completely shifted the gaming business model. Games as a Service Payment Options. What Is Games as a Service (GaaS)?

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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. So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey. Transcript.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The subscription universe is taking over. From hygiene products to software to bacon (yes, bacon), you can purchase a subscription for just about anything today. It’s a mutually beneficial system. What is the subscription-based economy? How does the subscription-based economy work?

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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. What is subscription marketing?

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

More recently, in the summer of 2018, Google added mobile page speed as a ranking factor in their mobile search results as well. You can have the fastest website on earth, but unless you’re easy to find, selling something people actually want, and have the ability to process payments, you won’t make a dime. That’s right.

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How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Whether you are a content creator who’s new to live streaming and don’t know which is the best streaming software available in the market, or a business owner who live stream with their customers or connection to teach, train, sell or connect and makes primary revenue source through it. What is Live Streaming Software?

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 31, 2019

But in keeping with the Halloween theme, I’m going to discuss five key factors in ecommerce that you don’t want to come back to haunt your software company. Effective May 25th, 2018, this regulation applied to all companies holding the personal data of data subjects residing in the European Union, regardless of the company’s location.

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FastSpring

JUNE 19, 2019

Alibaba has the most comprehensive ecosystem of commerce platforms, logistics & payment to support the digital transformation of the retail sector,” he said. One of the reasons may be because of the privacy scandal that rocked Facebook in 2018. “You’ve got regulatory – which was GDPR in 2018.

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BrightBack

JANUARY 17, 2022

But in practice, being best-in-class at digital retention is a key challenge for most startups and enterprises, as it requires significant engineering to connect 3 to 5 systems of record (e.g.

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Natalia Luneva

APRIL 24, 2025

Imagine cutting years off payment system setup. The number of Payment Facilitators (PayFacs) has grown 13.8% each year since 2018. For businesses, this means they can use payment systems without starting from scratch. PayFac as a Service lets companies add payment processing to their platforms.

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Outseta

AUGUST 31, 2018

By Geoff Roberts 5 min read With some vacation time now in our rearview we’re heading towards the home stretch of 2018, making it the perfect time to fill you in on what we’ve been up to at Outseta since our July company update. We now support Stripe as a payment gateway. Here’s the latest and what’s to come.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

In the quest for finding scalable ways to help customers realize more value out of the software they buy, more and more software companies are turning to customer education. The biggest trend I see emerging in Europe, which started at the end of 2018 is Customer Success Plans becoming a staple asset of Customer Success teams.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Let’s take a closer look at the Guides system. Although these can vary from time to time, examples of the incentives include: early access to new Google products free music trials discounted video services storage space partner perks digital newspaper subscriptions t-shirts and socks. What Are Google Guides?

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SaaStr

JULY 18, 2019

It happened through experimentation: from extensive A/B testing (with over 500 marketing tests completed in 2018), to testing crazy brand videos (which have garnered over 200 million views and was named the only ad campaign that truly mattered in 2018 by Adweek), to constant iteration and expansion of the business model.

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BrightBack

APRIL 6, 2020

The subscription industry is facing intense change as the landscape matures and companies race to stop customer churn related to the Covid-19 pandemic. The subscription industry is entering a retention-led phase of growth. The subscription industry is entering a retention-led phase of growth.

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