Neil Patel

JANUARY 1, 2021

Games as a Service acts as a continuous revenue service for developers, allowing them to break their reliance on the one-time purchase. Games as a Service refers to games that operate without initial purchasing costs and instead, make their profits on subscriptions or in-game purchases. Games as a Service Payment Options.

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Collibra provides a cross-organizational data governance and catalog platform that helps companies maximize the value of their data. Kustomer ’s customer management platform combines data from various sources and allows companies to offer an intelligent, powerful and flexible service. Founded: 2012. Based in: New York. Founded: 2008.

SaaS Payments 271

SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 271

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. This knowledge makes it easy to predict revenue growth for the future and track how customers’ perception of value changes over time. Why is this model so popular?

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Payment Features Payments Subscription Trends 49

BrightBack

JANUARY 17, 2022

Factor in the huge uptick in global demand for online subscriptions services that arose through the pandemic, and we see that succeeding at retention has never been more important, and becomes a key differentiator for those who do it.

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FastSpring

MARCH 14, 2023

For example, software sold as a subscription and hosted on a cloud-based server may be taxed differently than software sold as a subscription but hosted on the seller’s private, physical servers. We simply provide you with a complete payment solution and take care of sales tax, VAT, and GST for you.

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Payment Solutions Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Methods 82

ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

An automatic subscription renewal charge for a subscription you’re no longer using or that you don't even remember signing up for. Even worse, you go to cancel your subscription, only to discover it's nearly impossible. What is a subscription renewal? Shipping the product to customers (for ecommerce subscriptions).

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 8, 2020

In 2018, they launched it globally, and the service took off like a rocket. In this post, I’ll dive deep into how to use Facebook Watch for marketing, now that the platform has matured. Facebook is still experimenting with different content types by adding, subtracting, and tweaking to find the right balance for their platform.

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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 Challenge: Buffer was amassing “reporting debt”.

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Payment Solutions Payment Features Payments Social Media 113

Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 27, 2017

What's the difference between bookings and revenue? Revenue recognition. ASC 606 and its sister standard IFRS 15 bring a set of structured guidelines for recognizing revenue -- here's what every SaaS business needs to know to meet the deadline and get compliant. Cash is not revenue. What is ASC 606?

Payments 45

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services Deferred Revenue 45

FastSpring

JANUARY 29, 2020

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. What’s even more staggering is that online sales via smartphone are up 46% from 2018. A push for smarter payment processing.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Solutions 80

OPEXEngine

MAY 3, 2022

This SaaS metric is defined as the sum of Deferred Revenue and Backlog. Deferred Revenue for SaaS companies is the contractual obligation to deliver the SaaS product for the period invoiced. More specifically, RPO is the sum of the invoiced amount and the future amounts not yet invoiced for a contract with a customer.

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Deferred Revenue Metrics SaaS Payments Payment Features 59

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.

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Subscription Payment Features Payment Methods Marketing 64

SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Collibra provides a cross-organizational data governance and catalog platform that helps companies maximize the value of their data. Kustomer ’s customer management platform combines data from various sources and allows companies to offer an intelligent, powerful and flexible service. Founded: 2012. Based in: New York. Founded: 2008.

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SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 100

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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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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Payment Methods Payments Payment Features Merchant Services 12

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

CustomerSuccessBox

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The net revenue retention rate which you may also state as the net retention rate in SaaS businesses is an indicator that depicts the profits and the revenue earned by the business. Ultimately, the purpose of generating revenue is what gets you in the business loop. Why is it important?

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 6, 2018

Spotify's recent F-1 filing is packed full of metrics and insights into both consumer subscriptions and the streaming music industry. This somewhat risky direct listing is likely to be a benchmark for other future public listings in 2018, with the likes of Airbnb predicted to follow suit if all goes to plan. in 2015 to €5.32

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Payments Metrics EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) SaaS Payments 75

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

And with the field having undergone a couple of “ knockout expansion years ,” with more revenue pouring into SaaS than ever, it has never been a better time for a young SaaS company. The SaaS business model powering all of this activity is startlingly unique, still young, and inextricably tied to the power of cloud computing.

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Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

FastSpring

DECEMBER 18, 2020

As of 2019, B2B ecommerce sales globally have surpassed $12 trillion in revenue. According to Statista, B2B sales are now 6X larger than the business-to-consumer (B2C) market. A 2018 survey found that nearly half of companies make 50–74% of all their corporate purchases online. In this piece, we’re going to explore.

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Payment Methods B2B Outsourcing Services Payment Services 147

Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

Trusted by top blockchain projects, QuikNode has launched over 3,000 nodes and has been helping advance the blockchain ecosystem since 2018. Background In 2017 and 2018, many new blockchain projects started offering their tokens for sale. When business picked up later that year, the team decided to go full-time and raise money.

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Blockchain Payment Solutions Artificial Intelligence Payment Services 90

Chart Mogul

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

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? Apple takes 30% of revenue for the first year of user’s subscription. So what does the landscape look like today?

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions Subscription Payment Features 60

FastSpring

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The GDPR outlines a set of policies that protect European Union residents by establishing a new framework for handling and processing personal data. 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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Payment Methods Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 63

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 Challenge: Buffer was amassing “reporting debt”.

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Payment Solutions Payment Features Payments Outsourcing Services 52

FastSpring

AUGUST 11, 2020

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. Subscription services are what customers want. What are the advantages of using subscriptions as a revenue model?

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Payment Features Payments Payment Methods Subscription 83

BrightBack

JUNE 30, 2020

Today Brightback is launching Experience Manager in beta, a way subscription managers can easily implement retention tactics we’ve rigorously tested with direct-to-consumer and SaaS businesses over the past 18 months. 2020 is a watershed moment for customer retention. What’s coming: Retention experiments that drive results.

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Payments Management Payment Methods SaaS Payments 52

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. We had about $ 25 ,000 to $ 100,000 in recurring revenue at that time a month.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Churn Payment Services 105

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 an effective lead generation, conversion, and revenue driving strategy for your recurring revenue-based business?

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Pricing Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 82

FastSpring

JUNE 19, 2019

Data is now fundamental to how people work & the most successful companies have intelligently integrated it into everyone’s daily workflow,” he said. Alibaba Executive Vice Chairman Joe Tsai said millions of small businesses are now using the platform. “You’ve got regulatory – which was GDPR in 2018.

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Payment Methods Trends Payments Payment Services 69

Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 19, 2017

We kicked off 2017 by announcing our integration with GoCardless. This allowed GoCardless customers to import their billing data to ChartMogul and start analyzing customers and revenue. On our blog we also explored the topic of moving up market in SaaS and how businesses might tackle this without losing their soul.

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Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Scale 58

Baremetrics

MARCH 23, 2020

Typically it’s referring to users or revenue lost and is usually represented with either a percentage or dollar amount. Or if you said you had $2,000 in monthly revenue churn, that means you lost $2,000 in monthly recurring revenue from either customer cancellations or downgrades. So, when should you start worrying?

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Churn Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 145

FastSpring

JANUARY 31, 2023

To help you choose between Stripe vs. Paddle vs. FastSpring, this guide compares: What areas of the payment lifecycle each one provides a solution for (e.g., payment processing, gathering and remitting taxes, and subscription management) and what additional software you’ll need to add to your tech stack.

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Payment Services Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Features 112

Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

Selling has changed since Predictable Revenue was published. In 2002, Aaron Ross's Predictable Revenue playbook from his time at Salesforce was published. It shared the repeatable process to operationalize sales, particularly sales development. Here comes the problem with the Predictable Revenue playbook.

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SaaS Payments Technical Advisors Engineering Payment Solutions 77

Outseta

APRIL 30, 2019

We deliberately set out to build tools to serve the lower end of this market, intercepting companies shortly after they’re founded and scaling with them until they reach about $5M in annual recurring revenue (ARR). And your customers will be subjected to pricing increases less frequently as you work to monetize your customer base.

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Payments Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Scale 40

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 133

ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

AI has been a buzzword for a while and many businesses jumped onto the bandwagon by integrating AI into the customer journey, but customers still want to deal with a human, particularly if they need advice or help with something complex that they cannot solve on their own (i.e. In 2019 there will be an increase in subscription fatigue.

Customer Success 73

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 73

ProfitWell

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Why is it so hard to define an average churn rate—and what does that mean for your subscription business? 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. Let’s find out. What is the average churn rate?

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