SaaStr

JULY 4, 2022

2018’s Top 50 Acquisitions in SaaS. Unless there is a huge earn-out or retention payment tied to performance, the pressure is off. E.g., to be the head of all business services, or all web something or other. Contingent payments incent — and modify — behavior. It’s a lot of change. The pressure is off.

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SaaS Payments New CTO Payment Solutions Payments 297

SaaStr

APRIL 6, 2021

Growth fueled by the addition of transactional revenue, not SaaS revenues. Olo’s explosive growth in the past 24 months prior to IPO wasn’t fueled so much by its SaaS revenue, but by transaction revenue as part of orders. As last as 2018, 93% of Olo’s revenue was pure SaaS. Billion valuation today.

Merchant Services 245

Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payments Payment Services 245

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.

Payment Services 147

Payment Services Payment Methods Merchant Services Software Review 147

SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

As we first looked at bringing our leading SaaS conference to Asia and considered what help we could offer, we thought about localization and know-how about legal and cultural differences as some of the critical success factors. SaaS Investments: Goodera, and others. SaaS Investments: Ezetap, and others. Founded: 2001.

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SaaS Payments Venture Capital Payment Services Telecommunications 190

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.

SaaS Payments 159

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Software Review Payment Methods 159

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.

Payment Services 88

Payment Services Merchant Services Stax Payment Solutions 88

FastSpring

MAY 20, 2024

Moving some, all, or simply more of your software offerings from a one-time perpetual license model to a software as a service (SaaS) subscription model can be daunting, but it’s so powerful for building dependable, recurring revenue. Are you looking for a merchant of record that will partner with you to grow your SaaS business?

SaaS Payments 158

SaaS Payments Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions 158

FastSpring

MARCH 8, 2024

SocialBee , a social media management platform and SaaS based in Romania, first started using FastSpring in 2018. However, as SocialBee utilizes many different ways to package and monetize their software as a service subscriptions, they began discovering new ways to test the FastSpring platform’s capabilities.

Merchant Services 159

Merchant Services Payments Subscription Payment Features 159

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 the first question is what made SaaS so successful. Customers love SaaS products and tools because it simply works. They love SaaS products.

SaaS Payments 246

SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 246

Stax

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

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. While internationally CDD can be seen as a key component of KYC compliance, within the U.S.,

Merchant Services 88

Merchant Services Payment Services Systems Review Technical Review 88

FastSpring

MARCH 14, 2023

It takes an enormous amount of time, money, and headcount for SaaS companies to handle VAT, GST, and sales tax (and any other form of indirect tax) in-house. Because of this, most SaaS companies end up calculating indirect tax outside of the U.S. Note: Some tax consultants specialize in sales tax compliance in the U.S.

Payment Solutions 116

Payment Solutions Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Methods 116

FastSpring

DECEMBER 18, 2020

It’s easy to think of online sales as a marketplace where we buy items for ourselves, but more and more B2B and SaaS sales are now happening online. A 2018 survey found that nearly half of companies make 50–74% of all their corporate purchases online. Let’s get selling! What Is B2B Ecommerce?

Payment Methods 148

Payment Methods B2B Outsourcing Services Payment Services 148

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. Licensing : A form of renting out goods and services, usually of intellectual nature.

Payments 112

Payments Payment Methods Payment Features Payment Services 112

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.

Merchant Services 40

Merchant Services PayFac as a Service Payment Services Marketplace as a Service 40

Buffer Resources

AUGUST 16, 2023

Our Average Sale Price (ASP) in 2014 was $13, while our total Operating Costs were $3,575,897. In 2022, our ASP was $20, and our Operating Costs hit $19,757,852. While our total Operating Expenses have increased by 452 percent in the last nine years, our ASP has only increased by 54 percent during the same timeframe.

Payment Services 98

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Features Payments 98

Frontegg

JUNE 3, 2021

“Your application has been hacked” is probably one of the last lines a SaaS executive wants to hear today. Let’s learn more about password hacking and how to ensure secure SaaS authentication standards with proper user management. Twitter experienced a disastrous password exploit in May 2018, which impacted more than 300 million users.

Payment Methods 119

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments 119

SaaStock

MARCH 5, 2019

Christina Villa had a simple launch plan for Cledara: do it at the SaaStock Startup stage on October 16th, 2018. Cledara was going to solve the problem of companies having too many SaaS subscriptions that were increasingly difficult to keep track of. She had quit her job four months earlier and incorporated the company in London.

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Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 13, 2021

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?

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Churn Payment Services 105

FastSpring

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Throughout this tumultuous year, we have witnessed incredible resiliency, change, and growth in the global marketplace for software, SaaS, and digital products. We’re excited to announce that we have acquired SalesRight, a SaaS solution that provides innovative quoting and pricing tools for forward-thinking software sales teams.

Payment Methods 107

Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Software 107

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Since the original version of this post from early 2017, we’ve worked with many more SaaS companies and a common theme has been moving companies from a starter template to a more robust financial model. This model allowed me to work with dozens of SaaS startups using spreadsheets, while we built our financial modeling software Flightpath.

Deferred Revenue 111

Deferred Revenue SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Services 111

FastSpring

MARCH 5, 2019

But what do you need to know to ensure that your business operations will be successful, sustainable, and compliant? The truth is, the application of sales tax for digital products – and SaaS products especially – varies widely. However, in the wake of the June 2018 Supreme Court ruling in Wayfair vs. South Dakota , this may change.

Payment Methods 89

Payment Methods Payment Services Payments SaaS Payments 89

yoursales

JANUARY 28, 2022

When it comes to sales technology quite often sales tech isn't picked based on what YOU need, but based on what your network have been using for their sales process. What you should be making decisions based on is, which sales processes generates the best outcomes you're after - and for your customers. Buyer Enablement.

Scale 113

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 113

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 22, 2018

Fast forward to today, and Eventbrite is the world’s largest self-service event ticketing and registration platform – processing more than 3 million tickets each week. Going back a bit, Brian was a co-founder at SkillSlate, a local services marketplaces similar to Thumbtack. now Homeadvisor).

Marketplace as a Service 189

Marketplace as a Service Scale Payment Solutions Payment Services 189

Stax

JANUARY 24, 2024

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. Note that this differs from the service discontinuation of the 2021 versions of QuickBooks desktop. This practice is also referred to as “sunsetting.”

Payment Solutions 88

Payment Solutions Payment Features Payment Services Payment Methods 88

Payrix

JUNE 25, 2024

Embedded Finance is more than just a buzzword; it represents a fundamental shift in how financial services are delivered and consumed today. Ian Hillis, Head of Growth at Worldpay for Platforms discusses this new term and what the opportunity may await software providers on our latest episode of PayFAQ: The Embedded Payments podcast.

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Payments Payment Solutions Finance Embedded Payments 100

yoursales

DECEMBER 12, 2018

PROFESSIONAL SALES SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS I t’s 2019 and we’re back at the sales tools workshop, working out the best sales tools for your sales process. You’ll get lots of content from us along with advice for your sales process. Which sales tools best support your sales process?

Scale 100

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Outsourcing Services 100

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Payment ii. The updates will focus on security and keeping the product compatible as hardware and operating systems are upgraded over time. Mainstream support for the product was provided until 2018, and the extended maintenance program will end in 2023. What is a perpetual license? What is an annual license? Implementation iii.

Payment Features 95

Payment Features Payments Payment Solutions Subscription 95

yoursales

JANUARY 29, 2021

Which sales process works best with your customer experience journey and to generate your desired outcomes? Which sales tools best support your sales process? Which sales processes generate the outcomes you're after and which tools best assist you in doing so? Mimiran – More Leads and More Deals for SMB Services Business.

Scale 106

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 106

yoursales

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Enabling the right customer journey with sales tools that power your sales process has been high on our agenda for years. Over the course of 2019 we saw the opposite happening: an ever-increasing flood of sales tools seem to hit the market and our own 2019-list grew significantly compared to the 2018-version. Other CRMs.

Scale 103

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 103

yoursales

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Enabling the right customer journey with sales tools that power your sales process has been high on our agenda for years. Over the course of 2019 we saw the opposite happening: an ever-increasing flood of sales tools seem to hit the market and our own 2019-list grew significantly compared to the 2018-version. Other CRMs.

Scale 103

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 103

yoursales

DECEMBER 12, 2018

PROFESSIONAL SALES SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS I t’s 2019 and we’re back at the sales tools workshop, working out the best sales tools for your sales process. You’ll get lots of content from us along with advice for your sales process. Which sales tools best support your sales process?

Scale 100

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 100

ProfitWell

JANUARY 17, 2020

But starting an ecommerce subscription service isn’t an easy task. According to this study from 2018 , the subscription ecommerce market has grown significantly since 2014. Content streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, and Spotify dominate the market and act as the model for tons of new startups. SaaS subscriptions.

Payment Methods 12

Payment Methods Payments Payment Features Merchant Services 12

The Angel VC

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In that post, I looked at how long it took publicly traded SaaS companies to get to $100M in ARR and concluded that if your goal is to reach $100M in ARR, you should try to get there within 7-9 years after launch. Meanwhile, a few SaaS companies have shown even more spectacular growth. eight years.

Sales Recruiting 106

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Scale 106

FastSpring

MAY 30, 2019

And according to Gartner’s 2018 report on cloud subscription and recurring billing management , more than 90% of software providers are expected to migrate to a subscription-based business model by 2022. With such a big push for subscriptions, it’s important that your digital business has a firm understanding of SaaS metrics.

Finance 86

Finance Subscription Payment Features Payments 86

User Pilot

JULY 23, 2020

You’re signing up new users for your SaaS product every day. If “marketing” is only a matter of new customer acquisition for you, then you’re missing the point of being in SaaS. The overwhelming majority of SaaS business revenues come from renewals and upsells, as the diagram above shows. Congratulations! Say that again?!?

Retention 95

Retention SaaS Payments Strategy Payment Solutions 95

ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

Whether that’s AI-enabled analysis of customer data to help teams be proactive, in-house virtual assistants that are a resource to support teams as they work with customers or other operational applications, AI will play a larger role in this capacity next year.” – Julia Ahlfeldt, Customer Experience Advisor, Julia Ahlfeldt CX Consulting.

Customer Success 73

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 73

Baremetrics

JANUARY 24, 2021

Anyone managing a SaaS or subscription business is aware of customer churn. The benchmark customer churn for SaaS for SMBs is 5%. 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!).

Churn 71

Churn SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Solutions 71