ProfitWell

JULY 22, 2020

In 2019, the total global e-commerce sales amounted to $3.53 However, e-commerce revenues are projected to rise to $6.54 This strategy helped Away generate revenue of $125 million in less than three years. billion worth of sales in the US by DTC businesses, in 2020, marking a 24.3% rise from 2019.

Payment Methods 93

Payment Methods Outsourcing Services Branding Payment Features 93

ProfitWell

OCTOBER 30, 2019

We talk expansion revenue with Kajabi, and behind the scenes of this year’s Recur Boston conference with event master Erin Phinney. Your top subscription news. We’re hearing word that Boston-based Flywire , a global payment SaaS platform and processor, just formed a partnership with Bank of America.

Payments 40

Payments Payment Methods Payment Services SaaS Payments 40

SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

What ratio of revenue is healthy for professional services to account for? This podcast is an excerpt of Eyal and Megan’s session at SaaStr Annual 2019. But I think what it boils down to is also how newer technology is being developed and the ability for it to inter-operate with other platforms. Missed the session?

SaaS Payments 132

SaaS Payments Cloud Technical Review Scale 132

OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Small and Mid-Market (SMM) SaaS Companies serve customers with annual revenues of $1 million to $1 billion and with a typical employee base of 100 to 1,000. Customer success is usually staffed by a mix of customer support, sales, and engineering folks contributing some portion of their time to the Cost of Revenue. Direct Sales.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 52

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

Not satisfied with reaching $1 billion in annual revenue, Atlassian furthered its commitment to product led growth by jumping on the freemium bandwagon. Is Freemium The Right Business Model? Is freemium an effective lead generation, conversion, and revenue driving strategy for your recurring revenue-based business?

Pricing 82

Pricing Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 82

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. But, how do you decide which licensing model works best for you and your clients? Payment ii. Using Baremetrics to monitor subscription revenue.

Payment Features 95

Payment Features Payments Payment Solutions Subscription 95

FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

“It got us thinking: Why is there no purpose-built operating system for corporate learning and development teams, when their jobs are so strategic to the business, and they’re managing massive budgets, but they can’t track things like ROI?” There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform.

Payment Solutions 111

Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 111

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?

Churn 55

Churn SaaS Payments Payments Payment Methods 55

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

How can a simple offering be transformed into its own platform? Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Want to see more content like this?

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Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 118

OPEXEngine

JULY 28, 2020

It then laid out a careful strategy to transform Adobe, largely via M&A, into a company offering cloud-based subscriptions that would “give everyone everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences.” Since 2008, its revenue has tripled and its stock price has soared 14-fold in response.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Strategy Payment Services Scale 52

SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2019

SaaS is about creating long-term value for your customer, and being compensated appropriately for that value as a business. Learn actionable monetization tips from a Product/Growth operator turned VC. This is a mobile solution for SMB’s to send an invoice and get paid. Want to see more content like this? Hi, everybody.

Payments 100

Payments Pricing Compensation SaaS Payments 100

ProfitWell

AUGUST 28, 2019

Today's Top Subscription News. Volvo announced on Monday it's expanding its controversial subscription program, Care By Volvo. Care by Volvo, launched in 2017, is a two-year subscription service where the use of a vehicle, insurance, and maintenance costs are bundled together in monthly payments. Care by Volvo Expands.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Sales Recruiting Software Review Payment Services 40

SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

SaaS businesses are organizations that provide subscription-based software applications that are centrally hosted on their servers over the internet. Instead of buying and installing the infrastructure, customers can simply bear the subscription costs of the functionalities they use. Source: Byteant , December 2019.

SaaS Payments 19

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services Sales Recruiting 19

SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Payments has been around for thousands of years.

Scale 116

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Sales Hiring 116

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.

Business Model 54

Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

Casey Accidental

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Format changes are usually only required around platform shifts already occurring or platform shifts a larger company is trying to drive. This is creating a new value proposition for your existing audience so that you can acquire, retain, and/or monetize them better. I have written more about platforms here.

Payments 113

Payments Scale Payment Solutions Technical Review 113

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

This model allowed me to work with dozens of SaaS startups using spreadsheets, while we built our financial modeling software Flightpath. Although SaaS companies share many features across their business models, there is enough variation that requires differentiation in the financial model. Operating Model.

Deferred Revenue 111

Deferred Revenue SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Services 111

Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2020

Backed by an army of developers, data engineers, and finance professionals, this events-based billing model allowed these large companies to directly link the value that their services provided with the cost presented on a customer’s invoice. What Amazon Web Services and Twilio Get Right.

AWS 98

AWS Payment Services SaaS Payments Payments 98

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

As for Travis, prior to joining Redpoint, Travis was head of Customer Growth at Front, after spending 5 years building the global Sales organization at Optimizely, the world’s most popular experimentation platform. This podcast is an excerpt from Aydin and Roelant’s session at SaaStr Annual 2019. Loving our podcast content?

Underperforming Technical Team 158

Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Services Technical Advisors 158

Chargify

MAY 8, 2019

There is no subscription billing model that works for everyone. Moreover, your pricing strategy should be based on your value metric, and different value metrics require different types of subscriptions. Let’s take a look at the seven most popular subscription billing models. Which one should you use in 2019?

Subscription 69

Subscription Payment Features SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 69

SaaSOptics

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Yet, as we turn the corner toward 2019, many businesses remain ill-prepared for the unique challenges and opportunities that come with moving to a subscription model and managing a SaaS business. In a traditional business, a company sells a product or service and the customer pays for it one time.

SaaS Payments 47

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services Payments 47

ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

A: Grotech is an early-stage investor so many of our companies have only modest revenue at the time we invest, and they are typically still working to tease apart their go-to-market motion. They either work to manage things via spreadsheets, attempt to build their own, or try using a product management platform for this despite the poor fit.

Scale 98

Scale Customer Success Payments Underperforming Technical Team 98

SaaSOptics

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Yet, as we turn the corner toward 2019, many businesses remain ill-prepared for the unique challenges and opportunities that come with moving to a subscription model and managing a SaaS business. In a traditional business, a company sells a product or service and the customer pays for it one time.

SaaS Payments 40

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services Payments 40

ProfitWell

AUGUST 18, 2020

Reliance told her that she would need to buy-out the remainder of her two years in one lump sum payment, plus the interest the company would lose over those two years, and she would have to pay an additional hefty administration fee too. The administration fee alone totaled nearly three of her monthly payments.

SaaS Payments 111

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development 111

Outseta

APRIL 14, 2020

When you work for yourself you can also build the advantages that you need into your business model because you call the shots—opt for offering your services on retainer basis in order to give yourself a bit more stability than you’d have selling contract based work. You need to integrate Stripe with your product.

Payment Methods 68

Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments 68

Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

We’ll introduce you the three main SaaS sales models and share some tips on how to choose and what challenges to expect. When you’re looking to generate significant revenue as a newbie in the SaaS market, your product prices shouldn’t go above $5000. Transactional sales model. Self-Service. Enterprise.

SaaS Payments 157

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 157

SaaStr

MAY 4, 2022

These days, as the business lead for invoicing at Stripe, Xie has earned her own stripes in navigating the unique challenges of building and thriving in the SaaS marketplace. What makes a SaaS business so hard? As your business grows in complexity, these drags on your infrastructure can impact your product development.

Payment Features 186

Payment Features Payment Services Payment Solutions Outsourcing Services 186

Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Whether you have a Software-as-a-Service, subscription or membership business or you sell one-off products or services and simply want to do business with your customer more than once, Customer Success should be your driving purpose. Sales Process Engagement. Metering / Billing / Payment Process.

Customer Success 136

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 136

SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

We had run around the world and we would show up to a company using technology in some interesting way and we would teach them for four, maybe five days straight, and that was our business model. The first few dozen courses that we published on the platform were authored by the Pluralsight co founders.

B2B 132

B2B B2C Scale New CTO 132