SaaStr

AUGUST 3, 2022

Few SaaS leaders have gone through more post-pandemic change than Shopify and Zoom. Zoom came out of 2020-2021 with SMBs no longer growing, but a huge boost in the enterprise. SaaS growth slowed to 10% year-over-year, down from a peak overall growth of almost 100% (!) during peak Covid in Q3 2020. More on that here.

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

In the early days of running a software company, collecting payments was pretty straightforward. Fast forward to today when most software companies use a Subscription as a service (SaaS business model , and things aren’t as simple. Luckily, like most complex processes and tasks, it can be simplified.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 19, 2023

NitroPack , a website performance optimization platform, has become one of the fastest-growing startups in CEE. Since it joined FastSpring in early 2020, the company has increased its revenue by 628% and is still growing fast. When NitroPack was first getting started, they used PayPal to accept and process payments. “It

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 30, 2020

So you're building an awesome subscription business — great! How do you manage the process of accepting money from your customers? Building your own billing system can be a world of pain, risk and complexity, so what options are out there for integrating a third party product? Why is billing critical for my business?

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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. Our hosting costs include service providers like AWS, Cloudflare, MongoDb, Twitter, etc.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 21, 2020

Subscriptions are the lifeblood of any SaaS business model. However, SaaS subscriptions can also cost businesses money if they’re not set up with the customer’s experience in mind. of all churn in the SaaS space. Why failed payments and involuntary customer churn go hand in hand.

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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. We’re going to dive further into recent announcements about QuickBooks Desktop and what this means for users, and what businesses should consider as their next move.

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Challenge: UXPin needed a tool to consolidate their subscription data and track metrics. All the data your startup needs Get deep insights into your company's MRR, churn and other vital metrics for your SaaS business. At that time, they used both PayLane and PayPal to process payments. Try Baremetrics free.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 30, 2020

So you're building an awesome subscription business — great! How do you manage the process of accepting money from your customers? Building your own billing system can be a world of pain, risk and complexity, so what options are out there for integrating a third party product? Why is billing critical for my business?

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Stax

DECEMBER 4, 2023

For any merchant selling products or services online, it’s always a good idea to allow customers to make payments on their platform itself—instead of redirecting them to a third-party website or gateway. trillion took place in 2020, accounting for about 2.7% Not only is this inconvenient for customers but also risky.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Explore the Power of Changelog Integration in Our Documentation Navigating the Tax Landscape: Key Changes That Demand Your Attention in 2024 Quarterly B2B Onboarding Update: Your Complete Guide to Seamless Transactions! Changelog posts from 2015-2020 are available on the archived post located at the bottom of the changelog posts displayed.

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FastSpring

MARCH 16, 2023

From 2015 to 2020, MapTiler doubled the number of countries where it has customers. The Swiss-based SaaS company now helps governments, enterprises, and SMBs in over 120 countries by providing maps API for web and mobile developers. MapTiler has seen significant growth in revenue in countries with active affiliate partnerships.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Maybe you’d spend it creating new marketing campaigns to generate more revenue. Regardless, the average small business owner spends five hours every pay period running payroll. But thankfully, that’s not what your payroll process has to look like. The 6 best payroll service options for 2020. Number of employees.

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SaaStr

MAY 8, 2021

— Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) September 4, 2020. I felt like when I was a SaaS CEO and had to go profitable, they helped saved my rear. bills, “payment terms”, and often, repeated follow-up. Monthly invoices can make things even worse, of course. Monthly invoices can make things even worse, of course.

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FastSpring

APRIL 11, 2019

We’ve seen explosive growth in the field of subscription and recurring billing with more and more software and SaaS companies discovering how impactful implementing a subscription model can be for their long-term growth plans. Subscribing to the idea of a subscription-based business model. .

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

This builds on the first essay in the series of how there has been an increase in interest of SAAS-like models interested in becoming marketplaces over time. In that essay , we also talked about how a more common route for a SaaS business is to become a platform. The Types of Platforms. Integration Platforms.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 24, 2020

The subscription model is booming. Almost everything is sold as a subscription, from socks to razor blades, and of course software. Without further ado, let's look at nine subscription-based companies absolutely nailing it in 2020. What is a subscription company? So why the subscription business model?

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 9, 2019

From the rise of SaaS to the sudden glut of subscription boxes, the subscription business model has never been more popular. So much so that Gartner research predicts that in 2020, all new entrants to the software market and 80% of existing companies will offer some sort of subscription package.

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

For customers, the process of looking for apps to download usually takes place in one of the four leading app marketplaces; Google Play, Apple App Store , Windows Store, and the Amazon App Store. The company’s move to circumvent Apple’s App Store policies with its app Fortnite triggered a lawsuit in the process. Let’s go ??.

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SaaSOptics

MARCH 22, 2022

While we all wish to be like Smaug, counting the cash we have today, SaaS companies need to think ahead. Revenue accruals are how we do that. But instead of counting what we have today, SaaS companies use a ledger to add up all the gold—I mean, cash—that they one day will get. . Revenue Accrual Definition.

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OPEXEngine

MAY 18, 2021

We’ve talked to dozens of our SaaS customers, as well as investors to learn more about what is happening with these key metrics. SaaS metrics are viewed differently at different stages of growth and for different sales models, primarily whether a company is selling into an SMB or enterprise marketplace.

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FastSpring

MAY 5, 2020

We love to see when a seller finds a unique way to customize our full-service ecommerce platform to deliver a great experience to their customers. Appy is a Software as a Service (SaaS) that creates web applications out of Excel spreadsheets. Flexible and Customizable Platform. Easy Global Tax Management.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

In SaaS, you need to calculate the growth rate for a handful of different metrics. For example, you need to calculate the growth rates for monthly recurring revenue (MRR), active customers, average revenue per user (ARPU), and more. What are the most important growth rates in SaaS? What is a Growth Rate?

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Baremetrics

MAY 12, 2021

This article is a step-by-step guide on how to integrate Google Sheets with Baremetrics. Baremetrics is the leading number one subscription analytics software for business metrics as it can integrate easily with popular payment platforms such as Stripe , Recurly , and Braintree with its simple API function.

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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 obsession with getting new customers is natural: the more customers you convert, the more revenue you will make. How to calculate this metric and what’s the average SaaS churn rate?

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OPEXEngine

MARCH 15, 2022

In the first 10 years of the SaaS industry, US SaaS companies didn’t need to go overseas to build highly valuable companies. But that dynamic has changed in lockstep with the growth of the SaaS market. High Growth SaaS Companies Get A Significant Portion of Revenues Internationally. Source: OPEXEngine.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 24, 2020

2020 is the year of Corona Virus thus far but it’s also the year in which the subscription business model is excelling. Subscription companies have become incredibly popular in the past two decades. Almost everything is sold as a subscription, from socks to razor blades, and of course software.

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ProfitWell

JULY 8, 2020

In some states, SaaS companies are required to collect and pay sales tax for their products. In this post, we'll go over what those rules are for the 21 states that have sales tax laws on the books that pertain to SaaS businesses and products. How is a SaaS product/company defined in the US?

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

What you’ll see in that cloud spend box is actually Gartner’s 2020 estimate for infrastructure as a service spending for companies, which was $50 billion. And if you also look at the platform as a service category, that’s also an additional $50 billion of spend, and that’s typically with those same vendors.

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Incredo

DECEMBER 3, 2019

We have interviewed tens of SaaS community members to understand how they perceive SaaS Christmas promotions. And here are the best answers we have received. #1 Denis Lunev Founder at DepositFix , Payment Integration for HubSpot “ The most expensive time of year to advertise on Google and Facebook is Black Friday and Christmas.

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ProfitWell

MAY 21, 2020

We've been working around the clock to develop an index displaying MRR and growth trends across SaaS companies. And we'll be sharing with you an overall subscription index, from companies on Profitwell, that will be updated weekly. Table of Contents: Overall SaaS and subscription index. Why you need to focus on retention.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 19, 2021

If you accept payments in different currencies, you should understand how currency fluctuations impact your Monthly Recurring Revenue in any given month. Global businesses need localized strategies. If you’re managing multi-currency payments already, keep on reading! Their subscription hasn’t changed.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

When it comes to IPOs, 2021 was an excellent year for SaaS companies. Accelerated digital transformation across industries put SaaS companies firmly on the hypergrowth path. According to Gartner , the SaaS industry has grown from $35 billion in 2015 to $145 billion in 2021. Focus on a multi-year horizon.

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FastSpring

JUNE 6, 2024

Xsolla is a merchant of record (MoR) payment provider that serves the video game industry. The platform includes a broad feature set that provides game developers with the infrastructure needed to sell online and accept online payments globally, without having to manage localization, sales tax and VAT, or fraud prevention on their own.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 19, 2021

If you accept payments in different currencies, you should understand how currency fluctuations impact your Monthly Recurring Revenue in any given month. Global businesses need localized strategies. If you’re managing multi-currency payments already, keep on reading! Their subscription hasn’t changed.

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 10, 2018

You also need to make sure you partner with the right ecommerce platform that can help you efficiently (and compliantly) grow global sales without losing revenue. With cross-border shopping expected to rise to $627 Billion by 2020, capitalizing on this new wave of ecommerce growth can help grow your business even further.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 1, 2023

This indicates a significant potential market for businesses that can offer affordable goods and services tailored to this demographic. Here are a few: Pix: Pix is a new payment system that was launched by the Brazilian Central Bank in 2020.

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