User Pilot

MAY 30, 2025

Map out the user journey so no key touchpoints are missed On average, Americans check their phones 144 times daily , creating fragmented mobile app usage patterns Your mobile app competes for that fragmented attention every single time users interact with their devices. You’re hunting for the psychological journey leading to payment.

Payment Solutions

FastSpring

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Note: Apple announced that it would be reducing the App Store fee from 30% to 15% for most developers starting on January 1st, 2021. For app entrepreneurs and ecommerce store owners, the battle to be noticed in the marketplace is ongoing. Epic Games wants to take control of their online sales with its own marketplace.

Payment Methods

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The SaaS industry is constantly evolving, and for many companies in the space, that means having to evolve their business model. However, that doesn’t necessarily mean a “pivot”, but more often the evolution is a shifting business model as the company scales and the user base grows and changes. Goal of website.

Business Model

SaaStr

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Payments and e-commerce drag blended gross margins down to 60%. Wix along with Squarespace and also WordPress / Automatic have pushed deeply into e-commerce and as part of that, payments. It makes sense, as ecomm adds a ton of value to a standard website. But payments can be low gross margin, and they are for Wix.

Payments

Incredo

JULY 14, 2019

History of the subscription pricing model: From newspapers to the rise of SaaS subscription. What is the subscription pricing model? The subscription pricing model is a business model in which a customer pays a recurring fee on a regular basis (weekly, monthly, quarterly or annually) to use a service or product.

Payment Features

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Lambda School trains people online to be software engineers. There’s a little bit of work to do still, but you know, tonight the title of my talk is how to make user acquisition practically free. We put it online, $10,000, and we started talking to our customers. Want to see more content like this? We can quit our jobs.

Acquisition

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). & So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey. 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.

SaaS Payments

User Pilot

AUGUST 31, 2023

What is customer acquisition for SaaS, and how can you leverage it to drive sustainable growth ? The purpose of customer acquisition is to expand and make more revenue. Customer acquisition funnel stages in SaaS are Awareness, Consideration, Evaluation, Conversion. What is customer acquisition?

Acquisition

The Angel VC

MARCH 22, 2012

It's a simple plan for an early-stage SaaS startup with a low-touch sales model – a company which markets a SaaS solution via its website, offers a 30 day free trial, gets most of its trial users organically and through online marketing and converts them into paying customer with very little human interaction.

Startup

Neil Patel

APRIL 12, 2021

They offer some of the best-known subscription boxes around, reflecting an increasingly popular (and potentially lucrative) business model. Next, determine your target consumer, meaning the person who needs that problem solved. Business Model. Decide which business model you’re using for your box.

Outsourcing Services

Casey Accidental

JUNE 9, 2020

These plans included a lot of the goals you likely have in your company: improvements in acquisition, activation, and retention. across business models, customer types, etc. For acquisition, retention is the enabler of the best acquisition strategies. But long term, how high could we push this retention number?

Retention

Neil Patel

JANUARY 1, 2021

It offers a way to bring down customer acquisition costs and has been proven to keep users in a game for far longer than the pay-to-play method. Features like unique billing and subscription services have completely shifted the gaming business model. Games as a Service Payment Options. Think about it this way.

Payments

Stax

JANUARY 28, 2024

Long before the digital age, newspaper and magazine companies have been using the subscription model to create and retain a consistent readership for their publications. This business model has now been adapted very well in the internet age, especially in the SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) and eCommerce industries.

Payment Features

Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

Join the payments-led growth movement Sign up to keep up-to-date with the latest trends in payments, vertical SaaS, and technology from industry experts. Take a traditional business, like a furniture store. Customer acquisition cost. Customer lifetime value. More on that later.

Scale

FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

It’s called Lifetime Value (LTV), and it’ll tell you how much a customer will spend during their time with your business. Depending on what calculation you use, LTV can paint an honest picture of whether your customers are spending and staying long enough to cover acquisition costs and hopefully—make you a profit.

Scale

Aaron Beashel

MARCH 9, 2018

The best way to illustrate what I mean is by examples, and I’ve used the email marketing software category to illustrate some of the different models taken by different companies in the space. MailChimp (Touchless acquisition) – MailChimp is an email marketing tool that uses a touchless acquisition model to acquire customers.

Scale

FastSpring

MARCH 15, 2021

This is the most obvious benefit of subscription models—you’re able to reliably predict the revenue your company will receive. With active subscribers, recurring payments are sent automatically, giving you predictable cash flow and a steady income stream. Assuming All Countries Manage Recurring Payments the Same Way.

Payment Features

How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

SaaS is a global software solution created by different businesses in order to improve human activities in a matter of clicks. With so many SAAS getting visibility in online marketplaces, we found that new saas businesses are struggling hard to make it to the right set of customers. Setup Pricing model and payment gateways.

Growth Hacking

FastSpring

MAY 25, 2023

Test creative SaaS pricing model combinations to unlock revenue. Our all-in-one payment platform includes a best-in-class localized checkout, subscription management, global tax management, reporting and analytics tools, and more. Increasing acquisition, increasing conversion rates, and reducing churn are all possible options.

SaaS Payments

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The SaaS business model powering all of this activity is startlingly unique, still young, and inextricably tied to the power of cloud computing. What is the SaaS business model. Recurring payments. Recurring payments take the form of monthly recurring revenue, otherwise known as MRR. Early stage.

Business Model

Subscription Flow

MAY 10, 2024

Subscription-based business models have increased in number as media streaming platforms like Netflix and delivery services like Amazon have risen in popularity. A subscription-based model for fundraising can therefore raise donor engagement, optimizing revenue streams for NPOs.

Payment Solutions

Neil Patel

JANUARY 24, 2023

You should read my post about creating an organic traffic pipeline to get up to speed on the basics of traffic acquisition. Each blog and website will have different objectives and a different threshold of traffic before people start to convert. All websites do share a common goal, however, and that is to increase traffic.

Content Marketing

Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

AUGUST 8, 2015

And you’ve been racking up customer acquisition costs all along the way. The SaaS customer acquisition machine That’s exactly how the software-as-a-service (SaaS) business model is supposed to work. Of course, the machine only works if the paying customer sticks around long enough to recover your acquisition costs.

Payment Solutions

Payrix

MAY 14, 2024

Before joining Worldpay for Platforms, he was CRO at Chargebee, a subscription revenue management platform that manages billing subscriptions and payments for companies throughout the world. The discussions are really circulating around value creation and value capture opportunities within the business.

Payments

Casey Accidental

JULY 17, 2023

I thought I would actually write down a lot of those thoughts and add some more depth for founders and employees working on these businesses. Don’t worry I got more marketplace content on the way as well Shortly after I got into tech, investors started to fall in love with subscription business models, mostly on the B2B side.

Payment Solutions

ProfitWell

JUNE 15, 2020

Here are the main takeaways: Customers expect highly-personalized experiences and contextualized customer journeys. While artificial intelligence (AI) is projected to grow 176% over the next two years, marketers need to balance personalization with privacy. Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). Product Margin.

Payment Methods

FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2023

“This is everyday for me, so I love talking about it,” says Carl Hargreaves about mergers and acquisitions. As the Director of Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships at WP Engine , Carl has worked on many acquisitions and partnerships, including brands like Flywheel, Perfect Dashboard, Block Lab, and recently, Delicious Brains.

Software Review

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The idea for Stripe, I’m sure most of you know in the early days was to have just a few lines of code and lead developers accept payments in the apps and services. It was a distribution API in a very rudimentary form, and it allowed us to be present in other properties than our website. Romain Huet : Yeah, totally.

Payments

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

This is part three of a three part series on sequencing business models. In part two of our Sequencing Business Models series , we talked about the different types of marketplaces and what needs to be built to be effective in each of them. Acquisition becomes the primary value prop for the majority of developers.

Payments

Baremetrics

MAY 7, 2019

After seriously considering an acquisition offer, Wistia decided to take on $17.3M Others maintain that bootstrapping can also include other self-funding options, which could also include personal savings, loans, credit cards, and income from a job, consulting, or extraneous product. Buffer spent $3.3

Finance

FastSpring

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Subscription model innovation: Customizable subscription models make it easier for SaaS companies to optimize their pricing and billing. Integration of PLG and sales-led business models: Supporting multiple GTM strategies has become the standard for SaaS. From pricing to payments, billing, tax management, and more.”.

Merchant Services

Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2019

This is what the person would be paid annually and it has two elements; a base salary and a sales incentive held against sales, also known as variable pay. It ties payment to the achievement of specific objectives that have been pre-determined and communicated to the employees that are on the incentive plan. Step 5: Set Targets.

Compensation

SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Matt Garratt: And it’s not just going to be we think in things like work from home tools like Zoom or IT solutions like VPN, but it’s really going to transform how business is getting done, whether that’s online education and learning. Right now, learning for companies is only at 10% online.

Sales Hiring

Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Someone may need to audit the existing users or process payment through the corporate procurement process, so the process could drag on. Very few companies earn back their customer acquisition costs with only one year of subscription revenues. Reminders that a service is expiring is an excellent idea. That's nagging and annoying.

SaaS Payments

ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

It’s no wonder more and more companies are shifting to a subscription business model. But before you do, let’s take a look at some of the basics of the subscription revenue model and why it works across such a wide range of businesses. What kinds of businesses use a subscription revenue model?

Payment Features

User Pilot

AUGUST 14, 2023

The Pirate Metrics Framework is a great growth marketing framework – covering the 5 stages of acquisition , activation , retention , referral, and revenue. A/B test landing pages to increase customer acquisition. Retention: Users keep making repeat purchases after their initial subscription payment.

Growth Marketing

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