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5 Payment Processing Strategies for Software as a Service (SaaS)

USIO

Subscription Models: Usio will provide general insights into why subscription-based payment processing is often considered advantageous for Software as a Service (SaaS) businesses. Since customers are billed regularly, the overall revenue generated from a single customer tends to be higher compared to one-time purchases.

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What Brands Look for When Considering Acquiring Software Companies

FastSpring

“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.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Wix at $1.4 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

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. But payments can be low gross margin, and they are for Wix. Add e-commerce, payments and more has pushed it up.

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SaaS Companies: Four Signs You’ve Outgrown Stripe

FastSpring

When you’re using a DIY payment solution like Stripe, making it work for your business falls on your developers. From testing out plugins to setting up new payment methods, maintaining Stripe can be very time-consuming. Fred is a prior customer of FastSpring and now serves as an advisor.

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11 User Flow Examples + How to Inform UX Design With Them

User Pilot

TL;DR A user flow is a visual representation of the steps a user takes to achieve a specific goal within a website or app. Discover user paths to app actions. 11 User flow examples to inspire you to create your app flows: Basic user flow chart for logging in. Customer support user flow. Forgot password user flow.

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CAC Payback Period: How to Calculate and Reduce It?

User Pilot

TL;DR The CAC payback period measures the time it takes for a company to recover the money invested in new customer acquisition. This metric helps SaaS companies choose the most effective customer acquisition channels , diagnose inefficiencies in customer retention strategies , and inform pricing decisions.

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Key Definitions in Subscription Billing: Demystifying the Jargon

Blulogix

Take your business further with BluIQ’s flexible, scalable, enterprise-grade intelligent billing solutions. Example: A software-as-a-service (SaaS) company tracks how many customers cancel their monthly subscriptions. Example: A subscription box service sends automated dunning emails to customers with expired credit cards.