Software Platform Consulting

MAY 8, 2019

Fleetcor (FLT) closed on its acquisition of privately-held nvoicepay on April 1, 2019. Fleetcor’s first quarterly earnings report since the acquisition provides insight into the economics of the B2B payments space. Nvoicepay is interesting, in part, because it is a pure-play payments provider. Nvoicepay Economics.

Outsourcing Services 56

Outsourcing Services Payments Payment Services Payment Methods 56

FastSpring

MAY 14, 2019

Here’s how your company can benefit from switching from a perpetual license to a subscription plan. Reason #1: Subscriptions support product innovation. In fact, there are plenty of successful businesses using FastSpring’s full-service ecommerce platform to enable one-time purchases.

Payment Features 81

Payment Features Payment Methods Subscription Payment Services 81

Baremetrics

MAY 7, 2019

There are more funding and financing options for startups today than there ever have been before. There’s also been an explosion in debate and transparency about navigating startup funding and financing. Let’s explore the funding and financing options for your startup. Funding Your Startup. How To Evaluate Funding Options.

Finance 111

Finance Startup SaaS Payments Payment Methods 111

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The pre-revenue startup phase has a host of stresses that hopefully disappear as the company begins to earn revenue. You also might need to be watching your burn rate extra closely as the pre-revenue stage is by no means the pre-expense stage. What is a pre-revenue startup? What is a pre-revenue startup?

Payments 110

Payments Revenue Startup Development Team Review 110

FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

Last week, I canceled an annual SaaS subscription (I had three weeks left until renewal). Interestingly, even though I paid for a year-long subscription, the company didn’t let me keep the last three weeks of access to its premium features. This action will immediately downgrade your subscription.

Benchmarks 141

Benchmarks Churn Payments SaaS Payments 141

OPEXEngine

AUGUST 17, 2021

With the explosive growth of the SaaS business model impacting businesses worldwide, many are navigating SaaS financial operations and subscription management for the first time. When you move away from spreadsheets to a subscription management platform, make sure it is tailored for B2B SaaS.

Payment Services 52

Payment Services B2B SaaS Payments Payments 52

User Pilot

OCTOBER 5, 2023

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. Book the demo to see how!

SaaS Payments 105

SaaS Payments Customer Lifetime Value Payment Solutions Acquisition 105

OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 10, 2019

The Subscription Show is coming to Boston in a few weeks at the World Trade Center. The show is 100% focused on subscription models, operations, pricing, marketing and subscription-centric technologies, and organized by Subscription Insider. What to Expect at the Subscription Show. Sessions Organized by Topic.

Payment Features 40

Payment Features Subscription Payment Services Benchmarks 40

Neil Patel

APRIL 12, 2021

They offer some of the best-known subscription boxes around, reflecting an increasingly popular (and potentially lucrative) business model. Why Should You Launch a Subscription Box? According to MarketsandMarkets , the subscription and recurring billing market will grow to around $7.8 Recurring Business Revenue.

Outsourcing Services 123

Outsourcing Services Payment Methods Subscription Payment Features 123

Aysling

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

To be an ERP or Enterprise Resource Planner, a software platform needs to contain accounting and inventory functionality. Now, Aysling does have snippets of both of those features, it can manage your project accounting , invoicing, billing, etc.; Aysling is not a Marketing Acquisition tool. Aysling is not really an ERP.

Outsourced Development 56

Outsourced Development Payments Payment Solutions Payment Features 56

Buffer Resources

MARCH 5, 2024

On the financial side, distributors took a chunk of our already tight margins, and the 90-day payment terms from most retailers made cash flow difficult. I also felt that adding a subscription option for our dog food would allow us to better meet customer needs and support our company with reliable monthly recurring revenue (MRR).

Payment Methods 86

Payment Methods Payment Services Payments Scale 86

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. In this article, we’ll discuss everything you need to know about ensuring AML compliance as a payment facilitator (or PayFac).

Merchant Services 88

Merchant Services Payment Services Payfac compliance 88

SaaSHolic

MAY 12, 2023

Antonio Soares of Dock, a fintech company providing digital banking infrastructure, sees the significant unbanked population in Brazil and other Latin American countries as an opportunity to improve financial inclusion, making strategic acquisitions to strengthen their capabilities in this area.

Payments 52

Payments Payment Solutions Marketplace as a Service Payment Methods 52

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 1, 2021

It basically stipulates that money today is worth more than money tomorrow, and most people understand this at a fundamental level before the finance people come in and complicate things. Baremetrics is a business metrics tool that provides 26 metrics about your business, such as MRR, ARR, LTV, total customers, and more.

SaaS Payments 96

SaaS Payments Payments SaaS Payment Services 96

ProfitWell

MARCH 12, 2020

The subscription-based economy boom has brought with it more competition than ever before, raising the bar for companies trying to offer recurring products or services to their customers. However, behind the boom lies the rising consumer demand for subscriptions. Payment processing. Customer support. Bookkeeping.

SaaS Payments 59

SaaS Payments Subscription Payment Features Payments 59

Payrix

MARCH 12, 2024

Embedded Payments have become a popular initiative among vertical specific software companies looking to deliver a more seamless customer experience, introduce new revenue into the business, and stay competitive in today’s digital world. How do they think about attaching payments to those existing customers?

Payments 100

Payments Embedded Payments Merchant Services SaaS Payments 100

Baremetrics

AUGUST 22, 2021

In its simplest form, cash accounting is a system in which a company records expenses and revenues as the money changes hands. Unlike cash accounting, accrual accounting recognizes revenues and expenses as they are posted using accounts receivable and accounts payable journal entries. Cash Accounting Advantages and Disadvantages 1.

Payment Solutions 91

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services Payments 91

Baremetrics

AUGUST 23, 2021

Now, we use bootstrapping to describe the not quite impossible task of building your business without financing. If you choose not to finance your business by selling part of it to venture capitalists, and you also do not want or cannot secure a loan, then you are left with bootstrapping.

Business 96

Business Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 96

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Baremetrics is a business metrics tool that provides 26 metrics about your business, such as MRR, ARR, LTV, total customers, and more. Baremetrics integrates directly with your payment gateways, so information about your customers is automatically piped into the Baremetrics dashboards. Table of Contents. What is EBIT?

Payments 97

Payments Payment Methods Payment Services SaaS Payments 97

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

For example, you need to calculate the growth rates for monthly recurring revenue (MRR), active customers, average revenue per user (ARPU), and more. Growth rates in population Growth rates in personal financial savings Growth rates in business What is the Growth Rate Formula? Is the amount of revenue increasing?

SaaS Payments 81

SaaS Payments Payment Features SaaS Payments 81

User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Product Manager : In charge of creating product strategy and overseeing the design process, among other things. Revenue growth rate : This measures the rate at which the company’s revenue is growing over a specific period.

Sales Hiring 98

Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 98

SaaSHolic

MAY 15, 2023

For startups, the speaker suggests focusing on how AI can drive customer acquisition and go-to-market strategy, while for large companies, creating a vision for AI is important, as well as focusing on infrastructure and skillsets and reshaping governance to deal with security and compliance issues.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Blockchain Artificial Intelligence Payment Services 52

Baremetrics

JULY 7, 2021

With industry benchmarks, SaaS companies like yours can make effective decisions about strategic resource investments that result in solid revenue and soaring valuations. User Churn: For SaaS services, it is the percentage of subscribers who terminate their subscription within a time interval. Revenue Churn 8.0% Revenue Churn 8.0%

Benchmarks 105

Benchmarks SaaS Payments SaaS Payments 105

FastSpring

JANUARY 9, 2023

Most Stripe alternatives fall into one of two categories: (1) payment processors, or (2) a billing solution that covers payment processing and other aspects of billing such as fraud detection, checkout, and more. can provide payment processing, order fulfillment, financing options, and more.

Payment Methods 138

Payment Methods Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions 138

Baremetrics

AUGUST 10, 2021

True to its name, the acid-test ratio is easily and quickly calculable, especially using the Baremetrics integration. Baremetrics is a business metrics tool that provides 26+ metrics about your business, such as MRR, ARR, LTV, and more. Let’s dive into what the acid test ratio is and how to use it in your business.

Payments 59

Payments Outsourced Development Churn Metrics 59

Baremetrics

MAY 18, 2021

When marketing a subscription business, you face even more challenges, like balancing retention and acquisition efforts, identifying new features that your customers are interested in, and working to maximize customer lifetime value. Your SaaS funnel is a model that visualizes important stages along the customer journey.

SaaS Payments 100

SaaS Payments Customer Lifetime Value Payments SaaS 100

ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

A pricing audit assesses your subscription business’ pricing process to ensure consistency across similar accounts, maximize profitability, and benchmark against other companies. Conducting a pricing audit goes through five factors—acquisition, monetization, retention, pricing strategy, and discounts. Acquisition.

Payments 45

Payments Pricing Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments 45

Unbounce

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Thousands of businesses are willing to spend unbelievable amounts of money to rank at the top of search engine results pages (SERP) and in the most relevant places for their users around the web. In 2019, small businesses spent between $9,000 and $10,000 per month on PPC , with Google making an average of $116.5 Retargeting.

Payment Methods 145

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments AI Search 145

The Angel VC

MARCH 23, 2016

Therefore the key drivers of my imaginary startup are organic growth rate, marketing budget and customer acquisition costs, conversion rate, ARPU and churn rate. If you have a SaaS startup with a higher-touch sales model where revenue growth is largely driven by sales headcount, the plan needs to be modified accordingly.

SaaS Payments 217

SaaS Payments Headcount SaaS Payment Methods 217

FastSpring

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Get to know the fantastic team behind the ecommerce platform. I actually got my start working as a corporate lawyer on Wall Street where I got a lot of exposure across fields like Private Equity, Commercial Banking, Mergers and Acquisition (M&A), and debt financing. Q: What is your role at FastSpring?

Payments 68

Payments Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Hiring 68

Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

Seeking financing from friends and family. The “primary risk [during pre-startup] is the failure to design a business plan and strategy that will enable the company to become profitable as it makes sales and earns revenue. After all, that monthly recurring revenue is the engine that makes a SaaS business work.

Scale 74

Scale SaaS Payments Scaling Payment Services 74

SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

To date they have raised over $113m in financing from some of the best in the business including Tiger Global, Battery Ventures, Boldstart, Canaan, Cisco, and Redpoint, just to name a few. How does Vikas see the space play out in the coming years when it comes to acquisitions? Does this not lead to a consolidatory environment?

SaaS Payments 139

SaaS Payments Cloud Technical Review Scale 139

OpenView Labs

MARCH 18, 2020

Defer payment terms if you can. If there’s a serious drop in use due to the pandemic, consider extending the subscription for a period of months. Experience in previous downturns suggests that cost-side value drivers are more compelling than revenue growth value drivers. Resist this pressure. Think widely about churn.

Pricing 57

Pricing Payment Solutions Payments Healthcare 57

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Stripe is indispensable for the average online business, providing the many different tools, reports, and customizations that power online payment processing, but it isn’t without limitations. For example, the Stripe analytics dashboard is lacking the needed depth for SaaS businesses that rely on recurring revenue.

Payment Services 97

Payment Services Payment Features Payment Methods Payments 97

ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

AI has been a buzzword for a while and many businesses jumped onto the bandwagon by integrating AI into the customer journey, but customers still want to deal with a human, particularly if they need advice or help with something complex that they cannot solve on their own (i.e. In 2019 there will be an increase in subscription fatigue.

Customer Success 73

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 73

Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

While their target audience and the breadth of their solutions are the key differences, vertical and horizontal SaaS also share many similarities, in particular cloud-based hosting and subscription business models. Some examples of niches targeted by vertical SaaS providers include healthcare, eCommerce, finance, and education.

SaaS Payments 88

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 88

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