SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

SVB collapsed, market multiples are down, yet the IPO window is re-opening, and we have a platform shift to AI that’s exciting everybody. The Macro Impact On Public Cloud Software Over The Past Year Cloud stocks dropped in 2022 in a severe market pullback event that Bessemer Venture Partners call The SaaSacre.

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FastSpring

MARCH 3, 2023

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. This often happens when your setup requires complex integrations that are difficult to maintain.

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Merchant Services Payment Services Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 147

SaaStr

OCTOBER 26, 2022

So this year has been rough on SaaS and Cloud stocks, with multiples down 75% from a year ago and the markets overall down 50% or more. It’s barely trading at 3x revenue. Payments and e-commerce drag blended gross margins down to 60%. But payments can be low gross margin, and they are for Wix. Wix is one.

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Stax

JANUARY 28, 2024

This business model has now been adapted very well in the internet age, especially in the SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) and eCommerce industries. The most potent benefit of the subscription-based business model is that companies are guaranteed a fixed revenue stream—if they can retain their customers or subscribers.

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Casey Accidental

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

In the SaaS-like network model, the supply is in charge of generating the majority of the demand, and the product acts as mainly a fulfillment or monetization vehicle for the supply. Acquiring supply doesn’t get easier over time, because the product isn’t generating demand that supply has to come to the platform to access.

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Payments SaaS Payments Scale Payment Methods 116

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. How viable is it for companies to shop their apps outside of mainstream marketplaces?

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions Merchant Services SaaS Payments 142

Payrix

MARCH 20, 2024

In a market shaped by fierce competition, emerging technologies, and dominating customer expectations, B2B software companies have evaluated many angles of differentiation to keep the attention of their customers. Among the most recent strategies proving successful for software companies is Embedded Payments.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 4, 2020

And is Stripe a good choice as your billing and payment provider? When Stripe was launched in 2010, dealing with payments online wasn’t a straightforward matter. Fast forward 10 years and setting up shop and accepting payments has become a lot easier, thanks to a large extent to Stripe.

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Payment Methods Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 105

Stax

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

So, of course when it came to revenue-driving activities, Ford knew that success in marketing—and business—wasn’t about how much your marketing spend is, but how efficiently you spend it. Enter the SaaS Magic Number, which measures the return on sales and marketing spend in generating new subscription revenue.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 23, 2024

Rocket Mortgage has 30 years of data around mortgages in different markets. Alex: Let’s dive into your business models. One of the holy grails of SMB software is, how are you going to acquire customers? The opportunity is to leverage that trust factor to drive customer acquisition, and it has worked for us.

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Payments Forecasting Payment Services Payment Solutions 99

Sales Hacker

MARCH 29, 2021

PartnerOps (or ChannelOps) is newer than sales and marketing ops , but it is important to driving growth in the age of the ecosystem. Building the right partner tech stack can dramatically increase the revenue flowing from your partners, even if your partnership team is small. The growing role of partnerships in driving revenue.

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Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 101

User Pilot

APRIL 3, 2024

TL;DR Product-led innovation emphasizes improving the product to attract customers, reducing reliance on marketing for growth. Prioritizing user experience optimization in product-led growth is crucial for creating intuitive, enjoyable products that retain customers and drive revenue growth.

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User Pilot

MAY 6, 2024

If you use social networking platforms (and who doesn’t), you already know what a user profile is. Thanks to user profiling, you can offer personalized experiences, refine your marketing targeting, and extract data-driven insights to inform product development. This article focuses on user profiles in the SaaS context.

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Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payments 105

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.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

The contracts are identical twelve month contracts except for the payment terms. Contract B relaxes payment terms to monthly payment, 12 monthly installments for the next year. All of the sales and marketing dollars invested to obtain persuade the buyer to put digital ink to pdf have been recouped immediately.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Scheduled payments, aka recurring billing. Scheduled payments have become a core form of revenue collection. Of course, recurring payments vary depending on the business. As the subscription universe continues to expand, you can expect to see even more subscription payment plans. Expansionary revenue.

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Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Features Payment Services 68

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In that essay , we also talked about how a more common route for a SaaS business is to become a platform. Platforms can create an immense amount of long-term value for companies, or be a minor component of their product strategy to maintain product/market fit. The Types of Platforms. Integration Platforms.

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Payments Business Model Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 56

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Plus, the price tag on those more established businesses often run into the billions. The solution? Micro startup acquisitions. But before we dive into that, we need to look into what micro startup acquisitions are and why you need to sit up and take notice. Micro Startup Acquisition Trends.

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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. EA Games, for example, increased its market value from $4 billion to $33 billion in just six years after introducing GaaS content. Games as a Service Payment Options.

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Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 122

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Much like Amazon, when Shopify first began, it was a simple shop and not the ecommerce platform we know today. All the data your startup needs Get deep insights into your company's MRR, churn and other vital metrics for your SaaS business. What is CAC for Shopify Partner Apps? What is CAC for Shopify Partner Apps?

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Payment Solutions Payments Payment Methods SaaS Payments 98

Incredo

DECEMBER 3, 2019

And you look for ideas on how to promote your software for these holidays. Or maybe you are curious whether Christmas marketing works at all? We have interviewed tens of SaaS community members to understand how they perceive SaaS Christmas promotions. What does it mean for your SaaS?

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payments Social Media 204

Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 4, 2020

And is Stripe a good choice as your billing and payment provider? When Stripe was launched in 2010, dealing with payments online wasn’t a straightforward matter. Fast forward 10 years and setting up shop and accepting payments has become a lot easier, thanks to a large extent to Stripe.

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Payment Methods Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 52

Blulogix

JANUARY 5, 2024

Key Definitions in Subscription Billing: Demystifying the Jargon By BluLogix Team Welcome to the fourth installment of our comprehensive guide on selecting the right subscription billing platform. Take your business further with BluIQ’s flexible, scalable, enterprise-grade intelligent billing solutions. Subscription Billing 1.

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Inbound marketing is the process of getting potential clients to find your company. Both of these tasks can rely on content marketing , for example events, podcasts, blogs, and social media posts. Whatever marketing strategy you choose, use Baremetrics to monitor your sales data. Table of Contents.

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Payments Payment Methods Payment Solutions Marketing 98

Incredo

JULY 14, 2019

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. That means a company generates revenue on a regular basis based on how many customers it has and what subscription plan they choose. Key finding?

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Payment Features SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Solutions 184

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

What is a Shopify Partner App? Use Baremetrics to calculate LTV for Shopify Partner Apps How do you calculate LTV for Shopify Partner Apps? What is a Shopify Partner App? Shopify Partner Apps are third party companies that sell their services or Apps to Shopify store owners. Table of Contents. What is LTV?

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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments SaaS Payments 105

Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 26, 2020

Asana builds productivity and task management solutions. When they launched, their vision of eliminating email through task management made big waves in the market. TTM Revenue, $M. Revenue Growth. Since its IPO, Smartsheet has increased its market cap 2.6x S&M Spend / Revenue. R&D Spend / Revenue.

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Payment Solutions Payments Outsourced Development Payment Services 363

Incredo

DECEMBER 3, 2019

And you look for ideas on how to promote your software for these holidays. Or maybe you are curious whether Christmas marketing works at all? We have interviewed tens of SaaS community members to understand how they perceive SaaS Christmas promotions. What does it mean for your SaaS?

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payments Social Media 162

FastSpring

MARCH 9, 2022

Question: What’s the most important page on a software website — other than the homepage? Because we have data from thousands of Saas and software websites. In the social media management market, being able to explore the product is an important part of the buying experience. . Answer: It’s the pricing page. How do we know?

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SaaS Payments Pricing Payments Payment Methods 145

Baremetrics

APRIL 6, 2021

ProfitWell is a cloud-based app that generates real-time financial and subscription metrics for data-driven SaaS enterprises. The recurring revenue growth platform provides users with valuable insights into subscription funnels and one-click analytics for Stripe. But ProfitWell does not benefit all SaaS companies.

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SaaStr

JULY 20, 2022

Weave started off as a dental ERP and comms platform (including VoIP / phone), and then expanded beyond that as it scaled. But while it IPO’d at a $1B valuation just this past November, today its market cap is only.$218m. 907 employees at IPO, so about $150,000 revenue per employee. So why the terrible revenue multiple?

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The Shopify App Store brings together Shopify app developers and Shopify shop owners for their mutual benefit. To get the most out of the time and money invested into their apps, Shopify App Developers need to track the core metrics of their industry. What is a business metric? Table of Contents.

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Payment Solutions Outsourced Development Underperforming Technical Team Metrics 98

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

There are some amazing and comprehensive guide books out there for building a Shopify app (including this one from Shopify ). But in this article, I am going to give you a brief run down on the Shopify Partner Dashboard for app developers. That includes the development store for testing and perfecting your app. Do so much more.

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Payment Solutions Development Payment Methods Metrics 98

Baremetrics

AUGUST 22, 2021

Subscription revenue can be defined most simply as a model which generates income from customers through recurring fees that are paid at regular intervals. These can be weekly, monthly, or annual payments. Before we get into the more complicated stuff, let’s consider the difference between earning revenue and collecting revenue.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

When choosing the right billing software for your subscription businesses, there are many things to consider. There are so many products in the market - if you don't know where to look, you could waste both time and money. Baremetrics is a tool that integrates with Recurly , as well as other tools such as Stripe and Chargebee.

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Payment Solutions Payment Features Payments Merchant Services 59

FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Trials are the gateway to growth for many SaaS and software companies. Trial Type Highlights Gain a clear view of trial activations by type, including: trial with a payment method, trial without a payment method, and paid trials. Looking to try out the trial reporting dashboard with the premier merchant of record in the market?

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Software Platform Consulting

MAY 14, 2019

Last week I wrote a post about Fleetcor’s acquisition of Nvoicepay. The acquisition represented an opportunity to learn more about the economics of B2B payments. The acquisition also prompted me to review Bottomline’s financial reports. Bottomline owns Paymode-X, the largest B2B payment network in the US.

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Payment Solutions Payments Payment Services Technical Review 40