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

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. What Is a Merchant of Record and Why Is the MoR Model Great for Software Companies?

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Merchant Services Payment Services Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 146

FastSpring

MARCH 6, 2023

It’s not easy to build a SaaS, software, or digital product from the ground up — and it’s even harder when you have to worry about all the other logistical details that go along with growing a business. An In-Person Discussion About Scaling Your Business Join us in Amsterdam on April 5 from 9:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.

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Payment Methods Scale Finance Payment Services 78

Subscription Flow

MAY 30, 2024

As a business that provides software as a service, you will not only need to jump on this bandwagon, but more importantly, you will need the right set of subscription management tools to stay on it to keep reaping the profits of this booming industry. Did you know the subscription economy is touted to reach $1.5 trillion by 2025 ?

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Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments 52

FastSpring

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Ecommerce is big business. billion online in 2017, the highest growth rate since 2011. There are thousands of companies selling online to millions of customers, but what’s the best way to sell? To help you make an informed decision, we’re providing a detailed comparison of full-service platforms vs. basic payment services.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 26, 2022

That’s Freemium at scale. 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. 5 Interesting Learnings: #1.

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Payments Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payment Methods 220

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

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 Acquisitions: What Are They, and Why Should I Care? Micro Startup Acquisition Trends. No one wants to be late to market.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Brex then scaled its payments business quickly. Shopify identified its ICP as individuals and businesses looking for easy tools to start an online e-commerce store. Then, it built an entire ecosystem around it, soon launching Shopify payments, an embedded payment tool that quickly became the largest piece of the business.

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Payments Payment Methods Embedded Payments Scale 188

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?

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Funnel tracking software can solve this problem. Unlike sales funnel software, funnel-tracking tools track numerous funnels such as goal completion, conversion , and review funnels. Unlike sales funnel software, funnel-tracking tools track numerous funnels such as goal completion, conversion , and review funnels.

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Payment Solutions Data Analysis Software Review SaaS Payments 89

Unbounce

MAY 5, 2020

You’ve moved your small business online , either with some landing pages or an ecommerce store. But you don’t just want to “get online”—you want to get your products or services in front of all the people who might want ’em.

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Payment Methods Scale Merchant Services Advertising 145

Casey Accidental

JULY 17, 2023

Across many different problems, subscription software sold over the internet seemed to produce dominant tech companies left and right. became behemoths, people started adapting consumer software to subscription models. To make matters worse, these app stores are also much worse at collecting payments.

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Payment Solutions Payments Subscription Payment Features 98

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.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 52

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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Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review Branding 146

Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. Some solutions, like Slack or Microsoft, are useful for any kind of business. But not all SaaS products are alike.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 88

FastSpring

MAY 25, 2023

Pricing your software as a service (SaaS) can be hard enough even during the best of times, but figuring out how to dial in the right pricing to drive more revenue in times of stagflation can be even more challenging. FastSpring helps SaaS and software companies sell around the world. Inflation isn’t flat: Vary your strategy.

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SaaS Payments Pricing Payments Merchant Services 148

User Pilot

APRIL 15, 2024

In-app support strategies to eliminate them. Generic support without any personalization. Steps to eliminate customer pain points: Offer personalization with omnichannel support. Collect passive customer feedback to improve the in-app experience and more. This article aims to help you avoid that. Book a demo now.

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Communication SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods 89

Casey Accidental

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

In this essay we explore one channel that helps many marketplaces scale faster than others: supply driving demand. Sure, they may generate some of their own demand over time, but not enough to unlock the types of cross-side network effects that power the best marketplaces to massive scale like Airbnb and Doordash.

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Payments SaaS Payments Scale Payment Methods 116

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. What are subscription payments?

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Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Features Payment Services 68

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The process of an acquisition is, more often than not, a black box. Behind closed doors, negotiations are dragged on for months while founders and executives figure out ways to eliminate friction and create a synergy that can drive the most value of their shared cultures, processes, and systems. Behind the acquisition.

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yoursales

JANUARY 28, 2022

Do you know of software, which belongs on this list? It'll track any Google-based Sales Professional's efforts across email, calendar, and phone, and share interaction clients have had with emails, websites, or when they've called back. StoryDimensions - Capture, Develop and Deliver Customer Stories … at Scale.

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Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 111

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. It’s a tough outcome for a team that is working hard to scale well into the nine figures of ARR. Historically, Weave gave away several “free” phones with each new account.

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SaaS Payments Scale Payment Methods Payments 239

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. On the customer education side, we had little control over where our product was placed and whether store associates were talking about it correctly.

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Payment Methods Payment Services Scale Payments 88

SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Forter offers a real-time and completely automated fraud prevention solution for enterprise e-commerce businesses. Recorded Future is a leading universal threat intelligence solution that arms enterprises’ security teams with all the tools they need. In developing their solution, Affectiva has analyzed more than 7.5

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SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 271

BetterCloud

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Michael Weir is a former director of the collaboration operations function at Global Payments, a financial technology services company that has evolved into a global leader in the payments space over the last 53 years. Can you tell me about your role at Global Payments and how you got into your current role?

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Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments Payment Methods 98

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.

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SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 236

Subscription Flow

MAY 22, 2024

More interestingly, however, a higher customer lifetime value also normally means that the company can cut costs on customer acquisition and redirect those resources elsewhere. Let’s imagine a SaaS company called “ConnecTech” that offers project management software for small businesses. This is why automation matters.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

TL;DR Funnel analysis helps map out all the steps website visitors and in-app users take to achieve conversion goals , like signing up for your tool or completing the onboarding process. Google Analytics – Best tool for tracking website conversion funnels. Ready to start tracking user funnels for your in-app user journeys?

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 86

FastSpring

MARCH 15, 2021

With FastSpring, customers get the latest version of your products in the form of files and software keys delivered to their inbox after they’ve completed their purchase. With active subscribers, recurring payments are sent automatically, giving you predictable cash flow and a steady income stream. Easier to Scale.

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Payment Features Payment Services Subscription Payment Solutions 140

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. SAAS is also abbreviated as software as a service. SaaS as we already understood is a software as a service. These saas can be either web or app-based or even both.

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User Pilot

MARCH 25, 2024

Because it improves your business’ profitability, understanding and reducing churn also gives you a better customer acquisition cost to customer lifetime value (CAC: CLV) ratio. Some effective strategies for reducing customer churn include: Personalize the onboarding for new customers to shorten the time to value.

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Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods 77

User Pilot

MAY 8, 2024

Personalize experiences for different customer segments. Anticipate future customer needs and work proactively to find solutions. For example, a company may seek a cybersecurity solution to ensure the safety of its operations and customer data. Deliver exceptional customer support using AI and self-service resources.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services Payments 87

Unbounce

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

PPC is a method of digital advertising in which you aim to get your ads to rank as the highest result displayed for user searches, and you, as the advertiser, pay a fee each time it’s clicked. It can also appear on websites that have similar content and keywords to your business. Image courtesy of Bloomberg Wealth.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments AI Search 145

Stax

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

For modern Software as a Service (SaaS) companies, the automobile is replaced by primarily digital and cloud-based solutions and software. It’s not just a measure of total return on investment (ROI) or a simple method of monitoring of cash flow, but serves as a sales efficiency metric.

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SaaS Payments Payments Payment Services Stax 88

User Pilot

MARCH 23, 2023

Reducing churn is critical for SaaS because it cuts back customer acquisition costs and increases customer retention. Create a personalized onboarding flow to help users reach the Aha! Use in-app prompts , like tooltips and modals, to highlight those features. #5: Large-scale customer churn also leads to reputational damage.

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SaaS Payments Churn Underperforming Technical Team Payment Methods 86

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 8, 2018

Today we are launching a brand new product called Custom Bots , which allows you to create completely customizable chatbots on your website in minutes. Custom Bots run on your website, helping guide your valuable website visitors to the right outcome for you and for them, without any manual human intervention.

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Payment Methods Scale Payment Solutions Business 145

Casey Accidental

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In a previous post , I talked about how product work post-product/market fit shifts from zero to one innovation to features, growth, and scaling work. You can read parts 1 and 2 here and here. But a question founders and teams often ask is when do we start layering in innovation work again that creates new value props.

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Payments Scale Payment Solutions Technical Review 113