FastSpring

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

As you work to expand your SaaS, software, mobile games, or other digital product business worldwide, having the right payment methods available to global customers is key to ensuring they all feel comfortable purchasing. How FastSpring is supporting digital product and gaming companies with these methods.

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Payrix

JULY 24, 2024

With their sights set on elevating the customer experience, deepening user engagement, and driving sustainable growth, there’s one thing software companies are making room for in their roadmap: Embedded Payments. However, not all Embedded Payments solutions are built under the same standards.

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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.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

We’ll share the answers in today’s brand new episode of CRO Confidential, where our host Sam Blond, partner at Founders Fund, sits down with Toast CRO, Jonathan Vassil to talk about their proven customer acquisition strategies that led to its record-breaking growth. It’s the fastest-growing software business of all time.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Wherever you are in your revenue journey, adopting certain growth strategies can help you keep growing fast. Joined by Katie Wickham, Payrix’s Director of Marketing, Butler shares essential tips on accelerating your business to $100 million ARR and beyond. . Brex then scaled its payments business quickly.

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FastSpring

AUGUST 13, 2024

Apple has revised its App Store rules to be better compliant with the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), but the fees associated with Apple’s revisions are still considerably high according to an article from The Verge. For example, the “Store Services Fee” will be “a 10% standard commission fee or a 5% discounted commission (e.g.,

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 26, 2022

It’s barely trading at 3x revenue. 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. 42% of Revenue Outside the U.S.

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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.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

So one of SaaStr Fund’s latest investments is Mangomint, a vertical SaaS platform for spas and salons. There are multiple vendors in different segments, including Mindbody which IPO’d a SaaS generation ago and then taken private in a $2B Vista acquisition. Now … that sounds niche, and it sounds crowded.

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USIO

JANUARY 15, 2024

Subscription Models: Usio will provide general insights into why subscription-based payment processing is often considered advantageous for Software as a Service (SaaS) businesses. Predictable Revenue Streams: Subscription models provide a consistent and predictable revenue stream for SaaS companies.

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FastSpring

APRIL 20, 2023

When you’re selling software internationally, it’s vital to give your buyers payment methods that are both familiar and convenient to them. This eliminates friction in the purchasing experience, leading to increased customer acquisition and revenue. Sign up for a demo or check out the platform yourself.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 21, 2024

Only 18% of Revenue From SaaS. Shopify and Bill both also get the majority of their revenue from financial fees and transaction fees, not software subscriptions. But Toast even more so, at 18% of revenue. They are now profitable, but it’s not easy when 80% of your revenue only has 20%-28% gross margins. #4.

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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. We knew just the person to talk to — Andy Meadows, Head of Partner Success at Payrix.

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FastSpring

JUNE 22, 2022

One of the most important parts of your store is the checkout page. Working with a website checkout page that will convert more visitors will help you increase sales. Just make sure the submit payment button is easy to find at the journey’s end. Other design steps can help optimize your website checkout page too.

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Payrix

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Software-led payments have grown in popularity, and for good reason. Last year, we sat down with several of the payments experts that roam the halls of Worldpay to understand what was on the horizon for software platforms and payments. From those conversations, we made software-led payments predictions for 2024.

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SaaStr

JULY 30, 2024

Okta’s VP of Engineering, Monica Bajaj, and Senior Director of Platform Product Marketing, Priya Ramamurthi, share Okta’s playbook to PLG, developer experience, and Enterprise ARR. PLG ensures your product is doing the work for you in terms of customer advocacy, acquisition, and retention. Lower customer acquisition costs.

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Payrix

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Software companies embark on their embedded payments journey only to discover they’ve underestimated the complexity that’s involved and struggle to launch. If you’re thinking about Embedded Payments for your platform, make time to listen to this episode of the PayFAQ Embedded Payments podcast.

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Stax

MARCH 16, 2025

As a SaaS business leader, reducing software user churn is an important part of maintaining your customer base and increasing revenue. By pinpointing the exact reason for user churn, you can determine how to avoid it and ensure that your business continues to have strong profits. Looking to measure churn? Contact sales 2.

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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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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. Historically, Weave gave away several “free” phones with each new account. Weave has added payment processing to its services, and as part of that, use Stripe per a 3 year term agreement. #5.

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Payrix

MAY 14, 2024

No one knows this better (or more intimately) than a software company Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Adam Tesan, CRO at Worldpay for Platforms, is a seasoned executive leader with decades of experience in sales, marketing, and revenue in the software space. It was an Embedded Finance play starting with payments. [It

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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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Chaotic Flow

OCTOBER 8, 2013

This is the fifth and final post in a series that explores SaaS marketing strategies that drive growth throughout the customer lifecycle using the three fundamental SaaS growth levers: customer acquisition, customer lifetime value and customer network effects. It is a seamless online experience…if you design it that way!

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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. Boring, right?).

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Plus, the price tag on those more established businesses often run into the billions. 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?

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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. Part of this can be attributed to the SaaS model’s unique aspect of relying primarily on future revenue. Take a traditional business, like a furniture store.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Consumers are less likely to complete the purchase when a digital purchasing experience isn’t seamless—whether it’s a poor checkout interface or limited payment options. When it comes to payment methods in South Korea, nothing is more trusted in mobile wallets than Kakao Pay, which has over 36.5 million users. Probably not.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

How can a simple offering be transformed into its own platform? Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Want to see more content like this?

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Payrix

JANUARY 30, 2024

Storable , the leading provider of all-in-one software for the self-storage industry, has a vision for its payments solution that is reminiscent of the industry it serves. As John Durrett, General Manager of Payments for Storable, recently explained in a sit down with Payrix, Storable wants to make payments “invisible” for its customers.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

How to think about costs in your customer acquisition strategy. Imagine you’re coming up on the busiest season of the year, and you’ve been conducting an experiment with your ads to see which will generate the most revenue. What is Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC)? What is Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC)?

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

What if you could boost revenue without having to invest a small fortune in new customer acquisition? A customer expansion strategy is a playbook for increasing the revenue from your existing customers, for example, by selling them additional products and services or encouraging them to upgrade to higher plans.

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Stax

JUNE 27, 2024

As a business owner, you engage in many daily transactions, from receiving customer payments to paying your bills and suppliers. But cash and checks are rapidly declining as preferred modes of payment. Brainy Insights valued the digital payments market at $102.60 billion in 2022 and estimated it to reach $510.30

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FastSpring

JANUARY 8, 2019

But when it comes to digital businesses where all transactions and fulfillment take place online, there’s a whole new set of terms you need to know in order to keep up. But don’t worry, we’ve created an ecommerce glossary that includes all the terms and concepts you need to know to have a successful digital business.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Average Revenue per Customer. 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. The last kind of constituent here is investors and business owners. SaaS businesses have churn. Transcript.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Product demos can be used at various stages in the customer journey, such as on your website to engage potential customers, in email campaigns to nurture leads, during sales calls to provide a “try before you buy” experience, and for customer onboarding to help new users get up to speed quickly. Userpilot comes in handy here.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Enter the platform company. Or if you’ve ever gotten a 2 cent and a 4 cent deposit into your account as you’re trying to set up direct deposit or payments transfers, that’s a pre-Plaid world. Zach : So in our back end, we’ve integrated with about 10,000 financial institutions in the U.S. Zach : About 260.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Revenue vs. profit vs. income: The terms may seem synonymous and are sometimes even used interchangeably, but they tell different stories about a company. Revenue growth suggests an expanding business and in-demand product, but whether there is any financial gain for the business is determined by the income.

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