SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In this new SaaStr series called “What’s new at…,” Jason Lemkin chats with WorkOS CEO and founder Michael Grinich about what it takes to be Enterprise ready in SaaS, building vs. buying, and who the stakeholders are in a B2D motion. That’s unheard of in other SaaS categories. If you want payments, sign up for Stripe.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Many companies that expand globally reach a point where they can’t properly support their international customers with their current payment platform. An international payment gateway can help with some of these issues, but it’s only one piece of the puzzle. What is an international payment gateway? Table of Contents.

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Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

A major issue that arises, especially in the B2B SaaS business model, is how to break into the upmarket market as startups develop into scaleups that are primarily focused on increasing their market capitalization. In their early stages, SaaS software startups typically target the early adopters in the tech or mid-market segments.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 10, 2023

There are tons of monthly recurring billing software solutions available, so it can seem difficult to determine which one is right for your business. Checkout (including payment processing and gathering sales tax, GST, and VAT). Handling failed payments and customer notifications. Table of Contents.

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Subscription Flow

JANUARY 19, 2024

Smooth payment processing is at the heart of any business’s smooth operations and growth. When it comes to the payments space, many business owners are unclear about the differences between Payment Aggregator vs Payment Facilitator. Today let’s dive into this payment aggregator vs payment facilitator debate.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

Small tweaks to your SaaS billing practices can make a huge impact on the customer experience. For example, Jon Torres — a digital marketing consultant specializing in SaaS commerce — noticed that, for some of his clients, refund requests spiked around renewal time. “It 7 growth hacks from the SaaS experts. Learn more here.

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Point Nine Land

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

One of the lessons I, along with many other founders and investors, have learned in my roughly 15-year journey in SaaS investing is that most businesses adopt new technologies at a painfully slow pace. ServiceTitan, a leading vertical SaaS for home services, penetrated 1% of its core TAM of 900,000 home services businesses.

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Totango

AUGUST 23, 2022

B2B Customer Journey Touchpoints: A Guide for CS Teams. B2B customer journey touchpoints mark the roadmap toward successful outcomes for clients and CS teams. In this way, customer journey B2B touchpoints serve as a powerful tool for increasing the effectiveness of your customer success strategy. What type of medium is used.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In our first post about our online community , we mentioned launching the Global SaaS Leaders Slack group because we saw a need for the kind of software-and-SaaS-focused community we’d want to be a part of. Our Guiding Principle: Our Software and SaaS Community Must Be Good for You in Order for It to Succeed.

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Frontegg

MAY 28, 2022

With more and more businesses offering their services online, payment processing is now taking centerstage. Creating a secure and smooth payment pipeline is becoming increasingly important, with users expecting more in-app freedom with the ability to purchase or upgrade their accounts with just a few clicks.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 27, 2023

As a SaaS product manager , how do you give users a chance to experience your product value? So why not look at our 15 B2B SaaS free trial best practices that will help you boost your conversion rates? In contrast, freemium requires no payments whatsoever but offers limited functionality. Or are your trials paid?

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 18, 2020

While we’ve been shopping for items like clothes or shoes online for years, another trend is now emerging—business-to-business (B2B) ecommerce. It’s easy to think of online sales as a marketplace where we buy items for ourselves, but more and more B2B and SaaS sales are now happening online. What is B2B Ecommerce?

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OPEXEngine

AUGUST 17, 2021

If you’ve underestimated the importance of financial operations for both the short and long-term success of your SaaS business, you’re not alone. 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.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2022

However, there are certain aspects of collecting recurring payments that you would still be responsible for when using Chargebee, such as: Connecting to payment gateways manually. While Chargebee supports several different payment gateways, you have to set up and configure each one. Remitting taxes at the end of the year.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Explore the Power of Changelog Integration in Our Documentation Navigating the Tax Landscape: Key Changes That Demand Your Attention in 2024 Quarterly B2B Onboarding Update: Your Complete Guide to Seamless Transactions! Maintenance of secure payment processing systems. Visit our Support page. Continual monitoring.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 17, 2023

Most subscription billing platforms let you: Automate invoicing and payments. Provide a self-service portal to customers so they can manage their accounts (including payment information, seats, and more). Our solution, FastSpring, lets global SaaS companies handle everything on both lists above. Legal compliance.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Wondering how to increase free trial conversion for your software product? Types of free trial models in SaaS: opt-in and opt-out free trials, freemium , free trial after a demo, and free trial with gamified extensions. What’s a free trial in SaaS? How to choose the right free trial model for your SaaS?

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 6, 2022

How can you analyze customer behavior in-app to deliver unparalleled in-app experiences? Customer behavior data refers to any customers’ interactions inside the product across the different stages of the customer journey : from engaging with the onboarding checklist, to clicking on a particular feature, and more.

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SaaSOptics

MARCH 1, 2022

So, where do point solutions fit into all this? . Most finance teams are familiar with enterprise and integrated solutions (think Netsuite, Sage Intacct.). They offer a broad view of a SaaS company’s financial operations. On the other hand, point solutions (QuickBooks, Xero, etc.) When to Consider a Point Solution.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Your SaaS product’s free trial conversion rate is one of the most important growth metrics to track. There are four types of free trials in SaaS: opt-in, opt-out, freemium, and reverse. An opt-in free trial allows users to experience the product for a limited time without sharing their payment details. Evaluating PMF.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Precisely – about SaaS affiliate programs… SaaS partner programs entice both software providers and affiliate partners for various reasons: 1) SaaS products are usually low-cost. 2) Software companies can pay high commissions because they don’t sell physical products.

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Totango

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

SaaS Tools to Jumpstart Your Business Growth: Five Essential Apps. Software-as-a-Service ( SaaS ) tools automate your business functions, fueling your growth by increasing efficiency. Here we’ll guide you through the essential SaaS tools you need for business growth. What Are SaaS Tools? Payment processing.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

User adoption is essential for B2B SaaS companies, as it helps customers to learn about your product, adopt features , stick around, and nurture product growth. There’re four phases for user adoption: 1) The AHA moment; 2) The activation stage; 3) Secondary onboarding; 4) Brand advocacy. And your role at a customer success team?

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Point Nine Land

MAY 22, 2020

Think back to the days of eBay and Craigslist, that’s pretty much where we stand with B2B marketplaces. Horizontal e-commerce solutions like Alibaba and Amazon Business have made great strides, but sector-specific solutions are only just beginning to take off. Need a reminder on why trust and convenience matter?

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CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 7, 2022

And, of course, in remote customer onboarding! Read on to know how remote customer onboarding can do so many things that you never thought could have been possible! Every customer success team during the onboarding, buzz around the term “Early value”, the question is how does it all start and even delivered?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Whether it’s customer onboarding or just gathering information for an event, we’re often trapped in endless follow-ups and back-and-forth emails until we finally get the assets and can move on with other, more meaningful tasks. Try as he might, he couldn’t find a solution to get around it. SaaS-struck. Alex Delivet: Thank you.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MARCH 25, 2021

They’ve moved down your marketing and sales funnel and have finally invested in your software. . Financial Mathematics of a SaaS business model. SaaS business models are different from traditional business models. That is fundamentally how SaaS retention is different. What’s next? Will you let them be on their own?

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User Pilot

APRIL 18, 2024

In SaaS, getting users to value quickly matters a lot, so invest in onboarding and self-service support. Userpilot is a product onboarding platform that can help you with that. How to create effective conversion paths: step-by-step process Here’s how you create a robust conversion path for your SaaS product.

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 3, 2022

In SaaS, this is usually the moment they start a free trial or freemium plan. In SaaS, this is when they upgrade from a free trial to paid, or from a freemium to a premium plan. In SaaS, this is when they upgrade from a free trial to paid, or from a freemium to a premium plan. This all leads to a purchase decision. Acquisition.

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Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Now more than ever, it is crucial for businesses to invest in SaaS customer journey in this era of the complete overhaul of the digital world. What is SaaS customer journey? You can improve every facet of your SaaS business with an accurate mapping of the customer journey. Naturally, though, it is never sufficient.

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yoursales

JANUARY 28, 2022

Sales Stack 2022 Sales Tools for Professional B2B Sales SALES STACK 2022: Sales Tools for. Do you know of software, which belongs on this list? With the launch of the Pipedrive Marketplace a very wide range of third party apps & integrations. Professional Sales SALES STACK. 2021: Sales Tools. Professional.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

User adoption is essential for B2B SaaS companies, as it helps customers to learn about your product, adopt features , stick around, and nurture product growth. There’re four phases for user adoption: 1) The AHA moment; 2) The activation stage; 3) Secondary onboarding; 4) Brand advocacy. And your role at a customer success team?

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SaaSOptics

MARCH 10, 2022

These tools allow you to do the above and more, benefitting your company by providing affordable and scalable software solutions to common time-consuming financial operations. Spreadsheets quickly become unwieldy for a scaling SaaS company; SaaSOptics is the financial reporting tool you’ll never outgrow. If not, read on.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

How you increase trial-to-paid conversion rate determines how good your SaaS model is. For B2C opt-in trials, a 15% conversion rate is considered effective, while B2B targets should aim for 25%. Implementing interactive walkthroughs and onboarding to enhance user understanding and engagement with the product. But how much?

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User Pilot

MARCH 31, 2023

How do you build a successful free-to-paid conversion strategy for your SaaS? 15% is a good free trial conversion rate for SaaS products. 15% is a good free trial conversion rate for SaaS products. In the B2B space, it’s a 25% conversion rate. Focus on minimum viable onboarding to quickly deliver value.

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User Pilot

JULY 6, 2023

You know there’s no one-size-fits-all solution. TL;DR SurveyMonkey is a feedback software that can build multiple types of surveys including employee engagement, Net Promoter Score , customer satisfaction surveys , product testing, and event feedback. So you need to find the tool that works for your unique goals and needs.

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Point Nine Land

JUNE 18, 2023

Everything you always wanted to know about cohort analysis (but were afraid to ask) Back in 2012, I wrote a blog post titled “Know your user cohorts” , which began like this: “One of the most important tools to better understand the usage of a web application — or a service, a game or a mobile app, it doesn’t matter — is a cohort analysis.

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