Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

As Head of Sales for Spendesk, Nico was initially inspired by the vision of founder Rodolphe Ardant who had spotted a gap for ‘spend management’ in the B2B market based on personal banking trends. So they created a software that provides control, visibility, and payment methods for corporate finance teams.

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Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Marketing 162

ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Today, eBay may be looking to subscription to amp up its ecommerce reach. Plus, Pipe, a B2B SaaS financial platform, raises $6 million. And finally, David Cancel drops the mistakes he says will tank even the best business idea. Listen wherever you get podcasts: Your top subscription news. What’s all the buzz over?

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Payments Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 52

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

From strategies in recruitment and team building to sales tactics, these leaders from Salesforce, nCino, and Vlocity, will discuss the top tips for moving beyond horizontal SaaS and building a billion-dollar SaaS company. Matt Garratt: If you just look at Vlocity and nCino, amazing businesses. David Schmaier: Sure.

Payment Solutions 154

Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 154

FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

From leading sales at Zillow to brand strategy at Tumblr to revenue at FiscalNote (a global policy platform), Justin Scott started noticing a trend. And we need platforms to be able to do that. But they quickly realized the market was too small and that there was a bigger opportunity elsewhere — in wider B2B and B2C commerce.

Payment Methods 116

Payment Methods Marketing Payments SaaS Payments 116

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

I would argue that freemium fell short in B2B and from its ashes rose the PQL,” he explained in a recent post. With the emergence of product led growth , a business strategy that puts the product front and center in how companies acquire, convert, expand and retain their users, it’s more urgent than ever to revisit freemium.

Pricing 82

Pricing Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 82

FastSpring

JANUARY 31, 2023

To help you choose between Stripe vs. Paddle vs. FastSpring, this guide compares: What areas of the payment lifecycle each one provides a solution for (e.g., payment processing, gathering and remitting taxes, and subscription management) and what additional software you’ll need to add to your tech stack.

Payment Services 112

Payment Services Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Features 112

FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It They were acquired by private equity.

Payment Solutions 91

Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 91

FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Note: FastSpring’s Revenue and Subscription Dashboards quickly show our customers where their revenue is coming from, the average order value or MRR per country, promotions performance per country, and more. There were four unfilled software products and B2B SaaS products and a variety of different offerings.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Software Review 78

FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

We also show you how to personalize your billing practices with advice from our experience working with thousands of SaaS businesses. Note: FastSpring offers advanced subscription management services that support free trials, monthly and annual paid plans, proration, discount management, and more. How Castos upsells subscription tiers.

Merchant Services 111

Merchant Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 111

SmartKarrot

JULY 14, 2020

The B2B Tech world is booming with SaaS business models. Statistics claim that about 50% of the enterprises run their operations by depending on a SaaS platform, of which 38% work exclusively on the SaaS module. What Is the SaaS Business Model? The SaaS business model is basically a subscription-based service.

Business Model 10

Business Model B2B SaaS Payments Payment Features 10

SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

What ratio of revenue is healthy for professional services to account for? Here’s what Eyal and Megan talk about: How to develop software faster. But I think what it boils down to is also how newer technology is being developed and the ability for it to inter-operate with other platforms. Missed the session?

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SaaS Payments Cloud Technical Review Scale 137

SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

To develop excellent customer experiences , consultants have worked hard to assist businesses in recognizing the magnitude of customer scores. The objective is to develop a strong customer base. The possibility that a client would renew their membership is perhaps the outcome chosen by one team. Boost renewal rates?

Customer Success 10

Customer Success Underperforming Technical Team Payment Solutions Payment Features 10

SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

To develop excellent customer experiences , consultants have worked hard to assist businesses in recognizing the magnitude of customer scores. The objective is to develop a strong customer base. The possibility that a client would renew their membership is perhaps the outcome chosen by one team. Boost renewal rates?

Customer Success 10

Customer Success Underperforming Technical Team Payment Solutions Payment Features 10

Point Nine Land

JUNE 18, 2023

However, even though everyone is now aware of cohort analyses, and every major web, product, or revenue analytics product offers features for cohort analysis, it still requires time to fully comprehend everything you need to know about cohort analyses and, perhaps more importantly, to utilize them to obtain real, actionable insights.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments SaaS 128

Outseta

MARCH 18, 2019

Wes Bush is a SaaS marketer who has quickly developed a reputation as “the free trial vs. freemium guy.” I caught up with Wes to talk about his free trial vs. freemium framework, our own customer acquisition process, and the start-up scene in Waterloo, Canada. When does it make sense to ask for payment information upfront?

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Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payments Payment Solutions 40

SaaSOptics

MARCH 1, 2022

What makes finance teams throw up their hands and say, “I just need a tool that can do X!” finance teams are responsible for planning the financial roadmap of an organization and keeping everything in balance. Most finance teams are familiar with enterprise and integrated solutions (think Netsuite, Sage Intacct.).

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Payments Payment Services Payment Features 52

SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Jos White of Notion and Christian Lanng of Tradeshift team up to show you how to work within, and sometimes around, rules in the workplace. Tradeshift now… I’ll let Christian introduce himself but Tradeshift now is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, B2B SaaS company out of Europe, valuation well above a billion dollars.

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Payments Payment Features SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 103

Navint

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Earlier this year, we welcomed Sean Joyce to the Navint team. Sean has over 15 years of expertise in recurring revenue technologies, most recently hailing from Salesforce where he was a senior member of the product marketing team responsible for Salesforce CPQ & Billing. Navint sees across the entire spectrum.

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Payments Technology Scale Revenue 53

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

As for Travis, prior to joining Redpoint, Travis was head of Customer Growth at Front, after spending 5 years building the global Sales organization at Optimizely, the world’s most popular experimentation platform. What does Travis advise founders when it comes to uniting customer facing teams? * Loving our podcast content?

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Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Services Technical Advisors 164

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

And with the field having undergone a couple of “ knockout expansion years ,” with more revenue pouring into SaaS than ever, it has never been a better time for a young SaaS company. The SaaS business model powering all of this activity is startlingly unique, still young, and inextricably tied to the power of cloud computing.

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Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

ProfitWell

AUGUST 18, 2020

Reliance told her that she would need to buy-out the remainder of her two years in one lump sum payment, plus the interest the company would lose over those two years, and she would have to pay an additional hefty administration fee too. The administration fee alone totaled nearly three of her monthly payments.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development 111

SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

We looked at the world in 2008, 2009, and we said, “How come it’s almost impossible to connect two companies to do business, especially if they have complex business processes, but we can all connect as consumers on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, every single day we want to do business?”

Payment Solutions 152

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 152

User Pilot

MAY 9, 2024

Develop educational content, like webinars or courses, to help users discover new use cases and features. Reduce the workload of the customer success team. Understand Your Customers To design a successful customer onboarding process, research your customers to understand their goals , problems, and the context in which they operate.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Onboarding Payment Solutions 52

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

In that case, you’ll need to either sell your business at a fraction of its previous value or close it down. Whether you’re an early-stage founder or you’ve built up an established B2B SaaS business, it's crucial to understand how valuations work and how you can prepare for an exit when the time is right for you.

SaaS Payments 105

SaaS Payments Technical Review Development Team Review Software Review 105

Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . build smoother connections both with your prospects through optimized sales process. Skills for SaaS Sales Team.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 157

ProfitWell

JUNE 7, 2020

However, there is one metric that has a direct impact on your bottom line that many businesses don't track—and that is average customer churn rate. Failure to track and improve customer churn rates can lead to the death of your business, particularly for subscription services that rely heavily on repeat customers. Image source.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Don’t just listen to what they say – watch what they do, understand their world and their challenges, and consider how your product integrates and fits in with everything else happening in their lives. I usually do them with Paul or people from the product teams – it’s much more fun to be on a podcast with your boss.

Payment Solutions 209

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 209

FastSpring

APRIL 30, 2024

If you’re selling your software, plugin, add-on, or other digital product for a one-time fee, you’re likely thinking about switching to a recurring subscription model. While the financial reasons are strong to switch to subscriptions, your path to roll out this massive change to your business is filled with peril.

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Subscription Payment Features Payments Payment Solutions 112

FastSpring

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Our all-in-one payment platform includes a best-in-class localized checkout, subscription management, global tax management, and more. Learn how using a merchant of record can help you scale your business faster and remove many of the headaches of breaking into new markets and transacting across borders. Uh, others.

Payment Solutions 118

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Strategy Software 118

OpenView Labs

MAY 29, 2020

Reduce upfront/adoption costs and offer flexible payment terms. And often the only thing standing between a deal and no deal is the financing or payment terms. Sometimes all that was needed to close the deal was allowing them to make most of the payments in the next fiscal year, with just a small down payment when the work started.

Payment Methods 54

Payment Methods Marketing Sales Hiring Advertising 54

SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

We all know and could name several successful B2C and B2B companies. My co founders and I were software developers, so we knew how to write the code, to build the website, to build the learning platform, to build the video distribution model. So, let me walk you through that. Our salesforce didn’t know which one to sell.

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B2B B2C Scale New CTO 135

SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

315: Harry Hurst is the Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ Pipe, the startup that gives you control of your cash flow by giving you access to the full annual value of your monthly subscriptions, upfront. Prior to Pipe, Harry co-founded Skurt raising over $11M in the process before being acquired by Fair.com. Harry Stebbings: No, absolutely.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Finance Payments 218