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An In-Depth Guide to Subscription Billing Platforms (+ 5 Options)

FastSpring

Most subscription billing platforms let you: Automate invoicing and payments. Customize and manage one or more subscription and trial models. Provide a self-service portal to customers so they can manage their accounts (including payment information, seats, and more). Automated invoices and customer notifications.

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How to Find the Best SaaS Billing Platform: A Complete Guide

Stax

Here’s an interesting stat: 70% of businesses consider subscription and membership models indispensable for future commercial growth and expansion. They must engineer a well-rounded solution that makes handling subscriptions a breeze (and yes, it is as hard as it sounds). However, only 10% of them currently employ these models.

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In-Depth Comparison of 5 Monthly Recurring Billing Software

FastSpring

Chargebee: Supports Complex Subscription Management. Recurly: Easily Integrates with Multiple Payment Gateways. Zoho Subscriptions: Online Subscription Billing Platform. Wave: Invoicing and Accounting Software for Small Businesses. Fully Compliant, Custom Trial and Subscription Options (Without Writing Code).

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5 Interesting Learnings from Duolingo at $360,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

The core product is very B2C, but the upgrade to paid has very SMB B2B metrics, and 80% of the revenue is subscription based. We wrote a classic SaaStr post long ago saying you needed about 50,000,000 Freemium users to make the model work, more or less, and Duolingo’s metrics tie to this. But is Duolingo SaaS?

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Top 6 Recurly Competitors and Alternatives: An In-Depth Review

FastSpring

In this guide, we compare six Recurly competitors and alternatives according to several categories: Subscription management and recurring billing Checkout Global payment processing Reporting and analytics Pricing Customer reviews We’ll start with a deep dive into FastSpring — our end-to-end payment solution (i.e.,

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Stripe vs. Profitwell

Baremetrics

That’s where SaaS metrics come into play and tell you what you need to know. Using the wrong metrics, using them in the wrong way, or overlooking the crucial ones can be a disaster for your business. There are so many business metrics platforms out there that it becomes hard to choose the one you actually need.

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Get Better PayPal Analytics with Baremetrics

Baremetrics

This is why PayPal users love Baremetrics, the ultimate business analytics solution that helps SaaS and subscription businesses monitor and understand subscription data. This article will cover PayPal’s metrics and reporting features, as well as how PayPal data can be better tracked in Baremetrics. Key SaaS Metrics 1.

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