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. Professional moderation.

SaaS Payments 145

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Software Review 145

ProfitWell

JANUARY 2, 2020

The subscription economy has shifted the power balance in favor of the customer. Subscriptions are built on ongoing relationships with customers, so companies selling subscriptions need to understand how to monetize this relationship on a recurring basis. That’s what makes subscription sales so difficult.

B2C 52

B2C Subscription Payment Features Payments 52

Baremetrics

JUNE 27, 2021

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. What is Stripe?

SaaS Payments 69

SaaS Payments Payments Merchant Services Payment Features 69

Baremetrics

JULY 22, 2021

PayPal is a popular choice for online payment processing. The platform currently serves over 20 million active merchant accounts globally, and is a proven solution trusted by entrepreneurs for over twenty years. It offers detailed information about any subscribed monthly payments that are outstanding. Start a free trial today.

PayPal 98

PayPal Merchant Services Payments SaaS Payments 98

OPEXEngine

AUGUST 17, 2021

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. Spreadsheets and disconnected systems open the door for errors. Choose a solution made for B2B.

Payment Services 52

Payment Services B2B SaaS Payments Payments 52

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

SaaS Payments 271

SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 271

Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

They even provide custom domain names and access to local payment processors. Shopify Partners now have a whole new process and product to improve upon with great apps. With merchants going global, this interaction provides ample opportunity for creative Shopify Partners to produce great new apps. What is Shopify Markets?Shopify

Payment Methods 98

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Solutions 98

FastSpring

MARCH 3, 2023

Most billing and subscription management solutions let you: Build various trial and subscription models (e.g., free or paid trial and usage-based or fixed price subscriptions). Manage active subscriptions (e.g., Send invoices and/or payment notifications. We take the lead on audits.

Payment Services 121

Payment Services Payment Features Merchant Services Payments 121

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

For example, a SaaS company might have a subscription revenue stream. For example, your subscription revenue model might have a base-fee revenue stream and an add-on revenue stream. Baremetrics is a business metrics tool that provides 26 metrics about your business, such as MRR, ARR, LTV, total customers, and more.

Payments 102

Payments SaaS Payments Revenue Payment Solutions 102

FastSpring

MARCH 15, 2023

SaaS accounting software can help you automate: Recurring invoicing. Payment processing. Payment reconciliation. Payment reminders. Subscription management. And more … However, it’s almost impossible to find one accounting software solution that satisfies all your needs as a SaaS company.

Payment Solutions 78

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services Merchant Services 78

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

For a SaaS business to thrive, it needs to deeply understand what the business metrics mean for the state of the business. It is no wonder that so many companies choose to use a business metrics dashboard to help with data visualization and making insights. ProfitWell is a SaaS enterprise focused on the B2C and B2B markets.

Payments 94

Payments Payment Solutions SaaS Payments PayPal 94

ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The subscription universe is taking over. From hygiene products to software to bacon (yes, bacon), you can purchase a subscription for just about anything today. It’s a mutually beneficial system. What is the subscription-based economy? How does the subscription-based economy work?

Payment Features 49

Payment Features Payments Subscription Trends 49

Chart Mogul

MARCH 6, 2018

Spotify's recent F-1 filing is packed full of metrics and insights into both consumer subscriptions and the streaming music industry. Spotify’s filing gives us a rare look into the metrics of a large-scale consumer subscription business. This is likely due to family subscriptions and internationalization.

Payments 75

Payments Metrics EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) SaaS Payments 75

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Your SaaS product’s free trial conversion rate is one of the most important growth metrics to track. An opt-in free trial allows users to experience the product for a limited time without sharing their payment details. B2C companies tend to have higher trial conversion rates but lower customer lifetime values.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payments Payment Solutions Scale 52

ProfitWell

MAY 21, 2020

And we'll be sharing with you an overall subscription index, from companies on Profitwell, that will be updated weekly. Table of Contents: Overall SaaS and subscription index. Impact of COVID-19 on SaaS and subscription companies. Impact of COVID-19 on SaaS and subscription companies. Metrics you need to stay on top of.

Subscription 68

Subscription Payment Features SaaS Payments Data 68

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

But, how can you maximize this metric to attract more customers organically and cultivate product-led growth ? You can calculate the free trial conversion rate by dividing the number of free trial users who upgrade to a paid subscription by the total number of trial users. Besides, anything above 30% is regarded as exceptional.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Scale 52

FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

Last week, I canceled an annual SaaS subscription (I had three weeks left until renewal). Interestingly, even though I paid for a year-long subscription, the company didn’t let me keep the last three weeks of access to its premium features. This action will immediately downgrade your subscription.

Benchmarks 139

Benchmarks Churn Payments SaaS Payments 139

OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Business to Consumer (B2C). Customers of these SaaS companies also referred to as “Small and Medium Businesses” or SMBs, need the same software solutions as Enterprise companies but have resource constraints that prevent them from using the top SaaS vendors. Enterprise. SMM SaaS Company Overview & Market Dynamics.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 52

ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Your subscription company should run like a well-oiled machine. Retain subscribed customers: Unlike other businesses, SaaS businesses rely on customers paying monthly or yearly for their subscription. Accounting software will keep all revenue assets organized. Will this tool uncover metrics I’d have otherwise not known?

Retention 56

Retention Pricing SaaS Payments Payment Methods 56

FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Chargebee is a robust subscription management platform. 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. Reconciling payments, fulfillment, refunds, etc. Zoho Subscriptions.

Payment Methods 145

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Services Payments 145

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Ever since John Koenig first coined the term “SaaS” back in 2005, the software-as-a-service industry has been one of the fastest-moving and creative in the world. SaaS, or software as a service, is a delivery model in which a centrally hosted software is licensed to customers via a subscription plan. Recurring payments.

Business Model 54

Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

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

SaaS Payments 100

SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 100

Totango

JULY 13, 2021

The new customer-centered economy favors recurring revenue business models for B2B markets, while favoring and partial ownership or subscription models for B2C ones. Never give a customer who’s missed a payment downgraded service, as they may not notice they have lost functionality or may even learn to do without it.

Customer Success 104

Customer Success Payment Methods Payments Payment Services 104

ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Reducing churn is one of the biggest things that subscription companies can do to accelerate their growth. But this week, Kim Terry at Subscription Systems has a slight variation on the common question of how to reduce churn. Churn is part of the game we play in the subscription economy. Here’s what we found.

Churn 53

Churn Payments Payment Solutions B2C 53

Baremetrics

MAY 13, 2021

In addition to your financial model, you need to select a SaaS sales model that helps you improve the metrics and grow your business. All the data your startup needs Get deep insights into your company's MRR, churn and other vital metrics for your SaaS business. Try Baremetrics free. Table of Contents. Table of Contents.

SaaS Payments 66

SaaS Payments Payment Services Strategy Payment Methods 66

Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

Second, cloud-hosted SaaS apps meet “consumerized” technology buyers via a freemium sales models. Ad tech and our B2C peers have been able to precisely profile and engage consumers for years. For example, as a lead is nurtured and converts to become a customer, you might need to: Integrate payments (Stripe).

SaaS Payments 77

SaaS Payments Technical Advisors Engineering Payment Solutions 77

Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

This means that such companies are product-oriented as well, but also include a small inside account management team to help them catch and convert by providing real-time assistance during the software purchase process. Besides selling a high-priced SaaS software, Passkey also makes multi-year deals that can be worth millions of dollars.

SaaS Payments 157

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 157

ProfitWell

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Why is it so hard to define an average churn rate—and what does that mean for your subscription business? Zuora’s 2019 Subscription Economy Index reports average customer churn rates across a number of different industries, ranging from Business Services on the low end (16.2% Let’s find out. What is the average churn rate?

Churn 55

Churn SaaS Payments Payments Payment Methods 55

OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

B2B and B2C SaaS and Subscription Report. Updated weekly to show the impact of COVID-19, this resource from ProfitWell includes data from their subscription companies. About half of respondents, evenly distributed across size or industry, were offering temporary relief on payment terms. SaaS Pricing Basics.

Pricing 135

Pricing SaaS Payments Payments SaaS 135

ProfitWell

APRIL 30, 2020

Customer loyalty is the essence of subscription businesses and a key lever of growth. In this article I’ll explain why customer loyalty is more important than acquisition, some metrics you need to be tracking, and how to build customer loyalty in just a few steps. Key metrics of customer loyalty. What is customer loyalty?

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payments Payment Methods Payment Services 52

FastSpring

MARCH 3, 2023

Zuora is a recurring billing and monetization solution for: Subscription management Revenue recognition Payment collection Quotes And more… However, Zuora has one main shortcoming — it doesn’t handle sales tax or transaction liability for you. In this guide, we start with an in-depth review of FastSpring.

Payment Services 78

Payment Services Payment Methods Payments Merchant Services 78

ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

In a nutshell, your renewal rate measures the percentage of customers who renew their subscriptions at the end of each subscription period. SaaS companies calculate renewal rates in different ways: the percentage of customers, recurring revenue, subscriptions, logos, or other metrics are all valid ways of measuring renewals.

SaaS Payments 45

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments 45

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.

SaaS Payments 148

SaaS Payments Pricing Payments Merchant Services 148

FastSpring

JANUARY 8, 2019

A set of subroutine definitions, protocols, and tools for building application software. An API may be used for a web-based system, operating system, computer hardware, or software library. A security mechanism that determines if a payment account has sufficient funds to complete a given transaction.

Payment Methods 65

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Services Outsourcing Services 65

SmartKarrot

AUGUST 10, 2021

How will you perfect your software? Whether you are a B2B SaaS or B2C, what will be your two primary goals? Set the right goals , and then set KPIs and growth metrics to reach those goals to ensure max growth. By studying what people do with it, how they use it, their experience, the pain points, etc. Right from the beginning!

Payment Methods 10

Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payments SaaS 10

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) is the value of contracted, often subscription-based revenues normalized for one calendar year. Artificial Intelligence (AI) refers to a system of computers, software, machines and processes that simulate certain aspects of human intelligence such as image perception, voice recognition and reasoning.

Scale 99

Scale Payment Methods Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments 99

SaaStr

AUGUST 5, 2020

Timelines’ longer for fundraising for closing customers and payments get delayed. And that’s probably not so much in a down market like this, where investors really care about the metrics and the unit economics. Fundraising is more difficult now. Business, the customers are getting impacted.

Technical Review 147

Technical Review Payment Methods Travel Development Team Review 147