SaaStr

MARCH 11, 2021

Q: Why do SaaS companies bill annually up front? A lot of SaaS pricing originally comes from classic enterprise software. In the old days, a customer would pay a large fee for the software upfront, and then a smaller maintenance fee for years to come. So the upfront payment for a year isn’t dead.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The way you process B2B payments matters. To keep your company thriving, you need a fast, reliable method for collecting payments for services rendered. Understanding the intricacies of the B2B payments process, and the solutions that can help, will ensure that you’re never struggling to receive these payments.

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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). gym memberships, monthly food clubs, or remote accounting services). Fraud prevention and chargebacks. FastSpring.

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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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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Scheduled payments, aka recurring billing. Scheduled payments have become a core form of revenue collection. Of course, recurring payments vary depending on the business. As the subscription universe continues to expand, you can expect to see even more subscription payment plans. What are subscription payments?

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

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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FastSpring

OCTOBER 27, 2021

We asked five SaaS and software companies what they did for existing customers around the holidays. The automatic upgrade worked best if combined with a coupon option that allowed users to upgrade their plan at a lower price than the basic plan,” explained Harriet Chan, co-founder and marketing director of CocoFinder.

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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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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

It makes sense, then, that so many marketing AI tools and software are targeting the conversion funnel. From lead generation to lead nurturing to conversion, funnel AI tools help marketers improve their strategy and streamline their processes. For a truly all-in-one platform, Systeme stands out as both robust and affordable.

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 13, 2023

If you’re currently using 2Checkout or Stripe to sell digital goods or SaaS but are considering switching — to the other, or to other options such as FastSpring — you may be wondering whether there are substantial differences between the platforms and their services. What does all of that mean? What Is FastSpring and Who Is It For?

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Baremetrics

JULY 8, 2021

Solution: They signed up for Baremetrics. Right away, its analytics tools made it easy to calculate key SaaS metrics and segment customers based on customizable attributes. MetricFire is a full-scale platform that offers infrastructure, system, and application monitoring using a suite of open-source monitoring tools.

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Baremetrics

JANUARY 18, 2022

Competitive pricing is key to succeeding in a global market. There are now an estimated 213 million registered companies globally, each competing with one another on the basis of service, customer care, and pricing. Price is one of the largest determining factors for consumers in terms of which products and services they buy.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As a former agency owner, now the Chief Marketing Officer at FastSpring, David Vogelpohl has helped many software companies scale around the world. How FastSpring Simplifies Selling Around the World Automated Localized Checkout Consumers often prefer to pay in their local currency or using payment methods that are popular in their region.

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Baremetrics

JUNE 27, 2021

Hopper How can you know if your SaaS business is profitable or not? That’s where SaaS metrics come into play and tell you what you need to know. To get a brief overview: Profitwell is a tool that can provide analytics for SaaS businesses. It has a variety of tools that monitor and analyze the performance of SaaS businesses.

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User Pilot

MARCH 24, 2024

Looking for user flow examples to inspire your UX design process ? TL;DR A user flow is a visual representation of the steps a user takes to achieve a specific goal within a website or app. Discover user paths to app actions. 11 User flow examples to inspire you to create your app flows: Basic user flow chart for logging in.

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User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

There are many SaaS products , but knowing that, how do you choose the best? This article will look at the most successful SaaS companies, so you can decide if you want to invest in them for your business. TL;DR A SaaS product delivers software remotely, reducing the need for local installation, maintenance, and updates.

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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. But for SaaS businesses, PayPal lacks the analytics and reporting features they need to support sustainable growth.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

For a SaaS business to survive, it needs to track its business data. For a SaaS business to thrive, it needs to deeply understand what the business metrics mean for the state of the business. Now, in this ongoing series of comparisons, we discuss two of the best subscription analytics dashboards for SaaS: Baremetrics vs. ProfitWell.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 18, 2020

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. According to Statista, B2B sales are now 6X larger than the business-to-consumer (B2C) market. As of 2019, B2B ecommerce sales globally have surpassed $12 trillion in revenue.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

There are many ways to classify SaaS companies, but differentiating companies based upon who their customers are presents the best approach for measuring performance and driving success for SaaS businesses. Business to Consumer (B2C). SMM SaaS Company Overview & Market Dynamics. Enterprise.

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FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

Last week, I canceled an annual SaaS subscription (I had three weeks left until renewal). In the language of SaaS, I churned. In part two, we’ll cover five churn-prevention strategies that have been successful in other SaaS businesses. Part I: SaaS Churn Benchmarks. Is There an Ideal Churn Rate for SaaS?

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Taking advantage of SaaS tools will help you accomplish this. If you aren’t using SaaS tools yet, by the end of this article you’ll understand why you should. There are a wide number of reasons why SaaS tools are taking over. SaaS tools are easy to use and come equipped with updated features. Avoiding SaaS tool bloat.

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FastSpring

MARCH 15, 2023

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

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Kellblog

JANUARY 30, 2021

I certainly didn’t have “global pandemic” on my 2020 bingo card and, even if I somehow did, I would never have coupled that with “booming stock market” and median SaaS price/revenue multiples in the 15x range. In an era where we (vendors) increasingly run our own software, running it is increasingly as important as building it.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2019

I’ve worked at multiple high growth SaaS businesses as a growth leader, and the data we’re seeing right now … This is from … is that CAC is increasing both in B2B and B2C, and you’re going to see how that relates, right? It was mostly just how to activate them, how to make them come back to the app.

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FastSpring

JUNE 22, 2022

We don’t have to look far to find examples of B2B SaaS companies that have found traction using a self-service or product-led motion. Look at Zoom or Slack: businesses designed for enterprise organizations that use B2C-like onboarding flows (such as product-led growth, or PLG) to fuel interest and adoption.

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ProfitWell

MAY 21, 2020

We've been working around the clock to develop an index displaying MRR and growth trends across SaaS companies. Table of Contents: Overall SaaS and subscription index. Table of Contents: Overall SaaS and subscription index. Impact of COVID-19 on SaaS and subscription companies. Why you need to focus on retention.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 16, 2019

It’s the question on every SaaS founder’s lips: Is my churn rate too high? So how do you know what a healthy churn rate is for your SaaS company? 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%

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Your SaaS business needs a solid system for finding qualified leads and converting them to customers if it will survive and thrive. For instance, inquiry about pricing and package offers. Outbound lead prospecting aims to persuade leads to use a service or a product. of businesses struggle with lead generation.

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ProfitWell

APRIL 2, 2020

If you take a moment to think about it, can you confidently tell somebody how many subscription services you're a member of? Even if you can list off every subscription service you're a die-hard fan of, you may eventually find yourself feeling dissatisfied on a mission to sign up for even more subscriptions.

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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). Send invoices and/or payment notifications. Manage active subscriptions (e.g., upgrades, downgrades, and adding or removing products).

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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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FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

But they quickly realized the market was too small and that there was a bigger opportunity elsewhere — in wider B2B and B2C commerce. Dopple’s earliest customers are already seeing a 40% increase in conversions, and 71% of their visitors interact with 3D-enabled products. That’s where 3D products were really going to explode.

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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. Responding to and processing chargebacks.

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FastSpring

MAY 25, 2023

FastSpring previously presented on SaaS fees pricing and packaging to combat stagflation in 2022, but this article is based on an updated presentation delivered in March 2023 by David Vogelpohl. This article offers tips for optimizing pricing and packaging of your SaaS products in a less-than-stellar economy: What is stagflation?

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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.

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Software Platform Consulting

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

The vast majority of tech press is about B2C software companies or software for IT department (e.g., My nominations, in no particular order, are as follows: Price intelligently. My nominations, in no particular order, are as follows: Price intelligently. Some would argue that their price point ($2.4k

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