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.

Payments 86

Payments Payment Features Payment Methods Payment Services 86

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.

SaaS Payments 81

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 81

Baremetrics

JULY 8, 2021

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. Solution: They signed up for Baremetrics.

Payment Services 105

Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments SaaS Payments 105

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.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 52

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.

Payment Methods 148

Payment Methods B2B Outsourcing Services Payment Services 148

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.

Payment Methods 78

Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Software Review 78

Baremetrics

JULY 22, 2021

PayPal is a popular choice for online payment processing. But for SaaS businesses, PayPal lacks the analytics and reporting features they need to support sustainable growth. PayPal analytics provide limited value for SaaS companies PayPal offers users the ability to conduct seamless online payments.

PayPal 98

PayPal Merchant Services Payments SaaS Payments 98

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.

Payment Services 52

Payment Services B2B SaaS Payments Payments 52

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.

B2C 133

B2C Payments SaaS Payments B2B 133

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%. What is a good trial conversion rate for SaaS? Roughly, a 15% conversion rate is good enough for opt-in free trials in B2C.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Scale 52

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.

Payments 94

Payments Payment Solutions SaaS Payments PayPal 94

Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2021

If you’re an OEM or selling physical products, this one’s for you (sorry, SaaS folks). While that can feel like a B2C trend, your B2B shoppers and targets are doing much the same thing. As they move further down your sales funnel and process, these preferences grow.

Outsourcing Services 67

Outsourcing Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Transportation 67

Baremetrics

JANUARY 18, 2022

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. Table of Contents. What Is Price Localization?

Payment Methods 98

Payment Methods Pricing Payment Services Strategy 98

FastSpring

APRIL 4, 2024

As an experienced sales and GTM leader, John Eitel has more than witnessed how product-led growth (PLG) has affected the tech and SaaS space in the last few years — he and his teams have been up close and personal with how PLG increased in popularity as a sales strategy. “I Set up a demo or try it out for yourself. Jump to video.

Scale 130

Scale Sales Payment Methods Merchant Services 130

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. It starts with self service. Justin Scott My pleasure.

Payment Methods 124

Payment Methods Marketing Payments SaaS Payments 124

OPEXEngine

JANUARY 18, 2022

Having been a member of DocuSign’s board of directors and chairing the audit committee prompted Gaylor to prioritize how to continue growing at scale: “How do we continue to delight our customers in an environment where we need to also build on our operations very quickly for the scale that we were growing into?”.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Scale Strategy Payment Services 52

ProfitWell

JULY 7, 2020

For SaaS companies, churn is like the holes in that leaky bucket. Churn—when a customer cancels a product or service. So, let’s walk through the top three hidden areas of churn you might not be thinking about: failed credit card payments, lack of annual contracts and not utilizing value metrics. Failed credit card payments.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payments Payment Services Venture Capital 52

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

Jason recently opened up an AMA on Twitter Spaces to answer questions about scaling and VC funding. I think it’s a challenge to folks that think we are in some sort of terrible downturn for SaaS and cloud. While Azure and Google Cloud grew at record rates, Shopify for example, its SaaS business only grew 10% last quarter.

Scale 209

Scale SaaS Payments Scaling SaaS 209

Point Nine Land

APRIL 9, 2021

Over the last few years, we’ve published a number of SaaS funding napkins as well as marketplace napkins. So if you’re a US-based startup, you might be able to shoot slightly higher ;) Unlike SaaS companies which have been around for years, B2B marketplaces are a relatively new category and not many investors have invested in them yet.

Marketplace as a Service 59

Marketplace as a Service Payments B2B SaaS Payments 59

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? So quarter after to be able to now scale the company. Guillaume : Cool.

Sales Hiring 151

Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Solutions Marketing 151

SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

As we wrote in our launch post about expanding SaaStock New York into SaaStock East Coast , our main aim is to foster a community of top SaaS companies that spans all the way from Florida to Quebec. The SaaS industry’s beating heart will probably always be New York, and it will also be the home of SaaStock East Coast on June 4-6.

SaaS Payments 271

SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 271

FastSpring

MARCH 3, 2023

Send invoices and/or payment notifications. In this guide, we compare five solutions by looking at the billing and subscription management features they provide and the additional features they offer — starting with a deep dive into our solution for SaaS companies, FastSpring. Manage active subscriptions (e.g.,

Payment Services 105

Payment Services Payment Features Merchant Services Payments 105

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.

Payment Methods 133

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Services Payments 133

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?

SaaS Payments 144

SaaS Payments Pricing Payments Merchant Services 144

SmartKarrot

MARCH 8, 2022

Her blog posts continue to serve as a valuable resource for people who seek to understand and master customer success processes. A star in the world of Customer Success, Amarachi Ogueji is known for her exceptional skills in retaining B2B and B2C SaaS clients. Amarachi Ogueji. Anita Toth. Annette Franz. Annette Franz.

VP of Engineering 21

VP of Engineering Customer Success Scale SaaS Payments 21

FastSpring

OCTOBER 13, 2022

We confirmed this by reviewing sales data from over 300 SaaS and software companies that use our billing platform. FastSpring’s billing platform supports over 3500 SaaS and software companies who have customers found in over 200 countries or territories. US End-Of-Year Trends For SaaS And Software Purchases. About Our Data.

Payment Methods 139

Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Software Review 139

SmartKarrot

JUNE 2, 2022

Customer experience is crucial for any B2B SaaS business. Any B2B SaaS business must keep the customers with the business with a good customer experience. While B2C brands offer a great customer experience, B2B companies need to meet higher expectations around customer experience. 8 Inspiring B2B Customer Experience Examples.

B2B 10

B2B Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payment Services 10

SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

As we wrote in our launch post about expanding SaaStock New York into SaaStock East Coast , our main aim is to foster a SaaS community that spans from Florida to Quebec. The SaaS industry’s beating heart will probably always be New York, and it will also be the home of SaaStock East Coast on June 4-6. Funding to date: $234M.

SaaS Payments 100

SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 100

SmartKarrot

JUNE 1, 2020

All SaaS companies, including Netflix, Hotstar, or Spotify’s entire range of businesses rely on a subscription model. Simply put, there is a continual relationship with the customer who is taking the service. SaaS and cloud solutions have successfully left an indelible imprint in the newer technologies.

Subscription 10

Subscription Payment Features Payment Methods SaaS Payments 10

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. Related: Can SaaS Companies Afford to Ignore Sales Taxes and VAT?

Payment Services 78

Payment Services Payment Methods Payments Merchant Services 78

OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

Pricing is a SaaS company’s most efficient profit lever, but it’s also one of the easiest things to screw up. Nailing your SaaS pricing strategy requires more than just picking the optimal price and forgetting about it. It includes the latest and greatest SaaS pricing resources, as well as some timeless staples.

Pricing 135

Pricing SaaS Payments Payments SaaS 135

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Account refers to a record of primary and background information about an individual or corporate customer, including contact data, preferred services, and transactions with your company. . Accounts Receivable refers to the amount of money yet to be collected from your customers who purchased a product or subscribed to a service.

Scale 99

Scale Payment Methods Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments 99

Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

Over the past few years, we've seen a new role emerging at within scaling startups - the growth engineer. The explosion of SaaS tools (and with it, data silos) together creates a need for a cross-functional, operations role to support go-to-market teams. But first, we need to set some context (albeit from the perspective of B2B SaaS).

SaaS Payments 77

SaaS Payments Technical Advisors Engineering Payment Solutions 77

ChurnZero

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Whether Customer Success or Sales should own the renewal, expansion, and upsell is a hot-button issue in today’s SaaS sphere. As such, we decided to tap industry experts for a verbal duel on the subject where the winners take home the esteemed (and priceless) prize of bragging rights and SaaS street cred. Enter the Sales Manager.

Scale 98

Scale Customer Success SaaS Payments Sales 98

Chargify

MARCH 6, 2018

UK online education company EdPlace has emerged as a “parent champion,” providing online tutorial services designed to help parents support their children in their education (specifically Math, English, and Science) at an affordable price. To be clear, EdPlace isn’t just a B2C business. Managing both B2B and B2C business models.

B2C 40

B2C Merchant Services B2B Payment Services 40

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. The SaaS business model powering all of this activity is startlingly unique, still young, and inextricably tied to the power of cloud computing. What is SaaS?

Business Model 54

Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

We’re a team of former investors and operators from the likes of Facebook, Deliveroo, and the Swedish payments company Klarna. Education has impacted both the supply of … we’re talking about the B2B SaaS entrepreneurs and the supply of investors. Maybe fifty of them are B2B SaaS. Evgenia : Hi.

New CTO 147

New CTO Sales Hiring B2C CTO Hire 147