Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

This is part two of a three part series on sequencing business models. Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. This essay is a collaboration with Gilad Horev.

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FastSpring

AUGUST 2, 2023

Now as a successful international business, TestDome has been with FastSpring through all of it, and even when other payment platforms launched intriguing new products, Mario never saw a good reason to leave FastSpring. Are you looking for a merchant of record that will partner with you to grow your business internationally?

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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Merchant Services AI Search 147

Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The current Software-as-a-Service ( SaaS ) business landscape is going through a mass subscription revolution. Thanks to the advent of cloud computing, SaaS businesses are no longer selling their products in the forms of hardware. This scenario might sound familiar to growing SaaS businesses.

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Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Features Payment Facilitation 59

FastSpring

JANUARY 17, 2023

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). Offer and manage one-time add-ons, coupons, and more.

Payments 93

Payments Payment Features Payment Methods Payment Services 93

Stax

JANUARY 29, 2024

In today’s fast-paced business landscape, efficient and seamless payment processing is paramount to your bottom line. TL;DR A billing platform is a comprehensive system facilitating subscription management, recurring billing, revenue recognition, payment gateways, analytics, and dunning processes.

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Stax

JANUARY 17, 2024

Automated Clearing House (ACH) payments are a type of electronic bank-to-bank payment system in the US. Unlike payments facilitated by card networks like Visa or Mastercard, ACH payments are managed by a body called the National Automated Clearing House Association (NACHA). Let’s get started.

Payment Services 88

Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Facilitation 88

Stax

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

FIS Global reports that in Norway, Sweden, and other Scandinavian countries, more than 90% of transactions processed at point-of-sale (POS) in 2023 were cashless. The writing on the wall is clear—businesses need to start accepting digital payments and software providers need to start offering payment services one way or another.

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

In the early days of running a software company, collecting payments was pretty straightforward. Fast forward to today when most software companies use a Subscription as a service (SaaS business model , and things aren’t as simple. Luckily, like most complex processes and tasks, it can be simplified.

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Payment Solutions Merchant Services Systems Review SaaS Payments 105

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

This is part two of a three part series on sequencing business models. Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. This essay is a collaboration with Gilad Horev.

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 28, 2020

If you’re running a subscription or SaaS business, you know that at the end of the day your chief metric is monthly recurring revenue (MRR). MRR gives your company that forward looking measurement and predictive revenue to actually grow your business. Introducing: a successful dunning process. What is a dunning process?

SaaS Payments 105

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments 105

Baremetrics

MAY 13, 2021

Cash flow modelling software lets you use historical data from a time period to develop a forecast of your incoming cash from revenue. For SaaS businesses, you use your contraction monthly recurring revenue (MRR) , churn, and average revenue per customer in addition to other transaction data to predict your future cash flow.

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Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Deciding between Stripe vs. Chargebee for your online payment processing needs? Stripe supports online payments for e-commerce businesses, while Chargebee helps SaaS companies set up and manage their recurring payments. How Well Do You Know Your Business? Table of Contents.

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Payment Services Payment Methods Technical Review Payment Features 59

Baremetrics

AUGUST 21, 2021

We’ll also share an example of a cash flow statement to bring the concept to life and provide some tips for SaaS businesses seeking to simplify and streamline their cash flow statement activities. Calculating cash flow with the direct method 2. Calculating cash flow with the indirect method 3. Customer churn 4.

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Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payment Methods Software Review 97

User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Confused about trying to understand SaaS roles? SaaS companies have many moving parts, and it can be difficult to determine who does what. TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet.

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Subscription Flow

JANUARY 19, 2024

Smooth payment processing is at the heart of any business’s smooth operations and growth. If this process is blotchy then you run the risk of losing money. If the process is not secure, then you run the risk of losing your customers’ trust resulting in catastrophic consequences for your business.

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Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Facilitation 59

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

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

When it comes to your unique payment processing needs as a growing business, which is better— Stripe vs. Authorize.net ? But which is better for your business? Currency Conversions Stripe is able to process more than 135 different types of currencies, helping you take your business worldwide.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Manual processes first. Dare I say SaaS.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Interested in learning more about how your SaaS, software, video game, or other digital goods business can partner with FastSpring and let us worry about the taxes? Carl Hargreaves The first thing I remember buying online, so TBD if this is actually the first thing, but it was an organ, an electric organ like the musical instrument.

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Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review Branding 146

SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Dare I say SaaS. The exchange of value.

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Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Sales Hiring 121

CustomerSuccessBox

MARCH 25, 2021

Let’s see the process of acquiring new customers. Acquiring your customers is just a first step in the fruitful partnership process and retaining them is the next big thing. Financial Mathematics of a SaaS business model. SaaS business models are different from traditional business models.

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Retention SaaS Payments B2B Business 52

Baremetrics

MAY 7, 2019

Every business is funded, it’s just a matter of how it’s funded. For example: Company A was funded by some of the founders’ savings, a small line of credit from the local bank, and profits from customers. The great thing about SaaS is that it’s a very cheap business to start. John Doherty of Credo. Equity Financing.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 30, 2019

On today’s episode, SaaS and big banks team up. Big banks x SaaS. We’re hearing word that Boston-based Flywire , a global payment SaaS platform and processor, just formed a partnership with Bank of America. without hidden bank fees, difficult wire transfers, and the like. Let's Talk : product.

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Payments Payment Methods Payment Services SaaS Payments 40

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 13, 2022

45% of SaaS companies said they had some form of usage-based pricing, up from 34% in 2020. Fully embracing usage-based pricing rather than traditional seat-based subscriptions is analogous to making the transition from on-prem to SaaS in the first place. The customer success leader is often the person who owns the renewal number.

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Pricing Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 82

FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Like, you’re literally on the floor like crippled with crying just like two years of your hard work, or whatever, you know, you’re like, ah, and then you get a phone call at that exact moment. And I just started a consulting business, it was a service business. Corporate learning is really enterprise SaaS.

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Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 108

SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Vikas made his way into the world of SaaS and came to be at the rocketship that is Kustomer. * Why does Vikas believe that a wave of SaaS incumbents are about to be displaced or disrupted? Why is it so crucial to invest in enablement in the early days? What is a good payback period? *

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SaaS Payments Cloud Technical Review Scale 139

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey. It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. They love SaaS products.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Lambda School trains people online to be software engineers. So we saw huge lifts in acquisition when we moved from money that you can get in 12 hours to money that you could get in five minutes in your bank account, and that’s because some people didn’t have 12 hours to wait and stress. You had town car services before.

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Acquisition Software Review Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 145

Baremetrics

JANUARY 12, 2022

This article is one such list, where we take a deep dive into cash flow modeling for SaaS businesses and the software that can help you do it. Cash flow modeling is a necessary but complicated task. In this article, we are going to summarize the six tools you should consider for cash flow modeling in 2022.

Payment Services 95

Payment Services Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 95

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.

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Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

Number three is not understanding their business model. If we really look at a lot of YC companies now a days, we have a ton of B to B companies, and the most common mistake they make is they don’t really understand if they can afford the process they need to do to acquire customers. We had half a million in the bank.

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Sales Hiring Scale Payment Solutions Banking 171

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Romain Huet : See how you can turn like a SaaS business, or a core product you have and make it a very successful developer platform. Like, how can we provide economic infrastructure for developers to build applications and services and in a weird way, future proof? Let’s start with our five key steps.

Payments 124

Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 124

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Strategy and Process. Sales Enablement. The Sales Enablement Playbook. Enablement Mastery. Blueprints for a SaaS Sales Organization. If you truly want to be a better leader, better salesperson , better speaker, better writer, or just a better person, you need to study the craft. Our bank account takes a hit.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

A liability is a financial or legal obligation or debt that a person or company owes to another party. Liabilities are settled through the transfer of funds, goods, or services to the party to which they’re owed. When is it acceptable for SaaS companies to generate liabilities? How can SaaS companies monitor their liabilities?

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SaaS Payments Payments SaaS Payment Features 97

Subscription Flow

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Accepting this fact, many businesses shifted to this business model and multiplied their revenue within a short period of time. Next, these subscription businesses need to plan and go for scaling subscriptions. To turn a challenge into an opportunity, you must have a flexible billing model. But what’s next?

Scale 52

Scale Payment Features SaaS Payments Payment Services 52

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Since the original version of this post from early 2017, we’ve worked with many more SaaS companies and a common theme has been moving companies from a starter template to a more robust financial model. A Modular Financial Model. The structure of a strong SaaS financial model should be wholly modular.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2023

With nine figures in revenue, Ariel and SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin talk about all things Navan, rebranding when you have brand equity, building B2B software for people, pricing and business models, and much more. They learned from some of the biggest in SaaS — Aaron Levie and Jeff Lawson. Do you know what happened?

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