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.

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Payrix

APRIL 24, 2024

Andy Meadows, the Head of Partner Success at Payrix joins host Ian Hillis to continue their conversation about building a successful Embedded Payments strategy. As the last episode of a four-part series on the topic, Andy and Ian tackle how software companies can minimize attrition and why it’s important to the payments conversation.

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FastSpring

MAY 20, 2024

Moving some, all, or simply more of your software offerings from a one-time perpetual license model to a software as a service (SaaS) subscription model can be daunting, but it’s so powerful for building dependable, recurring revenue. Are you looking for a merchant of record that will partner with you to grow your SaaS business?

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

When the Apple Watch first came out in 2015, there were 3,000 apps available for download. Fast forward five years, and now there are over 20,000 apps —21 of which are built-in. As an entrepreneur, Apple Watches can be an excellent investment, as there is a wide variety of Apple Watch apps designed with business in mind.

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FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

In part one, we cover benchmarks and common churn formulas. Part I: SaaS Churn Benchmarks Part II: 5 Proven Strategies for Reducing SaaS Churn Part III: Churn Definitions and Additional Resources. Part I: SaaS Churn Benchmarks. When we set churn benchmarks for SaaS companies, there’s so much to consider.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Pricing your software correctly is a crucial part of selling software , but sometimes it’s hard to know if you’re on the right track with your pricing strategy. We’re sharing some tips for setting up a pricing model that attracts and retains long-term customers for your software company. Benchmark Growth with Measurable Metrics.

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SaaStr

MARCH 27, 2023

Capchase’s dataset is comprised of roughly half bootstrapped companies and half VC-backed companies, so there will be some differences in benchmarking from what you see from the VC firms. Most of the app sales and net retention comes from deploying software and tech-driven features that have 100% gross margin.

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Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

APRIL 1, 2020

No matter how much your new solution can enhance efficiency, improve service, reduce risk, or whatever other benefits you're promising, evaluation new software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions in not an immediate priority. Some companies are also providing leeway to customers on monthly payments.

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 14, 2020

At ChurnZero, we’re humble enough to admit that Customer Success software can’t do it all, and quite frankly, it shouldn’t. We stick to our circle of competence and focus on our area of expertise: Customer Success software. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Software. Customer Support/Service Software and Ticketing Systems.

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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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SaaStr

JUNE 13, 2019

We invest from the very earliest stages to the latest stages of software and consumer companies and we’re based in California. The first goal is to share with you benchmarks. We believe benchmarks are really useful to help you build your business, because they provide good goalposts for financial planning and for goal setting.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

This post is part of a continuing series evaluating the S-1s of publicly traded SaaS companies in order to better understand the core business and build a library of benchmarks that might be useful to founders. Today, we’ll examine Tableau, the market leader for data visualization software.

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SaaStr

MARCH 28, 2025

Your suppliers might actually be your customers 30% of Bill.com’s core revenue comes from suppliers making payment choices, completely reframing their TAM calculations. For SMB SaaS, aim for 6 quarters of LTV:CAC, not 4 Ren adjusted the traditional benchmark because SMB customers stay longer than typically measured.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 26, 2021

This can be difficult if your small business doesn’t have the cash or resources to put systems in place that lead to long-term organization. Although it’s important to automate your customer support system, it’s a bad idea to automate your relationships with customers. Don’t try to automate the entire process, however.

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FastSpring

APRIL 1, 2021

Most software companies rely heavily on free trials for customer acquisition. In the following sections, I will give you a few conversion benchmarks and tell you a few ways to solve these challenges. Users can gain full access to the product or service for a limited time period without sharing any payment information upfront.

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BetterCloud

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Every IT professional knows the feeling: the looming deadline of the fiscal year, and the inevitable question of software renewal. Just like a well-worn car that needs a tune-up, your software systems need regular updates to keep chugging along. What is software license renewal? What is software license renewal?

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 15, 2023

TL;DR A SaaS conversion rate refers to the percentage of visitors who take a desired action on the website or in-app. Use benchmarks to monitor your performance to see how well each stage converts. The journey in SaaS encompasses numerous ‘micro-conversions’—pivotal actions a user undertakes from signup to final payment.

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FastSpring

JUNE 6, 2024

Xsolla is a merchant of record (MoR) payment provider that serves the video game industry. The platform includes a broad feature set that provides game developers with the infrastructure needed to sell online and accept online payments globally, without having to manage localization, sales tax and VAT, or fraud prevention on their own.

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User Pilot

APRIL 20, 2022

Three factors decide the free trial to paid user conversion benchmark– the type of trial, the product complexity, and the audience. Keep in-app upgrade prompts contextual if you must upsell free users. What is Freemium to Premium Conversion Rate Benchmark? Databox freemium to premium conversion rate benchmark.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 22, 2024

According to Userpilot’s SaaS Product Success Metrics Benchmark report , Fintech and Insurance companies had the second-lowest activation and adoption rates of all industries. TL;DR Customer onboarding in financial services aims to integrate users into systems and educate them about product features, for example, in the banking sector.

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 9, 2021

While Stripe is indispensable for the average online business, providing many different tools, reports, and customizations that power online payment processing , when it comes to finding the billing history for Stripe customers, things are needlessly complicated. Stripe is a fully integrated suite of payment products. What is Stripe?

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How To Buy Saas

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

CRM softwares have seen a drastic growth in the market with a rising shift towards the use of technology in business. According to a report by nucleus research, 91% of companies having more than 11+ employees are using CRM softwares. How has the CRM software changed the business civilization? What Are CRM Softwares?

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Chaotic Flow

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Unfortunately, software companies have a bad habit of thinking about product in isolation from the rest of the marketing mix. From a SaaS customer’s point of view, there is little distinction between your SaaS product, website, mobile app, support, service and community. What are the boundaries of your SaaS product?

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OPEXEngine

JUNE 11, 2020

You hear the terms SaaS, subscription, term licenses and perpetual license software tossed around frequently. At OPEXEngine, we pull apart the different nuances of each business model to make sure we are benchmarking companies correctly. The product is hosted by the vendor or a 3 rd party (like AWS).

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Stax

JUNE 20, 2024

Enter ISVs, which play a crucial role in enhancing and extending the capabilities of SaaS solutions. An ISV partner is a software vendor that partners with an ISV and provides additional services or technology. In this article, we’ll explore key aspects software service providers must consider when navigating an ISV partner ecosystem.

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Baremetrics

MAY 4, 2020

The customers whose subscriptions end because their credit card payments failed and they never made up for the payment. According to our data, SaaS and subscriptions businesses lose around 9% of their MRR due to failed payments on average. I’m talking about involuntary churn. Just how much damage is involuntary churn causing?

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 6, 2021

Stripe is a payment processing company but is also used to create reports. Close to 2 million websites use Stripe reports and the company holds a 18.54% market share in the payments processing category. Stripe is a payment processor with some financial reporting. (mostly referred to as Stripe) was founded in 2010.

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Totango

AUGUST 23, 2022

Touchpoints also include occasions when clients interact with your software app in a SaaS context. During the sales process, including sales appointment scheduling, meetings and payment processes. Persuading a customer to try your freemium app. Extending an offer to upgrade to your premium app. Blog content.

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

SaaS is a global software solution created by different businesses in order to improve human activities in a matter of clicks. SAAS is also abbreviated as software as a service. SaaS as we already understood is a software as a service. These saas can be either web or app-based or even both. What is SAAS marketing?

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 24, 2021

How can we do this in line with the payment system we use, like Stripe ? Integrate Subscription Management Software: 3. Pick an efficient online payment system: Monitoring MRR Increases From Upgraded Subscriptions Monitoring MRR Increases with Baremetrics. Table of Contents. Changing the Price 2.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

The 2020 SaaS Product Benchmarks Report. About half of respondents, evenly distributed across size or industry, were offering temporary relief on payment terms. Pricing Low-Touch SaaS: How to Approach Pricing and Packaging a New SaaS App, by Example. How to Screw Up Your Software Pricing and Packaging Completely.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

You can even see your customer segmentation , deeper insights about who your customers are , forecast into the future, and use automated tools to recover failed payments. However, there are some key differences, from how they integrate with payment processing companies to how they present your data. Table of Contents.

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ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

What is retention software? Retention software is software that focuses on optimizing user retention and reducing churn. 3 Best Retention Software Tools. As mentioned before, without a good retention system in place, you will not grow. And you only recover three out of 10 customers whose payments fail.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 29, 2024

With the combination of diligence solutions (e.g., We also sought the advice of several software providers who work with fintech borrowers to get their best approaches to managing one or more debt facilities. Certain software and services providers have the ability to do all 3; other times the roles are divided.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 11, 2024

As with every digital product, the first few minutes on your app will determine whether the user sticks with it or abandons it. TL;DR FinTech onboarding involves welcoming new users to your FinTech app and helping them get started with it. Why focus on the FinTech onboarding process?

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Baremetrics

MARCH 15, 2021

Now let us have a look at the best business reporting solutions for SaaS businesses and how they can assist you in effective decision making. Baremetrics Baremetrics is a zero-setup, one-click subscription analytics and insights software suitable for businesses offering subscription products. Table of Contents. Table of Contents.

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User Pilot

APRIL 24, 2024

TL;DR SaaS renewals includes the process of renewing a subscription to an online-hosted software service. Through emails or in-app messages, early and personalized renewal notifications enhance SaaS renewals and customer relationships. This renewal is critical because it ensures customers can access the software without interruption.

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