Subscription Flow

APRIL 23, 2024

A robust recurring billing software can make all the difference for your subscription business but win 2024 we are taking no gambles. Understanding Paddle in 2024 Catering to more than 3000 SaaS clients in over 200 markets, Paddle is a market-leading billing and revenue management software.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 4, 2023

With the turbulence in the market in 2023, sales cycles have only been getting longer and a lot more complicated. At this year’s SaaStr Annual , CEO and co-founder of Capchase Miguel Fernandez and Director of Marketing Rose Johnson share five tips for getting sales right in any market. Lay out the sales process early on.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

So one thing that’s back now is customers asking for longer payment terms. Your champion likely doesn’t benefit from longer payments terms themselves. So if you’ve really helped them during the sales process, they’ll often go to bat for you. Not all of them, and not in every industry.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

SVB collapsed, market multiples are down, yet the IPO window is re-opening, and we have a platform shift to AI that’s exciting everybody. At the peak of bull market exuberance at the end of 2021, a 1% improvement in revenue growth had the same impact on valuations as a 6% improvement in free cash flow margin. Let’s find out.

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SaaStr

MARCH 29, 2021

Salesforce’s biggest source of new revenue isn’t CRM or even support. It’s partners and platform. It took more than a decade after Salesforce was founded: Shopify’s partner ecosystem is also huge, comprising 20% of its revenue in 2020. And it has been since 2017 or so! But that took time. Your partner?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Both Bill and Shopifty have morphed over the years from almost pure SaaS companies to payments platforms built on top of a SaaS core. The rest of the growth is from its Divvy platform, which is bought in 2021 for $2.5 But payments and transaction are far bigger at $800m run rate — and growing faster at 38%. #2.

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Payment Services Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 296

Payrix

MARCH 20, 2024

Among the most recent strategies proving successful for software companies is Embedded Payments. In fact, a recent report from IDC estimates that by 2030, 74% of global digital payments will be processed through platforms owned by non-financial institutions, including software companies. What are Embedded Payments?

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Payments Embedded Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 147

Stax

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

This may be concerning for certain types of businesses as they need to spend more to process credit and debit card payments as compared to cash. Clearly, the monthly fees that businesses typically pay to accept card payments can eat away a significant portion of their revenue and overall profits.

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Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 88

Subscription Flow

JANUARY 8, 2024

The reason why it is important for you to know the acute differences between a merchant account vs payment gateway is because it will allow you to better understand the ways in which online payments generally work. What is a payment gateway? Read more: What Is Merchant of Record (MoR)?

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Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Services 52

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

But, there are still many interesting things we can learn from Shopify, especially since it sells to so many SMBs, has been late to go upmarket, and combines a payments/fintech element with pure SaaS. Sales might want a tighter “gate” to convert to paid. Subscriptions can fuel payments and merchant revenue.

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Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Scale 347

SaaStr

JULY 11, 2023

How do you win with a high-velocity sales strategy in a fast-moving, competitive market? In a special session of Workshop Wednesday, Gorgias Founder & CEO Romain Lapeyre and Gorgias VP of Sales & Partnerships Aasif Osmany share their learnings, advice, and hacks for optimizing your sales process.

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Subscription Flow

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Subscription pricing with the help of automated billing software has transformed many industries and provided businesses with a dynamic way to generate revenue, especially in the SaaS space. Now let’s discuss the benefits of using a SaaS subscription services billing platform in your SaaS company: 1.

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Subscription Flow

MARCH 20, 2024

But it is important to understand that there are SimpleCirc alternatives with advantages that might be more suitable for certain business requirements. SimpleCirc’s creative strategy guarantees smooth financial flows, which is advantageous to both consumers and businesses. In this way, SimpleCirc helps to build trust in the platform.

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Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods 88

SaaStr

OCTOBER 20, 2023

OpenAI’s Head of Sales, Aliisa Rosenthal, joined OpenAI a year and a half ago — before ChatGPT launched. In 2021, they trained GPT3 on Github repositories, produced a model that could code, and released embedding that allowed people to vectorize language and search across it to perform recommendations. They’re on a rocket ship.

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Blulogix

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This evolution has paved the way for subscription and recurring revenue models to emerge as powerful strategies for sustainable growth. The latest whitepaper, “Monetization in the Digital Economy,” delves deep into why and how businesses are transitioning from traditional sales models to subscription-based approaches.

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Buffer Resources

APRIL 10, 2024

Fast-forward a decade, and the landscape of creator monetization has changed completely.   Whether you have 3,000 or 300,000 followers, you can monetize your Instagram with the right strategy. And this might be where your next monetization idea comes from. Let’s get into it.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2023

At SaaStr, our partners are an integral part of our events. Carta is a platform that helps people manage equity, build businesses, and invest in the companies of tomorrow. Make enables individuals, teams, and enterprises across all verticals to create powerful custom solutions that scale their businesses faster than ever.

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Scale Payments Payment Solutions Artificial Intelligence 205

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

By Rob Nathan, EVP, Integrated Solutions at CardConnect. Payments can be facilitated on a mobile device in a variety of ways. This is a huge advantage for SaaS companies looking to diversify recurring revenue streams in a way that also delights customers. Protect payment information. Carry out a risk assessment.

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Mobile Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payments 137

Stax

MARCH 12, 2024

But in reality, companies often have to spend considerable time and resources chasing down late payments that are stuck in Accounts Receivable. Promptly collecting payments from your customers is essential to run a sustainable business. In fact, 81% of large retailers say that real-time payments are critical to their operations.

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

Niall Wall, Box SVP of Business and Corporate Development alongside Vicki Lin, Stripe’s Head of Ecosystem and Cecilia Stallsmith, Slack’s Director of Platform Marketing discuss scaling your revenue via indirect channels and platform ecosystems. Ceci Stallsmith – Director of Platform Marketing @ Slack.

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Payments Scale Scaling Revenue 120

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

PST, Stephanie Opdam, Partner at Notion Capital, shares four business model changes that will allow SaaS companies to build resilience and staying power over time. This is where traditional SaaS methods like subscription pricing only, driving growth through headcount only, or a pure sales GTM strategy only live. Apple hasn’t done any.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 6, 2021

Finding the perfect VP of Sales position can be daunting, especially in the middle of a global pandemic. Candidates need to find opportunities that not only fit their sales experience and stretch goals, but also companies that are coming out of the pandemic with momentum. Who is looking to hire a VP of Sales in January / Q1?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Our suite of financial tools makes it easy to turn recurring revenue into flexible growth financing. The Intellum Platform includes all the tools an organization needs to create, manage, track and improve highly-personalized learning experiences for customers, partners and even employees. Welcome to Payfac-as-a-service.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services PayFac as a Service Payfac 225

Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

One way to do that is through marketing and revenue-generating strategies such as freemium and product demos which are critical to growing one’s clientele. This can be done through a variety of platforms, including social media, email marketing, online ads, and content marketing. YouTube and LinkedIn (and even TikTok these days!)

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SaaS Payments Payments Business Model Payment Services 59

Stax

APRIL 18, 2024

According to Forbes , “mobile payments are increasingly being used by U.S. Not only are there a number of ways your customers could be using their mobile devices to give payments, but you as a business owner could be leveraging mobile devices to accept them as well. What is mobile credit card processing?

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Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 88

SaaStr

APRIL 1, 2022

Payhawk is the financial system of tomorrow that combines credit cards, payments, expenses, cash management, and pre-accounting into one integrated experience to give you maximum control and visibility over your business spend. We’ll see 2,000+ of the best SaaS founders, execs, and VCs June 7-8 at 2022 SaaStr Europa !

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Payments Sales Hiring Payment Solutions Airlines 221

Subscription Flow

MARCH 25, 2024

The function of the MoR – merchant of record ecommerce – has become essential for companies looking to streamline their online sales operations in the ever-changing world of digital commerce. Tasks in this diverse role include managing payments, complying with tax laws, and reducing risks such as chargebacks and fraud.

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Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Methods Payment Facilitation 95

Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Doing all of this enhances your marketing, sales, and service tactics, and can help you expand your company in the long run. Keeping that context in mind, in this blog we will go over the benefits of CRM and why it is crucial for magazine publishers in this blog post.

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Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 59

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In that essay , we also talked about how a more common route for a SaaS business is to become a platform. Platforms can create an immense amount of long-term value for companies, or be a minor component of their product strategy to maintain product/market fit. The Types of Platforms. Integration Platforms.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 1, 2022

With the world’s most distributed compute platform — from cloud to edge — we make it easy for businesses to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away. Paddle offers SaaS companies a completely different approach to their payments infrastructure.

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Merchant Services Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments 244

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Expensify is a payments superapp that helps individuals and businesses around the world simplify the way they manage money. Avoma is an AI Meeting Assistant, Collaboration and Intelligence platform for Sales, Implementation, and Customer Success teams.

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Payments Payment Services AI Search Payment Solutions 232

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Jonathan joined Toast as the SVP of Sales in 2017. A Glance at Toast’s Hypergrowth Journey When Jonathan joined Toast as the SVP of Sales, the company was Series B with $20M in ARR. Toast is a vertical software embedded payments solution for restaurants in the U.S. Just six years later, he’s the CRO of the company.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 3, 2022

Payments still materially accelerating overall growth to 16%, and predicting revenue growth from payments and merchant solutions to more than double that of subscriptions and SaaS. Expecting a bit of a rebound later in the year, with more merchants joining the platform in 2H’22 than 1H’22. #4.

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Blulogix

APRIL 12, 2024

The intricate nature of subscription models can indeed be a formidable maze, but with the right strategies, businesses can turn these complexities into substantial advantages. Take your business further with BluIQ’s flexible, scalable, enterprise-grade intelligent billing solutions.

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Payment Features Subscription Payments B2B 52

SaaStr

JUNE 29, 2021

Global Head of Sales, Square. Mahmoud Abdelkader & Christina Monets. Removing Payment Collection Obstacles to Fuel Growth with Adyen. Secrets to Aligning Marketing and Revenue Strategies with Marqeta. Moving from Growth to HyperScale: How Your VP of Sales Needs to Change with You with Stripe. Ashley Grech.

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Payments Payment Services Scale Banking 239

Blulogix

APRIL 2, 2024

From navigating account hierarchies and product configurations to handling intricate pricing models and regulatory compliance, the path is fraught with potential pitfalls that can impede business growth and customer satisfaction. Leveraging complexity to your advantage can differentiate your business in a competitive market.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 30, 2023

They focused on building a payment platform that empowers international talent and independent contractors to get paid on time in a compliant way while also ensuring that companies can hire international talent and make payments efficiently. This insight led Deel to focus on solving payments and compliance.

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Sales Hiring Payment Services SaaS Payments Scale 237