Blulogix

JANUARY 8, 2024

How the Right Platform Enhances Your Subscription Billing Experience By BluLogix Team Welcome back to our series on selecting the ideal subscription billing platform. Selecting the right subscription billing platform is a strategic decision that can significantly impact your business’s success.

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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. Announcements of several blockbuster acquisitions, most notably from Adobe acquiring Figma, which was the highest valuation multiple offered in an acquisition for any software company at scale.

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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. Subscriptions can fuel payments and merchant revenue. It’s now bigger than Shopify’s SaaS revenue, by far: 3.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 26, 2022

It’s barely trading at 3x revenue. That’s Freemium at scale. Payments and e-commerce drag blended gross margins down to 60%. Wix along with Squarespace and also WordPress / Automatic have pushed deeply into e-commerce and as part of that, payments. But payments can be low gross margin, and they are for Wix.

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Subscription Flow

DECEMBER 13, 2023

B2B payments enable the smooth flow of transactions between businesses of all sizes. But what’s changing in the B2B payments landscape and what should you be on the lookout for? But what’s changing in the B2B payments landscape and what should you be on the lookout for? What Makes B2B Payments Different?

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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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Blulogix

JANUARY 3, 2024

Why BluIQ by BluLogix Should Be Your Top Choice for Subscription Billing By BluLogix Team In the previous installment of our series on selecting a subscription billing platform , we discussed the importance of choosing the right platform and outlined key considerations for your evaluation. Say goodbye to manual subscription renewals.

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SaaStr

APRIL 12, 2022

The majority of its revenue is now from Bitcoin transactions, not “traditional” payments and software. Its software and services business is the one with the real operating margins. Its software and services business is the one with the real operating margins. businesses. #4. At least still for now.

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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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SaaStr

MARCH 25, 2021

It’s done it by going more upmarket, and better monetizing partners and services. Driving existing customer revenue up more than new logos. BigCommerce, like many SaaS vendors at scale, is doing a better job at getting more revenue out of existing accounts than adding new ones. Not competing (directly) on price.

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SaaStr

MARCH 7, 2024

This was precisely my experience upon meeting Toni and Carlos, the founders of Embat, in an area we’ve extensively have been exploring: treasury management and payment automation. This includes real-time bank connectivity, treasury forecasting, payment automation and automated accounting and reconciliation with e.g. ERPs.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Amazon Associates is one of the most trusted affiliate marketing platforms where anyone can start an income stream from the comfort of their home. Once you get the hang of the basics, however, it’s relatively easy to monetize your content. Here is how to get started and drive revenue with Amazon Associates.

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SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2021

Now they’ve scaled to $200m+ ARR growing 38% selling just to 100,000+ SMBs, solving a hard problem (i.e., automating the back office and payments and billing for SMBs), and doing it with 120%+ NRR. Transaction fees (on payments) are now half of revenue and are the key to scaling. Pretty impressive.

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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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SaaStr

APRIL 19, 2023

And their mix of software, payments and hardware revenue drives up the total deal size — but puts a lot of pressure on margins. 39% of their revenues from software, and going down. Payments are the largest segment (like Toast and Shopify as well), but at least low-margin hardware is a small percent of revenue.

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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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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

JUNE 29, 2021

Investor Insights for Scaling from Seed to Growth Stage with Sage Intacct. Mahmoud Abdelkader & Christina Monets. The Hidden Costs in Scaling with Guru and Airtable. Removing Payment Collection Obstacles to Fuel Growth with Adyen. Secrets to Aligning Marketing and Revenue Strategies with Marqeta.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 4, 2020

And is Stripe a good choice as your billing and payment provider? When Stripe was launched in 2010, dealing with payments online wasn’t a straightforward matter. Fast forward 10 years and setting up shop and accepting payments has become a lot easier, thanks to a large extent to Stripe. Can they preserve their dominance?

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Blulogix

JANUARY 9, 2024

Automation: A Game-Changer in Subscription Billing By BluLogix Team Welcome to the eighth installment of our series on selecting the right subscription billing platform. This efficiency is critical for scaling your subscription business. This data-driven decision-making is invaluable.

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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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Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

I never posted my talk from last year, so I’m adapting it into a blog post here, and will do the same for this year’s talk in the following weeks and as well as some follow up questions from the Summit I’ve had a chance to ruminate on. Even when they scale, they eventually asymptote, and companies need to find new ways to grow.

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Baremetrics

JANUARY 25, 2022

In recent years, a new discipline of financial management has emerged in response to cloud technologies and organizations growing reliance on cloud IT architectures and cloud-based business processes. If this is the case for your business, it is even more important not to overspend on your cloud service. Image source 3.

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Blulogix

MARCH 15, 2024

Recurring & Usage Billing The Imperative for Automation In the intricate web of subscription management , numerous processes—from account setup and usage tracking to billing and customer communications—demand precision and timeliness. Pilot and Iterate: Implement automation in stages, starting with areas that promise quick wins.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

” Scale-Up in Revenue: “Annual influenced 30 opportunities in our pipeline. ” Scale-up Fintech: “We’ve very happy with the quantity, quality, and activations. ” Leading Revenue Management Solution: “SaaStr Annual and Europa were our only third-party field events for 2023.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Most SaaS businesses adopt a subscription-based model supported by a recurring payment system. Setting up a recurring payment system can be complicated and requires the right tools to measure, manage, and review payments regularly. Cons for Businesses Using Recurring Billing Does SaaS Have to Be Recurring?

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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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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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Blulogix

JANUARY 10, 2024

As your customer base grows and your offerings become more complex, managing billing processes can quickly become overwhelming. In this blog post, we’ll explore how BluIQ’s billing process automation capabilities can help you maximize efficiency and stay ahead of the curve.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 20, 2023

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. After digging into the platform and appreciating its capabilities, she found OpenAI. From there, the pace picked up rapidly.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Toast is a vertical software embedded payments solution for restaurants in the U.S. It’s the fastest-growing software business of all time. Toast’s Go To Market Structure Toast has seen unprecedented growth on the revenue side, so let’s look at the customer acquisition strategy. and across the globe. In the U.S.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2023

In particular: Hybrid SaaS with payments and fintech usually has far, far lower gross margins than pure software. See, e.g. Shopify, whose blended gross margins with payments even at its scale are still less than 50%. Non-Recurring Revenue Doesn’t Count, At Least Not as Much. Pass-Through Revenue Simply Doesn’t Count.

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Buffer Resources

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

For one, she has built a stable and viable business, achieving six figures in revenue every year for the past five years and even bringing in multiple-six-figures in 2021 when she expanded her business with subcontractors. I take home 100 percent of my profit as my salary. (I

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Panintelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

In this blog, we're going to dive into how to strengthen the Fintech SaaS cyber security frameworks. This figure, having risen by 15% over three years, shows how cybercrime is really putting the squeeze on businesses financially. And losses from Authorized Push Payment (APP) fraud totalled nearly £500 million in 2022.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

market cap (11x) – Growing 29% a year — efficiently – Only 30% of revenue from software, rest payments + services – 20% Free Cash Flow, 16% non-GAAP margins – Frozen… pic.twitter.com/8PLvYP1JRz — Jason ✨Be Kind✨ Lemkin  ?? 5 Most of Their Revenue, Like Shopify and Bill, is Not From Software.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

This episode is an excerpt from a session at SaaStr Scale. And if you also look at the platform as a service category, that’s also an additional $50 billion of spend, and that’s typically with those same vendors. Like I said, we run 100% of our platform on AWS, so the fit was great. Rico Mallozzi, Sr.

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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. Preserving optionality.

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