SaaStr

APRIL 25, 2024

3,500+ of the best in SaaS and Cloud together in London! But then comes The Biggest Non-Vendor SaaS Event of the Year! 1,000+ Braindates, workshops, and mentorship sessions 800+ of the top VCs in SaaS and Cloud 250+ speakers and sessions Founder-VC matchmaking Awesome networking, parties and more! See You There!

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 30, 2020

But you need to tackle what is arguably one of the most important parts: Billing. Building your own billing system can be a world of pain, risk and complexity, so what options are out there for integrating a third party product? This guide serves as a comprehensive overview of the options available for SaaS businesses.

Payment Solutions 90

Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Features SaaS Payments 90

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

How is SMB SaaS doing today? Take a look at Bill: – $1.2 Transaction Fees Growing Far Faster (38%) Than Software / SaaS License (21%). Both Bill and Shopifty have morphed over the years from almost pure SaaS companies to payments platforms built on top of a SaaS core. Bill is one. It took years.

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Payment Services Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 278

SaaStr

AUGUST 28, 2022

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: 10 Things That Always Work in SaaS Marketing. SaaStr 582: SaaS Secret Sauce: How the CEO — CRO Dynamic Drives Growth with Marketo Former EVP Sales Bill Binch. The Ultimate Guide for Hiring a Great VP of Sales.

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Chargify

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The technology industry is transitioning away from traditional business models and toward flexible, consumption-based billing , especially in the software as a service (SaaS) industry. For businesses, these billing models: reduce a customer’s barrier to entry by not requiring a large up-front fee. help to lower operating costs.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions Payment Methods 57

SaaStr

JULY 2, 2023

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: Everyone Has a Side Hustle Now. The Top Things Founders Get Wrong When They Start a SaaS Company Dear SaaStr: What Are Some of the Qualities of a “Bad” Startup CEO? Is That a Good Thing? Thinking of Being a VP at a Venture-Backed Startup?

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Startup Scaling Software SaaS 214

SaaStr

AUGUST 21, 2022

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: 10 Things That Always Work in SaaS Marketing. Adding Payments and Fintech to SaaS Can Be Great. SaaStr 582: SaaS Secret Sauce: How the CEO — CRO Dynamic Drives Growth with Marketo Former EVP Sales Bill Binch.

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Scale Scaling Retention Investment 199

OPEXEngine

JUNE 11, 2020

Every few months I take a look at the top read blog posts on OPEXEngine, to make sure I have a solid understanding of the topics that you are looking for more insight on. As a result, I decided to share with you a few of our Not-to-be-Missed blogs. Best SaaS Blog Posts You Shouldn’t Miss.

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SMB SaaS Benchmarks Subscription 59

Chargify

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

At first glance, your choice of billing and subscription software might not seem super important. As long as you find a platform that looks professional and handles the billing and analytics properly, you’ll be in good shape, right? It pays to make the right choice of billing platform from the start.

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Payment Solutions Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payments 73

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

“Doubling Down” is a new series where we hear from top B2B SaaS investors on their most recent activities and takes on the current market. Metronome is a cutting-edge billing infrastructure company designed to support the rapid growth and adaptability required by modern software companies. Check that out here.

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Scale Software Review Payment Features AI 221

SaaStr

JULY 9, 2023

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: 5 Interesting Learnings from MongoDB at $1.5 SaaStr 671: From Uncertainty to +$400M: How Braze Found Opportunity in Headwinds with Braze’s Co-Founder & CEO Bill Magnuson  4. Hosted by Sam Blond, Partner at Founders Fund  5.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: The Simple Reason Startups That Just Raised $100s of Millions Are Doing Layoffs. Figma: “We’d Been Talking to Adobe Since 2012” Half of Public SaaS Companies Trade At Under 6x ARR Today. Top Videos This Week: 1.

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Sales Recruiting Compensation Cloud Retention 218

SaaStr

JULY 16, 2023

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: Why Booths Work at Top Industry Events. Billion in ARR G2: 49% of Buyers Are Increasing Spend, But 47% Are Going Less Than Annual The Cold Hard Truths About SaaS in 2023 with Jason Lemkin Top Podcasts This Week: 1. Selling Your Startup?

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Startup Retention Software Strategy 153

Chart Mogul

MARCH 30, 2020

But you need to tackle what is arguably one of the most important parts: Billing. Building your own billing system can be a world of pain, risk and complexity, so what options are out there for integrating a third party product? This guide serves as a comprehensive overview of the options available for SaaS businesses.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Features SaaS Payments 52

SaaStr

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: CB Insights: Yes, Venture is Down. SaaS Multiples Are Down 75% From a Year Ago. The Average SaaS CEO is 43 at IPO (Updated). SaaStr 601: What It Takes to Forge Your Own Category with Braze Co-Founder and CEO Bill Magnuson. ? ? ?.

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CTO Scale Business Model Retention 175

SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2022

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: 1. Dear SaaStr: What’s the Relationship Between OTE and Quota for a SaaS Salesperson? See, e.g., ZoomInfo, Bill, and Atlassian. See, e.g., ZoomInfo, Bill, and Atlassian. Yes, SaaS Can Be Insanely Profitable.

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Scale Scaling Enterprise Startup 187

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Top Blog Posts This Week: IVP: The Average SaaS Magic Number is 1.2. KeyBanc: Only 41% of SaaS Companies Price By Seat Now. 30+ Founders and Execs Share Pricing and Billing Practices … That Just Weren’t Worth It. The Sales Playbook for 2022: A Deep Dive with Brendon Cassidy + Jason Lemkin.

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Pricing Technology SaaS Sales 207

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

One of the tough things in SaaS, a downside of the fact that it compounds , is that you’re always running on the Habitral. Didn’t really pay the bills on 4 engineers and 3 other guys. Maybe you were on TechCrunch or Mashable or PandoDaily or some blog, great. 10 customers may not pay the bills. Trust me.

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Blulogix

APRIL 2, 2024

By BluLogix Team Mastering the Art of Complex B2B Recurring and Subscription Billing: How to Manage Subscription Complexity: A Comprehensive Roadmap The evolution of B2B subscription models has introduced unprecedented flexibility and opportunities for businesses across various sectors.

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Payment Features Payment Services Subscription SaaS Payments 52

SaaStr

JUNE 5, 2023

So two recent data analyses across both private and public SaaS companies interestingly showed basically the same thing: for the best SaaS companies, on average, growth in Q1 was down about 33% or so from a year ago. SaaS has gotten about 33% harder overall. What did they see? Not impossible. Not frozen. Just about 33% harder.

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Cloud Startup Trends SaaS 276

SaaStr

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Churn increase due to greater scrutiny of costs Contract values declining More stakeholders involved in decision-making Capchase combined the study with their data set of thousands of SaaS companies and looked at what the best companies do to overcome these hurdles. 2: Offer Flexible Payment Terms This is another debate going on in SaaS.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Features 206

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

And then in 2022, the markets crashed hard in SaaS. Since then, overall, SaaS multiples have stayed relatively low, at 6x ARR on average — for public SaaS companies. Almost every public SaaS leader has strong, positive operating margins now, often approaching 20% or more. But SaaS and Cloud keep growing.

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SaaS Cloud Scale Engineering 197

Subscription Flow

JANUARY 30, 2024

SaaS renewal management’s primary goal is to increase customer retention and in turn, recurring revenue growth. To encourage your customers to renew their subscriptions at the end of their term, a number of procedures and tactics are involved in devising your B2B SaaS renewal strategy.

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SaaS Payments B2B Strategy Payment Services 59

SaaStr

JUNE 21, 2022

Almost every category of SaaS exploded during the lockdown, but three saw just crazy boosts: Zoom went from $1B to $3.5B DocuSign’s billings growth accelerated to 61% at %1.5B DocuSign predicts 7%-8% Billings growth in 2022. And probably worse, it forced many SaaS leaders to reckon with issues they could have put off.

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SaaS Cloud B2B Enterprise 284

Blulogix

MARCH 7, 2024

By BluLogix Team Mastering the Art of Complex B2B Recurring and Subscription Billing: Conquering Metering Challenges As the subscription economy grows, B2B businesses are increasingly adopting usage-based, consumption, and SaaS metering models.

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B2B Subscription Payment Features Systems Review 52

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. Invest in the right billing and subscription-management software to automate your workflows after carefully assessing three of the best options in the market.

Payment Solutions 78

Payment Solutions Payments Payment Services SaaS Payments 78

Subscription Flow

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

If you are on the lookout for automated billing software for small businesses, this is the blog for you to read. In today’s world, having automated billing software is of immense importance because most SaaS companies are growing at an impossibly fast rate due to the various technological booms that are taking place around the world.

Payment Solutions 89

Payment Solutions Payment Features Payment Services SaaS Payments 89

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

So Braze is one of the quiet winners in today’s SaaS and Cloud world. When the average public SaaS company is still stuck at 6x. 500k+ Customers Fuel Growth, Up 28% — And NRR is 121% There A story of many SaaS and Cloud leaders today. At SaaStr Europa 2023, CEO Bill Magnuson shared a great story.

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Sales Hiring Scale Cloud Enterprise 219

SaaStr

JANUARY 4, 2023

So Okta is one of the leaders in SaaS that has always just kept growing. And interestingly, while some SaaS leaders are reporting the biggest softness in Europe and EMEA, Okta isn’t. #5. Billings Much Lumpier Over Past 6 Quarters. Billings peaked in their fiscal Q4’22, which really is about a year ago.

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Scale Headcount Sales Hiring SMB 273

Blulogix

MARCH 8, 2024

By BluLogix Team Mastering the Art of Complex B2B Recurring and Subscription Billing: Unpacking Complexity in B2B Billing In the landscape of B2B commerce, billing complexity isn’t just a buzzword— it’s a significant barrier that companies must navigate to ensure success in the subscription economy.

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B2B Subscription Payment Features Operational efficiency. 52

SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2022

Dear SaaStr: How Long Does It Take the Average SaaS Startup to “Exit”? I took a look a little while back at how long it took the average SaaS company that was sold for $1B+ to get that acquisition. years (maybe the better metric): The fastest of the bunch was Divvy’s $2b+ acquisition by Bill 5 years after funding.

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Startup SaaS Acquisition B2B 264

Tom Tunguz

MARCH 3, 2020

The 9 Disciplines of Great SaaS Companies remains one of the most popular posts on marketing on this blog. It’s a wonderful framework by Bill Macaitis, who was the CMO at Zendesk and Slack. product content: the website, blog, whitepapers that describe the product. Where does the company play? who does it sell to?

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Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Scale Social Media 291

Blulogix

JANUARY 20, 2024

Navigating Upgrade and Downgrade Flexibility in Billing By BluLogix Team In the current era where subscription models dominate the business world, the ability to adapt to changing customer needs is not just a luxury, it’s a necessity. Minimized Friction: A rigid subscription model can lead to frustration and churn.

Scale 52

Scale Subscription Payment Features Churn 52

SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2022

SaaS accounting and finance has gotten pretty complicated, and the impacts of getting it wrong have gone up substantially. I’ve worked with numerous start-ups that used outsourced accounting services with zero SaaS experience, and these firms didn’t even recognize automatic upsells, additional seats, etc. Cash is king.

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Finance Outsourcing Services Systems Review Technical Review 323

Blulogix

JANUARY 20, 2024

How to Navigate Upgrade and Downgrade Flexibility in Billing By BluLogix Team In the current era where subscription models dominate the business world, the ability to adapt to changing customer needs is not just a luxury, it’s a necessity. Minimized Friction: A rigid subscription model can lead to frustration and churn.

Scale 52

Scale Subscription Payment Features Churn 52

Blulogix

JANUARY 16, 2024

BluIQ by BluLogix stands out as a comprehensive tool, enabling businesses to seamlessly adopt and benefit from this dynamic billing method. Take your business further with BluIQ’s flexible, scalable, enterprise-grade intelligent billing solutions. BluIQ can meter and rate usage data in real-time, enabling accurate and timely billing.

Pricing 52

Pricing Scale Telecommunications Subscription 52

SaaStr

JUNE 12, 2023

We’ll see you, Expensify, and 12,000+ of the Best in SaaS and Cloud at 2023 SaaStr Annual in the SF Bay Area, Sep 6-8!! More than 12 million people use Expensify’s free features, which include corporate cards, expense tracking, next-day reimbursement, invoicing, bill pay, payroll, and travel booking in one app.

Payment Solutions 254

Payment Solutions Payment Features Travel Cloud 254