Stax

APRIL 17, 2024

TL;DR An ISV payments partner, when properly integrated, can reduce billing errors, empower companies to take data-driven decisions, and enhance overall efficiency. It’s important to carefully go through criteria like transparency, PCI compliance, and payment monetization when selecting an ISV payments partner.

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Blulogix

APRIL 8, 2024

By BluLogix Team Mastering the Art of Complex B2B Recurring and Subscription Billing: Aligning Financial Transactions with ERP Systems In the world of subscription management , the seamless alignment of financial transactions from the billing system with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems is paramount.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Traditionally, payment gateways and payment processors were offered as two separate services and you would have different providers for each service: Payment gateways quickly and securely transfer the payment details from the checkout software to the payment processor. Easy to access self-serve portal.

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Stax

APRIL 18, 2024

SaaS companies deliver software applications over the internet on a subscription basis, simplifying access and management for users. While they operate under different business models, ISVs and SaaS share similarities in software development, cross-platform accessibility, and industry reach. What are SaaS companies?

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Blulogix

JANUARY 28, 2024

By BluLogix Team Choosing the ideal subscription billing software is a crucial decision, but it’s just the beginning of optimizing your recurring revenue operations. Take your business further with BluIQ’s flexible, scalable, enterprise-grade intelligent billing solutions.

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Blulogix

JANUARY 5, 2024

Key Definitions in Subscription Billing: Demystifying the Jargon By BluLogix Team Welcome to the fourth installment of our comprehensive guide on selecting the right subscription billing platform. Before we go much further, let’s go deep into essential definitions and concepts in the world of subscription billing.

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Blulogix

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The Top 10 Pain-Points for Usage-Based Subscription Billing Services and How to Fix Them By BluLogix Team In today’s business landscape, consumption-based subscriptions are all the rage, and for good reason. Who wouldn’t want a piece of that recurring revenue pie, increased profitability, and happy customers?

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Clouded Judgement

MARCH 22, 2024

Subscribe now ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) vs ERR (Experimental Runrate Revenue) ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) is one of the most popular SaaS (Non-GAAP) metrics. In it's truest form, ARR is used by pure SaaS business models to describe the aggregate annual value of the entire customer set.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 15, 2020

TaxJar’s AutoFile can also completely automate your sales tax filing, using the information it receives from your ecommerce providers and marketplaces to prepare and submit returns to each state, along with remittance. Sage Intacct is a popular choice for automating bookkeeping because it includes features unique to the SaaS business model.

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Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

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. For example, you can integrate Chargebee with Stripe accept payments through the Stripe payment gateway.

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Clouded Judgement

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

There are many limiters here - data security and compliance are big ones. At the end of the day, these large language models are quite expensive! Either way - it’s clear these models are becoming cheaper and more effective, which is an exciting future for AI! But even more important right now is cost.

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Blulogix

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Criteria for Choosing a Monetization Platform Scalability and Flexibility: As your business grows, your monetization platform should grow with you. Look for platforms that offer scalability to handle increasing transaction volumes and the flexibility to adapt to new business models, markets, and pricing strategies.

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CloudGeometry

JANUARY 15, 2022

There are at least three foundational dimensions that translate your business assumptions into critical technical solution inputs: User Model Monetization Measurement In this blog series, we explore how these three dimensions figure into key technical recommendations which enable scale in pursuit of SaaS business growth.

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OPEXEngine

MARCH 8, 2022

At this point, you need to build a FinOps Tech Stack that scales and informs the path to IPO. SaaS firms, in particular, have revenue recognition, subscription billing, and SaaS and GAAP investor reporting needs that require specialized functionality in their financial management systems. Establish Contract-based subscription billing.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

They learned the importance of sales tax compliance the hard way—when they had to pay millions in back taxes. When the company first began web app development and selling software-as-a-service in 2004, their business model wasn’t even called SaaS. It’s not hard to understand how Basecamp got this wrong.

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ProfitWell

MAY 15, 2020

Since SaaS is typically subscription-based (aka, no licensing fees) there are lower costs upfront. However, the subscription model is flexible. Offering month-to-month payments makes customers feel more at ease signing on with your product, knowing they can back out if they are unhappy. Cheaper upfront.

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Blulogix

OCTOBER 11, 2023

A collection of recorded webinars and videos on Software-as-a-Service and Subscription Management Webinars & Videos Understanding Mediation in Managed Services A best-in-class mediation engine can have a transformative impact on an MSP’s profitability.

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Stax

APRIL 18, 2024

Typically, the merchant’s payment processing software will build the credit card processing rates into their fee. Choosing the payment processor and other items in your credit card processing tech stack will depend entirely upon your business model. which then routes it to the cardholder’s issuing bank.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 18, 2019

As a partner in growth for thousands of software companies around the world, one of our goals is to provide blog content that is helpful, interesting, and informative. Subscription Finance: What is MRR? Monthly recurring revenue (MRR) from a subscription-based business model can have a major impact on your business.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 29, 2020

Push for smarter payment processing. More businesses will transition to a subscription model. Managing multiple payment processors, payment gateways, and even just trying to understand online payment processing can be challenging especially if your business is just starting out.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And, as a CFO, you need to be at the forefront of building that agility across the organization by making informed decisions to adapt to constant changes. It becomes the system of record, even more so today than the CRM or the back-end ERP, because it has the most real-time, accurate, and up-to-date information on the revenue lifecycle.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Introductory calls usually start with the lender seeking out information about, at a minimum: the company’s business overview, market opportunity and revenue model, funding history, valuation of last round, and what the company is looking to achieve with this debt raise. For corporate debt, normal venture counsel (e.g.,

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Outsourcing Services Software Review Scale Banking 117

Stax

JANUARY 17, 2024

Benefits for SaaS Companies and ISVs For a SaaS company or an independent software vendor (ISV), ACH PayFacs offer a host of benefits besides allowing them to add a new revenue stream: Streamline the payment process ACH payments are convenient for both you and your customers. Any breach can cause a big dent in your reputation.

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Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Facilitation 88

FastSpring

MARCH 15, 2021

That’s the beauty of subscription models. While implementing a subscription model means ongoing revenue, it also brings up many challenges for managing those subscriptions. You have to create a subscription-friendly product, infrastructure, marketing plan, and customer retention plan. Ease of Distribution.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

It turned out that many refund requests happened because the company had failed to inform customers about their upcoming billing cycle,” Jon told us. We also show you how to personalize your billing practices with advice from our experience working with thousands of SaaS businesses. How Castos upsells subscription tiers.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Some SMM companies may use all four depending upon the business model. Marketing campaigns generate contact information for potential customers who demonstrate interest through some behavior such as attending a webinar or responding to a call-to-action message. Direct Sales. eCommerce Marketplaces.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 25, 2019

Managing multiple payment processors, payment gateways, and even just trying to understand online payment processing can be challenging especially if your business is just starting out. Throw in the complexities of maintaining global sales tax/VAT compliance into the mix and you might start to feel a bit overwhelmed.

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Stax

APRIL 30, 2024

The merchant sends this payment information to the acquiring bank, i.e., the bank where the merchant wants to receive the payment. The bank forwards this information to the relevant credit card company. This information transfer is facilitated through a payment processor.

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Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Solutions Payment Methods 88

ProfitWell

JULY 8, 2020

In this post, we'll go over what those rules are for the 21 states that have sales tax laws on the books that pertain to SaaS businesses and products. These are the laws as of 2020, but you should always talk to a tax professional as the final word in sales tax & compliance issues. How is a SaaS product/company defined in the US?

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OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

“Industry-Centric” SaaS business models offer an alternative SaaS company categorization to the “Customer-Centric” SaaS model, which is defined based on the “go-to-market” strategy used by a management team. When SaaS business models originated, the most successful venture-backed startups used a horizontal model.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 13, 2018

As Workplace’s global head, Julien Codorniou has been spending the past few years exploring how to make his department align with Facebook’s mission while executing an entirely different business model that relies on companies promoting community within their workforce. Unlocking a new business model.

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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. Letting FastSpring handle the subscription infrastructure.

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Payments SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions 78

User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Quickbooks and Xero are accounting SaaS products that help you send invoices, track expenses, and process payroll. Software as a Service (SaaS): SaaS providers have ready-to-use software applications over the internet on a subscription basis. What are the benefits of the SaaS model? You don’t handle maintenance or updates.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

There are two main ways that an ISV can become a payment provider—by adopting the ISO model or the PayFac model. In the ISO model, an ISV partners with a third party that handles merchant account setup, payment processing, risk, and compliance.

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Subscription Flow

JANUARY 19, 2024

They operate like the unseen wizards behind the scenes, ensuring that your company can accept payments both online and offline. They handle everything from underwriting to compliance and merchant onboarding. It is not just about processing payments. At that point, the payment process begins.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Speaker video: Stripe is really a set of developer tools for building and operating an online business. We work with hundreds of thousands of companies around the world on accepting payments, expanding globally, and increasingly on innovating their business models for the internet and for mobile. So what did Stripe do?

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Subscription model innovation: Customizable subscription models make it easier for SaaS companies to optimize their pricing and billing. Integration of PLG and sales-led business models: Supporting multiple GTM strategies has become the standard for SaaS. Revenue and Subscription Dashboards.

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Merchant Services Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 78