Subscription Flow

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Compliance with financial laws Calculating your tax, and then making sure that you are compliant with all the relevant tax laws is something that you have to do often. If you sign up with a billing software that cannot auto-generate reports for you, or ensure compliance, you would have to consider migration.

Payment Services

Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

To choose the right payment processing solution for your business, you need to evaluate your business needs, evaluate security and compliance standards, and evaluate different payment processors based on pricing, features, customer support, and scalability. Can it support new payment methods as your business grows?

Payment Services

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

To truly understand if your product is indispensable to users, you need to measure product stickiness beyond just numbers, combining customer feedback, behavioral tracking, and retention data. On the other hand, if success depends more on repeat purchases rather than continuous engagement, then customer retention rate may be a better focus.

Customer Lifetime Value

Stax

MAY 5, 2025

In recent years, businesses have seen this massive shift from desktop to mobile devices which has forced them to develop apps with built-in integrated payment gateways. In addition to the usual concerns around security and compliance, there’s also the issue of user experience. This, in turn, will lead to more repeat business.

Payments

Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Companies that adopt ISV solutions see higher customer retention and satisfaction due to smoother interactions and more personalized service. Expanding into new markets by leveraging ISV solutions that cater to global compliance requirements and multilingual support. How does an ISV integration work?

Payments

Clouded Judgement

MARCH 22, 2024

In it's truest form, ARR is used by pure SaaS business models to describe the aggregate annual value of the entire customer set. Many laude the SaaS business model because ARR is inherently predictable - you know what you’re revenue will be over the coming 12 months, and sometimes even further out than that.

AI

FastSpring

MARCH 15, 2021

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. Why Shift to a Subscription Revenue Model. Forgetting Tax Compliance.

Payment Features

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.

Business Model

Totango

DECEMBER 10, 2019

New customer acquisition is at the heart of most traditional business models. When you make customer retention for B2B business models a priority, you’ll not only save money on acquisition costs; you’ll also unlock the growth potential of your existing customer base.

Retention

Payrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

This setup is commonly used in marketplaces, software platforms, or businesses that facilitate payments for a network of sellers, service providers, or smaller businesses. The master merchant simplifies the onboarding process for sub-merchants by handling the complexities of payment integration, security requirements, and compliance.

Merchant Services

FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

How SoStocked increases retention through grandfathering existing customers into lower prices. While the above “small change” examples are compelling, maybe you’re looking for help with a very common SaaS struggle: optimizing your revenue stream by experimenting with new pricing models. Flat-rate pricing: A great starting point.

Merchant Services

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.

Cloud

Stax

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

TL;DR Recurring payments refer to a financial arrangement where a customer authorizes a business to charge their account at regular intervals for products or services. There are a few types of recurring payments to be aware of, which one your business uses will depend on the business model and need for recurring or automatic payments.

Payment Services

Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

Tokenization streamlines PCI DSS compliance, can improve customer retention, and provides an extra layer of security for payment collection. By doubling up on security and working with a payments facilitator like Stax Connect, you can protect your SaaS customers and your business.

Payment Services

Stax

AUGUST 22, 2024

TL;DR Payment facilitators remove the need for businesses to open merchant accounts of their own to accept payments. PayFacs handle risk assessment, underwriting, settling of funds, compliance, and chargebacks which exposes them to greater potential risks. On the other hand, this exposes PayFacs to greater potential risks.

Merchant Services

Stax

MARCH 6, 2024

Recurring billing is a subscription payment model that automatically charges customers at regular intervals for access to a product or service. This business model is used for subscriptions, memberships, retainers, and other solutions offered on a recurring basis. Learn More What is Recurring Billing?

Merchant Services

FastSpring

MAY 20, 2024

Tax compliance, include calculation, collection, and remittance of VAT and sales taxes. Customizable checkouts that are localized to customers and branded with your company branding, plus they’re available as embedded , popup, or a hosted FastSpring web storefront to accommodate your business needs. Why are you doing that?

SaaS Payments

Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

While traditional business models have a harder time estimating their future revenue, SaaS companies have access to more accurate revenue forecasts, such as their MRR and ARR. Compliance with international industry regulations for sensitive data, such as GDPR in Europe or CCPA in California, is another critical factor.

Scale

ChurnZero

JANUARY 13, 2022

As the lynchpin to customer retention, his history in providing best-in-class customer experience will elevate the customer journey and drive continued ComplySci growth. “Not only have we accomplished major milestones in terms of organic growth, but our acquisitions have made us a force within the compliance industry. .

VP of Engineering

FastSpring

JANUARY 29, 2020

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.

Payment Methods

Stax

AUGUST 20, 2024

Some challenges and considerations of embedded finance and fintech involve regulatory and compliance issues, data privacy and security, and stiff competition. Request Quote Understanding Embedded Finance Embedded finance is the seamless integration of financial services and digital banking into conventionally non-financial business services.

Payments

Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

While their target audience and the breadth of their solutions are the key differences, vertical and horizontal SaaS also share many similarities, in particular cloud-based hosting and subscription business models. What is Vertical SaaS? What is Horizontal SaaS?

SaaS Payments

Stax

JUNE 18, 2024

Subscription models offer companies large and small the opportunity to build predictable revenue and high customer lifetime value. In a subscription business model, customers pay a recurring fee in exchange for a product or service.

Payment Features

Scytale

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

SOC 2 is particularly important for businesses that deal with sensitive customer data, such as SaaS companies, cloud computing providers, and other tech-based service organizations. Privacy : Addressing the system’s collection, use, retention, and disposal of personal information according to the company’s privacy policy.

Cybersecurity

Scytale

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

SOC 2 is particularly important for businesses that deal with sensitive customer data, such as SaaS companies, cloud computing providers, and other tech-based service organizations. Privacy : Addressing the system’s collection, use, retention, and disposal of personal information according to the company’s privacy policy.

Cybersecurity

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

It would take days or weeks to even get approved, but you also had to go through all these hoops of PCI compliance. Romain Huet : For Stripe, we had normally this idea of, this has to be much simpler, you can sign up in minutes, but you can also start accepting payments without going through all these craziness of PCI compliance processes.

Payments

User Pilot

AUGUST 6, 2023

TL;DR Creating an omnichannel experience comes down to ensuring consistency and integration across all channels that customers use to engage with your business. A consistent omnichannel customer experience can improve satisfaction , build loyalty , drive acquisition, increase retention , boost LTV, and help you make data-driven decisions.

Investment

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.

Payment Methods

Stax

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

For best practices, integrate it with your other systems, offer flexible plans for optimized cash flow, and ensure data security compliance to industry standards. These are only a glimpse of what automated SaaS billing software brings to the table for a subscription-based business model. Reduced potential errors.

Payments

Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The closing process typically takes about 4 weeks, which allows for legal documentation negotiation, account opening (if the lender is a bank), and the completion of all necessary compliance documents. It’s also important for companies to walk through their business model and demonstrate how they make money.

Outsourcing Services

User Pilot

MARCH 25, 2024

Metrics that can affect SaaS business valuation include Monthly /Annual Recurring Revenue, Customer Acquisition Cost , Customer Lifetime Value , Net Revenue Retention, Total Addressable Market, and YoY Growth Rate. Finally, accurate valuations are also important for regulatory compliance and taxation purposes. How to do it?

SaaS

Panintelligence

AUGUST 1, 2024

Furthermore, many Fintech firms operate across multiple jurisdictions from an early stage, requiring compliance with a wide range of regional and national regulations. Compliance helps Fintechs scale : This could include offering new products and services, moving to a full banking license, or expanding into new countries.

Cybersecurity

Scytale

APRIL 29, 2024

In practice, this means that unlike in PCI DSS and other compliance regulations, companies need not cover all the five above. To answer this question in simple terms, you determine this by customer requirements, core business requirements the system covers and management decisions. Personalized SOC 2! Now that’s snazzy if you ask us!

compliance

Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Businesses are shifting from rigid, consumption-based business models to flexible ones that let users pay for the goods and services they use only as much as they use them. Therefore, reengineering the value chain and realigning teams to the new business model are necessary for this major shift.

Payments

SaaStr

DECEMBER 31, 2019

With the complexity of multiple stakeholders and the increasing purchasing influence of end users, the bar is higher than ever for enterprise UX as companies pioneer business models beyond traditional SaaS. If you have a look at their retention curve for, “Hey, where do I lose my users in their journey?”

Enterprise

Stax

JANUARY 29, 2024

This model is well-suited for industries where usage varies from month to month. Key Features of Billing Software Recurring billing and automated subscription management and payment processing One of the main benefits of a subscription business model is revenue forecasting and product flow predictability.

Stax

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Freemium pricing Freemium pricing is a business model where a basic version of software is offered for free, with the goal of attracting a large user base. For feature-rich or complex products, tiered or per-feature pricing might work best, while simpler tools may benefit from a flat-rate or per-user model.

Pricing