Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

This is part two of a three part series on sequencing business models. Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. This essay is a collaboration with Gilad Horev.

Marketplace as a Service

FastSpring

APRIL 23, 2024

The company handles transactions for sellers of digital products, providing the infrastructure for global online payments while taking responsibility for tax collection and remittance, fraud prevention, and other aspects of the checkout process. It’s a capable solution, but by no means is Paddle a universal, one-size-fits-all option.

Payment Methods

Stax

JULY 9, 2024

More and more, cash-only businesses are falling by the wayside, unable to keep up with consumer demand for convenient electronic payments. The world of Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) payments is vast, spanning just about every payment method you can think of. What is an Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) Payment?

Payment Methods

Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

Steps To Implementing Payment Tokenization In the SaaS Industry The global economy is shifting to digital currencies andtransactions. Because of this,the concern for payment security is at an all-time high. Payment tokenization helps safeguard cardholder data, so your users can collect and process payments securely.

Payment Services

FastSpring

APRIL 17, 2024

We’d love to talk with you in person! Join us at the Palmer Events Center, in Austin, TX, from May 13th to 15th, for an extraordinary event dedicated to all things SaaS. Schedule a demo now or at SaaStock USA 2024 in person! FastSpring is how SaaS companies sell online in more places around the world.

Payment Services

SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2023

With nine figures in revenue, Ariel and SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin talk about all things Navan, rebranding when you have brand equity, building B2B software for people, pricing and business models, and much more. Before Navan, there were different apps for managing expenses, events and meetings, payments, etc.

Payment Solutions

FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2024

Ready to join Europe’s biggest startup and tech event with the leading startups, investors, executives, and media from 174 countries? We’d love to talk with you in person! Join us at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, in Paris, France, on May 22nd – 25th, for an extraordinary event dedicated to all things tech.

Merchant Services

Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2020

Until recently, only industry titans like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google could successfully and effectively harness continuous, real-time data use statistics to fuel events-based billing models. The latter, of course, was pioneered by Amazon, which launched the billing model based on user events in 2006.

AWS

FastSpring

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Are you looking for a merchant of record to help you grow your business internationally? FastSpring provides an all-in-one payment platform for SaaS, software, video game, and digital goods businesses, including VAT and sales tax management, payment localization, and consumer support.

SaaS Payments

FastSpring

MAY 5, 2020

We love to see when a seller finds a unique way to customize our full-service ecommerce platform to deliver a great experience to their customers. As a result of the integration with FastSpring, we increased our ecommerce revenues by 50% in just a few weeks. Appizy online converter is developed with Angular.

Payment Methods

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey. It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. I mean, this is quite new.

SaaS Payments

Payrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

A master merchant, often referred to as a payment facilitator or merchant aggregator, is a third-party agent that acts as the link between acquirers and online merchants. The master merchant simplifies the onboarding process for sub-merchants by handling the complexities of payment integration, security requirements, and compliance.

Merchant Services

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

We have a whole range of events organized on our platforms pretty much around the world. Giving anyone the ability to create and organize events seamlessly. We started Eventbrite with mostly a tool for event organizers to be able to sell tickets very quickly. We didn’t come from the even business.

Payments

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. Speaker video: Stripe is really a set of developer tools for building and operating an online business. I’m an execution person.

Scale

Neil Patel

APRIL 9, 2021

To leverage this shift, you must first understand two of the most common video consumption methods: video on demand (VOD) and over-the-top (OTT). OTT : This is strictly streamed content, not downloaded or otherwise stored offline, and can include media like videos and online radio programs, such as podcasts.

Payments

Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

Join the payments-led growth movement Sign up to keep up-to-date with the latest trends in payments, vertical SaaS, and technology from industry experts. Take a traditional business, like a furniture store. The SaaS industry has seen explosive growth in the past decadeand this is expected to continue this year.

Scale

SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Matt Garratt: And it’s not just going to be we think in things like work from home tools like Zoom or IT solutions like VPN, but it’s really going to transform how business is getting done, whether that’s online education and learning. Right now, learning for companies is only at 10% online.

Sales Hiring

Subscription Flow

MAY 10, 2024

Subscription-based business models have increased in number as media streaming platforms like Netflix and delivery services like Amazon have risen in popularity. A subscription-based model for fundraising can therefore raise donor engagement, optimizing revenue streams for NPOs.

Payment Solutions

Stax

APRIL 18, 2024

While they operate under different business models, ISVs and SaaS share similarities in software development, cross-platform accessibility, and industry reach. ISVs and SaaS providers differ in software distribution, licensing models, hosting responsibilities, support options, upgrade and maintenance procedures, and scalability.

Outsourcing Services

Totango

AUGUST 23, 2022

B2B customer journey touchpoints are occasions when business customers interact with a brand. For example, a website visit, an online sales purchase and a phone support call are all potential customer journey B2B touchpoints. During the sales process, including sales appointment scheduling, meetings and payment processes.

B2B

User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Shopify enables product management, payment processing, and landing pages for seamless e-commerce operations and growth. Netflix offers personalized video recommendations, multiple profiles, and offline viewing for a high-quality streaming experience globally. What are the benefits of the SaaS model? Airtable table example.

SaaS Payments

FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In our first post about our online community , we mentioned launching the Global SaaS Leaders Slack group because we saw a need for the kind of software-and-SaaS-focused community we’d want to be a part of. More established professionals and businesses (less students and early-stage startups). That includes: A global focus.

SaaS Payments

User Pilot

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Online reviews to understand attributes that customers value most, such as specific features, ease of use, customer support, pricing, and so on. Leverage event data to perform funnel analysis and identify areas of friction within the conversion process, then fix them. Creating custom events with Userpilot.

Payment Methods

Neil Patel

MAY 6, 2021

Whether you’re running a PPC campaign, adding a new advertising stream to your ongoing strategy, setting up an e-commerce store, or even opening a brick-and-mortar store, you need to conduct a breakeven analysis. The breakeven analysis is a hallmark of every good business plan. New Business Model. The answer is no.

Payment Methods

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Failed payments are part of running a subscription or SaaS business. It’s normal for credit card payments to get declined. But unless you have dunning management in place, chances are those failed payments are costing you a lot of money. In short, dunning is recovering failed payments from customers.

Payment Services

User Pilot

AUGUST 31, 2023

New customers bring in subscription fees, licensing charges, or usage-based payments, which are the lifeblood of SaaS businesses. They organize webinars , podcasts, workshops, and other events to attract potential customers. You want your website content to show up when they search.

Acquisition

Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2019

This is what the person would be paid annually and it has two elements; a base salary and a sales incentive held against sales, also known as variable pay. It ties payment to the achievement of specific objectives that have been pre-determined and communicated to the employees that are on the incentive plan. Payment Timing.

Compensation

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

This is part two of a three part series on sequencing business models. Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. This essay is a collaboration with Gilad Horev.

Marketplace as a Service

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

This is part three of a three part series on sequencing business models. In part two of our Sequencing Business Models series , we talked about the different types of marketplaces and what needs to be built to be effective in each of them. This post is a collaboration with Gilad Horev.

Payments

User Pilot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Looking for a good event tracking tool and wondering which one of Heap, Pendo, and Baremetrics is the best option for your SaaS company? There are plenty of tools for event tracking on review sites, but they don’t make the choice any easier. TL;DR Event tracking is the monitoring of every interaction made by a user.

Payments

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Lambda School trains people online to be software engineers. I want to talk about how we got to the business model that we have at Lambda School because it’s one of the things that separates us from other schools. We put it online, $10,000, and we started talking to our customers. Want to see more content like this?

Acquisition

Stax

AUGUST 22, 2024

Digital payments are increasingly becoming the norm. According to Forrester’s data, digital payments are the most used payment method today, with 69% of American adults using them to make payments online. Businesses must therefore adapt and be able to accept such payments.

Merchant Services

Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

What started as Dimitris (now my Co-founder at Outseta ) writing a few lines of code to collect rent payments from tenants he had living in a duplex in Providence, Rhode Island, turned into something worth hundreds of millions of dollars 15 years later. The business was structured as an LLC. How the hell does that happen?

SaaS Payments

Aaron Beashel

MARCH 9, 2018

They use marketing tactics like search engine optimization & virality to attract people to their website, where a portion of them will then signup and start using the product. Revenue Model – A description of how the company generates revenue. Zenefits is a great example of business model innovation.

Scale

Baremetrics

MARCH 23, 2021

Introduction You want a subscription model for your business that increases revenue and keeps customers. You think about either Stripe , a payment platform, or Recurly , a customer-driven one to handle your billing. Decide on one or both depending on how you see your business and its success. Which do you choose?

Payment Services

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 16, 2018

The key to achieving explosive growth is to start by identifying your Ideal Customer Profiles (ICPs) via segmentation, reaching out to them with personalized targeted messaging while building a scalable and repeatable process. For example, large online e-commerce platforms use your technology because you help them reduce fraud.

Scale

Baremetrics

MAY 7, 2019

Others maintain that bootstrapping can also include other self-funding options, which could also include personal savings, loans, credit cards, and income from a job, consulting, or extraneous product. The fund does take a permanent equity stake in your business of 8%-15%, although they do not take a board seat or hold any voting rights.

Finance