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. The group is professionally moderated, there’s no cost, and you don’t need to be a FastSpring customer to apply.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Software Review 143

SaaStr

APRIL 1, 2023

The SMBTech economy is very different from enterprise software, and there is massive opportunity to capture it. Throw in the rise of social media and mobile web payment systems like Stripe and Braintree, and something revolutionary was at our doorstep. Anyone can open a store and go through the process without talking to anyone.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 26, 2024

With years of experience at managing customer success (CS), Jake Dipple knows how important it is to foster collaboration between businesses and their customers. In this episode of Growth Stage, host and CMO of FastSpring David Vogelpohl interviews Jake about his thoughts on: What Customer Success is at a high level.

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Managing customer accounts is a pretty tough job, but you know what’s even tougher? SaaS account management. With the emergence of software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies, the role of account managers has also evolved – and gotten harder. What is SaaS account management?

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SaaS Payments Management Customer Lifetime Value SaaS 103

FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

Last week, I canceled an annual SaaS subscription (I had three weeks left until renewal). In the language of SaaS, I churned. And the experience got me thinking: Was immediate removal of paid features the best chance to keep me from churning? When did I officially count as “churned”? Part I: SaaS Churn Benchmarks.

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Benchmarks Churn Payments SaaS Payments 135

SaaStr

JANUARY 30, 2023

20X year 1⃣ 12X year 2⃣ 5X year 3⃣ #deelspeed @deel [link] — Shuooo (@shuoshuooshuooo) January 23, 2023 When we look at SaaS companies’ success stories, everything looks great on their growth maps. However, the truth is that every company has tried, failed, and restarted before getting to success.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 31, 2023

How to prevent churn by identifying at-risk customers? In SaaS, you can grow your revenue only if your churn rate is low, so retaining at-risk customers is crucial. In this article, we will discuss the ins and outs of at-risk customers, how to detect them, and five actionable strategies to help you prevent churn.

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User Pilot

APRIL 29, 2024

How can you use them for better customer engagement ? TL;DR Segmentation is a process of grouping customers by shared characteristics. A segmentation survey is used to gather the data necessary to segment customers. It’s used to identify new opportunities and understand the needs of potential customers.

Payment Solutions 104

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 104

ChurnZero

AUGUST 14, 2020

At ChurnZero, we’re humble enough to admit that Customer Success software can’t do it all, and quite frankly, it shouldn’t. We stick to our circle of competence and focus on our area of expertise: Customer Success software. It’s Customer Success for us. What is customer support software?

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Payments Payment Solutions Customer Success Software Review 87

Totango

MAY 19, 2020

The continuing COVID-19 health crisis may well produce a recession that has a significant impact on the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) industry. No one is certain how this will change the long and short-term behaviors of customers, lenders, and enterprises in a SaaS world.

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SaaS Payments Churn Payment Solutions Payment Methods 77

User Pilot

JUNE 28, 2023

Sustaining user engagement throughout the entire onboarding process can feel like a task only large teams can achieve. Osano reduced delinquent churn with progressive billing popups. Platformly uses a progress bar and empty state CTAs to simplify the onboarding process for their complex product. Get a demo now!

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Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This necessitates the use of specialized software by subscription-based businesses to manage their subscriptions and automate recurring billing and revenue operations. Chargebee is one such SaaS product, but there are a number of reasons why a company, especially a startup or SME, could be looking into Chargebee competitors.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

So, despite SaaS multiple and the public markets being at near record highs, we’ve seen things start to … wobble a bit overall in tech: The WeWork IPO simply failed , and the Peloton and Direct Smile IPOs were broken. One of the greatest SaaS companies of all times, but still, it turned out to be mortal. Slack is mortal.

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SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale SMB 276

User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Confused about trying to understand SaaS roles? SaaS companies have many moving parts, and it can be difficult to determine who does what. TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet.

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Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 98

Kellblog

MARCH 6, 2019

Enterprise SaaS has drifted to a model where many, if not most, companies do multi-year contracts on annual payment terms. Most enterprise SaaS products are high-consideration purchases. Most SaaS vendors will jump at the opportunity to lock in a longer subscription term. How did we get here?

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services Payments 73

User Pilot

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Wondering how to increase free trial conversion for your software product? Free trials can impact cash flow and revenue generation, especially if a significant portion of trial users don’t convert into paying customers. TL;DR A free trial is a sales strategy that allows prospective customers to use your product for a limited time.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Strategy Payment Solutions 97

User Pilot

APRIL 3, 2024

Product-led innovation focuses on developing a personalized product that naturally attracts and retains customers. Data-driven decision-making in product-led innovation uses data to guide product development , ensuring decisions enhance customer success. Let’s dive into what makes this product-led approach tick.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 19, 2023

When NitroPack was first getting started, they used PayPal to accept and process payments. “It This solution lasted less than a month. That’s actually the super big problem for all EU SaaS founders,” Georgi explained, “because being in the EU, you need to take care of these things from the very beginning.”

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Merchant Services Payment Services Payments Payment Features 138

Baremetrics

MARCH 9, 2021

What is churn management? Are there any two words that SaaS companies hate more than customer churn? The good news is that there are a number of tips and tools, like Baremetrics, to improve customer experience and customer satisfaction, measure and analyze churn, and develop strategies to put an end to churners.

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SaaS Payments Churn Payment Services Strategy 59

Totango

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The contract renewal stage of the customer lifecycle is a critical component of driving retention for SaaS products. Knowing how to use technology to optimize your contract renewal process can increase your retention rates and your revenue. First, we’ll review what contract renewal is and what it means to automate the process.

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CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 7, 2022

It’s undeniable that the SaaS model works differently and attracts revenue on a monthly or annual basis, unlike the on-premise software that deals with one-time payments. So, it’s legit to have a customer success team in hand. Stay tuned and read on to incur extra SaaS revenue. That is important to track.

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ProfitWell

APRIL 17, 2020

If a customer struggles to use your SaaS product, then they're unlikely to feel that it's a good value/fit for them. It's in the best interest of every SaaS company to ensure its customers are able to understand and make the most of its products. The best way to do that is with a thorough customer success program.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Customer lifetime value , repeat customer rate, product adoption rate, and customer churn rate are key metrics to measure alongside your customer retention rate. Personalize the experiences of your new customers to accelerate their time to value. Use notification banners to prevent involuntary churn.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Strategy Payments 52

User Pilot

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Customer success has gone from strength to strength in recent years. More and more SaaS companies are starting to realize how important it is, and so they’re investing more time and effort into it. With that in mind, we thought we’d take a look at the best customer success tools. Churnbuster.

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Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Scale 95

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

User adoption is essential for B2B SaaS companies, as it helps customers to learn about your product, adopt features , stick around, and nurture product growth. And your role at a customer success team? Here are four steps for building a user adoption strategy: Do customer research and create user personas.

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SaaS Payments Strategy Payment Solutions SaaS 97

OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 21, 2020

What does the future hold for B2B software? Every year we ask the OpenView network to weigh in, and this time around many folks unsurprisingly made predictions around a trend most of us in SaaS had to adapt to (and, to be honest, are still figuring out) in 2020: remote work. SaaS will need to engage or get left behind.”.

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Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Confused about customer churn vs. revenue churn? Churn means lost money or lost customers. These metrics help you understand two different things: Customer churn — the number of people you've lost. Revenue churn — the amount of revenue you've lost. Customer churn = customers lost.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

It makes sense, then, that so many marketing AI tools and software are targeting the conversion funnel. From lead generation to lead nurturing to conversion, funnel AI tools help marketers improve their strategy and streamline their processes. Here is a deeper look at nine of the top AI tools for successful marketing funnels.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

User adoption is essential for B2B SaaS companies, as it helps customers to learn about your product, adopt features , stick around, and nurture product growth. And your role at a customer success team? Here are four steps for building a user adoption strategy: Do customer research and create user personas.

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SaaS Payments Strategy Payment Solutions SaaS 91

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 14, 2023

That’s when it occurred to him: the process of scheduling an appointment with the barber was the same as it was 20 years ago. A double-booking problem emerges Named for a character role in the Netflix series, Game of Thrones , Squire set out to be a reservation system for barbershops: “Open Table for barbers”, as some have put it.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payment Methods Scale 52

SaaStr

JUNE 18, 2023

It decreases churn, at least in terms of timing (even if they churn, it takes a year to ‘happen’). And it’s sometimes easier to administer — automated monthly credit card payments are easy nowadays, but any invoicing process more than an annual one can be a big administrative headache. Done right, they do help.

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Payment Features Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payment Services 181

CustomerSuccessBox

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Customer Success has become a must for every SaaS business with the advent of the subscription economy. But just having a customer success department does not solve issues with your churn rate, customer lifetime value, retention rate, or MRR/ARR. Customer Success is all about delivering value.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Allissa and Patrick believe that SaaS founders—bootstrapped or not—can pull six key levers to significantly impact their businesses. . Hooking in new customers is exciting, but customer retention is where your business will make money. In SaaS, retention is usually driven by recurring revenue, cross-selling, and up-selling.

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User Pilot

MAY 23, 2023

The rise of AI is grabbing headlines across the globe at the moment and the world of customer experience is no less. In this article, we’re going to unpack how AI customer experience can completely transform how people engage with your SaaS. Using AI and machine learning within your SaaS can bring huge benefits.

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Artificial Intelligence AI SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 98

User Pilot

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Reducing the CAC payback period can help SaaS companies boost their financial performance and drive growth. TL;DR The CAC payback period measures the time it takes for a company to recover the money invested in new customer acquisition. There are 3 main reasons why a SaaS company should track the CAC payback period.

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SaaS Payments Customer Lifetime Value Payment Solutions Acquisition 105

User Pilot

MARCH 26, 2024

As you’re researching digital analytics tools, you’ve probably noticed how hard it is to find reliable information on the available solutions. To make your life a little bit easier and help you choose the best digital analytics tool for your SaaS, we’ve produced a guide of 15 excellent analytics platforms available on the market in 2024.

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Artificial Intelligence SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 52

User Pilot

MARCH 26, 2024

As you’re researching digital analytics tools, you’ve probably noticed how hard it is to find reliable information on the available solutions. To make your life a little bit easier and help you choose the best digital analytics tool for your SaaS, we’ve produced a guide of 15 excellent analytics platforms available on the market in 2024.

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Artificial Intelligence SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 52