FastSpring

JANUARY 9, 2023

Most Stripe alternatives fall into one of two categories: (1) payment processors, or (2) a billing solution that covers payment processing and other aspects of billing such as fraud detection, checkout, and more. can provide payment processing, order fulfillment, financing options, and more. MoRs for SaaS Companies.

Payment Methods 119

Payment Methods Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions 119

Baremetrics

APRIL 1, 2021

When choosing a payments processor, businesses have a lot of goals in mind. So, when it comes to comparing platforms, major players like Stripe and Shopify Payments are likely to top your list. All the data your startup needs Get deep insights into your company's MRR, churn and other vital metrics for your SaaS business.

Payment Methods 98

Payment Methods Payment Services Merchant Services SaaS Payments 98

Subscription Flow

JANUARY 1, 2024

This is because customers who shop online provide a wealth of information about their demographics and activities to ecommerce companies. This can be both an opportunity and a burden for ecommerce business owners. Read more: Commerce Subscription Trends & Predictions for 2024 Why you may need a CRM for ecommerce business?

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Payment Features Payment Solutions Payments 52

Stax

JANUARY 17, 2024

Automated Clearing House (ACH) payments are a type of electronic bank-to-bank payment system in the US. Unlike payments facilitated by card networks like Visa or Mastercard, ACH payments are managed by a body called the National Automated Clearing House Association (NACHA). Let’s get started.

Payment Services 88

Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Facilitation 88

FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

What makes a company choose one SaaS payment processing provider over another? For example, at FastSpring, we have a lot of data about online shopping carts. We know that conversion rates for SaaS and software companies will vary by 30% or more just based on the checkout experience. Is it the interface? Integrations?

Payment Services 122

Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions 122

Subscription Flow

JANUARY 2, 2024

The SaaS industry has been growing at a phenomenal rate for quite some time now, prompting many businesses to now think of ways in which they need to invest in efficient ways of running their business in the SaaS world. In doing so, SaaS businesses of all sizes face common payment processing SaaS challenges.

Payment Services 52

Payment Services Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payments 52

Stax

JANUARY 28, 2024

This business model has now been adapted very well in the internet age, especially in the SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) and eCommerce industries. As more subscribers join, manually sending out invoices will result in a storm of wasted paper, missed payments, and late penalties—none of which are beneficial to your business.

Payment Features 88

Payment Features Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 88

FastSpring

DECEMBER 9, 2022

SaaS billing software automates one or more of the various aspects of the recurring billing process — payment processing, fulfillment, dunning, and more. You’ll still need a separate solution for payment processing, taxes, chargebacks, and more. FastSpring: Your MoR for All-in-One SaaS Billing. 3 Payment Processors.

Payment Services 128

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Methods SaaS Payments 128

SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2021

Perhaps the most interesting thing is just how similar both these website-builder-plus-ecommerce companies are. It’s growing at the same rate (~30%), booming from ecommerce (+78% for Squarespace, +60% for Wix). Monetizing ecommerce via subscriptions, but not payment processing. 85% NRR.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Payments Payment Services 330

Stax

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) businesses need to constantly evolve their offerings to stay fresh and relevant. But if you’re a B2B solution, there’s a high likelihood that businesses will be interested in being able to accept customer payments, rather than just sending them a PayPal link or to a generic payment gateway.

Payments 88

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services Merchant Services 88

FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2022

However, there are certain aspects of collecting recurring payments that you would still be responsible for when using Chargebee, such as: Connecting to payment gateways manually. While Chargebee supports several different payment gateways, you have to set up and configure each one. Remitting taxes at the end of the year.

Payment Methods 133

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Services Payments 133

Baremetrics

MARCH 23, 2021

Your payment processor may be an important element of your business. However, with so many of these payment platforms on the market, how are you supposed to choose? While there is a plethora of payment platforms to consider, Stripe and PayPal should be at the top of the list. After all, it plays a big role in how you get paid.

Payment Methods 93

Payment Methods Payment Services Payments Merchant Services 93

SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2019

With thousands of new startups emerging everyday and the average turnover rate for business applications trending at 39% annually, the SaaS industry couldn’t be more competitive. Despite the hyper competition, many SaaS providers take their organization’s payment processing experience for granted. Securing payments.

SaaS Payments 172

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 172

Stax

MARCH 6, 2024

Physical and eCommerce product subscription businesses are expected to make up 45% of the market’s value. Mobile apps make up 53%, and the SaaS market is worth $152 billion. In this article, we’ll unpack the complexities of recurring billing for businesses operating or transitioning to a recurring billing payment option.

Merchant Services 88

Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Methods Payment Features 88

Baremetrics

AUGUST 4, 2021

Declined payments in SaaS can be a real issue for both the customers and your company. Anyone tasked with understanding why payments decline or fail knows their work is cut out for them. From there you can get insights into your all failed payments using our dunning tool, Baremetrics Recover. Why do payments get declined?

SaaS Payments 98

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments 98

User Pilot

MARCH 23, 2023

What are the reasons for customer churn in SaaS? As a SaaS company, your ultimate goal is to retain customers and keep them happy with your product. However, sometimes things don’t go as planned, and customers churn. TL;DR Customer churn refers to the rate at which a business loses customers within a specific period.

SaaS Payments 91

SaaS Payments Churn Underperforming Technical Team Payment Methods 91

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Remember when it seemed like websites were just a commodity? They want a slick site that does more, from eCommerce to payments to marketing and more. And SMBs are back in SaaS. While Wix’s actual churn is a bit unclear, this is a super interesting presentation of CLTV. But much lower in Payments.

Payment Methods 281

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments SMB 281

Baremetrics

MARCH 30, 2021

Finding the right recurring payment system to process recurring invoices for your subscription-based business isn't easy. Aside from there being a multitude of options in the market, SaaS and subscription businesses often have a diverse and complex set of items that they need their chosen platform to check-off the list.

Payment Features 105

Payment Features Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Methods 105

FastSpring

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Get the latest from FastSpring’s Support leaders about preparing for Cyber Weekend, refund policies, strategies to decrease customer churn, and more. Elevate Your Business With FastSpring Contextual Customer Churn: Turning the Tide With Proven Retention Strategies The Only Thing That’s Constant With Tax Law Is Change Need FastSpring support?

Payment Methods 78

Payment Methods Customer Support Payments Payment Services 78

User Pilot

APRIL 24, 2024

SaaS renewals can be a breath-holding moment. TL;DR SaaS renewals includes the process of renewing a subscription to an online-hosted software service. TL;DR SaaS renewals includes the process of renewing a subscription to an online-hosted software service.

SaaS Payments 82

SaaS Payments Retention Payment Services Payment Solutions 82

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

In 1994, a CD was sold on a website called NetMarket marking the first official Internet purchase (although there are rumours that students at MIT and Stanford were using the Internet to sell marijuana from the 1970s…). This early payment processor did very little and wasn’t all that important to global commerce. Table of Contents.

Payment Services 97

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 97

SaaStr

APRIL 1, 2023

Rewind The Clock — How Did We Get Here Most small businesses in pre-2010 didn’t have computers in their store or restaurant. Throw in the rise of social media and mobile web payment systems like Stripe and Braintree, and something revolutionary was at our doorstep. Everyone was stuck in place and online was the answer.

Scale 201

Scale SMB Merchant Services Payment Methods 201

Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 13, 2021

Existing customer renewal is a high priority for 59% of SaaS companies and a medium priority for 27%. This article will answer the main questions that SaaS founders and market ers have about losing SaaS customers, in other words, user churn: What is SaaS churn definition and why lowering it matt ers?

SaaS Payments 105

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Churn Payment Services 105

Subscription Flow

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Subscription pricing with the help of automated billing software has transformed many industries and provided businesses with a dynamic way to generate revenue, especially in the SaaS space. SaaS companies’ success is largely dependent on their use of subscription billing.

SaaS Payments 83

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 83

FastSpring

MAY 25, 2023

FastSpring previously presented on SaaS fees pricing and packaging to combat stagflation in 2022, but this article is based on an updated presentation delivered in March 2023 by David Vogelpohl. This article offers tips for optimizing pricing and packaging of your SaaS products in a less-than-stellar economy: What is stagflation?

SaaS Payments 144

SaaS Payments Pricing Payments Merchant Services 144

FastSpring

JUNE 25, 2019

A challenge faced by all subscription-based businesses is figuring out a way to keep recurring payments flowing for their company. To help your company understand the value of dunning management , we’re sharing 4 ways having a robust dunning management process can benefit your online store. Reason #3: Reduce Your Customer Churn.

Payment Methods 64

Payment Methods Payment Features Churn SaaS Payments 64

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. Why do developers love SaaS products?

SaaS Payments 237

SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 237

User Pilot

MARCH 17, 2023

How do you perform a customer churn analysis that gives you the necessary insights to boost retention and grow your SaaS business ? In this article, we cover how to measure and analyze churn to gather actionable data. Plus, learn four efficient strategies to lower your churn rate. Learn from churning customers.

Churn 86

Churn SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Customer Lifetime Value 86

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 123

FastSpring

JANUARY 31, 2023

To help you choose between Stripe vs. Paddle vs. FastSpring, this guide compares: What areas of the payment lifecycle each one provides a solution for (e.g., payment processing, gathering and remitting taxes, and subscription management) and what additional software you’ll need to add to your tech stack.

Payment Services 120

Payment Services Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Features 120

FastSpring

OCTOBER 31, 2022

When managing international recurring payments, there are three overarching considerations: Staying up to date with local tax laws and transaction regulations Making it really easy for customers to make the initial purchase and sign up for recurring payments Ensuring each subsequent payment goes through.

Merchant Services 78

Merchant Services Payment Features Payment Services Payment Solutions 78

FastSpring

JANUARY 10, 2023

Checkout (including payment processing and gathering sales tax, GST, and VAT). Handling failed payments and customer notifications. Reconciling payment with accounts and remitting sales tax, GST, and VAT. FastSpring: All-in-One Billing Solution for SaaS. Recurly: Easily Integrates with Multiple Payment Gateways.

Payment Solutions 117

Payment Solutions Payment Features Payment Methods Payment Services 117

Subscription Flow

APRIL 23, 2024

Understanding Paddle in 2024 Catering to more than 3000 SaaS clients in over 200 markets, Paddle is a market-leading billing and revenue management software. Smart Dunning for Better Retention High churn rates are the worst when you have spent thousands of marketing dollars nurturing these customers.

Payment Solutions 81

Payment Solutions Payments Payment Services SaaS Payments 81

User Pilot

APRIL 15, 2024

Left unaddressed, customer communication pain points can cause dissatisfaction and eventual churn. Generic support without any personalization. Steps to eliminate customer pain points: Offer personalization with omnichannel support. Ready to track, understand, and address customer pain points for your SaaS?

Communication 95

Communication SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods 95

FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

Small tweaks to your SaaS billing practices can make a huge impact on the customer experience. For example, Jon Torres — a digital marketing consultant specializing in SaaS commerce — noticed that, for some of his clients, refund requests spiked around renewal time. “It 7 growth hacks from the SaaS experts. Learn more here.

Merchant Services 118

Merchant Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 118

FastSpring

MARCH 3, 2023

Zuora is a recurring billing and monetization solution for: Subscription management Revenue recognition Payment collection Quotes And more… However, Zuora has one main shortcoming — it doesn’t handle sales tax or transaction liability for you. Related: Can SaaS Companies Afford to Ignore Sales Taxes and VAT?

Payment Services 78

Payment Services Payment Methods Payments Merchant Services 78

FastSpring

JANUARY 17, 2023

Most subscription billing platforms let you: Automate invoicing and payments. Provide a self-service portal to customers so they can manage their accounts (including payment information, seats, and more). Our solution, FastSpring, lets global SaaS companies handle everything on both lists above. Fraud prevention and chargebacks.

Payments 86

Payments Payment Features Payment Methods Payment Services 86