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). Gather metrics and view reports on monthly recurring revenue. Optimize Your Checkout Process to Increase Conversions.

Payments 86

Payments Payment Features Payment Methods Payment Services 86

FastSpring

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Many companies that expand globally reach a point where they can’t properly support their international customers with their current payment platform. An international payment gateway can help with some of these issues, but it’s only one piece of the puzzle. What is an international payment gateway? Table of Contents.

Payment Services 131

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 131

SaaStr

JULY 26, 2022

Don’t need as much sales experience on sales team. But beyond all the other Pros and Cons of SMB vs enterprise, there’s one looming issue with SMB SaaS: Churn. Endemic churn. The type of churn you almost can’t do anything about. SMBs go out of business, and quickly. And measuring it.

SMB 357

SMB Churn Payment Services SaaS 357

FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Chargebee is a robust subscription management platform. 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. Reconciling payments, fulfillment, refunds, etc. Process chargebacks.

Payment Methods 133

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Services Payments 133

Baremetrics

AUGUST 3, 2021

We’re here to tell you that all revenue is good revenue. But there are nuances that you need to know when operating your SaaS business when it comes to revenue. Those nuances come into play when understanding the different types of revenue in your SaaS business. What is Revenue? Types of Revenue 1.

Payments 98

Payments Revenue Payment Services SaaS Payments 98

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

FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

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”? Did they count me as churned on the day I canceled? In part one, we cover benchmarks and common churn formulas.

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Benchmarks Churn Payments SaaS Payments 123

Stax

JANUARY 29, 2024

Innovative ISVs and SaaS companies know that one of the best ways to provide value to merchants—while improving your bottom line—is to provide integrated payments. For example, if you’re an invoicing software provider that lets SMBs manage their billing, then it makes sense to add payment processing tools to your platform.

Merchant Services 88

Merchant Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Payments 88

Baremetrics

JANUARY 9, 2022

Reducing churn is the single most important thing your SaaS. So how do you identify customers at risk of churn? In this article, I will list a series of actions you can take to identify cohorts of customers most at risk of churn. I’ll also give you positive actions you can take to reduce and even prevent customer churn.

Churn 98

Churn Payments Payment Services SaaS Payments 98

Subscription Flow

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Do you which is the best payment gateway for Shopify? The answer is Shopify Payments—this payment service works by allowing you to accept payments straight through your Shopify store. Furthermore, by doing away with the need for merchant accounts or other third-party payment processors, it streamlines online transactions.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services 52

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Tracking revenue on a spreadsheet is easy, but understanding the underlying factors influencing revenue growth rate is a different ball game. As you read on, you will learn: How to properly define revenue growth. Related metrics that impact your revenue and how to use the insights to turn your product into a growth engine.

Payments 97

Payments Revenue Payment Features SaaS Payments 97

Stax

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

So, of course when it came to revenue-driving activities, Ford knew that success in marketing—and business—wasn’t about how much your marketing spend is, but how efficiently you spend it. Enter the SaaS Magic Number, which measures the return on sales and marketing spend in generating new subscription revenue.

SaaS Payments 88

SaaS Payments Payments Payment Services Stax 88

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. Now let’s discuss the benefits of using a SaaS subscription services billing platform in your SaaS company: 1.

SaaS Payments 83

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 83

FastSpring

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Integration of PLG and sales-led business models: Supporting multiple GTM strategies has become the standard for SaaS. This is why more and more SaaS companies are seeking out merchant-of-record solutions like FastSpring to simplify their payment stack and reduce the risk and complexity of transacting around the world.

Merchant Services 78

Merchant Services Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 78

FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

What makes a company choose one SaaS payment processing provider over another? But we wanted to hear directly from technical founders and software developers about what you look for in a SaaS payment processing service. Integrations? How does the provider protect against payment fraud? Is it the interface?

Payment Services 122

Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions 122

FastSpring

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

In this guide, we compare six Recurly competitors and alternatives according to several categories: Subscription management and recurring billing Checkout Global payment processing Reporting and analytics Pricing Customer reviews We’ll start with a deep dive into FastSpring — our end-to-end payment solution (i.e.,

Payment Services 78

Payment Services Payments Payment Methods Merchant Services 78

Stax

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Offering payment processing services is a move that makes sense for a lot of SaaS companies, particularly if your software helps your customers run their business. For example, if you have a project management app, then you can add payment features that allow people to use your software to take payments from their clients.

Merchant Services 88

Merchant Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Payments 88

Baremetrics

MARCH 31, 2021

SaaS and subscription companies like yours need to collect and manage recurring payments at scale. Regular payment gateways like SagePay and WorldPay won't cut it. All the data your startup needs Collecting payments is just one step of effective subscription management. The platform's usage-based pricing (no monthly fees!)

Merchant Services 98

Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Features 98

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? If you’re searching for one of these platforms, what qualities are important to you? be honest How well do you know your business?

Payment Methods 93

Payment Methods Payment Services Payments Merchant Services 93

SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2023

Dear SaaSt: Do sales commission clawbacks typically apply after a customer’s payment has cleared (e.g. if they ask for and are granted a refund) or only up until payment is collected? Yes, you can and should clawback the sales commission on those deals. But if 1%-2% of your revenue is “clawed back” it won’t matter.

Payments 229

Payments Payment Services Sales Finance 229

User Pilot

MARCH 23, 2023

What are the reasons for customer churn in SaaS? However, sometimes things don’t go as planned, and customers churn. By the end of this article, you’ll have a better understanding of the common pitfalls that lead to customer churn and how to avoid them. 5: Customers churn when they experience an unresolved product bug.

SaaS Payments 91

SaaS Payments Churn Underperforming Technical Team Payment Methods 91

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

The story of payment processors begins in 1998 when Confinity (later X.com, but you probably know it as PayPal) was released. This early payment processor did very little and wasn’t all that important to global commerce. That history might be interesting to some, but the real questions are: What are payment processors?

Payment Services 97

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 97

SaaStr

OCTOBER 27, 2022

At SaaStr, our partners are an integral part of our events. Launched in 2011, today, OnBoard serves as the board intelligence platform for more than 2,000 organizations and their 12,000 boards and committees in 32 countries worldwide. Paddle offers SaaS companies a completely different approach to their payments infrastructure.

Merchant Services 272

Merchant Services Payment Solutions Onboarding Payments 272

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Before we look at the promised SaaS revenue models, let’s get a couple definitions out of the way. We need to differentiate among three similar sounding but very different concepts: revenue stream, revenue model, and business model. Revenue stream: This is a single source of revenue for a company.

Payments 102

Payments SaaS Payments Revenue Payment Solutions 102

Subscription Flow

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The recurrent need for quality content and articles has provided magazine publishers with an opportunity to monetize this need to read. Despite going fully digital, The Washington Post has been losing revenue every year of $100 million per year. Reading can take place on any platform.

Payment Features 59

Payment Features Payments Payment Services Subscription 59

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Churn is the share of your customer base that has stopped using your service over a defined period of time. Churn can be calculated in two ways, namely customer churn and revenue churn , and there are good reasons to calculate both. 1 What is customer churn? 2 What causes customer churn?

Payment Services 98

Payment Services Churn Merchant Services SaaS Payments 98

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

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In SaaS, #1 most common misfire, with a bullet, is the VP/head of sales. It goes something like “You’ve Got to Get Past the Carcass of Your First VP of Sales” or “It’s The Second VP of Sales When You Really Start Selling” or variants thereof. Because in SaaS start-ups, it seems like the majority of first VP Sales fail.

Sales Hiring 363

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 363

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

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 223

Payment Solutions Payments Travel Scale 223

Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

For businesses offering subscriptions, Paddle is a well-known platform for subscription management boosting features such as recurring billing, invoicing, payments and revenue management. SubscriptionFlow is one such subscription management platform that qualifies as one of the best Paddle alternatives in the market.

Payment Features 59

Payment Features Merchant Services Payment Services Payments 59

Subscription Flow

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Since its introduction, the SaaS business model has grown in popularity and transformed many industries. Why are SaaS software adoption rates among businesses so high? These features make it easier for SaaS users to scale their businesses as they expand and help them run more productive businesses.

Payments 52

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Trends 52

Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Monthly recurring revenue is one of the least exciting topics to take on in 2020. While I was researching this topic, I reached out to our Customer Success and Sales teams to see if many customers were coming to them with questions about MRR. MRR stands for Monthly recurring revenue. MRR stands for Monthly recurring revenue.

Payments 145

Payments Revenue Payment Features SaaS Payments 145

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

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

Subscription Flow

MARCH 20, 2024

Read more: Your Strategy to Boost Digital Magazine Subscriptions Section 1: Understanding SimpleCirc and its Place in the Market SimpleCirc has set itself apart in today’s cutthroat market by revolutionizing circular payments and providing user-friendly solutions that expedite transactions involving several parties.

Payment Services 88

Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods 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. 3 Payment Processors. Payment Processing.

Payment Services 128

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Methods SaaS Payments 128