SaaStr

JULY 26, 2022

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. In general: Be honest about your churn and report it monthly and honestly. Find out.

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User Pilot

JULY 18, 2023

Tracking your customer churn rate will help you keep tabs on business growth. You will have data sets for analyzing your churn/retention history, which will better position you to make intelligent business decisions. The most common reasons behind high churn rates are: Bad product-customer fit. Poor onboarding.

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Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Customers can pay for goods and services according to their consumption ( pay-as-you-go ), scale their service usage up or down in accordance with business needs, and have their subscriptions automatically renewed thanks to subscription billing and revenue management. What Entails Effective Subscription Revenue Management?

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Blulogix

JANUARY 8, 2024

How the Right Platform Enhances Your Subscription Billing Experience By BluLogix Team Welcome back to our series on selecting the ideal subscription billing platform. Selecting the right subscription billing platform is a strategic decision that can significantly impact your business’s success.

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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?

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Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions 147

Subscription Flow

MAY 16, 2024

Did you know that the value of all card payments grew to more than $8 trillion in 2018? A major payment gateway that handled all this was CardConnect. One other reason was also that businesses could do recurring billing with CardPointe but, alas, that is no longer the case. What is CardPointe?

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Payment Features Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 103

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!)

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Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Features 98

User Pilot

JULY 20, 2023

Wondering how to reduce customer churn rate for your business? In this article, we review different ways to identify potential churn and deal with it. Attrition is the bane of every subscription business; low retention rates will result in a duce and the customer lifetime value and revenue will plummet.

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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.

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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?

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Subscription Flow

MAY 30, 2024

Yet these tools in themselves are never enough and you need them to integrate well with other software that offers different functions to help streamline your user’s experience. SubscriptionFlow also places a great deal of importance on customer retention and churn management which helps businesses grow.

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Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments 69

SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2021

Now they’ve scaled to $200m+ ARR growing 38% selling just to 100,000+ SMBs, solving a hard problem (i.e., automating the back office and payments and billing for SMBs), and doing it with 120%+ NRR. We run a lot of SaaStr on Bill.com and have for years, and won’t churn. Making more and more money on each payment.

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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.

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Payment Methods Payment Services Merchant Services SaaS Payments 98

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.

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Baremetrics

APRIL 13, 2021

As a subscription-based business, choosing the right payments processor and setting up a recurring payment system for your customers is critical to running a successful company. In this guide, we'll go over how to set up recurring payments and handle invoicing in a manner that's streamlined, convenient, and low on fees.

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Payment Features Merchant Services Payment Services Payments 98

Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

The contracts are identical twelve month contracts except for the payment terms. Contract B relaxes payment terms to monthly payment, 12 monthly installments for the next year. The payback period metric doesn’t capture the difference in the quality of the revenue/cash collections. That’s a useful tool.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2023

In particular: Hybrid SaaS with payments and fintech usually has far, far lower gross margins than pure software. See, e.g. Shopify, whose blended gross margins with payments even at its scale are still less than 50%. Non-Recurring Revenue Doesn’t Count, At Least Not as Much. Pass-Through Revenue Simply Doesn’t Count.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 19, 2023

NitroPack , a website performance optimization platform, has become one of the fastest-growing startups in CEE. Since it joined FastSpring in early 2020, the company has increased its revenue by 628% and is still growing fast. When NitroPack was first getting started, they used PayPal to accept and process payments. “It

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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. The second factor to consider is whether or not the solution was built for your type of business.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 30, 2023

They focused on building a payment platform that empowers international talent and independent contractors to get paid on time in a compliant way while also ensuring that companies can hire international talent and make payments efficiently. This insight led Deel to focus on solving payments and compliance.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 22, 2021

Subscription revenue can be defined most simply as a model which generates income from customers through recurring fees that are paid at regular intervals. These can be weekly, monthly, or annual payments. Before we get into the more complicated stuff, let’s consider the difference between earning revenue and collecting revenue.

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Payment Features Payments Subscription Revenue 90

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. The most potent benefit of the subscription-based business model is that companies are guaranteed a fixed revenue stream—if they can retain their customers or subscribers.

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Payment Features Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 88

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Most SaaS businesses adopt a subscription-based model supported by a recurring payment system. Setting up a recurring payment system can be complicated and requires the right tools to measure, manage, and review payments regularly. Monthly and Annual Recurring Revenue ii. Churn Rate Conclusion.

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Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Features Payments 89

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.

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Merchant Services Payment Features Payment Services Payment Solutions 78

OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Usually, customer churn rate is every SaaS company’s worst enemy. But in this article, we’re going to show you how to not only deal with churn effectively but also how you can use your customer churn data as a valuable tool to build your business. Voluntary churn vs. involuntary churn: What’s the difference?

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SaaS Payments Finance Churn Payment Services 52

OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Usually, customer churn rate is every SaaS company’s worst enemy. But in this article, we’re going to show you how to not only deal with churn effectively but also how you can use your customer churn data as a valuable tool to build your business. Voluntary churn vs. involuntary churn: What’s the difference?

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SaaS Payments Finance Churn Payment Services 52

Blulogix

APRIL 12, 2024

This final blog post underscores how leveraging the inherent intricacies of subscription billing can propel businesses towards increased revenue, enhanced profitability, and elevated customer satisfaction. Take your business further with BluIQ’s flexible, scalable, enterprise-grade intelligent billing solutions.

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SaaStr

MAY 25, 2022

If Momentive / SurveyMonkey had stayed 100% self-serve and low end, it likely wouldn’t be growing much at all, with self-serve revenue now only growing 7%. Far forward to today, 1/3 of its revenue is sales-driven, but it’s the core growth driver, up 35%. #2. It’s not always best to force annual payments.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Juggling outdated, disjointed tools is a recipe for team burnout, customer dissatisfaction, and ultimately, churn. Powered by a modern business messenger , it scales your ability to answer more questions from more customers without increasing headcount, budget, or hours logged. Integrated knowledge base. Team Inbox.

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Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Most companies have a primary acquisition loop that drives this scalable growth, and unfortunately, there aren’t that many acquisition loops that really scale. Even when they scale, they eventually asymptote, and companies need to find new ways to grow. This can be new growth loops for the same product, or entirely new products.

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Payments Scale Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team 63

SaaStr

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Yet, funded startups can learn a lot from the bootstrapped ones to grow smoothly and generate revenue. Paddle’s Senior Product Manager, Allissa Chan, and Chief Strategy Officer, Patrick Campbell, share their experience of scaling a bootstrapped startup. This is where SaaS companies generate most their revenue.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

You don’t need to be a math whiz to see that means it started slow and then truly accelerated only once scale was hit. 110% Net Revenue Retention and 8 2% Customer Retention from 81,000+ SMB Customers. Bill.com sells to very small businesses that do churn at a higher rate. Almost always. If you want to.

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Payment Services Payments Payment Methods SMB 213

Baremetrics

JULY 22, 2021

PayPal is a popular choice for online payment processing. The platform currently serves over 20 million active merchant accounts globally, and is a proven solution trusted by entrepreneurs for over twenty years. But for SaaS businesses, PayPal lacks the analytics and reporting features they need to support sustainable growth.

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FastSpring

JUNE 28, 2019

When companies look at strategies to scale their business there’s almost always a prevalent focus on customer acquisition. Businesses are always on the lookout for ways to expand their user base, attract new customers, and generate new leads. What is customer churn? Intentional churn is exactly what it sounds like.

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Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

However, with the bustling world of opportunities to earn recurring revenue , subscription-based SMEs are also faced with unprecedented demands for speed, efficiency, compliance and customer support. Less tech-savvy business owners transitioning from legacy systems may want guided onboarding rather than self-service.

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Payment Features Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments 52

SaaStr

MAY 8, 2021

bills, “payment terms”, and often, repeated follow-up. Forcing your sales team to do collections is OK in the early days, but doesn’t work perfectly either, and doesn’t scale. But getting paid in a simple ACH or credit card payment each month can be magical. Annual deals mask churn.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Scale Payments 265

Sales Hacker

JULY 18, 2022

Which is why it’s key to strengthen customer retention processes by automating them, keeping customers engaged, and detecting any signs of churn before they happen. Automate these 5 processes to boost customer retention. One surefire road to customer churn is the customer not knowing how to use the product. Use Outreach?

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