SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2025

And for SaaS companies with strong fundamentals, the opportunity window is wide open. The B2B SaaS companies everyone has been waiting for are finally filing and preparing to go public: Already Filed (2025 IPOs Highly Likely) Figma – Cloud-based design platform, confidentially filed April 2025. Stop waiting.

Payments

Subscription Flow

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Billing system migration is the process of replacing your existing billing system with a new one. Companies opt for this process to adopt new tools, and upgrade their functionality. Some of the pitfalls that come with unplanned billing migration are faulty revenue reporting, data duplication, and customer churn.

Payment Solutions

Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

According to the US Federal Reserve in 2022, general-purpose card payments reached $153.3 On top of that, 69% of Americans online in 2023 said they used digital payment methods to make a purchase. To address evolving customer demands and accept electronic payments, you need a payment processing system.

Payment Services

Subscription Flow

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Operating a business entails a number of processes like managing products and payments, invoices, customer engagement, revenue, unpaid invoices and much more. That is why most modern SaaS and subscription-based businesses have transitioned to using a good billing software, reducing their workload by a great deal.

Payment Services

How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 20, 2024

2024 is coming to a close, and it has been a terrific year for SaaS businesses as the industry has witnessed quite a favorable growth. For SaaS companies, accounting becomes one of the most crucial processes to understand their financial and overall business health, and then make informed decisions about future steps.

Payment Services

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

What if you could boost revenue without having to invest a small fortune in new customer acquisition? In this article, you will explore why customer expansion matters for your SaaS growth, discover various customer expansion tactics, and learn how to embed them in successful expansion campaigns. Why is customer expansion so important?

Strategy

How To Buy Saas

MAY 29, 2025

This article goes beyond the buzz to show how AI is already driving results in SaaS, finance, retail, and operations, with lessons and case examples that any executive can learn from. AI systems can process vast datasets and spot trends or risks that humans might miss. Intelligent automation drastically reduces errors and cycle times.

Artificial Intelligence

How To Buy Saas

MARCH 18, 2025

However, advanced SaaS solutions have opened up new possibilities across distinct categories. In this blog, youll discover the significant benefits of SaaS tools and platforms for game developers, the latest SaaS tools, and different challenges and opportunities. In fact, you can rent SaaS tools and get started any day.

Payment Solutions

Teamgate

JUNE 11, 2025

Role-based notifications further streamline the process by ensuring only relevant team members are alerted, maintaining both system stability and security. By enabling smooth communication between microservices, Middleware centralizes logging and monitoring across services, allowing teams to detect and resolve issues more efficiently.

Scale

Full Session

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Drive Revenue Growth With FullSession Learn how to visualize and improve each step in your sales or marketing funnel. PostHog vs VWO PostHog is free and open-source, unlike VWO, a paid service. PostHogs ability to host data on your servers offers greater privacy control than VWOs cloud-based model. Book a Demo 2.

Payment Methods

How To Buy Saas

MAY 26, 2025

Integration limitations: No third-party integrations with banks or external apps you can only integrate PayPal for accepting payments. That said, compared to more robust small business accounting tools , Skynova doesnt offer much beyond the basics unless you enable additional modules. Its very basic by design.

Software Review

Scytale

JANUARY 21, 2025

Data breaches are a modern-day nightmare for all types of businesses, particularly for SaaS companies handling sensitive customer information. Ransomware groups have also started targeting smaller SaaS providers, knowing their security defenses may not be as impermeable as larger enterprises.

Payment Services

SaaStr

JUNE 30, 2025

The major SaaS providers have announced another round of significant price increases for 2025, continuing a trend that’s putting pressure on enterprise software budgets across the board. After years of relatively stable pricing, these companies are leveraging their market positions to drive revenue growth through higher per-seat costs.

Pricing

Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Through strategic ISV partnerships, businesses can enhance their service offerings, streamline operations, and open new revenue streams. From a revenue perspective, these partnerships create new monetization opportunities and upsell potential. Payment gateways for seamless online transactions. What is an API?

Payments

SaaStr

JULY 10, 2025

larger revenue base by 2025. Free Cash Flow: Nearly break-even (partner payment timing impact) Toast: The Growth Juggernaut Q4 2024 Metrics: Revenue: $1.34B (+29% YoY) ARR: $1.6B (+34% YoY) Operating Income: $32M (2.4% Sometimes the bigger market wins, even with lower initial margins. margin) Net Income: $11.8M

Technical Review

Stax

MARCH 4, 2025

Up to 42% of shoppers in the US abandon their cart if their favorite payment method isnt available. Meanwhile, retailers that provide at least three of the most popular payment methods in any market increase their conversions by up to 30%. Need to integrate payments? One way to do this is by offering credit card integrations.

Payment Methods

How To Buy Saas

JULY 2, 2025

In fact, a recent survey found that at least 60% of real estate companies now invest between 1% and 5% of their revenue in digitalization. Given the relationship-driven nature of real estate, CRM software is often the backbone of a brokerage’s sales process. LIst your saas Get Your SaaS Discovered By Buyers!

Payment Solutions

Stax

MARCH 11, 2025

Customers in this age of instant gratification always expect a smooth and seamless online payments experience. As a business owner, you must have a clear understanding of how online payments processing works to be able to create a hassle-free checkout process that will keep buyers coming back to your eCommerce store.

Payment Methods

How To Buy Saas

JULY 18, 2025

This article explores the best practice management tools available in 2025, with a spotlight on platforms that support everything from care management software and credentialing services to integrations with top-tier medical billing companies. Operational inefficiencies, revenue leaks, and clinician burnout. The result?

Payment Solutions

Teamgate

JULY 16, 2025

Set Up Sales Pipelines That Work for You A thoughtfully designed sales pipeline can turn a chaotic process into a smooth, repeatable system that gets results. "The agents who scale aren’t necessarily the best at closing deals – they’re the best at systematically moving prospects through a repeatable process."

Scale

How To Buy Saas

AUGUST 8, 2025

Managing a limousine or chauffeur service means juggling reservations, dispatching drivers, tracking vehicles, and marketing your business—all at once. LimoFlow is a cloud-based CRM and limo reservation software built specifically for the luxury transportation industry. This is where LimoFlow comes in. With an impressive 5.0-star

Technical Review

SaaStr

APRIL 12, 2022

So is Square a SaaS company? The majority of its revenue is now from Bitcoin transactions, not “traditional” payments and software. And yet … and yet … its engine is all software and really SaaS. Its software and services business is the one with the real operating margins. Going upmarket.

Payments

SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2021

A lot of our SaaS older times don’t quite know what to make with a lot of B2B startups these days, let alone some public SaaS companies. So many startups these days are claiming they have “ARR” from revenue that … doesn’t recur. Doesn’t ARR stand for Annual Recurring Revenue?

Merchant Services

SaaStr

APRIL 29, 2021

Shopify’s first quarter revenue: Q1 2021: $989 million Q1 2020: $470 million Q1 2019: $321 million Q1 2018: $214 million Q1 2017: $127 million Q1 2016: $73 million Q1 2015: $37 million Q1 2014: $19 million Q1 2013: $9 million. The Covid Boost for SaaS. Cloud and ecommerce may end soon, but it hasn’t ended yet.

Merchant Services

The Angel VC

APRIL 24, 2015

When I talk to SaaS startups and take a look at their metrics, it still happens quite often that some of the numbers aren’t quite clear to me and it takes some time to clarify things. I’m not referring to sophisticated reports or analyses but to the much more mundane question of what exactly people mean when they use a term like “revenues”.

Payments

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

Jessica Alexander, Senior Director Cloud Technology & OEM Partnerships, Crowdstrike. So for the audience, cloud giants are turbocharging startup sales, and the predominant reason for this is because they’re fundamentally changing IT budgets at the customers that we’re all selling to. Rico Mallozzi, Sr.

Scale

SaaStr

DECEMBER 1, 2022

With the world’s most distributed compute platform — from cloud to edge — we make it easy for businesses to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away. Engage teams by enabling them to interact with the project in the way they prefer. Tropic is procurement paradise.

Merchant Services

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

So AppFolio is a big vertical SaaS+ success story I frankly don’t know as much about as I should. So AppFolio is a quiet member of the 10x ARR club – SaaS for property management – $660m run-rate, $7.2B Gotta Radically More Efficient in 2023 This is really the theme of the year in SaaS and Cloud.

Payment Services

SaaStr

AUGUST 17, 2021

Coupa is one of our favorite enterprise SaaS leaders at SaaStr, and one more folks should know about. It dominates the enterprise segment of a huge space — Spend Management — and completely eclipsed its predecessor, SAP/Ariba, which was an early SaaS leader. Cloud is huge. Professional Services are 17% of revenues.

SaaS Payments

SaaStr

MARCH 23, 2023

Chargebee is a recurring billing and subscription management tool that helps SaaS and SaaS-like businesses streamline Revenue Operations. Chargebee integrates with the leading payment gateways like Stripe, Braintree, PayPal etc. We enable fair and equitable hiring practices, so companies can hire for what’s next.

Payment Features

SaaStr

MAY 10, 2021

Fast forward to today, and we can add an important nuance to that: a second core product not only helps you grow faster at scale (a bigger TAM), but it drives up NRR and more revenue from your existing customers. Pretty good for SMB SaaS. In fact, now it’s more than 2x the size of its SaaS software alone.

Merchant Services

SaaStr

OCTOBER 26, 2022

So this year has been rough on SaaS and Cloud stocks, with multiples down 75% from a year ago and the markets overall down 50% or more. It’s barely trading at 3x revenue. Payments and e-commerce drag blended gross margins down to 60%. But payments can be low gross margin, and they are for Wix. Wix is one.

Payments

SaaStr

MAY 12, 2022

CircleCI is a cloud-based continuous delivery platform that helps software delivery teams build, test, and ship changes to their applications. Offering its services as a freemium-based model, CircleCI recognizes driving trials as the cornerstone of a go-to-market strategy for any developer tool. . The transition to a usage-based model.

Scale

Incredo

JULY 14, 2019

Whether you are a startup owner, a manager of a growing business or the CEO of an established company, you might find yourself asking questions like “ Should our SaaS subscription model be monthly, annually or both ?” History of the subscription pricing model: From newspapers to the rise of SaaS subscription. Key finding?

Payment Features

Stax

MARCH 15, 2025

This is especially true now more than ever before as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions continue to be amongst the fastest-growing segment within the tech world. Consumer adoption of digital solutions is accelerating at a rapid pace, with the SaaS market projected to grow from $315 billion in 2025 to $1,131 billion in 2032.

Payments

SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2023

We’ll see 2,500+ of the best SaaS founders, execs, and VCs NEXT WEEK June 6-7 at 2022 SaaStr Europa ! Make enables individuals, teams, and enterprises across all verticals to create powerful custom solutions that scale their businesses faster than ever. Grab tickets here. Make powers over 500,000+ organizations around the globe.

Scale

Sales Hacker

MARCH 29, 2021

RevOps has grown in importance as SaaS products have continued to proliferate and organizations have recognized the importance of good data, efficient workflows, and ensuring cross-department collaboration. The growing role of partnerships in driving revenue. Processing and remitting payments.

Payments