OpenView Labs

MARCH 16, 2021

The usage-based pricing model almost feels like a cheat code —it enables SaaS companies to more efficiently acquire new customers, grow with those customers as they’re successful, and keep those customers on the platform. It more closely aligns payment with a customer’s consumption, thereby impacting cash flow and revenue recognition.

Pricing 52

Pricing Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 52

Incredo

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Precisely – about SaaS affiliate programs… SaaS partner programs entice both software providers and affiliate partners for various reasons: 1) SaaS products are usually low-cost. 2) Software companies can pay high commissions because they don’t sell physical products. 5) Everyone minds his own business.

SaaS Payments 139

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Merchant Services Sales Recruiting 139

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

And if you also look at the platform as a service category, that’s also an additional $50 billion of spend, and that’s typically with those same vendors. So the ability to do flexible payment plans, financing, retire that pre-committed spend has been a really significant a way for us to accelerate and amplify our transactions.

Scale 193

Scale Marketplace as a Service Cloud SaaS Payments 193

OPEXEngine

JANUARY 11, 2022

There are many vendor benefits, too — it is easier to sell and it embodies a customer success solution orientation that drives high customer lifetime value and revenue. Many times, a customer can just use a credit card to start using a vendor’s solution. These contracts are very common in ‘revenue share’ models (i.e.,

Pricing 52

Pricing Payment Solutions Outsourced Development Compensation 52

OPEXEngine

MARCH 15, 2022

High Growth SaaS Companies Get A Significant Portion of Revenues Internationally. Faster growth companies are taking advantage of overseas markets and expanding internationally faster than their slower growth counterparts—with fast-growth companies reporting almost 31-32% of revenue from international business. Solution Demand.

Payment Services 40

Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payments 40

How To Buy Saas

APRIL 8, 2024

BPO firms help companies manage important business processes, including electronic billing, supply chain management, and electronic health records. Healthcare BPO outsourcing can help your organization streamline its revenue cycle. By outsourcing, you can decrease the time it takes to process claims and payments.

Outsourcing Services 40

Outsourcing Services Payment Services Healthcare Payments 40

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

If people aren’t looking for your solution, you have to educate them about the problem your product solves. So they created a software that provides control, visibility, and payment methods for corporate finance teams. If people aren’t looking for your solution, you have to educate them about the problem your product solves.

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Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Marketing 162

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Start monitoring your subscription revenue accurately Get deep insights into MRR, churn, LTV and more to grow your business. Similar to the cost method, equity accounting records the investment as a cost. The investment is subsequently adjusted to account for the investor’s share of the company’s profit and loss.

Payment Methods 81

Payment Methods SaaS Payments Compensation Payment Services 81

OPEXEngine

AUGUST 9, 2022

No digital tool can compensate for a lack of discipline at the front line. By benchmarking critical go-to-market KPIs, like the Magic Number – which measures how many new dollars of revenue growth are obtained getting from your sales and marketing investment compared to your competitors. Amplify low-cost sales channels.

Scale 59

Scale VP of Engineering Payment Services Underperforming Technical Team 59

Baremetrics

MAY 7, 2019

Company C was funded by pre-orders from customers, a friends and family round, and then through revenue-based financing for a period of time. Dictionaries and founders alike can’t agree on the definition of what it means to bootstrap a business. Bootstrapping purists insist on only using revenue from customers to fund the business.

Finance 111

Finance Startup SaaS Payments Payment Methods 111

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 13, 2021

Enterprise OEM software licensing is a multibillion-dollar segment of the software industry. It includes factual information, personal experience, and interviews from successful professionals on both the buy-side and the sell-side of enterprise OEM software licensing to ensure a broad mix of experience and ideas.

Payment Solutions 74

Payment Solutions Payments Software Review Enterprise 74

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

And so I’m so thrilled to welcome back Krish Subramanian, founder and CEO at Chargebee, the startup that lets you go beyond payment, billing, and recurring invoices to delivering subscription experiences that wow and what they’re doing now in the world of rev ops, trust me, it’s pretty mind blowing.

Scale 127

Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 127

CustomerSuccessBox

JULY 8, 2020

In this challenging time, try to retain as much revenue as possible but more focus should be on retaining the customers. Can non-payments be a risk? Puneet said that there might be customers who want to use the platform but don’t have cash to pay as of now. Changing payments plans (annual, quarterly, monthly).

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Retention SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments 52

SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2019

SaaS is about creating long-term value for your customer, and being compensated appropriately for that value as a business. Learn actionable monetization tips from a Product/Growth operator turned VC. Naomi Pilosof Ionita | Investing Partner @ Menlo Ventures. Monetization had 4X the impact compared to acquisition.

Payments 100

Payments Pricing Compensation SaaS Payments 100

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

How you can use mindfulness as a strategy to deliver new revenue. They are a phone system designed for the modern sales team. They integrate into your CRM. That’s Outreach.IO, the leading sales engagement platform. Can they think of creative solutions for this business owner for Justworks to make sense for them?

Finance 59

Finance Sales Hiring Scale Outsourcing Services 59

ProfitWell

MARCH 3, 2020

Dave Kellogg , the consultant, advisor, and blogger with an expertise on enterprise software startups—author of the cleverly titled Kellblog —recently posted a piece on Coronavirus and its correlation to CEOs everywhere. And I think ‘no sales’ sort of became to Atlassian what ‘no software’ was to Salesforce in, sort of, this rallying cry.

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Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 59

Stax

JANUARY 10, 2024

Credit card fees, including interchange, assessment, and payment processor fees, impact businesses on a per-transaction or recurring basis. Leveraging technology, monitoring chargebacks, and addressing individual business factors help to reduce credit card fees and improve overall profitability.

Merchant Services 88

Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Methods Payment Facilitation 88

Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

How after that payment was processed or that service order was signed, you set your sights on cloning that customer. So, you (or likely your first sales manager) will begin to create assets like this: A taste of our process for overcoming common objections. Here’s what I mean…. Remember the first customer you closed?

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Startup 93

Stax

MARCH 14, 2024

These are the fees your business pays to process non-cash payments and they can add up fast. One way is by negotiating with the companies that process the payments. When choosing a payment processing solution, look for ones that offer competitive rates and lower fees—or are offering advantageous promotions.

Payment Methods 68

Payment Methods Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments 68

All that Saas

MAY 1, 2021

In this roundup, we are going to have a look at some of the best Influencer Marketing Platforms that you can use to connect with the right influencers, manage campaigns, measure analytics, and a lot more. Influencer marketing platforms are a great solution to engage with your audience in the right way. dollars in 2018.

Payments 52

Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services 52

Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

How after that payment was processed or that service order was signed, you set your sights on cloning that customer. So, you (or likely your first sales manager) will begin to create assets like this: A taste of our process for overcoming common objections. Here’s what I mean…. Remember the first customer you closed?

Sales Hiring 52

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Startup 52

Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Meta Creator Compensation for AI Chatbots Meta is investing heavily in creators , with a whopping $5 million deal for a top creator’s contribution to AI chatbots. Explore Meta’s creator programs to potentially monetize your contributions. Explore these quality options to optimize video content on the platform.

Social Media 93

Social Media AI Search Payments AI 93

User Pilot

AUGUST 31, 2023

The purpose of customer acquisition is to expand and make more revenue. The purpose of customer acquisition is to help companies expand and make more revenue. New customers bring in subscription fees, licensing charges, or usage-based payments, which are the lifeblood of SaaS businesses. Book a demo now to learn more.

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Acquisition SaaS Payments Payment Methods Metrics 110

Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 2, 2023

After nearly going under twice due to cash flow issues, she finally cracked the code for success, transforming her business from a $20,000 loss in December of 2020 alone to achieving $1 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) just two years later. Business Snapshot Years in business: 6.5

Payment Methods 114

Payment Methods Sales Hiring Payments Business 114

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Account-Based Everything / Revenue. Annual Recurring Revenue. Analytics is the active study of different types of data with the aim of discovering meaningful patterns and translating these into insight (such as historical analyses and forecasts), or action (such as those intended to improve business performance). . AB Testing.

Scale 99

Scale Payment Methods Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments 99

Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

Selling has changed since Predictable Revenue was published. In 2002, Aaron Ross's Predictable Revenue playbook from his time at Salesforce was published. It shared the repeatable process to operationalize sales, particularly sales development. Here comes the problem with the Predictable Revenue playbook.

SaaS Payments 77

SaaS Payments Technical Advisors Engineering Payment Solutions 77

Point Nine Land

MAY 20, 2021

Our investment in Pento. Ola, Christoph, and I have been working very closely with Pento over the past two years and now is a great time to share more about our investment and our thesis for Pento. Enter Pento… Beautiful software + end to end automation = Pento ? million Series A led by our friends at General Catalyst.

Outsourcing Services 52

Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 52

SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

Algolia went from zero to seven figures in revenue in 12 months, and the launch of their search as a service product, and grew pricing from $19 a month to $100,000, which sounds amazing. They built themselves into a core platform for HR 2.0 Enterprise is maybe around 60% of our revenue, it’s not the whole deal.

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Payment Structure: 3 payments (at close, 12 months & 18 months). It was kind of fun seeing something succeed like this, especially after 15+ years building software! He was building various software companies and I did some design work for him. How we got here. A year and a half ago, I started entertaining offers.

Technical Review 145

Technical Review Software Review Payment Solutions Payments 145

SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. They process billions annually for platforms like Constant Contact, GoFundMe, Ecwid, Infusionsoft, Meetup, Freshbooks & Zoho. And Jay was sort of our solution to that process.

Payment Services 134

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 134

Chart Mogul

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The compensation given to an employee based on the amount of revenue they generate for your business is known as a commission structure. There are two types of revenue that a tiered commission structure may follow, marginal revenue, and retroactive revenue: Marginal. Retroactive. Click To Tweet.

Sales Hiring 130

Sales Hiring Sales Business SaaS Payments 130

Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

From sales & marketing alignment to SaaS salespeople compensation. If you are satisfied with your sales model and need to learn about employee compensation model, just skip the first article. (3 SaaS Sales team compensation . And from SaaS sales models to SaaS pricing. Did we miss anything? Hopefully, no. . Really 10%?].

SaaS Payments 157

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 157

Outseta

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Indie.VC (V3) Website: [link] Key Personnel: Bryce Roberts Revenue Requirement: Post revenue, but no minimum requirement. Board Seat: No Investment Docs: [link] Application Deadline: March 1, 2019 Apply Here: [link] Indie VC is the OG on this block and describes itself as “growth revenue for post-revenue companies.”

SaaS Payments 102

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments SaaS 102

ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

That’s never been truer for software businesses in particular than in the past 10-15 years, with the internet stimulating an explosion in the number of viable revenue models. More than that — the choice determines the future of your business. What is a revenue model? 11 popular revenue models used today.

Payments 40

Payments Revenue Payment Methods SaaS Payments 40

SaaStr

AUGUST 5, 2020

We invest in companies that transform the way people work. We mostly do seed-stage investments and a little bit if Series A. We’re investing both down and up the stack, anything from infrastructure to the data layer, to algorithm, to application. Business, the customers are getting impacted.

Technical Review 143

Technical Review Payment Methods Travel Development Team Review 143

SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Matt Garratt: So for those that aren’t familiar with Salesforce Ventures, we are the strategic investment arm for Salesforce. So we have over 260 portfolio companies globally, it’s all enterprise software, predominantly SaaS. So I think that is somewhat of a good news in this in that SaaS businesses are sticky.

Sales Hiring 159

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 159

Baremetrics

AUGUST 11, 2021

GAAP is important to SaaS Businesses. Revenue recognition, as per GAAP, states that payment is recognized as revenue after delivering the product or service in its entirety. Of course, that’s not how SaaS revenue works. (We We wrote more about revenue recognition here!) Revenues 3. Table of Contents.

Payment Methods 59

Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Features Payment Services 59