TechEmpower SaaS

JULY 24, 2023

How will you be taking this to market? eCommerce Does your startup run on a subscription model? How many kinds of subscriptions do you support? What are the rules for subscriptions? Often this ties to marketing support. How do we prioritize internationalization versus getting something to market?

Innovation 780

Innovation Development CTO Hire Technical Review 780

Blulogix

JANUARY 6, 2025

By Inga Broerman The 2025 Blueprint for Scalable Growth in the Subscription Economy The subscription economy is entering a pivotal year. To succeed, subscription-based organizations must embrace smarter, more integrated approaches to billing, management, and strategy.

Payment Features 52

Payment Features Subscription AI Search compliance 52

USIO

MAY 16, 2024

Security: Look for PCI-DSS compliance and other security measures to protect sensitive data Support : Ensure the organization provides ongoing developer support and merchant support. Here are some key considerations: PCI Level 1 Compliance: Ensure your integration meets the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS).

Payment Services 263

Payment Services Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions 263

SaaStr

MAY 4, 2022

Market trends: why is it easier than ever to build an online business? You can deploy subscriptions as a service, billing as a service, fraud prevention as a service. Rise of subscription-based business models. Plan for compliance implications of your growth. How can you use software to manage compliance for you?

Payment Features 259

Payment Features Payment Services Outsourcing Services Payment Solutions 259

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Cyvatar is a technology-enabled cyber security as a service (CSaaS) provider disrupting a $150 billion industry by introducing and delivering smarter, measurable managed security subscriptions to help you achieve compliance and security faster and more efficiently.

Banking 261

Banking Payment Features Venture Capital Subscription 261

FastSpring

MARCH 15, 2021

That’s the beauty of subscription models. While implementing a subscription model means ongoing revenue, it also brings up many challenges for managing those subscriptions. You have to create a subscription-friendly product, infrastructure, marketing plan, and customer retention plan. Ease of Distribution.

Payment Features 147

Payment Features Payment Services Subscription Payment Solutions 147

SaaStr

OCTOBER 15, 2020

No AI solution will understand your brand tone better than your marketing team, and you’d be taking a huge leap of faith if you let bots write your code. For more information about how SaaS companies can streamline their sales tax compliance, download our free Sales Tax for SaaS Companies Checklist. . 1 Sales tax.

Business 329

Business Marketplace as a Service AI Search compliance 329

Stax

MAY 20, 2024

The concept of unearned revenue can easily trip up SaaS companies that offer subscription services and products on a recurring basis. Unlike when selling ordinary products, you cannot recognize the revenue earned from a subscription all at once. In the case of SaaS subscriptions, this could take several months—or even years.

Payment Features 167

Payment Features Payments Payment Services SaaS Payments 167

FastSpring

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Whether you’re an indie developer looking to break into new markets or an established studio seeking to optimize your payment processes, we’re here to provide the tools and insights you need to succeed in the global gaming marketplace. Spend less time managing your payments and compliance and more time making great games!

Payment Solutions 158

Payment Solutions Payment Services Payments Payment Methods 158

FastSpring

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Market options have been opening up for both publishers and players in the mobile games industry thanks to shifting laws and regulations around the world. cases against Apple and Google , the EU Digital Markets Act , and recent regulatory laws in Japan , for starters. More details on those below.) Or which U.S.

Merchant Services 148

Merchant Services Payments Payment Methods Payment Services 148

SaaStr

DECEMBER 2, 2021

They help B2B SaaS marketers turn organic search into a source of repeatable revenue through software and coaching. They handle global payroll, taxes, compliance, and benefits — so startups can focus on work that matters. Demandwell is redefining the space to drive results.

Payment Features 259

Payment Features Payment Services Payments Sales Hiring 259

Clouded Judgement

DECEMBER 1, 2023

There were also quite a few questions around cost and compliance. And on the latter - there will be more guardrails and structure in place to appease some of the compliance questions. Multiples shown below are calculated by taking the Enterprise Value (market cap + debt - cash) / NTM revenue. Overall Stats: Overall Median: 5.8x

AWS 299

AWS Cloud AI Search Cost optimization & reporting 299

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 8, 2018

I’ve written quite a bit about the public market software multiples. As the public markets have appreciated, something has happened that I didn’t expect. I thought valuations between the markets would normalize because of a deflation in both public and private. Aside from compliance efforts, not much.

Software 170

Software Marketing Acquisition compliance 170

SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2022

With early revenue, you start thinking about churn and scalability of every aspect of the business, including product, infrastructure, customer support, sales and marketing. Let’s say you receive a contract from a customer that outlines they will pay you $100 for the monthly subscription with an invoice of terms Net 30.

Finance 332

Finance Outsourcing Services Systems Review Technical Review 332

FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

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 Note: FastSpring offers advanced subscription management services that support free trials, monthly and annual paid plans, proration, discount management, and more.

Merchant Services 146

Merchant Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 146

SaaStr

JANUARY 20, 2022

ChartMogul is an analytics platform to help you run your subscription business. Our mission is to build powerful and secure cloud software for subscription businesses of all sizes, with a strong emphasis on good design and ease of use. The software runs within the customer’s cloud account and is accessed via portal, Terraform or API.

DevOps as a Service 246

DevOps as a Service AI Search Cloud compliance 246

SaaStr

AUGUST 21, 2024

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CTO 283

CTO Scale Travel AI 283

FastSpring

JUNE 12, 2025

Subscription Sophistication : Modern buyers demand flexible billing, usage-based pricing, and seamless upgrades. We handle every payment need from subscription management to tax collection, remittance and more so your business can go farther, faster. Payment Fragmentation : Customers expect 40+ local payment methods.

Merchant Services 78

Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payment Services 78

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

What is the secret to aligning go-to-market teams and finance teams? was pretty simplified, mostly made up of annual or monthly subscriptions. From 2010 until 2015, the SaaS world was becoming more complex with the introduction of static bundles and recurring revenue as an addition to the annual/monthly subscription model.

Scale 246

Scale Finance Sales Hiring Scaling 246

FastSpring

JANUARY 17, 2023

Most subscription billing platforms let you: Automate invoicing and payments. Customize and manage one or more subscription and trial models. However, the vast majority of companies doing subscription billing will also need a solution for other aspects of subscription billing management including: Payment processing.

Payments 124

Payments Payment Features Payment Methods Payment Services 124

Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

I do think LLMs will really help turbo charge these markets though, and finally make the solutions actually useful. Multiples shown below are calculated by taking the Enterprise Value (market cap + debt - cash) / NTM revenue. Companies that do not disclose subscription rev have been left out of the analysis and are listed as NA.

Systems Review 144

Systems Review Cloud AI Artificial Intelligence 144

SaaStr

MARCH 24, 2022

BlueSnap supports payments across all geographies through multiple sales channels such as online and mobile sales, marketplaces, subscriptions, invoice payments and manual orders through a virtual terminal. The result is faster time-to-market, increased top-line growth and massive operational savings.

Payments 257

Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 257

Subscription Flow

OCTOBER 16, 2024

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. But there are dozens of billing software available in the market. If you are a SaaS subscription-based company, then general billing platforms are not for you.

Payment Services 59

Payment Services Payment Solutions Payment Features SaaS Payments 59

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 23, 2018

And that is also true when selling and marketing your product, particularly with the arrival of GDPR, which has brought the issue of data security and privacy to widespread public awareness. Compliance managers don’t want to slow engineers down, but rigorously keeping track of how data is handled throughout a product is essential.

Underperforming Technical Team 220

Underperforming Technical Team Systems Review compliance Marketplace as a Service 220

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

That makes sales tax compliance easy to ignore… until it becomes a problem. . The first step to sales tax compliance is knowing if what you sell is even taxable. Say you sell a subscription-based software but you also send your customers a handy flash drive with a version of your software on it.

Merchant Services 197

Merchant Services Technical Review Scale Sales Hiring 197

FastSpring

JULY 17, 2024

FastSpring helps you bring that endless joy to players beyond the borders of any region by offloading the complexity of global payments, sales tax and VAT compliance, player payments support, and many other aspects of payments management. Spend less time managing your payments and compliance and more time making great games!

Merchant Services 166

Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 166

Subscription Flow

MAY 30, 2024

Did you know the subscription economy is touted to reach $1.5 As a business that provides software as a service, you will not only need to jump on this bandwagon, but more importantly, you will need the right set of subscription management tools to stay on it to keep reaping the profits of this booming industry. trillion by 2025 ?

Merchant Services 97

Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments 97

Subscription Flow

DECEMBER 12, 2024

From customer expectations, to market trends, to business operations, everything is evolving. In simple words, it means that to expand in an unpredictable market landscape, a business has to employ various tactics to maintain a steady cash flow. It also allows businesses to discover untapped markets.

Payments 52

Payments Payment Services SaaS Payments Revenue 52

Stax

JUNE 18, 2024

Subscription models offer companies large and small the opportunity to build predictable revenue and high customer lifetime value. But managing subscriptions effectively and freeing up time and resources for expansion is no picnic. In a subscription business model, customers pay a recurring fee in exchange for a product or service.

Payment Features 88

Payment Features Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments 88

FastSpring

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Setting up a web shop for players to buy subscriptions or in-game items outside of mobile app marketplaces is a great way to create additional revenue streams for your game while saving on steep marketplace fees. How a merchant of record like FastSpring can handle all the complexities of global payments for you, even taxes and compliance.

Payments 89

Payments Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Methods 89

FastSpring

AUGUST 30, 2024

This event marks another milestone in FastSpring’s journey to empower gaming businesses worldwide with our cutting-edge payment and subscription management solutions. FastSpring allows you to offload the complexity of global payments, sales tax and VAT compliance, player payments support, and many other aspects of payments management.

Merchant Services 148

Merchant Services Payments Payment Services Payment Methods 148

Stax

JUNE 3, 2025

SaaS operates on a subscription model, making it easier to manage cash flow and reduce upfront expenses. SaaS vs IaaS SaaS (Software as a Service) delivers ready-to-use applications over the internetthink tools like email marketing platforms, CRMs, or ecommerce software.

Payment Services 88

Payment Services DevOps as a Service SaaS Payments Payments 88

Stax

APRIL 3, 2025

Theyre easy to integrate and set up, with the host taking care of data security measures, including PCI compliance and fraud protection. On top of PCI compliance, you might have to pay extra for SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certification. Just like self-hosted gateways, merchants using API-based solutions are responsible for security.

Payment Methods 88

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 88

Stax

MAY 13, 2025

Fee structures matter; understand the differences between interchange plus, flat rate, tiered, and subscription pricing to find the most transparent and cost-effective option. Ideal for growing businesses that want to optimize processing costs, our transparent subscription pricing model can save customers up to 40%.

Merchant Services 88

Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Methods SaaS Payments 88

Blulogix

DECEMBER 27, 2024

By Inga Broerman Overcoming Revenue Leakage with Smarter Billing Practices Revenue leakage is one of the most insidious challenges subscription-based businesses face. In todays competitive subscription economy, addressing revenue leakage isnt optionalits critical for sustaining profitability and building trust with customers.

Payment Features 52

Payment Features Revenue Scale Operational efficiency. 52

FastSpring

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

As a Merchant of Record, we provide a fully managed payment solution including customizable checkout, fraud mitigation, and 100% automated sales tax and VAT compliance. While those markets are beginning to open up, it’s helpful to understand the model that app stores have traditionally worked under. Interested? to $129.99

Payment Methods 157

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Services 157

FastSpring

AUGUST 13, 2024

Apple has revised its App Store rules to be better compliant with the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), but the fees associated with Apple’s revisions are still considerably high according to an article from The Verge. Spend less time managing your payments and compliance and more time making great games!

Payment Methods 159

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 159