FastSpring

JANUARY 26, 2024

With years of experience at managing customer success (CS), Jake Dipple knows how important it is to foster collaboration between businesses and their customers. In this episode of Growth Stage, host and CMO of FastSpring David Vogelpohl interviews Jake about his thoughts on: What Customer Success is at a high level.

Customer Success 158

Customer Success VP of Engineering Payments Payment Methods 158

FastSpring

AUGUST 2, 2023

Now as a successful international business, TestDome has been with FastSpring through all of it, and even when other payment platforms launched intriguing new products, Mario never saw a good reason to leave FastSpring. Here’s why. Set up a demo or try it out for yourself. Selling internationally is key to their business model.

Payment Solutions 148

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Merchant Services AI Search 148

Tom Tunguz

MARCH 19, 2020

Some of these customers will be insulated from the virus. Customer success and account management teams should focus on understanding customer health. This is important to project churn rates, assess timing of software payments, and estimate the impact on cash flows/burn. Others may benefit from it.

Startup 247

Startup SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods 247

Payrix

APRIL 17, 2024

You’ve decided to offer Embedded Payments to your customers. Adding Embedded Payments gives you an exciting opportunity to grow your business and solve real pain points for your customers. However, to capture success you’ll need to promote your new payments offering with customers and prospects.

Payments 130

Payments Embedded Payments Merchant Services SaaS Payments 130

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

How to calculate customer expansion revenue? The customer expansion revenue rate measures the recurring revenue growth from existing customers. This metric helps SaaS companies track the effectiveness of their expansion efforts. For instance, satisfied customers or those with high license utilization.

Strategy 105

Strategy Payment Solutions Payments Customer Lifetime Value 105

Valuize Consulting

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In today’s competitive SaaS landscape, Customer Success has emerged as a vital strategic asset, driving revenue growth and long-term profitability. However, to fully unlock its potential, companies must go beyond qualitative insights and bring data into the decision-making process within Customer Success ranks and investments.

Payment Services 52

Payment Services SaaS Payments Customer Success Payments 52

Totango

JULY 13, 2021

Strategy for customer success growth has changed as commerce has gone digital and big data has made marketing and sales customer-centric. Tell people about your business, get them in the store, sell them things, then look for more customers. Setting foot in a physical store has become completely optional.

Customer Success 107

Customer Success Payment Methods Payments Payment Services 107

ChurnZero

APRIL 25, 2025

And since customer lifetime value and NRR are integral to broader revenue goals, it is time for CS to embrace the predictive, in which strong forecasting begets lower churn. Weve outlined a process for data driven customer success renewals forecasting, plus some extra tips on how ChurnZero can help. Where can you start?

Forecasting 52

Forecasting Customer Success Payments Data 52

User Pilot

AUGUST 31, 2023

Customer acquisition funnel stages in SaaS are Awareness, Consideration, Evaluation, Conversion. Teams from Marketing, Demand Generation, Growth, Sales, Media Buying, and Customer Success are in charge of customer acquisition. What is the purpose of customer acquisition in SaaS?

Acquisition 110

Acquisition SaaS Payments Payment Methods Metrics 110

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. The alternative?

Payment Features 88

Payment Features Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 88

Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

Join the payments-led growth movement Sign up to keep up-to-date with the latest trends in payments, vertical SaaS, and technology from industry experts. Take a traditional business, like a furniture store. If customers want to make a switch to another SaaS competitor, it’s easier to do so, affecting the bottom line.

Scale 117

Scale Payment Services Payments SaaS Payments 117

The Angel VC

MARCH 23, 2016

As I wrote in the original post: It's a simple plan for an early-stage SaaS startup with a low-touch sales model – a company which markets a SaaS solution via its website, offers a 30 day free trial, gets most of its trial users organically and through online marketing and converts them into paying customer with very little human interaction.

SaaS Payments 217

SaaS Payments Headcount SaaS Payment Methods 217

User Pilot

JANUARY 11, 2024

Personalize the onboarding experience to highlight features that help each user achieve their primary goal. Use automation to provide personalized user support and drive customers through the onboarding experience. Offer multichannel support through chat, email, phone, etc., to assist customers at all times.

Onboarding 105

Onboarding Payment Services Customer Success Payment Solutions 105

User Pilot

JANUARY 10, 2022

How important is customer success KPIs to your SaaS business? Customer success metrics help you analyze how effectively you help customers gain value from your SaaS product. When measuring customer success metrics, it’s never only about the results.

Customer Success 105

Customer Success SaaS Payments Customer Lifetime Value SaaS 105

FastSpring

MAY 20, 2024

FastSpring provides an all-in-one payment platform for SaaS, software, video game, and other digital goods businesses, including subscription management, payment localization, VAT and sales tax management, consumer support, and more. Recurring payment processing. A subscription overview dashboard with insightful metrics.

SaaS Payments 158

SaaS Payments Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions 158

User Pilot

JANUARY 26, 2023

Building loyalty is essential to retain customers, drive word-of-mouth, and nurture product growth. Thankfully, there are metrics you can use to expand your field of view and estimate how loyal your customers are. There are ten metrics you can use to measure customer loyalty.

SaaS Payments 98

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Metrics Payment Methods 98

SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2019

So if we can pop up the Slido slide and I want to invite you all to take your phone and go on slido.com for this session so that you can start asking the panel questions. Pauline : Yeah, so I work at OpenClassrooms, which is a European leader in online education. I want to invite you all to go on Slido. Pauline : Oh yeah.

Sales Hiring 189

Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Solutions Marketing 189

FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

In this piece, we offer seven case studies from SaaS companies — small tweaks they made to reduce churn and increase customer LTV. We also show you how to personalize your billing practices with advice from our experience working with thousands of SaaS businesses. How My Marketing Concepts upsells annual payments during trial.

Merchant Services 146

Merchant Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 146

FastSpring

MAY 25, 2023

Our all-in-one payment platform includes a best-in-class localized checkout, subscription management, global tax management, reporting and analytics tools, and more. it takes to implement PLG and customer success efforts in a way that will increase customer acquisition and decrease churn. How FastSpring can help.

SaaS Payments 148

SaaS Payments Pricing Payments Merchant Services 148

FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

When you’re trying to decide how to scale your business and how to calculate profits, there are tons of metrics out there you can use. In fact, it’s easy for businesses to get overwhelmed by metrics and not know which ones to prioritize. This metric? Focuses on Loyal Customers. Here’s an example.

Scale 148

Scale Payment Methods Payments SaaS Payments 148

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

What GTM metrics should you track as a product marketer? That’s why we’re going to show you 12 of the most important product analytics metrics that you’ll need in order to measure your product success. They can reveal customer interactions, patterns, and preferences. Website traffic. Demo bookings.

SaaS Payments 105

SaaS Payments Metrics Customer Lifetime Value Marketing 105

User Pilot

MAY 30, 2025

Teams are drowning in the wrong usage metrics while missing important behavioral data signals. This thoughtful approach to tracking key metrics solves the decision paralysis hitting 72% of leaders who admit that the volume of app data has paralyzed their decision-making. One metric showing growth feels like progress.

Payment Solutions 104

Payment Solutions Mobile Payments Payment Methods 104

Totango

JANUARY 2, 2024

In an era when customer success (CS) has become pivotal, it’s no longer enough to have a team dedicated to CS. More importantly, you need an organizational strategy that ensures your customers don’t just come to you but stay, thrive, and become your biggest promoters.

Payment Services 106

Payment Services Merchant Services Customer Success Business 106

User Pilot

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Customer success has gone from strength to strength in recent years. With that in mind, we thought we’d take a look at the best customer success tools. of customer success tools out there, and it can be hard to know which is the right one for you. Let’s jump in… What are customer success tools?

Customer Success 94

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Scale 94

Baremetrics

MAY 4, 2020

The customers whose subscriptions end because their credit card payments failed and they never made up for the payment. According to our data, SaaS and subscriptions businesses lose around 9% of their MRR due to failed payments on average. I’m talking about involuntary churn. Actively sending emails (a.k.a

Payment Methods 124

Payment Methods Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 124

Payrix

MAY 14, 2024

Before joining Worldpay for Platforms, he was CRO at Chargebee, a subscription revenue management platform that manages billing subscriptions and payments for companies throughout the world. Plus, he provides an inside look at what software success looks like with real-world examples.

Payments 147

Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 147

FastSpring

MAY 14, 2024

FastSpring provides an all-in-one payment platform for SaaS, software, and digital products businesses, including VAT and sales tax management, payment localization, and consumer support. These statements are designed to offer transparency and assist in managing your store’s financial activities. Need FastSpring support?

Payment Methods 78

Payment Methods Customer Support Payments SaaS Payments 78

FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In our first post about our online community , we mentioned launching the Global SaaS Leaders Slack group because we saw a need for the kind of software-and-SaaS-focused community we’d want to be a part of. are what we like to have in an online forum. As a business person yourself, you know how it works. Professional moderation.

SaaS Payments 148

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Software Review 148

ChurnZero

AUGUST 14, 2020

At ChurnZero, we’re humble enough to admit that Customer Success software can’t do it all, and quite frankly, it shouldn’t. We stick to our circle of competence and focus on our area of expertise: Customer Success software. It’s Customer Success for us. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Software.

Payments 87

Payments Payment Solutions Customer Success Software Review 87

Baremetrics

APRIL 30, 2020

In this guide, we’ll go over three common retention metrics you should pay attention to, and how to improve them. Customer retention What is customer retention? Customer retention (aka logo retention) is how many customers you're able to retain, not the revenue from each. Why is customer retention important?

Retention 95

Retention Metrics Payment Methods SaaS Payments 95

ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

As ChurnZero recently secured a Series B investment bringing our total funding that has been raised to date to $35 million, we thought we’d take a look back and see the role that Customer Success plays at each respective stage of funding for SaaS companies. Early-Stage Funding & Customer Success.

Scale 98

Scale Customer Success Payments Underperforming Technical Team 98

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The ability to follow up on failed payments without putting customer retention at risk is a delicate task that must be handled carefully. Dunning emails tend to be the most effective way to remind customers about a failed payment and speed up the payment process by offering alternative options.

Payment Methods 104

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payment Services Payment Features 104

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

We’ve invested in over 300 companies at Salesforce Ventures and have partnered with both of you closely and it’s been amazing to see this story up close and personal over the years. Yeah, I’m a product person by training and so we had had a lot of experience building SaaS and vertical products. Trisha Price: Yes.

Payment Solutions 215

Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 215

Stax

APRIL 17, 2025

Top upsell strategies include offering advanced features, expanding seat count, and introducing payment processing capabilities. Delivering upgrade prompts through in-app messaging, email automation, and customer success outreach makes the upsell process feel personalized and value-driven. Youre saying, Youre doing great.

Payments 88

Payments Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Services 88

Kellblog

MARCH 6, 2019

Enterprise SaaS has drifted to a model where many, if not most, companies do multi-year contracts on annual payment terms. But these multi-year deals are almost always done on annual payment terms. Most investors believe you could better maximize ARR by simply raising more capital and sticking with annual payments.

SaaS Payments 74

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services Payments 74

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Account Based Marketing (ABM) is a strategic framework that engages qualified individual prospects or customer accounts as unique markets in themselves, worthy of focused, hyper-personalized treatment by sales, marketing and other teams. . Customer Relationship Management. Customer Success. Channel Partner.

Scale 105

Scale Payment Methods Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments 105

SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Companies were very focused on customer success, retaining existing customers just checking in, seeing how customers were doing, assessing the health of the business, assessing the health of their own employees, really focusing on upsell, closing existing deals, and not as much focusing on top of the funnel.

Sales Hiring 210

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Sales 210