SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

And they are both incredibly impressive — 118% growth at $3B run-rate and $500m in ARR in software alone may be an all-time record — but also, perhaps not SaaS? #1. With gross margins of only 21%, is Toast really a software company? Wix just has more software revenue to blend the total margins higher.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments Cloud 289

SaaSOptics

MARCH 1, 2022

So, where do point solutions fit into all this? . Most finance teams are familiar with enterprise and integrated solutions (think Netsuite, Sage Intacct.). However, integrated solutions can be rigid and aren’t always the perfect fit for growing businesses—kind of like trying to wear a shoe that’s one size too big.

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Payment Solutions Payments Payment Services Payment Features 52

CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 7, 2022

It’s undeniable that the SaaS model works differently and attracts revenue on a monthly or annual basis, unlike the on-premise software that deals with one-time payments. So, it’s legit to have a customer success team in hand. Stay tuned and read on to incur extra SaaS revenue.

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Customer Success Payments SaaS Payments Revenue 98

FastSpring

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Pricing your software correctly is a crucial part of selling software , but sometimes it’s hard to know if you’re on the right track with your pricing strategy. We’re sharing some tips for setting up a pricing model that attracts and retains long-term customers for your software company. Offer a Range of Options .

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Payment Features Payment Solutions Subscription Pricing 65

CustomerSuccessBox

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Customer Success has become a must for every SaaS business with the advent of the subscription economy. But just having a customer success department does not solve issues with your churn rate, customer lifetime value, retention rate, or MRR/ARR. It starts by understanding why customer success is important.

Payments 52

Payments Customer Success SaaS Payments Revenue 52

ChurnZero

JANUARY 24, 2022

Building a business from the ground up always has its challenges, but maintaining a subscription-based business can be particularly difficult due to its ongoing nature. One of the most effective ways to run a subscription-based business is through a customer-centric strategy. You might be wondering, what is customer centricity

Payment Features 98

Payment Features Subscription SaaS Payments Payment Services 98

Baremetrics

JULY 8, 2021

In order to run efficiently, they needed the right tool to analyze data from Stripe and segment their customers. Solution: They signed up for Baremetrics. Right away, its analytics tools made it easy to calculate key SaaS metrics and segment customers based on customizable attributes. Table of Contents.

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Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments SaaS Payments 105

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Skyflow ’s data privacy vaults deliver security, compliance, and governance via a simple API. Expensify is a payments superapp that helps individuals and businesses around the world simplify the way they manage money. Avoma analyzes conversation insights, and intelligence to help reps shorten sales cycles and delight more customers.

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Payments Payment Services AI Search Payment Solutions 243

Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

One way to do that is through marketing and revenue-generating strategies such as freemium and product demos which are critical to growing one’s clientele. In their early stages, SaaS software startups typically target the early adopters in the tech or mid-market segments.

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SaaS Payments Payments Business Model Payment Services 59

Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Many SaaS businesses follow a subscription based model with subscription life cycles of varying periods. Thus, the success of any Software as a Service ( SaaS ) businesses greatly depends on customer retention. SaaS Renewal refers to customers choosing to renew their subscription to a SaaS product.

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SaaS Payments Customer Success Payment Services Payment Solutions 59

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.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payment Services Payments 78

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 10, 2022

When integrated with Intercom, you can uncover what happens when a customer visits your site or app, and how to proactively improve their experience. Address things like “rage clicking” directly with real-time, outbound messages to your customers to help them preemptively resolve issues. not JUST when they’re at the checkout).

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Payment Methods Technical Review Payments Payment Solutions 209

Chart Mogul

MARCH 4, 2020

Extracting value from revenue data is a vital element in running a successful subscription business. Today, we’re excited to share the next step in the evolution of ChartMogul by launching the world’s first Subscription Data Platform. Introducing the ChartMogul Subscription Data Platform. How the idea was born.

Payments 72

Payments Payment Features Subscription Payment Solutions 72

Chart Mogul

MARCH 19, 2020

Are you responsible for getting subscription metrics like MRR right? At ChartMogul, we auto-generate subscriptions and metrics from invoices and transactions — we believe this gives you the most trustworthy picture of where your business stands at the moment. Why is my MRR different from what I see in our billing system?

Payment Features 75

Payment Features Subscription Metrics Payment Solutions 75

Totango

JUNE 3, 2022

Customer success email templates form a foundation for effective CS automation. While customer success management can result in a rewarding payoff, it can also be very time-consuming if you don’t use the right strategies. Customer check-ins. Sales to Customer Success Handoff Email Template.

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Customer Success Payments SaaS Payments Payment Methods 110

User Pilot

APRIL 29, 2024

Mastering SaaS renewals’ best practices can transform a routine administrative task into a strategic opportunity to drive customer success and propel your business toward sustainable growth. Use interactive walkthroughs to drive customer success. Offer self-service support to improve customer satisfaction.

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SaaS Payments Business SaaS Payment Solutions 76

OPEXEngine

JUNE 11, 2020

You hear the terms SaaS, subscription, term licenses and perpetual license software tossed around frequently. We sometimes hear companies call themselves “SaaS” companies, because they sell subscriptions, but they do not host software. The product is hosted by the vendor or a 3 rd party (like AWS).

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Subscription Payment Features 52

User Pilot

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Usage-based pricing could use tiers, units, volumes, or impact as its basis for subscription cost. Hybrid models and pre-payment discounts offer a good middle ground for scenarios where raw usage data isn’t the best value metric. Get your free Userpilot demo today! What is usage-based pricing? Better retention rates.

Pricing 89

Pricing Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments 89

Totango

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The contract renewal stage of the customer lifecycle is a critical component of driving retention for SaaS products. Knowing how to use technology to optimize your contract renewal process can increase your retention rates and your revenue. For mid-tier or mid-market, customers the process usually begins 3 months in advance.

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Outsourced Development Payment Services Payment Solutions Retention 94

CustomerSuccessBox

MARCH 15, 2022

Improves Customer Engagement Increases recurring revenue (ARR/MRR) via increasing customer engagement Builds Trust. Customers that sign up for a free trial are a great marketing target because they’ve already committed to your business enough to sign up and maybe provide relevant information.

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Customer Success Payment Solutions Scale Payment Features 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. Businesses need a new strategy for customer success growth.

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Customer Success Payment Methods Payments Payment Services 101

Chart Mogul

MARCH 4, 2020

Extracting value from revenue data is a vital element in running a successful subscription business. Today, we’re excited to share the next step in the evolution of ChartMogul by launching the world’s first Subscription Data Platform. Introducing the ChartMogul Subscription Data Platform. How the idea was born.

Payments 52

Payments Payment Features Subscription Payment Solutions 52

FastSpring

JULY 10, 2019

Thinking about transitioning to a subscription-based business model? In fact, according to a recent report from Gartner, more than 90 percent of software providers are expected to migrate to a subscription-based business model by 2022. Why should I care about subscriptions? You’re not alone. How do I reduce churn?

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Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Services Payment Solutions 67

FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

Last week, I canceled an annual SaaS subscription (I had three weeks left until renewal). Interestingly, even though I paid for a year-long subscription, the company didn’t let me keep the last three weeks of access to its premium features. This action will immediately downgrade your subscription.

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Benchmarks Churn Payments SaaS Payments 115

ChurnZero

JANUARY 24, 2022

Building a business from the ground up always has its challenges, but maintaining a subscription-based business can be particularly difficult due to its ongoing nature. One of the most effective ways to run a subscription-based business is through a customer-centric strategy. You might be wondering, what is customer centricity

Payment Features 52

Payment Features Subscription SaaS Payments Payment Services 52

ChurnZero

JANUARY 24, 2022

Building a business from the ground up always has its challenges, but maintaining a subscription-based business can be particularly difficult due to its ongoing nature. One of the most effective ways to run a subscription-based business is through a customer-centric strategy. You might be wondering, what is customer centricity

Payment Features 52

Payment Features Subscription SaaS Payments Payment Services 52

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. Buyers typically perform a thorough evaluation process before purchasing and are quite sure that the software will meet their needs when they deploy. How did we get here?

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services Payments 73

Chart Mogul

MARCH 19, 2020

Are you responsible for getting subscription metrics like MRR right? At ChartMogul, we auto-generate subscriptions and metrics from invoices and transactions — we believe this gives you the most trustworthy picture of where your business stands at the moment. Why is my MRR different from what I see in our billing system?

Payment Features 52

Payment Features Subscription Metrics Payment Solutions 52

OPEXEngine

AUGUST 17, 2021

With the explosive growth of the SaaS business model impacting businesses worldwide, many are navigating SaaS financial operations and subscription management for the first time. Spreadsheets and disconnected systems open the door for errors. Choose a solution made for B2B.

Payment Services 52

Payment Services B2B SaaS Payments Payments 52

Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Confused about customer churn vs. revenue churn? Churn means lost money or lost customers. These metrics help you understand two different things: Customer churn — the number of people you've lost. Revenue churn — the amount of revenue you've lost. Customer churn = customers lost.

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Churn Payments Revenue SaaS Payments 105

Chart Mogul

MAY 15, 2020

SevenFifty’s VP of Finance and Operations, Jonathan Tartell tells us how they used their existing revenue data to improve financial reporting and create a compelling vision for investors. The Challenge: Track revenue metrics and act on them. With ChartMogul, they were able to marry engagement metrics with revenue data.

Payment Features 52

Payment Features Payments Engagement Subscription 52

Chart Mogul

MAY 15, 2020

SevenFifty’s VP of Finance and Operations, Jonathan Tartell tells us how they used their existing revenue data to improve financial reporting and create a compelling vision for investors. The Challenge: Track revenue metrics and act on them. With ChartMogul, they were able to marry engagement metrics with revenue data.

Payment Features 52

Payment Features Payments Engagement Subscription 52

Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Deciding between Stripe vs. Chargify for your online payment processor? Rich Developer Toolkit Tools such as Stripe Elements, Stripe Sources, and Stripe Connect allow developers to customize their payment processing solution. Table of Contents. Non-profit organizations using Stripe get a discount, paying only 2.2

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Payment Services Payment Methods Technical Review Payments 69

Totango

MAY 17, 2022

We’ll walk you through what customer relationship management B2B software is, what its benefits are, and a list of the top CRM companies, including the outstanding features and best uses for each. B2B sales software can include data from marketing, sales, customer service and customer success management interactions.

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Payment Methods B2B Payment Solutions Payments 80

Totango

AUGUST 23, 2022

By charting the points in your SaaS customers’ journeys, you can plan how to deliver clients’ desired outcomes and satisfying experiences that promote subscription renewals and higher revenue. First, we’ll look at what customer journey B2B touchpoints are and which ones are most critical in the B2B customer journey.

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Baremetrics

MAY 4, 2020

The customers who actively cancel their subscription. And if you’re not careful, it can slowly eat away at your revenue and bleed your company dry. The customers whose subscriptions end because their credit card payments failed and they never made up for the payment. Actively sending emails (a.k.a

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Payment Methods Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 124

ChurnZero

MAY 20, 2021

When you build a Customer Success organization from the ground up, it’s easy to get caught in the trap of doing the wrong things well. To figure out where you should begin on your growth and scaling journey, it’s helpful to first orient yourself with where you stand using a Customer Success maturity model.

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Customer Success Payments Payment Services Scale 90