Stax

MAY 23, 2025

If youre a software provider looking to boost revenue, streamline operations, and deliver more value to your users, ISV integrated payments can be a game-changer. Embedding payments directly into your platform can unlock tremendous benefits both for you and your users. The best part?

Payments

SaaStr

JUNE 29, 2025

👉 10 Things Deel Did to Get from $1M to $100M ARR in 20 Months Deel recently announced it had crossed $1 billion in ARR, joining the exclusive club of B2B companies that have reached true unicorn revenue status. I dream about clients telling me, ‘Hey, I did not receive my payment today. But how did they actually get there?

Payment Services

FastSpring

JULY 29, 2025

SaaS, software, and mobile app companies are always chasing the next logos, stacking pipeline, and are obsessing over booked revenue. But to measure success, you need to understand what’s underneath all of these KPIs. Dig a little deeper and you’re going to find net revenue retention (NRR) which tells you who stayed long-term.

Merchant Services

Stax

MARCH 16, 2025

That said, industry experts agree that your SaaS companys goal churn should be below 2%. As a SaaS business leader, reducing software user churn is an important part of maintaining your customer base and increasing revenue. Key metrics include customer churn rate, revenue churn, and net revenue retention (NRR).

Payment Solutions

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. Adopting a data-driven approach in Customer Success marks the next phase of strategic thinking, particularly in strengthening collaboration with your CFO.

Payment Services

Unbounce

JANUARY 6, 2025

TABLE OF CONTENTS SHARE Josh Gallant Josh is the founder of Backstage SEO , an organic growth firm that helps SaaS companies capture demand. A landing page funnel guides potential customers through your sales process. It’s a series of steps designed to convert visitors into leads and eventually into paying customers.

Sales Funnel

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

What if you could boost revenue without having to invest a small fortune in new customer acquisition? While it may sound too good to be true, the reality is that you can achieve this by implementing an effective customer expansion strategy. How to calculate customer expansion revenue?

Strategy

FastSpring

JUNE 9, 2025

Flexibility for Customers Life can be unpredictable, and sometimes, customers temporarily may not need or be able to afford a service. The subscription pause feature allows them to disable billing and services temporarily without canceling their subscription. 6 Key Benefits of FastSpring’s Subscription Pause Feature 1.

Merchant Services

FastSpring

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Because of these developments, mobile game companies are investigating more options for monetizing their games than just the App Store or Play Store. So where do you start if you want to provide more global payment solutions to your player base while chipping away at the hefty 30% fees that mobile marketplaces charge?

Merchant Services

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

You might be surprised to know that SaaS companies can learn a lot from their consumer subscription counterparts. There are certainly tactics that work best for specific groups: by industry (software vs hardware, or retail, or services, or healthcare, etc.) The differences between SaaS and B2C companies.

SaaS Payments

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

An interactive demo is a self-guided walkthrough that uses tooltips, modals, hotspots, and other interactive elements to help users quickly explore your SaaS product. Why build interactive demos for your SaaS product? This both shortens the sales process and enhances the customer experience.

Payment Methods

Stax

JUNE 17, 2025

The world of payments is constantly evolving, with new technologies and shifting business demands reshaping how money moves. In an interview with Karen Webster , CEO of PYMNTS , Paulette Rowe , CEO of Stax, pulled back the curtain on the critical strategies and innovations driving the next wave of payment partnerships.

Payments

Teamgate

JULY 25, 2025

Case Studies Learn best practices from our customers. Integrations +1 725-254-2694 Start Free Trial Login Log in Sign up REQUEST A DEMO --> Sales Management S.M.A.R.T. goals enhance sales performance and CRM effectiveness, turning vague objectives into actionable strategies for success. " S.M.A.R.T.

Scale

User Pilot

JULY 17, 2025

See a Live Demo Customer churn is the most overlooked growth blocker in SaaS, directly impacting customer loyalty. Many product teams focus on new customer acquisition but ignore the cost of losing customers they’ve already paid to acquire. In B2B SaaS, a monthly average churn rate of 3-5% is normal.

Churn

SaaStr

JANUARY 15, 2025

While some might dismiss sector-specific vertical SaaS software as ‘too small’ or ‘too niche’, companies like Veeva ($40B), Clio ($3B), Toast ($1.3B), and Slice ($1B) have proven there’s massive value in going deep rather than broad. 10 Ways Sales is Different in Vertical SaaS 1.

Scale

User Pilot

JUNE 26, 2025

Good help center designs promote self-service, allowing users to find answers independently without waiting for support. In fact, research shows that 81% of customers try resolving issues on their own before contacting a support agent. And for SaaS companies, this means fewer support costs and a lighter workload for the support team.

SaaS Payments

User Pilot

APRIL 24, 2025

Stripe: Product Manager, Local Payment Methods Cost Optimization Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies, from the worlds largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups, use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities.

Payment Methods

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Jordan demonstrates how to use the FIND (Focus, Investigate, Narrate, Deploy) process for your go-to-market strategy and how to speed this up with OpenAI’s Deep Research AI tool. Jordan also shares the prompts and processes he uses when researching target accounts, messaging buyers, and driving revenue. com slash GTM.

ChatGPT

SaaStr

AUGUST 24, 2024

Dear SaaStr: How Do Enterprise SaaS Companies Deal With Late Payments? Yes, in the end, you have to be willing to switch off the platform. Do it the same exact way you’d want to be treated if you were a customer. Because Customer Success — they’re compensated on avoiding churn.

SaaS Payments

FastSpring

APRIL 9, 2025

Read a customer success story that utilized Rachel’s extensive tax expertise here. When we ask our customers, Why did you choose a merchant of record (MoR) over a traditional PSP?, One of the key areas of tax compliance we manage is VAT (value-added tax) on sales of digital services. Cloud computing services.

Merchant Services

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

Payrix

APRIL 2, 2024

A comprehensive Embedded Payments strategy isn’t complete without value added services. But, as a software platform, what value added services should you be considering? And when should you start thinking about these solutions and infusing them into your payment ecosystem and experience?

Payments

SaaStr

JULY 20, 2021

Cecily Sackey, Senior Customer Success Manager @ Capchase & Alex Pedraza, Head of New Business @ Capchase. Emerging Insurance Disruptors: Are they Really SaaS? Secrets to Aligning Marketing and Revenue Strategies with Marqeta’s CMO. 3 Ways Payments Drive Growth for SaaS Companies with Adyen’s SVP.

Payments

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Wherever you are in your revenue journey, adopting certain growth strategies can help you keep growing fast. Joined by Katie Wickham, Payrix’s Director of Marketing, Butler shares essential tips on accelerating your business to $100 million ARR and beyond. . Brex then scaled its payments business quickly.

Payments

Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Just how big is the current web3 B2B SaaS total addressable market (TAM)? In the last six months, 103 web3 companies generated revenue on-chain, the smallest of which recorded a few hundred dollars of sales & the largest, Ethereum, tallied $401m. Total Revenue, $M. of Revenue spent on Software. in startup market cap.

Payment Solutions

SaaStr

MAY 4, 2022

No matter how innovative a product might be, a business can only succeed if it enables its customers. But, as a business grows, teams may find that this success hinges on overcoming one final hurdle: building a financial stack. Suzanne Xie kicked off her journey in SaaS as the Founder and CEO of Lightwell.

Payment Features

SaaStr

JULY 31, 2020

Founded in 2015, Chorus operates a SaaS platform that provides valuable insights from conversations – say with calls, video conferences and emails — for revenue teams. And some of the marquee customers include MongoDB, Gitlab and Qualtrics. . This brings the total amount raised at $85.2

Scale

SaaStr

JANUARY 30, 2023

20X year 1⃣ 12X year 2⃣ 5X year 3⃣ #deelspeed @deel [link] — Shuooo (@shuoshuooshuooo) January 23, 2023 When we look at SaaS companies’ success stories, everything looks great on their growth maps. However, the truth is that every company has tried, failed, and restarted before getting to success.

Sales Hiring

Payrix

MAY 14, 2024

No one knows this better (or more intimately) than a software company Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Adam Tesan, CRO at Worldpay for Platforms, is a seasoned executive leader with decades of experience in sales, marketing, and revenue in the software space. It was an Embedded Finance play starting with payments. [It

Payments

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

So, despite SaaS multiple and the public markets being at near record highs, we’ve seen things start to … wobble a bit overall in tech: The WeWork IPO simply failed , and the Peloton and Direct Smile IPOs were broken. One of the greatest SaaS companies of all times, but still, it turned out to be mortal. Slack is mortal.

SaaS Payments

FastSpring

MAY 20, 2024

Moving some, all, or simply more of your software offerings from a one-time perpetual license model to a software as a service (SaaS) subscription model can be daunting, but it’s so powerful for building dependable, recurring revenue. Integrating customer-facing subscription management tools on your own site.

SaaS Payments

SaaStr

MAY 8, 2021

I felt like when I was a SaaS CEO and had to go profitable, they helped saved my rear. But as time has gone by, and I’ve worked with more SaaS companies, I’ve also seen the downside of annual contracts at many start-ups as well: Annual deal collections can be tough for start-ups. Big customers will want to pay annually.

SaaS Payments

Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

The SaaS industry has seen explosive growth in the past decadeand this is expected to continue this year. Data cited by Statista shows that the software as service is expected to hit $299 billion by the end of 2025. Part of this can be attributed to the SaaS model’s unique aspect of relying primarily on future revenue.

Scale

SaaStr

MAY 25, 2024

Lesson #1: Invest In Customer Support Early Cloudinary strongly believes that customer success and support are enablers of PLG growth and aren’t just a cost center. The developers they hire into CS are engaging as peers with customers and people using the product. They outgrew it and asked what to do next.

Scale

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2024

Okta’s VP of Engineering, Monica Bajaj, and Senior Director of Platform Product Marketing, Priya Ramamurthi, share Okta’s playbook to PLG, developer experience, and Enterprise ARR. The traditional SaaS model doesn’t always scale, and not every company has all the bells and whistles to fund marketing, sales, and customer success teams.

Underperforming Technical Team

SaaStr

JUNE 17, 2022

The reality is though, in SaaS, especially if you are primarily sales-driven, that’s often gonna be tough. So if you’re building a model for your SaaS start-up, or thinking about cash-flow positive as a goal, let me offer a few learnings about how we got there faster: Land A Few Whales. Big Customers) in SaaS.

SaaS Payments

FastSpring

AUGUST 6, 2024

FastSpring is a merchant of record that can help you easily grow your business internationally. We provide an all-in-one payment platform for SaaS, software, video game, and other digital product businesses, including VAT and sales tax management, payment localization, and award-winning consumer support.

Merchant Services