Stax

JUNE 3, 2025

SaaS operates on a subscription model, making it easier to manage cash flow and reduce upfront expenses. Q: What types of payments can the SaaS platform accept with the integration of payments with Stax Connect? Lower upfront costs Say goodbye to expensive licenses and infrastructure costs.

Payment Services 88

Payment Services DevOps as a Service SaaS Payments Payments 88

SaaStr

MAY 1, 2021

You get all the cash up-front, and your churn almost by definition goes down. Nothing is a bigger headache in a Fortune 500 company that having to go back to procurement every single month to get an invoice approved. And as a result, even more chose monthly subscriptions. It’s just such a huge benefit. More on that here.

Payment Features 286

Payment Features Scale SMB Churn 286

Stax

APRIL 15, 2025

For subscription-based businesses achieving consistent and predictable revenue growth is the holy grail. In fact, monthly recurring revenue (MRR) is one of the most important metrics subscription businesses should be aware of. It can also be used to calculate the customer acquisition cost (CAC) and gross margin.

Payments 88

Payments SaaS Payments Revenue Payment Services 88

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Metronome’s sophisticated billing and subscription management platform enables companies to easily manage and automate complex billing and invoicing processes. Enterprise software–at all stages and check sizes–with a focus on SaaS, Security, Infrastructure and, of course, with an integrated AI strategy.

Scale 278

Scale Software Review Payment Features AI 278

SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2021

So many startups these days are claiming they have “ARR” from revenue that … doesn’t recur. Doesn’t ARR stand for Annual Recurring Revenue? But like “Cloud” and “SaaS”, its definitely has evolved. 50% revenue from software (recurring), 50% from payments (not-recurring). .

Merchant Services 360

Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 360

Subscription Flow

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Before we jump to the meat of the blog, let us quickly go over the bare-bones definition of what exactly is automated billing software and why most small businesses require it. Small businesses require automated billing software because while getting paid is great, sending out invoices is frequently a laborious process.

Payment Solutions 105

Payment Solutions Payment Features Payment Services SaaS Payments 105

SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2022

I swear I’ve heard as many different definitions of “bookings” as there are flavors of ice cream. 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. Always, my first questions is, “What’s your revenue?”

Finance 328

Finance Outsourcing Services Systems Review Technical Review 328

SaaStr

MARCH 21, 2022

You get all the cash up-front (this is how I went cash-flow positive in fact), and your churn almost by definition goes down. Nothing is a bigger headache in a Fortune 500 company than having to go back to procurement every single month to get an invoice approved. I think this is a topic where you get a lot of bad advice.

SaaS Payments 257

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Features SaaS 257

Payrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

It allows software companies to expand beyond their core subscription-based revenue models by seamlessly offering their customers new fintech products such as funding, deposits, loans, payment cards, and more. How do payment processors secure payments? Fraudsters are everywhere, and theyre getting smarter.

Payment Services 100

Payment Services Payments Merchant Services SaaS Payments 100

Stax

MARCH 6, 2024

For businesses offering subscriptions, memberships, retainers, and other recurring services, recurring billing is a powerful solution to streamline processes and ultimately enhance revenue generation. Consider this: Consumers are already conditioned to the subscription model. Learn More What is Recurring Billing?

Merchant Services 88

Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Methods Payment Features 88

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

Blulogix

JUNE 16, 2025

By BluLogix Team Why MGI Research Ranked BluLogix a Top Agile Billing Platform in 2025 In May 2025, BluLogix was recognized by MGI Research in its Agile Billing Top 50 Buyer’s Guide —a definitive analysis of the top billing platforms for businesses navigating modern monetization.

Payment Features 52

Payment Features Underperforming Technical Team AI Search Outsourced Development 52

Payrix

APRIL 10, 2025

Perhaps your platform is specifically designed for HVAC businesses and does everything from route management to inventory to CRM all while processing and reconciling one-time and recurring payments. This is common when outsourcing payments.

Payments 100

Payments Payment Services Outsourcing Services Payment Solutions 100

Payrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Listen now Events Driving growth through seamless payments implementation Watch this on demand webinar to learn strategies for a friction-free launch of PayFac-as-a-Service. Read now View all resources The post Master merchant: Definition, types, and examples appeared first on Worldpay for Platforms.

Merchant Services 100

Merchant Services Payment Services Payments SaaS Payments 100

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Improve business valuation Your company’s valuation is tied closely to its revenue performance, especially because you’re a subscription business. x 100 = 5% Monthly recurring revenue (MRR) Your MRR represents the total predictable revenue your company expects to generate from recurring payments in a single month.

Payments 105

Payments Revenue Payment Features SaaS Payments 105

Blulogix

JUNE 18, 2025

Branding Requirements: White-label partners require invoicing, tax, and notifications to reflect their brand. Invoices can be white-labeled, branded with the partner’s name, and configured to handle taxes, revenue share, and collections—all based on your business model. Most billing platforms weren’t built for this.

Payment Features 52

Payment Features Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development Systems Review 52

Blulogix

JUNE 17, 2025

By BluLogix Team The Real Reason SaaS Companies Struggle with Usage-Based Billing—And What the MGI Report Says to Do About It For years, SaaS companies have embraced subscription billing for its simplicity and predictability. Without the ability to rate events in real time—or even hourly—companies delay invoicing and lose revenue.

Payment Features 59

Payment Features Systems Review Software Review AI Search 59

Payrix

APRIL 25, 2025

Read now Blog post Know Your Customer: Definition, examples, and FAQ Know Your Customer is a verification process used to prevent financial crimes and protect legitimate business transactions. Read now View all resources The post Card-not-present: Definition, types, and examples appeared first on Worldpay for Platforms.

Payment Methods 100

Payment Methods Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments 100

How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Keeping track of the accounting for SaaS businesses can be challenging because of the subscription model that they operate on, and that is why most companies opt for cloud-based software solutions to smoothen the processes. This is an important process as you need to send invoices to customers on time and also collect revenue effectively.

Payment Services 52

Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Features 52

The Angel VC

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Since there is no official US-GAAP definition of churn or retention, different companies use different ways to measure and report these metrics. And because public companies are under the scrutiny by the SEC, any non-GAAP metric they report must be accompanied by a razor-sharp definition. What can you learn from this? (1)

Churn 226

Churn SaaS Retention Metrics 226

FastSpring

OCTOBER 13, 2023

FastSpring provides an all-in-one payment platform for SaaS , software, video games, and digital products businesses, including VAT and sales tax management, payment localization, and consumer support. Payment Gateways , Payment Processing , PSPs, MoRs — What’s the Difference? Interested? Is Stripe a merchant of record?

Payments 160

Payments Payment Methods Payment Services Merchant Services 160

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 3, 2018

Rohini Pondhi , product management lead for Square’s Invoices product, knows this challenge well. At Square, I manage a product called Square Invoices. For those types of sellers, we offer Square Invoices where they can send a digital invoice to their buyer, and the client can pay online. Rohini: Definitely.

Payment Methods 195

Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payment Features 195

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The shift to using SaaS metrics as a common language led to a common definition of what a great cloud business should look like. SaaS Subscriptions as Annuities: It’s common to consider subscription contracts as annuities with an upfront cost. as a common language to analyze a cloud business.

Metrics 267

Metrics Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Technical Review 267

Stax

JANUARY 28, 2025

If cart abandonment rates are high, then you definitely need to switch to a more convenient payment system like Click to Pay. This is to ensure customers can easily find the button when evaluating payment options on your site.

Payment Methods 68

Payment Methods Payment Services Merchant Services SaaS Payments 68

FastSpring

OCTOBER 13, 2020

This may be true in romance, but it’s definitely not true in business. Acknowledge anniversaries on subscriptions and include an opportunity to upsell/cross-sell. Some ideas for cross-sell items are additional products, support subscriptions, product training, bundled protection plans, etc.

Retention 148

Retention Payment Features Payment Methods Social Media 148

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 10, 2022

From a support perspective, creating FAQs and knowledge hubs should definitely be your first port of call – but what if you could reach your customer before frustration gets the better of them? This end-to-end payment process removes the need to fumble around for customer plans or payment details.

Payment Methods 209

Payment Methods Technical Review Payments Payment Solutions 209

SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2023

Billion, Growing 17% Overall with Subscription Revenue Growing 22%. Yes, it definitely got worse." Check out our full earnings report: [link] pic.twitter.com/07P3aqzBer — Salesforce (@salesforce) May 31, 2023 #4. Workday at $6.8 This is the essentially the same growth rate from 12 months ago. " A: "Yes.

Cybersecurity 245

Cybersecurity Cloud Innovation Subscription 245

Stax

MAY 23, 2025

New revenue streams With integrated payments, youre no longer just a software provideryoure also part of the transaction flow. That opens the door to revenue streams like: Payment processing fees Earn a share of every transaction processed through your platform. This is also a great way to future-proof their business.

Payments 88

Payments Payment Services Merchant Services SaaS Payments 88

SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2021

Timing is everything, especially when it comes to subscription-based SaaS models. Key Takeaways: Build a working definition of churn and update with corner cases based on your ongoing learnings. Tim says ForgeRock chooses to focus primarily on ATR when it comes to measuring their churn. Rule 3 – Timing of Churn.

Churn 252

Churn Customer Success Subscription Payment Features 252

Clouded Judgement

JUNE 19, 2024

Most public companies don’t disclose ARR (and when they do, it’s often not the same definition of ARR as we use for private companies). To calculate implied ARR I take the subscription revenue in a quarter and multiply it by 4. Because of this we have to use an implied ARR metric.

Cloud 318

Cloud GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Software Azure 318

User Pilot

JULY 29, 2024

Nominal data categorizes information without order and labels variables like user roles or subscription types. Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) : For SaaS businesses, MRR is a vital metric that shows the predictable revenue generated each month from subscriptions. It is often shown in bar or pie charts.

Data 105

Data Data Analysis User Experience Trends 105

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Yet, Anthropc sends out a detailed list of everything like the core features of appointment scheduling, treatment planning, supply tracking, and billing and invoicing. This accomplishes the pieces you need to do product definition in SaaS. It’s not everything you need for veterinary SaaS, but it’s a start. What’s the data model?

Generative AI 286

Generative AI AWS Artificial Intelligence AI 286

Chart Mogul

JUNE 16, 2025

It lets you connect your ChartMogul account to AI tools that support the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and enables natural language access to your subscription data. This is an early step in exploring what AI-native interfaces could look like for subscription analytics. We’re excited to see what you do with it.

Revenue 59

Revenue Data Customer Lifetime Value AI 59

Subscription Flow

OCTOBER 22, 2024

One point of frustration for the businesses is that every country has its own definition for ‘SaaS products’. That is because the jurisdictions in these areas, and their definitions of a SaaS service differ. However, since the SaaS businesses now are more cloud-based than geography-based, this definition of nexus is becoming outdated.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions SaaS 52

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

For example, if your product is not competitive enough due to annual subscription plans, you can revamp your pricing model to make it more attractive in your market. This can be done through competitive pricing , increasing marketing efforts, or improving product features to attract more customers.

Development 105

Development Strategy Marketing Technical Review 105

User Pilot

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Revenue run rate is used to calculate any revenue, while actual recurring revenue is used for only recurring revenue. The annual recurring revenue (ARR) is the sum of all revenue generated from customer contracts over one year. In other words, it is the sum of subscription revenue for 12 months + recurring revenue.

Revenue 104

Revenue Scale SaaS Forecasting 104

User Pilot

JUNE 27, 2024

Not to mention paying subscriptions. That's because it has an impact on all other success metrics , including revenue: FairMarkit has discovered that a 25% increase in activation leads to a 34% rise in revenue. It's not surprising: If users don't see the value in the product, they have no reason to use it.

Benchmarks 105

Benchmarks SaaS Social Media Onboarding 105