Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Before reading through yet another “Top-29 SaaS billing platforms” feature comparison post, decide how you want the billing tool to play with the rest of your operations stack. This post is part of an ongoing series for SaaS founders and CEOs on setting up their financial stack in a scalable manner.

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Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Software Review 52

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. Our Guiding Principle: Our Software and SaaS Community Must Be Good for You in Order for It to Succeed.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Software Review 143

ProfitWell

MAY 15, 2020

The SaaS model continues to gain traction. If you haven’t transitioned to SaaS yet, I promise moving to a cloud-based computing system sounds more complicated than it actually is. There are many different cloud-based models for storing data, but this article is focused directly on SaaS. What is SaaS?

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Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The way businesses in the technology, media, and telecommunications sector provide their goods and services is changing dramatically. Customers are expecting more and more in a way that they can use offerings in a flexible, scalable, and secure way. The specific advantages of this business model are as follows: 1.

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Payment Solutions Payment Features Pricing SaaS Payments 59

Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

When choosing the right billing software for your subscription businesses, there are many things to consider. If you are searching for a business metrics software that displays everything you need to know in an easy-to-use interface, Baremetrics offers a free trial which is a great way to get started.

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Payment Solutions Payment Features Payments Merchant Services 59

FastSpring

MARCH 9, 2022

Because we have data from thousands of Saas and software websites. In this article, we’ll show you examples from a variety of SaaS pricing pages. No matter how you’re selling your SaaS products, you’ll find best practices to improve your pricing page for increased conversions. 7 SaaS pricing page examples. How do we know?

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Confused about trying to understand SaaS roles? SaaS companies have many moving parts, and it can be difficult to determine who does what. TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. What is a SaaS business model?

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 30, 2020

So you're building an awesome subscription business — great! How do you manage the process of accepting money from your customers? This guide serves as a comprehensive overview of the options available for SaaS businesses. Billing is the lifeline of your subscription business. Subscription management platform (optional).

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Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Features SaaS Payments 52

FastSpring

FEBRUARY 8, 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. Fraud encompasses deceitful actions to illicitly acquire goods, services, or financial advantages. Visit our Support page.

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Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Deciding between Stripe vs. Chargebee for your online payment processing needs? Stripe supports online payments for e-commerce businesses, while Chargebee helps SaaS companies set up and manage their recurring payments. Both platforms have pros and cons worth learning about. Table of Contents.

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Payment Services Payment Methods Technical Review Payment Features 59

SaaStr

JULY 11, 2023

In a special session of Workshop Wednesday, Gorgias Founder & CEO Romain Lapeyre and Gorgias VP of Sales & Partnerships Aasif Osmany share their learnings, advice, and hacks for optimizing your sales process. For example, Gorgias knew they were targeting not only eCommerce but also customer service. Sign up for free.

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User Pilot

JUNE 28, 2023

Sustaining user engagement throughout the entire onboarding process can feel like a task only large teams can achieve. Platformly uses a progress bar and empty state CTAs to simplify the onboarding process for their complex product. Tips for improving the onboarding experience : Use UI patterns to draw users towards activation points.

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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. Table of Contents.

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Benchmarks Churn Payments SaaS Payments 135

Kellblog

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Since there can be only one lead metric, every company, typically silently, decides what it is. New ARR means you’re focused on sales adding water to the SaaS leaky bucket — regardless of whether it’s from new or existing customers. Thus what those implicit units really tell you about is culture.

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Scale SaaS Payments Metrics SaaS 83

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. Our customers have been quite happy with the service.” Here’s why. Set up a demo or try it out for yourself.

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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Merchant Services AI Search 147

OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

There are many ways to classify SaaS companies, but differentiating companies based upon who their customers are presents the best approach for measuring performance and driving success for SaaS businesses. SMM SaaS Company Overview & Market Dynamics. SMM SaaS Company Overview & Market Dynamics. Enterprise.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 24, 2020

The subscription model is booming. Almost everything is sold as a subscription, from socks to razor blades, and of course software. Without further ado, let's look at nine subscription-based companies absolutely nailing it in 2020. What is a subscription company? So why the subscription business model?

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ProfitWell

APRIL 1, 2020

White-labeling services for SaaS products have become very popular over the past decade. When done correctly, an entire brand can be built around a SaaS white-label product, but you’ll need to price it correctly in order to maximize revenue. What are white-label SaaS products? 4 common white-label SaaS products.

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Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Payment Services 59

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

For a SaaS business to survive, it needs to track its business data. For a SaaS business to thrive, it needs to deeply understand what the business metrics mean for the state of the business. It is no wonder that so many companies choose to use a business metrics dashboard to help with data visualization and making insights.

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Payments Payment Solutions SaaS Payments PayPal 94

ProfitWell

JULY 23, 2020

Direct to consumer retail eliminates the middleman from the buying process. Rent the Runway: Online service providing rental designer clothing and accessories, with the option to subscribe. I’ve compiled a list of certain DTC metrics that should be on your radar at all times. 9 most important direct-to-consumer metrics.

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Payment Methods Metrics SaaS Payments Customer Lifetime Value 56

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Inbound marketing is the process of getting potential clients to find your company. Proper targeting of your search engine optimization (SEO) through keyword mining involves not just getting more views in Google results but also the right views. Attract Attracting customers is a two-step process. Table of Contents.

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Payments Payment Methods Payment Solutions Marketing 98

BrightBack

JANUARY 17, 2022

But in practice, being best-in-class at digital retention is a key challenge for most startups and enterprises, as it requires significant engineering to connect 3 to 5 systems of record (e.g.

Payments 59

Payments Payment Methods Payment Features Payment Solutions 59

User Pilot

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Customer service data to spot common problems in your service, analyze common queries, and predict customer behaviors and trends. Leverage event data to perform funnel analysis and identify areas of friction within the conversion process, then fix them. Since you need the right tools to follow a customer insights strategy.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payment Services 103

Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Managing offers, reliable billing, and subscription lifecycle management is complex, creating an iceberg effect for companies that decide to tackle it on their own. It allows us to upgrade, downgrade, or cancel a client’s subscription easily. There’s a self-service page, which allows clients to update information on their own.

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Merchant Services Subscription Payment Features SaaS Payments 51

Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

This post is part of a continuing series evaluating the S-1s of publicly traded SaaS companies in order to better understand the core business and build a library of benchmarks that might be useful to founders. All of the businesses we’ve looked at in the past have been purely SaaS businesses.

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CustomerSuccessBox

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

You have to quickly go through all the emails and segregate them on the basis of priority and call to action, for example, follow-ups on support tickets, technicals questions, meeting requests, implementing new features, renewals, invoices, etc. The Engineering / Solutions team to work on technical/integration challenges.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Facilitation 78

ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Your subscription company should run like a well-oiled machine. Taking advantage of SaaS tools will help you accomplish this. If you aren’t using SaaS tools yet, by the end of this article you’ll understand why you should. There are a wide number of reasons why SaaS tools are taking over. Avoiding SaaS tool bloat.

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Retention Pricing SaaS Payments Payment Methods 56

ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Plus, the most relevant SaaS metrics to fuel growth. And to wrap, The Information tests a subscription bundle. Your top subscription news. And to prove why, we studied a few thousand SaaS and subscription companies, as well as the willingness-to-pay data from over 50,000 buyers.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 24, 2020

2020 is the year of Corona Virus thus far but it’s also the year in which the subscription business model is excelling. Subscription companies have become incredibly popular in the past two decades. Almost everything is sold as a subscription, from socks to razor blades, and of course software. What is a subscription company?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Vikas made his way into the world of SaaS and came to be at the rocketship that is Kustomer. * Why does Vikas believe that a wave of SaaS incumbents are about to be displaced or disrupted? Why is it so crucial to invest in enablement in the early days? What is a good payback period? *

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SaaS Payments Cloud Technical Review Scale 139

Chargify

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

The title says it all…calculating sales commission shouldn’t be a pain in the SaaS. Yet, after countless conversations with SaaS sales teams, including our own, we concluded that everyone shares the same sentiment—it IS a pain in the SaaS. . But it is just math, right? Compensating Other Revenue Generators.

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Payments SaaS Payments Scale Compensation 61

Valuize Consulting

AUGUST 17, 2020

Deferred payment terms on subscription renewals, additional discounts, free professional services—these offers might work now, but can you afford to keep applying them next quarter or next year? Achieving the latter, true version of adoption will enable you to reduce churn. These outcomes serve as adoption milestones.

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SaaS Payments Churn Payment Services Payments 40

Baremetrics

AUGUST 5, 2021

While you’re here, you should try Baremetrics to view your subscription data and financial metrics in real-time, all in one place. Tracking total expenses Fixed, Recurring, Non-Recurring and Extraordinary Expenses – What Are They? Total Expenses are also one of the key metrics for growth analytics.

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Payment Methods Management Payment Solutions Payments 85

SaaSOptics

MAY 24, 2018

For a B2B SaaS or subscription business, finance operations are no longer just a back office function. How do you know if your systems and processes are set up to provide the necessary insight into your growing business? CMMs typically use a five-level system to define and score process maturity.

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Payment Services Finance Payment Solutions Payment Features 40

Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

There are specific stages a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company moves through during its life cycle. Understanding which stage your SaaS business is in can help determine the appropriate time to scale to the next phase—and do so successfully. The four major SaaS life cycle stages we’ll cover: Pre-startup. Pre-Startup.

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Scale SaaS Payments Scaling Payment Services 74

OpenView Labs

MARCH 16, 2021

The usage-based pricing model almost feels like a cheat code —it enables SaaS companies to more efficiently acquire new customers, grow with those customers as they’re successful, and keep those customers on the platform. But the shift from pure subscription to usage-based pricing is nearly as complex as going from on-premise to SaaS.

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Pricing Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 52

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Check out this 2018 Europa session with Guillaume Princen, Head of France and Southern Europe @ Stripe, where he talks about the metrics you need to be focused on in your startup. If you don’t have the time to watch the whole session, here are the main metrics you should be mindful of. Why do developers love SaaS products?

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