SaaStr

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

is a software training company that focuses on helping end users and companies be more productive. From the beginning, the company’s goal has been to help users achieve more with their software tools. Over the years, BrainStorm has evolved from a training services company to a world-class SaaS platform.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 31, 2021

SaaS and subscription companies like yours need to collect and manage recurring payments at scale. Regular payment gateways like SagePay and WorldPay won't cut it. All the data your startup needs Collecting payments is just one step of effective subscription management. The platform's usage-based pricing (no monthly fees!)

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 9, 2022

SaaS billing software automates one or more of the various aspects of the recurring billing process — payment processing, fulfillment, dunning, and more. You’ll still need a separate solution for payment processing, taxes, chargebacks, and more. 3 Subscription Management Software.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Capchase is your founder-friendly financing solution. Our suite of financial tools makes it easy to turn recurring revenue into flexible growth financing. Pilot’s leading team of US-based experts, supported by elegant software, delivers world-class bookkeeping, tax, and CFO services trusted by growing businesses like yours.

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Subscription Flow

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

If you are on the lookout for automated billing software for small businesses, this is the blog for you to read. In today’s world, having automated billing software is of immense importance because most SaaS companies are growing at an impossibly fast rate due to the various technological booms that are taking place around the world.

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Q4 sales numbers usually outperform the rest of the year thanks to year-end holidays and their associated shopping cycles — but how much does that trend carry over into software and SaaS sales? FastSpring serves as a merchant of record for over 3500 companies that use our platform every day to sell digital products globally.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 17, 2020

It’s actually quite simple: business process management (BPM) software. BPM software helps organizations of all sizes streamline operations and minimize waste. Visualize every process from end to end. The Top 5 Options for Business Process Management Software. Process Visualization.

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Subscription Flow

APRIL 23, 2024

A robust recurring billing software can make all the difference for your subscription business but win 2024 we are taking no gambles. Invest in the right billing and subscription-management software to automate your workflows after carefully assessing three of the best options in the market.

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SaaStr

MARCH 23, 2023

Chargebee is a recurring billing and subscription management tool that helps SaaS and SaaS-like businesses streamline Revenue Operations. Chargebee integrates with the leading payment gateways like Stripe, Braintree, PayPal etc. Greenhouse is the hiring operating system for people-first companies.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 3, 2022

Few SaaS leaders have gone through more post-pandemic change than Shopify and Zoom. Zoom came out of 2020-2021 with SMBs no longer growing, but a huge boost in the enterprise. SaaS growth slowed to 10% year-over-year, down from a peak overall growth of almost 100% (!) But Shopify is less and less a SaaS company because of it.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2023

So over the past decade-and-a-half we’ve come up with a lot of yardsticks, metrics and rules for SaaS companies. But — they are broken if you aren’t really a traditional, 100%+ NRR SaaS company. In particular: Hybrid SaaS with payments and fintech usually has far, far lower gross margins than pure software.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 23, 2021

Your payment processor may be an important element of your business. However, with so many of these payment platforms on the market, how are you supposed to choose? If you’re searching for one of these platforms, what qualities are important to you? After all, it plays a big role in how you get paid.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2023

At SaaStr, our partners are an integral part of our events. We’ll see 2,500+ of the best SaaS founders, execs, and VCs NEXT WEEK June 6-7 at 2022 SaaStr Europa ! Carta is a platform that helps people manage equity, build businesses, and invest in the companies of tomorrow. Grab tickets here. Grab tickets here.

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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.

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

In the early days of running a software company, collecting payments was pretty straightforward. A customer buys a license for your software, and they get the product (either through a download, a CD or even more old school—floppy disks). To put it simply, recurring billing can get complicated, especially for a SaaS company.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 12, 2023

What do enterprise buyers in healthcare care about most when evaluating AI products? In Part A , we outlined the paths to generating unique value for the healthcare system and patients. We’ve designed this to mirror the thought process of an entrepreneur building an AI product with an enterprise use case.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 4, 2020

And is Stripe a good choice as your billing and payment provider? When Stripe was launched in 2010, dealing with payments online wasn’t a straightforward matter. Fast forward 10 years and setting up shop and accepting payments has become a lot easier, thanks to a large extent to Stripe. Is Stripe worth $100B?

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Totango

AUGUST 16, 2022

Customer Retention Software Cuts Down Client Churn. Customer retention software has become essential for effective SaaS customer success strategies. A winning SaaS business model must prioritize retaining customers, which is far more cost-efficient than acquiring new clients to offset churn.

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Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

A major issue that arises, especially in the B2B SaaS business model, is how to break into the upmarket market as startups develop into scaleups that are primarily focused on increasing their market capitalization. In their early stages, SaaS software startups typically target the early adopters in the tech or mid-market segments.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The way you process B2B payments matters. To keep your company thriving, you need a fast, reliable method for collecting payments for services rendered. Understanding the intricacies of the B2B payments process, and the solutions that can help, will ensure that you’re never struggling to receive these payments.

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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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Blulogix

JANUARY 6, 2024

Unlocking Revenue Potential with a Robust Subscription Billing Platform By BluLogix Team Welcome to the fifth installment of our series on selecting the right subscription billing platform for your business. Take your business further with BluIQ’s flexible, scalable, enterprise-grade intelligent billing solutions.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

From marketing funnel analysis to review funnel analysis, this article shows you the most important funnels for SaaS. TL;DR Funnel analysis helps map out all the steps website visitors and in-app users take to achieve conversion goals , like signing up for your tool or completing the onboarding process. Increase revenue growth.

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User Pilot

APRIL 21, 2024

Wondering how to build a conversion path for your SaaS product or e-commerce site? TL;DR A conversion path is a step-by-step process that guides prospects. A good conversion path makes the process frictionless. Start creating conversion paths by defining their goals from the customer and business perspective.

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User Pilot

JULY 4, 2023

Are you in need of credible Typeform alternatives for your SaaS website? In this article, we’ll consider the 12 best Typeform alternatives for SaaS businesses. Userpilot is a great Typeform alternative for SaaS products. Outgrow goes beyond form building to deliver a content marketing platform.

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Note: Apple announced that it would be reducing the App Store fee from 30% to 15% for most developers starting on January 1st, 2021. For app entrepreneurs and ecommerce store owners, the battle to be noticed in the marketplace is ongoing. How viable is it for companies to shop their apps outside of mainstream marketplaces?

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SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

The Latin American SaaS landscape is hustling and bustling, having seen more IPOs in the last 6 months than the previous 20 years combined. We will gather 300 leading SaaS founders, executives and investors for three days packed with opportunities and rich exchange of knowledge to push the whole ecosystem forward. Founded : 2011.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Maybe you’d spend it creating new marketing campaigns to generate more revenue. Regardless, the average small business owner spends five hours every pay period running payroll. But thankfully, that’s not what your payroll process has to look like. The 6 best payroll service options for 2020. Number of employees.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 28, 2021

UIPath, leaders in the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) category, filed their S-1 last week , revealing an impressive business. UIPath offers software to build robots, programs that automate repetitive work. Robots read pdfs that customers provide and input that data into other computer systems. Why is this?

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SaaStr

MARCH 11, 2021

Q: Why do SaaS companies bill annually up front? A lot of SaaS pricing originally comes from classic enterprise software. In the old days, a customer would pay a large fee for the software upfront, and then a smaller maintenance fee for years to come. Salesforce perfected this is the enterprise.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. In this essay, we’ll go deeper into the gradients of marketplace models that a company can sequence to, and as a follow up, we will do the same for platforms.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 24, 2022

Of course, their margins are lower than a pure software play (more on that below). Toast isn’t accelerating the way some SaaS leaders are, but still, 59% growth at $800m in ARR is something a few years back we would never have thought possible. #2. In the enterprise, by contrast, you don’t have to be quite as efficient. #3.

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Stax

JANUARY 24, 2024

There’s been a lot of discussion in recent months about the apparent phase-out of QuickBooks Desktop software. Will I still be able to use my existing QuickBooks Desktop software? Do I need to transition to a new system altogether? QuickBooks Enterprise solutions for desktop will not be affected.

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Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

However, with the bustling world of opportunities to earn recurring revenue , subscription-based SMEs are also faced with unprecedented demands for speed, efficiency, compliance and customer support. Less tech-savvy business owners transitioning from legacy systems may want guided onboarding rather than self-service.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

When FastSpring’s Chief Product Officer Kurt Smith worked with growth-stage to Fortune 100 companies at Accel-KKR, he consistently saw pricing as one of the most essential growth levers they employed to meet their next revenue goal. How FastSpring’s platform allows companies to test their pricing (2 minutes): Full Videos.

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Baremetrics

MAY 16, 2021

Revenue forecasting software is used to create predictions of sales. These models can then feed into the larger overall financial model for your SaaS business, and help you plan the next phase of your growth. 1 Why Use Revenue Forecasting Software? Why Use Revenue Forecasting Software?

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How To Buy Saas

MARCH 23, 2024

CRM software helps sales and service teams to satisfy and retain customers easily. There are two popular brands used in the CRM and customer service space – Zendesk vs Freshdesk. In this article, we’ll discuss and compare these CRM solutions. What is customer relationship management (CRM) software?

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