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How to Find the Best SaaS Billing Platform: A Complete Guide

Stax

But if you’re a B2B solution, there’s a high likelihood that businesses will be interested in being able to accept customer payments, rather than just sending them a PayPal link or to a generic payment gateway. How do you add payment processing capabilities to your software? What is a SaaS Billing Platform?

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Sequencing Business Models: The Types of Marketplaces

Casey Accidental

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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How to Choose SaaS Billing Software

Baremetrics

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. I recommend that a startup should consider three questions when choosing a SaaS billing platform: What is the specific billing logic the platform should provide?

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Finding the Next Wave of Growth: S-Curves and Product Sequencing

Casey Accidental

The Summit gathered ~40 CPOs and product leaders to chat through topics centered around product development and product-led growth. Most companies when they find product/market fit with their first product only have one acquisition and engagement loop that is successful, and the job of most of the team is to refine and scale those loops.

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SaaS Churn: Myths, Benchmarks, and Strategies to Retain More Revenue

FastSpring

Can you compare the churn rate of a SaaS company targeting enterprise customers to one selling to the general public? It’s likely that a finance or sales tools will be less susceptible to churn than a marketing tool, simply because it’s perceived to be more directly responsible for revenue.”.

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What Brands Look for When Considering Acquiring Software Companies

FastSpring

As the Director of Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships at WP Engine , Carl has worked on many acquisitions and partnerships, including brands like Flywheel, Perfect Dashboard, Block Lab, and recently, Delicious Brains. WP Engine, we’re the world’s most trusted platform for WordPress. Carl Hargreaves Yeah.

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The Enterprise Prospecting Guide: 6 Tips for Better Responses

Sales Hacker

Prospecting in the enterprise environment is just different. Enterprise is generally behind the times and slow to move on new ideas. On the flip side, however, the Enterprise segment offers a vast number of decision makers to go after, and, as we all know, there is a big payoff if you can win the deal. Shifting your mental game.