SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

SVB collapsed, market multiples are down, yet the IPO window is re-opening, and we have a platform shift to AI that’s exciting everybody. At the peak of bull market exuberance at the end of 2021, a 1% improvement in revenue growth had the same impact on valuations as a 6% improvement in free cash flow margin. Let’s find out.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

For companies looking to scale, Independent Software Vendors (ISV) are a crucial tool that provides specialized software solutions that integrate seamlessly with existing business tools. Through strategic ISV partnerships, businesses can enhance their service offerings, streamline operations, and open new revenue streams.

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Payments Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Solutions 88

Stax

AUGUST 16, 2024

In this landscape, embedded payments have become a great way for SaaS companies to provide value-added services on top of their core offerings to customers. This helps SaaS businesses enhance their customer experiences and drive loyalty and profitability. The demand for embedded payments is huge.

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Stax

AUGUST 20, 2024

Everything is done under one platform. And it’s all thanks to embedded finance and embedded fintech. Embedded finance isn’t entirely a new concept. Airline credit cards, payment plans for costly items, and car rental insurance are forms of embedded finance that have been around for a while.

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Payments Payment Methods Merchant Services Finance 88

Blulogix

MARCH 24, 2025

By BluLogix Team AI Billing Innovations, Usage-Based Pricing, Credits, and Prepaid Models AI Billing Needs a New Approach Unlike traditional SaaS, AI products often require real-time metering and consumption-based pricing. Credits & Limits Monthly recurring credits ensure baseline revenue while allowing flexibility.

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Stax

MARCH 15, 2025

As a result, SaaS businesses need to become more innovative in how their platform features and product offerings address their user’s unique operations and set of business needs. Enter payment monetization. But how exactly should a SaaS company monetize payments?

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Payments Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Services 88

Subscription Flow

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Businesses may never know how much revenue might be leaking from overlooked nooks and crannies. The purpose of the revenue growth management strategy is to steer a business in an organized, and sustainable direction. After all, no business wants its success to be short lived.

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USIO

JUNE 12, 2024

July 11, 2024 10-11 AM CST Mastering the art of integrating payments can be the key to unlocking exponential growth and profitability. Join us for an exclusive event: Unlock the Secrets: How These Top SaaS Leaders Are Transforming Payments into Profit. Mark Your Calendar!

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Payrix

MAY 14, 2024

When it comes to software, success doesn’t hinge on innovation alone. 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.

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Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 147

USIO

AUGUST 26, 2024

SaaS Payment Solutions for Streamlined Business In today’s competitive business landscape, efficiency is key to staying ahead. One way to enhance efficiency is by implementing SaaS payment solutions. These solutions offer numerous benefits that can significantly streamline your business operations.

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Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Payment Services 130

FastSpring

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

As you work to expand your SaaS, software, mobile games, or other digital product business worldwide, having the right payment methods available to global customers is key to ensuring they all feel comfortable purchasing. If you want to offer more payment methods around the world, don’t miss this episode of Growth Stage.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments Merchant Services 158

Payrix

APRIL 10, 2024

But a well-designed user interface that is responsive and consistent across devices is not the only element of a great user experience—innovation and interconnected experiences are raising the bar. As consumers, we’ve grown accustomed to seamless experiences.

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Merchant Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Payments 130

How To Buy Saas

MAY 29, 2025

This vivid idea captures AIs potential to act as assistants and insights machines, boosting efficiency and innovation. As another source emphasizes, leaders with AI knowledge drive innovation, optimize decision-making, and maintain a competitive edge. AI reads invoices, approves payments, and flags anomalies without human intervention.

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Blulogix

MARCH 27, 2025

By BluLogix Team How AI is Transforming Billing Billing has long been a complex and manual process, prone to errors, inefficiencies, and revenue leakage. With businesses adopting diverse pricing modelsranging from subscriptions to usage-based billinglegacy systems often struggle to keep up.

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Payments AI Search Payment Services SaaS Payments 59

User Pilot

APRIL 3, 2024

Are you being innovative in your product? Product-led innovation focuses on creating the best product for your customers. TL;DR Product-led innovation emphasizes improving the product to attract customers, reducing reliance on marketing for growth. A diagram showing how product-led growth works for product-led innovation.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2019

SaaS is about creating long-term value for your customer, and being compensated appropriately for that value as a business. Learn actionable monetization tips from a Product/Growth operator turned VC. Built out a bunch of the orb across product, data, analytics to do much of the same work, to drive retention and monetization.

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Payments Pricing Compensation Scale 113

SaaStr

MARCH 28, 2025

Your suppliers might actually be your customers 30% of Bill.com’s core revenue comes from suppliers making payment choices, completely reframing their TAM calculations. billion in revenue 475,000 customers across all platforms (Bill, Divvy, Invoice to Go) 250,000 customers on the core Bill platform A payment network of 7.1

SMB 130

SMB Payments Payment Services SaaS Payments 130

Blulogix

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Enabling Agile Monetization Through Advanced Platforms By BluLogix Team Integrating Cutting-Edge Technology for Strategic Monetization Success In the rapidly evolving digital economy, the integration of technology in monetization platforms is not just an enhancement; it’s a fundamental necessity.

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Payments Payment Services Artificial Intelligence Technology 52

Baremetrics

DECEMBER 18, 2019

What can we do to improve retention? But first, in order to improve retention, we first have to be able to measure it. These are the three retention measurements I usually start with: The “How would you feel if…?” survey User Churn and Revenue Churn Quick Ratio. Why are customers canceling? How do we reduce churn?

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Stax

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

That’s why businesses are constantly seeking innovative ways to streamline operations and enhance customer experiences. We can see this trend in action in the realm of payment processing with the advent of recurring payments, also known as automatic payments. How Do Recurring Payments Work?

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Payment Features Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Methods 88

Stax

JANUARY 29, 2024

In today’s fast-paced business landscape, efficient and seamless payment processing is paramount to your bottom line. As industry leaders in billing software, our mission is to help our customers work more efficiently, recover more revenue, and effortlessly collect invoices. Learn More What is a Billing Platform?

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Stax Payments Payment Services Payment Features 88

Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 3, 2018

Several landscape altering SaaS acquisitions will come to fruition because of cash availability from repatriation and because there are enough public SaaS companies at scale to add material revenue and market cap to buyers. Some ideas: Google buys Salesforce. Microsoft buys Workday. Oracle buys ServiceNow.

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User Pilot

APRIL 24, 2025

This article shares exciting product manager roles focused on retention and churn and showcases standout candidates in the field. Stripe: Product Manager, Local Payment Methods Cost Optimization Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Who would be the best fit for this job?

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FastSpring

MAY 25, 2023

Pricing your software as a service (SaaS) can be hard enough even during the best of times, but figuring out how to dial in the right pricing to drive more revenue in times of stagflation can be even more challenging. Optimizing your SaaS Pricing Strategy for new MRR vs. net revenue retention. How FastSpring can help.

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SaaS Payments Pricing Payments Merchant Services 148

Stax

APRIL 17, 2025

At the heart of this transformation is a growing ecosystem of Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) building applications that plug into broader platforms and solve specialized problems. As these ecosystems evolve, ISV partnerships have become essential for companies looking to scale, reach new markets, and offer integrated ISV solutions.

Merchant Services 88

Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services Payments 88

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. However, to fully unlock its potential, companies must go beyond qualitative insights and bring data into the decision-making process within Customer Success ranks and investments.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

Retention is much better than most businesses and then the upsell opportunities are quite good, so it’s not surprising that while maybe not so popular a few years ago, you’ve seen quite a few successful exits in this space. Matt Garratt: If you just look at Vlocity and nCino, amazing businesses.

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Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 215

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 9, 2021

While Stripe is indispensable for the average online business, providing many different tools, reports, and customizations that power online payment processing , when it comes to finding the billing history for Stripe customers, things are needlessly complicated. Stripe is a fully integrated suite of payment products.

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Payment Services Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payments 98

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 15, 2021

Tagging conversations is a convenient way of providing direct feedback from customers to your product team to highlight common feature requests and opportunities for innovation ”. We regularly share customer feedback from our support conversations in the Intercom Inbox with our product team through Jira. Cultivating an agile mindset.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 26, 2024

And at a company like Sideways 6 — whose product is an idea management software to help organizations engage people and foster innovation — that emphasis on collaboration gets even louder. Jake Dipple 4:40 Of course, so, Sideways 6 we’re ID management platform, and we exist to bring good ideas to life every day.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 29, 2020

Want to learn more about the five ecommerce payment trends shaping 2020? Push for smarter payment processing. More businesses will transition to a subscription model. A push for smarter payment processing. Businesses around the globe will look to simplify their payment tech stack.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Solutions 84

Blulogix

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Streamlining Success: What is the Role of Automation in Customer Lifecycle Management for Recurring Revenue? Automation , in this context, emerges as a critical tool, enabling businesses to effectively manage customer relationships from initial engagement through to retention and beyond.

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Payments Payment Services Revenue Management 52

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

We celebrate businesses like that, and of course, the platform we’re on today with Zoom, that has really become a communications platform that’s defining this COVID era. If you look at the IAS vendors, they passed $130 billion revenue milestone this year. It is staggering.

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 22, 2020

There has never been a better time to test innovative pricing and monetization models to outmaneuver slow or legacy competitors. This post will guide you through 10 innovative pricing plays you should consider along with high-profile examples of companies who are testing them. Stewart Butterfield (@stewart) March 26, 2020.

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Payments Pricing Payment Methods SaaS Payments 83

Stax

JUNE 18, 2024

Subscription models offer companies large and small the opportunity to build predictable revenue and high customer lifetime value. In a subscription business model, customers pay a recurring fee in exchange for a product or service. But managing subscriptions effectively and freeing up time and resources for expansion is no picnic.

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Payment Features Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments 88

Subscription Flow

MARCH 20, 2024

Read more: Your Strategy to Boost Digital Magazine Subscriptions Section 1: Understanding SimpleCirc and its Place in the Market SimpleCirc has set itself apart in today’s cutthroat market by revolutionizing circular payments and providing user-friendly solutions that expedite transactions involving several parties.

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Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments Payment Methods 105

Blulogix

APRIL 12, 2024

The intricate nature of subscription models can indeed be a formidable maze, but with the right strategies, businesses can turn these complexities into substantial advantages. Take your business further with BluIQ’s flexible, scalable, enterprise-grade intelligent billing solutions.

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