SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The Macro Impact On Public Cloud Software Over The Past Year Cloud stocks dropped in 2022 in a severe market pullback event that Bessemer Venture Partners call The SaaSacre. A 1% improvement in revenue growth today has the same impact on valuations as a 2% improvement in free cash flow margin. What does this mean for Cloud companies?

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Cloud Payments Software Review Payment Solutions 284

Neil Patel

JANUARY 11, 2023

Contactless payment methods are tapping into the future of commerce. International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts that 80% of retailers will offer contactless payment and app-based scan-and-pay systems in-store by 2023. When we talk about leaders in the contactless payments space, we must talk about PayPal.

PayPal 80

PayPal Payment Solutions Payment Methods Merchant Services 80

Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

The contracts are identical twelve month contracts except for the payment terms. Contract B relaxes payment terms to monthly payment, 12 monthly installments for the next year. All of the sales and marketing dollars invested to obtain persuade the buyer to put digital ink to pdf have been recouped immediately.

Sales Hiring 332

Sales Hiring Scale Payments Payment Solutions 332

Stax

MARCH 26, 2024

Online payment systems are the standard. Online terminals (sometimes referred to as virtual terminals) power various types of transactions, including eCommerce and payments made over the phone. They act as a bridge between traditional payment processing and online payment possibilities.

Payment Methods 88

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Services Payments 88

Blulogix

OCTOBER 11, 2023

5 Advantages of Using the Right Automated Billing System for Subscription Businesses By BluLogix Team In the fast-paced world of subscription-based businesses, managing recurring revenue streams efficiently and effectively is essential for sustained growth and success. Subscription Billing 1.

Payment Features 52

Payment Features Payment Solutions Payment Services Subscription 52

Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The benefits of a well-thought-out process includes increased visibility to your revenues, expenses, and cash flows, and a faster feedback loop to make your forecasting more operationally focused. Do you need to build an integration between the platform and your SaaS app? You want the right tool for the job.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Software Review 52

Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

One way to do that is through marketing and revenue-generating strategies such as freemium and product demos which are critical to growing one’s clientele. In their early stages, SaaS software startups typically target the early adopters in the tech or mid-market segments.

SaaS Payments 59

SaaS Payments Payments Business Model Payment Services 59

Buffer Resources

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

For one, she has built a stable and viable business, achieving six figures in revenue every year for the past five years and even bringing in multiple-six-figures in 2021 when she expanded her business with subcontractors.    Location: Appleton, Wisconsin Initial capital invested: Very little!

Scale 109

Scale Scaling Payment Solutions Payment Services 109

SaaStr

JANUARY 30, 2023

Overcoming challenges by optimizing for success In the early stages of setting up your SaaS business, it’s always a good idea to invest time thinking about the direction you want to take. This insight led Deel to focus on solving payments and compliance. Identifying a direction is just the starting point.

Sales Hiring 260

Sales Hiring Payment Services SaaS Payments Scale 260

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. Schedule a demo to learn how we can help you scale across borders to go farther faster.

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Pricing Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments 118

Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 23, 2024

They also talked about the difficulties — and potential advantages — of selling into small businesses, taking alternative approaches to interviewing candidates, and the importance of keeping culture a vital part of a company as it scales. We’re experimenting with it, but we haven’t made a massive investment.

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Payments Forecasting Payment Services Payment Solutions 117

Stax

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

So, of course when it came to revenue-driving activities, Ford knew that success in marketing—and business—wasn’t about how much your marketing spend is, but how efficiently you spend it. For modern Software as a Service (SaaS) companies, the automobile is replaced by primarily digital and cloud-based solutions and software.

SaaS Payments 88

SaaS Payments Payments Payment Services Stax 88

Frontegg

MAY 27, 2021

Product-Led Growth (PLG) is a consumer-centric scaling, conversion, and retention philosophy that uses the product itself as the primary growth driver. The 80s and 90s were all about physical purchasing and installation of software CDs and floppy disks. This metric is a strong future revenue indicator. So pick accordingly. #1

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Scale 98

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.

Payment Methods 105

Payment Methods Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 105

SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

Niall Wall, Box SVP of Business and Corporate Development alongside Vicki Lin, Stripe’s Head of Ecosystem and Cecilia Stallsmith, Slack’s Director of Platform Marketing discuss scaling your revenue via indirect channels and platform ecosystems. Then also went into venture capital where I invested in API first products.

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Payments Scale Scaling Revenue 124

SaaStr

JULY 20, 2022

Weave started off as a dental ERP and comms platform (including VoIP / phone), and then expanded beyond that as it scaled. It’s a tough outcome for a team that is working hard to scale well into the nine figures of ARR. 907 employees at IPO, so about $150,000 revenue per employee. So why the terrible revenue multiple?

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SaaS Payments Scale Payment Methods Payments 271

FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2023

In this episode of Growth Stage, Carl will dives into his experience running acquisitions of SMB software businesses, including: His thoughts on what makes a software company a good target for an acquisition by a brand. So as probably most listeners know, WordPress is a content management system for building websites.

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Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review Branding 136

Chart Mogul

MARCH 30, 2020

Building your own billing system can be a world of pain, risk and complexity, so what options are out there for integrating a third party product? The trick about billing systems is that when they’re working correctly, you can forget they exist. However, if they start to cause issues, the faults will grow to a massive scale.

Payment Solutions 90

Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Features SaaS Payments 90

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Sales teams feel constant pressure to speed up time-to-revenue and quickly close deals. To help take some of the pressure off, companies focus on technology investments to help their sales teams increase win rates and accelerate revenue while automating a lot of the tedious, manual processes that prove to be a bottleneck in the sales cycle.

Payments 85

Payments Payment Services Revenue Payment Solutions 85

FastSpring

MAY 20, 2019

In-House Ecommerce Solution. Having an in-house solution means your company invests resources into building an ecommerce solution for use exclusively within your organization. Your team is responsible for its regular maintenance but the system is built specifically to meet your current needs.

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Outsourcing Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions Outsourced Development 72

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

This episode is an excerpt from a session at SaaStr Scale. And as a result of this large concentration of spend, these large cloud vendors have created cloud marketplaces that allow you to take that $158 million of committed spend and actually use it to procure startup solutions and other ISV solutions on their respective marketplaces.

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Scale Marketplace as a Service Cloud SaaS Payments 234

Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In Part A , we outlined the paths to generating unique value for the healthcare system and patients. For instance, perhaps you position your product as a best-of-breed solution that can be deployed against a specific use case with a faster implementation and time-to-ROI than others.

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Healthcare AI Payments Enterprise 121

FastSpring

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

For many SaaS companies, going live isn’t the glorious, revenue-driving, self-vindicating moment they dream of. Being too occupied with development prevents software companies from giving their go-to-market strategy the attention it deserves. Like most software companies, your company always wants to lead with your best foot forward.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions Outsourcing Services Payment Services 61

Blulogix

MARCH 15, 2024

Take your business further with BluIQ’s flexible, scalable, enterprise-grade intelligent billing solutions. Manual handling of these tasks is not only resource-intensive but prone to errors, leading to customer dissatisfaction and potential revenue loss. Use feedback and performance data to refine and expand automation efforts.

Payment Features 59

Payment Features Payment Services Subscription Payments 59

Chart Mogul

AUGUST 15, 2019

Revenue-based financing is quickly becoming a popular way for startups to raise funds without sacrificing equity. New investment structures are gaining traction in the early-stage SaaS financing market. Bigfoot Capital invests in initial-scale SaaS companies using both RBF and venture debt investment structures.

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Finance Payments Revenue Payment Solutions 85

SaaStr

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Startups often begin with a bootstrapping phase with little to no outside investment. Yet, funded startups can learn a lot from the bootstrapped ones to grow smoothly and generate revenue. In SaaS, retention is usually driven by recurring revenue, cross-selling, and up-selling. Lever #1: Tactical retention. better at retention.

Payments 130

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Venture Capital 130

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 10, 2022

When integrated with Intercom, you can uncover what happens when a customer visits your site or app, and how to proactively improve their experience. Connect the Shopify app with Intercom and customers can check their order status right inside the Messenger , without ever having to reach out to your team. Pain points made powerful.

Payment Methods 209

Payment Methods Technical Review Payments Payment Solutions 209

SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. In this talk, Claire will share these and other lessons for scaling high-growth organizations. But we provide a combination of APIs and software. Names stick.

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Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Scaling 157

FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As a former agency owner, now the Chief Marketing Officer at FastSpring, David Vogelpohl has helped many software companies scale around the world. FastSpring automatically changes the language, currencies, and payment methods of the checkout experience based on where a customer is located. David used the U.S.

Payment Methods 78

Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Software Review 78

FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Revenue vs. profit vs. income: The terms may seem synonymous and are sometimes even used interchangeably, but they tell different stories about a company. Revenue growth suggests an expanding business and in-demand product, but whether there is any financial gain for the business is determined by the income.

Payments 88

Payments Payment Methods Payment Features Payment Services 88

Chart Mogul

MARCH 30, 2020

Building your own billing system can be a world of pain, risk and complexity, so what options are out there for integrating a third party product? The trick about billing systems is that when they’re working correctly, you can forget they exist. However, if they start to cause issues, the faults will grow to a massive scale.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Features SaaS Payments 52

Blulogix

APRIL 2, 2024

Take your business further with BluIQ’s flexible, scalable, enterprise-grade intelligent billing solutions. Recurring & Usage Billing The Solution to Subscription Complexity Establishing a Unified Catalog: Creating a centralized repository for all products, services, and pricing policies is crucial.

Payment Features 52

Payment Features Payment Services Subscription SaaS Payments 52

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

You’ll never scale revenue if you can’t get two people to hit quota. When you hire your first couple reps, they do need to have sold a software product. It can work out a little bit for tiny SMBs, but it doesn’t work in software, okay? I invested a small amount in Front, which is 1.7B.

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Sales Hiring VP of Engineering Payment Methods Scale 256

Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2024

This includes setting up initial accounting practices and systems, HR, payroll, banking, financial controls, and tax compliance. Financial Systems When setting up initial finance systems, it's important to think about scalability. It's easy to integrate with external apps and services.

Payment Services 52

Payment Services Systems Review Development Team Review Technical Review 52

SaaSOptics

MARCH 10, 2022

These tools allow you to do the above and more, benefitting your company by providing affordable and scalable software solutions to common time-consuming financial operations. SaaSOptics is the bridge between a company’s CRM and general ledger that prevents revenue from falling through the cracks. If not, read on. SaaSOptics.

Payment Services 87

Payment Services SaaS Payments Payments Payment Solutions 87

ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The subscription revenue model is hardly new. It’s been a staple of industries—publications, utilities, and, more recently, software—since it first emerged in the 17th century. It’s simple: the subscription revenue model benefits both customers and companies. What is the subscription revenue model?

Payment Features 74

Payment Features Payments Subscription Revenue 74

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

As you scale up, it’s essential to ensure that your sales tax management process is accurate and automated, so you don’t run into compliance issues in the future. . States are consistently looking for ways to generate more tax revenue, and a fast-growing company (or industry) can provide excellent opportunities. States across the U.S.

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Payment Services compliance SaaS Payments Scale 299