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Navigating Your SaaS Transition: 5 Insights From Stardock’s Experience With FastSpring

FastSpring

Moving some, all, or simply more of your software offerings from a one-time perpetual license model to a software as a service (SaaS) subscription model can be daunting, but it’s so powerful for building dependable, recurring revenue. Letting FastSpring handle the subscription infrastructure.

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

Stax

Here’s an interesting stat: 70% of businesses consider subscription and membership models indispensable for future commercial growth and expansion. In a saturated market, how do they distinguish themselves? How do you add payment processing capabilities to your software? What is a SaaS Billing Platform?

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Successfully Switching From One-Time Fees to Subscriptions

FastSpring

If you’re selling your software, plugin, add-on, or other digital product for a one-time fee, you’re likely thinking about switching to a recurring subscription model. While the financial reasons are strong to switch to subscriptions, your path to roll out this massive change to your business is filled with peril.

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The good, the bad, and the ugly: ChartMogul’s Nick Franklin on navigating hypergrowth

Intercom, Inc.

The situations that portend failure are varied and unfortunately common – no product-market fit, no cash, bad product, burnout, to name just a few of the most obvious. Just look at subscription analytics startup ChartMogul whose brand and product are now a household name in the SaaS community. Poor marketing.

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Vertical SaaS vs Horizontal SaaS: 8 Differences and Similarities

Stax

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. By serving common business needs, horizontal SaaS platforms have a very wide target audience. What is Horizontal SaaS?

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SaaS Billing Best Practices: 10+ Subscription Strategies for SaaS and Software Companies

FastSpring

For example, Jon Torres — a digital marketing consultant specializing in SaaS commerce — noticed that, for some of his clients, refund requests spiked around renewal time. “It We also show you how to personalize your billing practices with advice from our experience working with thousands of SaaS businesses. Learn more here.

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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.