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

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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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Most SaaS Metrics Really Only Work if You Have 75%+ Gross Margins and 100%+ NRR

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So over the past decade-and-a-half we’ve come up with a lot of yardsticks, metrics and rules for SaaS companies. E.g.,: CAC of < 12 months is Good-to-Great Paying sales reps 25%-30% of what they close is Good A burn ratio of 1 or less is Good These metrics do sort of work, if you have some capital to spend (i.e., It depends.

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Best Payment Processors for Startups

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The story of payment processors begins in 1998 when Confinity (later X.com, but you probably know it as PayPal) was released. This early payment processor did very little and wasn’t all that important to global commerce. That history might be interesting to some, but the real questions are: What are payment processors?

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FastSpring and DutchBasecamp Present: Optimize Local Pricing to Dramatically Increase SaaS Revenue

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Some businesses outgrow their home countries after a seed or startup period that saw initial success domestically, while some businesses founded with niche markets or in smaller countries may need international sales as table stakes on day one. Learn more about what DutchBasecamp does here.

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Customers Are Asking for Longer Payment Terms. Should You Push Back?

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So one thing that’s back now is customers asking for longer payment terms. And it’s super stressful on startups, especially earlier-stage ones. Your champion likely doesn’t benefit from longer payments terms themselves. Make sure you are budgeting at least for longer payment terms. That’s great.

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What is the SaaS Magic Number and How Do You Calculate It?

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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. Enter the SaaS Magic Number, which measures the return on sales and marketing spend in generating new subscription revenue.

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How to Make It Through the Pre-Revenue Startup Phase

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The pre-revenue startup phase has a host of stresses that hopefully disappear as the company begins to earn revenue. Depending on the amount invested, it is possible that all members of the team are working full time jobs to support themselves and then doing that again to push their startup onto the market.

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