Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 30, 2022

By building a strong business tech stack for your startup – covering everything from incorporation to growing long-lasting customer relationships – you can not only win back time and establish best practices, but create a solid foundation for your business to grow. Ready to take your startup to the next level?

Scale 164

Scale Payment Services Startup AWS 164

Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

Join the payments-led growth movement Sign up to keep up-to-date with the latest trends in payments, vertical SaaS, and technology from industry experts. Part of this can be attributed to the SaaS model’s unique aspect of relying primarily on future revenue. Take a traditional business, like a furniture store.

Scale 117

Scale Payment Services Payments SaaS Payments 117

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

How can a simple offering be transformed into its own platform? Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Want to see more content like this?

Payments 147

Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 147

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. Ceci Stallsmith – Director of Platform Marketing @ Slack.

Payments 124

Payments Scale Scaling Revenue 124

FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Chargebee is a robust subscription management platform. However, there are certain aspects of collecting recurring payments that you would still be responsible for when using Chargebee, such as: Connecting to payment gateways manually. Reconciling payments, fulfillment, refunds, etc. Process chargebacks.

Payment Methods 148

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Services Payments 148

Payrix

JANUARY 30, 2024

That simple idea eventually led to fitDEGREE, Nick’s growing software startup for class-based fitness studios that want a more community-driven way to manage their local business. Nick realized that adding payments to the software product was the only way he could continue to compete in the space, so he took the opportunity.

Payment Services 130

Payment Services Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions 130

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

A problem many founders are trying to solve right now is going upmarket to Enterprise, and Lemkin and Grinich have a passionate perspective that every startup should take steps to check those Enterprise boxes in their first year. Developer-Led Growth Differs From Product-Led Growth WorkOS is a developer platform. It’s not an option.

Enterprise readiness 277

Enterprise readiness Payment Solutions Enterprise Payments 277

FastSpring

JUNE 22, 2022

Look at Zoom or Slack: businesses designed for enterprise organizations that use B2C-like onboarding flows (such as product-led growth, or PLG) to fuel interest and adoption. Are you making it easy for all your customers to pay you (such as localized currency and payment methods)? The post SaaS: Is B2B Revenue Better than B2C?

B2C 148

B2C Payments SaaS Payments B2B 148

SaaStr

APRIL 1, 2023

Certa was still an unknown startup three years ago when Linda walked past their booth at a conference. She had recently been hired at Box, and her first big project was to upgrade the internal user experience for vendor onboarding and management. So no payment until the solution goes live.

Payment Methods 238

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payment Services Sales Hiring 238

User Pilot

MAY 17, 2025

At Userpilot, we help teams meet those expectations with better onboarding, in-app guidance, and personalized engagement. And thanks to no-code platforms , you dont always need a full dev team to ship something great. AI and ML integration AI isnt just changing how apps behave. Its also changing how teams build them.

Mobile 84

Mobile Payment Solutions Payments Trends 84

Stax

APRIL 17, 2025

Instead of pouring resources solely into acquiring new customers, smart SaaS businesses focus on increasing revenue from existing customers by guiding them to higher tiers, unlocking premium features, and expanding their usage. Thats where premium support or onboarding packages come in.

Payments 88

Payments Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Services 88

Frontegg

MAY 28, 2022

With more and more businesses offering their services online, payment processing is now taking centerstage. Creating a secure and smooth payment pipeline is becoming increasingly important, with users expecting more in-app freedom with the ability to purchase or upgrade their accounts with just a few clicks.

SaaS Payments 98

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Payments 98

Incredo

JULY 14, 2019

Whether you are a startup owner, a manager of a growing business or the CEO of an established company, you might find yourself asking questions like “ Should our SaaS subscription model be monthly, annually or both ?” The recurring revenue (subscription) model is usually “opposed” to the transactional or pay-as-you-go model.

Payment Features 184

Payment Features SaaS Payments Payment Methods Subscription 184

Stax

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

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?

Payments 88

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services Merchant Services 88

FastSpring

JANUARY 10, 2023

Checkout (including payment processing and gathering sales tax, GST, and VAT). Handling failed payments and customer notifications. Reconciling payment with accounts and remitting sales tax, GST, and VAT. The second factor to consider is whether or not the solution was built for your type of business.

Payment Solutions 146

Payment Solutions Payment Features Payment Methods Software Review 146

Chaotic Flow

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Great SaaS product management professionals don’t simply specify features and functions, they create online experiences that satisfy business, professional and personal needs. And in the course of satisfying those needs, they drive revenue growth by pushing the three fundamental SaaS growth levers.

SaaS Payments 200

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments Scale 200

Stax

AUGUST 26, 2024

The year 2024 is a special one for everyone at Stax because we’re celebrating a decade of transforming the payments industry and supporting our merchants and partners with innovative technologies and unwavering support. ” The early years (2014-2018) The first four years of Stax were the quintessential startup experience.

Payment Services 88

Payment Services Merchant Services Stax Payment Solutions 88

User Pilot

JANUARY 11, 2024

With so many options out there for consumers, the FinTech onboarding process is crucial for any FinTech company looking to set itself apart. A seamless onboarding experience , thus, creates the right first impression, setting you up for success. Make the onboarding journey enjoyable by providing clear instructions and guidance.

Onboarding 105

Onboarding Payment Services Customer Success Payment Solutions 105

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

You’d probably work on growing your business, right? Maybe you’d spend it creating new marketing campaigns to generate more revenue. Regardless, the average small business owner spends five hours every pay period running payroll. The best payroll services exist to simplify the process of paying your employees.

Payment Services 145

Payment Services SaaS Payments Outsourcing Services Payment Solutions 145

FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

“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.”. Because word-of-mouth for us is actually much bigger fuel than the revenue that we’re collecting or churning or dropping or whatever.”.

Benchmarks 147

Benchmarks Churn Payments SaaS Payments 147

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 1, 2018

They help their users be successful, and that means providing great onboarding. At Traction Conference, an event all about how to keep and grow customers and revenue at scale, I explained how to build onboarding based on your customers’ goals, and why when your product improves, your onboarding must improve with it.

Retention 223

Retention Payment Methods Onboarding Payment Solutions 223

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Tracking revenue on a spreadsheet is easy, but understanding the underlying factors influencing revenue growth rate is a different ball game. As you read on, you will learn: How to properly define revenue growth. Related metrics that impact your revenue and how to use the insights to turn your product into a growth engine.

Payments 105

Payments Revenue Payment Features SaaS Payments 105

Casey Accidental

JUNE 9, 2020

Retention is not only the primary measure of product value and product/market fit for most businesses; it is also the biggest driver of monetization and acquisition as well. We typically think of monetization as the lifetime value formula, which is how long a user is active along with revenue per active user.

Retention 145

Retention Benchmarks Payments Payment Methods 145

Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 23, 2024

At a16z’s recent Connect/Fintech event, a16z Partner Alex Immerman sat down for a broad conversation with Immad Akhund , co-founder and CEO of banking startup Mercury , and René Lacerte, founder and CEO of financial services company BILL. Alex: The other side of the equation on customer acquisition is monetization.

Payments 110

Payments Forecasting Payment Services Sales Hiring 110

Stax

APRIL 30, 2024

Accepting card payments is a must for small to medium businesses today. Whether you’re a freelance service provider, a cafe owner, or a retailer, card payments are king, and your credit card processing account is where you hold power to manage and control your fees.

Payment Methods 88

Payment Methods Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions 88

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Revenue Performance Management (RPM) is when a company monitors its revenue performance, tracks how revenue is affected by strategic decisions, figures out revenue drivers, and then optimizes operations to drive revenue growth. Without the systemized focus on pushing revenue up, companies can falter.

Payments 97

Payments Revenue Payment Services SaaS Payments 97

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Userpilot is a digital adoption platform (DAP) with strong CRO tools to boost conversions like user behavior tracking, funnel analysis, and A/B testing. Hotjar is a popular heatmap and product insights tool that offers cross-platform heatmaps, rage clicks, and scroll maps. See our pricing or get a free Userpilot demo ! Trend analytics.

Payments 104

Payments Revenue Payment Solutions Payment Methods 104

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

However, as they are multi-purpose in nature, you cannot expect these features to not be as in-depth and robust as more specialist platforms. Content management platforms. Thought leadership – In many industries, it is useful for people of prominence to share their unique insights on a public platform. eCommerce platforms.

Payment Methods 145

Payment Methods Technical Review Software Review Systems Review 145

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.

Payment Features 88

Payment Features Payment Solutions Payment Services Payments 88

User Pilot

MARCH 7, 2022

A smooth onboarding process is like the key to a puzzle. A customer’s payment is typically the finish line of a race. Onboarding customers is crucial to developing a long-term relationship with them and ensuring their loyalty to the business. Make customer onboarding as seamless as possible.

Onboarding 98

Onboarding Engagement Payment Methods SaaS Payments 98

User Pilot

JULY 4, 2023

Reasons for seeking out Typeform alternatives vary from pricing concerns to the need for better branding options, more payment integrations, greater ease of use, etc. Outgrow goes beyond form building to deliver a content marketing platform. It features user segmentation and targeting and works with 1000+ integrations.

Payments 95

Payments Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 95

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 22, 2018

Fast forward to today, and Eventbrite is the world’s largest self-service event ticketing and registration platform – processing more than 3 million tickets each week. That company would go on to be acquired by TaskRabbit, where he helped 3x core business volume as co-head of marketing. It’s been a lot of fun.

Marketplace as a Service 189

Marketplace as a Service Scale Payment Solutions Payment Services 189

Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

In the corporate sector or the business world, there can be two approaches to hunt customers. First, some companies target small businesses and startups. Small companies having limited business needs and requirements are easy to hunt and on board.

Payments 59

Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments 59

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

by size and stage (startup, closely held private company, newly-public, nonprofit, Fortune 50) by core value (products, services, community) But I have seen that SaaS companies have more in common with other recurring revenue businesses than they might think. 2: Payment structure SaaS is paid on a recurring basis.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Subscription Payment Features B2B 52

Casey Accidental

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Tim Kendall, the former President of Pinterest, repeated those words at an all hands to describe our strategy for monetization a few years ago. My role as an advisor to Greylock’s portfolio companies allows me to work with many different types of businesses: consumer social, marketplaces, SaaS, etc.

Payments 70

Payments Revenue VP of Engineering Payment Methods 70

Buffer Resources

JULY 11, 2023

Five months after launching was the first time my creator startup hit four-figures in earnings. This was all achieved while also running the operations for my family's traditional business as my nine-to-five. Deciding to launch this endeavor was a multi-year process of procrastination, fear, and doubt.

Payments 81

Payments Social Media Systems Review Payment Methods 81

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. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Manual processes first. Know your forever user.

Scale 157

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Scaling 157