FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

Last week, I canceled an annual SaaS subscription (I had three weeks left until renewal). Interestingly, even though I paid for a year-long subscription, the company didn’t let me keep the last three weeks of access to its premium features. This action will immediately downgrade your subscription.

Benchmarks 115

Benchmarks Churn Payments SaaS Payments 115

Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

If you’re looking the best online payment processor, you've likely come across options including Stripe and Zuora. Stripe vs. Zuora: Features Stripe vs. Zuora: Features Both Stripe and Zuora are feature-rich solutions, each one with its own pros and cons to offer. Table of Contents. BE HONEST.

Payment Methods 75

Payment Methods Payment Services Technical Review Merchant Services 75

User Pilot

JANUARY 31, 2023

In SaaS, you can grow your revenue only if your churn rate is low, so retaining at-risk customers is crucial. TL;DR At-risk customers are those who are showing signs of canceling their subscriptions. Identifying at-risk customers is crucial for retaining existing customers and growing your SaaS revenue. Let’s dive in!

Churn 98

Churn Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 98

User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. A higher revenue growth rate generally indicates positive business performance.

Sales Hiring 98

Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 98

Baremetrics

DECEMBER 28, 2020

If you’re running a subscription or SaaS business, you know that at the end of the day your chief metric is monthly recurring revenue (MRR). MRR gives your company that forward looking measurement and predictive revenue to actually grow your business. You may be thinking, “How bad can it be?” Think about that.

SaaS Payments 105

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments 105

Neil Patel

APRIL 12, 2021

They offer some of the best-known subscription boxes around, reflecting an increasingly popular (and potentially lucrative) business model. Why Should You Launch a Subscription Box? According to MarketsandMarkets , the subscription and recurring billing market will grow to around $7.8 Recurring Business Revenue.

Outsourcing Services 123

Outsourcing Services Payment Methods Subscription Payment Features 123

ProfitWell

MARCH 12, 2020

The subscription-based economy boom has brought with it more competition than ever before, raising the bar for companies trying to offer recurring products or services to their customers. However, behind the boom lies the rising consumer demand for subscriptions. Payment processing. Customer support. Bookkeeping.

SaaS Payments 59

SaaS Payments Subscription Payment Features Payments 59

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Building on the definitions from that essay and introducing a few new ones, here are the types of business models we’ll cover: SaaS: software that businesses access online and purchase via a subscription e.g. Slack, Adobe, Atlassian. A business is SaaS or SaaS-like if it sells anything else software-related.

Marketplace as a Service 141

Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 141

Frontegg

AUGUST 19, 2021

Users don’t want to write emails or engage with support teams anymore. They want to get onboarded smoothly and just use the software. Onboarding, user management, subscriptions – let’s take a closer look at the potent self-service and PLG combo. Reducing In-App Friction. The answer is simple.

SaaS Payments 98

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions Underperforming Technical Team 98

Incredo

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Precisely – about SaaS affiliate programs… SaaS partner programs entice both software providers and affiliate partners for various reasons: 1) SaaS products are usually low-cost. 2) Software companies can pay high commissions because they don’t sell physical products. 5) Everyone minds his own business.

SaaS Payments 139

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Merchant Services Sales Recruiting 139

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. How FastSpring Simplifies Selling Around the World Automated Localized Checkout Consumers often prefer to pay in their local currency or using payment methods that are popular in their region.

Payment Methods 78

Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Software Review 78

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Your SaaS company likely uses a CRM and/or payment processing software, and the data required to compute these core metrics can be all over the place. Integrating innovative software that can cull MRR values from CRM and payment processing systems is a valuable shortcut. This has a few specific advantages.

Payments 98

Payments Payment Methods Payment Solutions Marketing 98

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The bad news is that marketers waste 37 to 95 percent of their marketing budget. You’ll want to break each of these areas down in enough detail so you (and your team) can work with each of these areas properly. Web developers spend their time on sites like ArsTechnica, Reddit, SitePoint, etc.

Underperforming Technical Team 145

Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Development Payment Methods 145

Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Managing offers, reliable billing, and subscription lifecycle management is complex, creating an iceberg effect for companies that decide to tackle it on their own. It allows us to upgrade, downgrade, or cancel a client’s subscription easily. Below, we’ll shed some light on the great buy vs. build debate. costs money and 2.

Merchant Services 51

Merchant Services Subscription Payment Features SaaS Payments 51

Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 13, 2021

This obsession with getting new customers is natural: the more customers you convert, the more revenue you will make. However, the subscription business model can’t survive if you keep on acquiring new custo mers but the old ones keep on walking away. Software companies that serve large organizations experience a 6-10% churn rate.

SaaS Payments 105

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Churn Payment Services 105

Incredo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

or “how long should I spend on developing my software ?”. To answer your questions correctly, we need to ask for clarification and more details about your software, its complexity and company goals. If you search on Google, Youtube or Quora, answers will tell you that 7%, 9%, 10% or more is the common approach.

SaaS Payments 150

SaaS Payments Compensation Payment Services Sales Recruiting 150

Incredo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

or “how long should I spend on developing my software ?”. To answer your questions correctly, we need to ask for clarification and more details about your software, its complexity and company goals. If you search on Google, Youtube or Quora, answers will tell you that 7%, 9%, 10% or more is the common approach.

SaaS Payments 144

SaaS Payments Compensation Payment Services Sales Recruiting 144

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. First, what is continuous customer development? Krish Subramanian: We are software engineers by training. Does one have to move to enterprise?

Scale 133

Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 133

FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It Cognota didn’t necessarily start as a software business.

Payment Solutions 91

Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 91

Baremetrics

JANUARY 24, 2021

Anyone managing a SaaS or subscription business is aware of customer churn. This is when the good stuff starts to happen within a subscription business In this post I’m going to share the strategy and steps we followed to reduce our monthly customer churn by over 70%, and explain how we positioned Nudge Coach for efficient, long-term growth.

Churn 71

Churn SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Solutions 71

Chargify

MARCH 25, 2019

Recurring subscriptions are becoming the norm in the business world, and for good reason. Subscription services give the end user control over costs and employee access, without the cumbersome contracts. But some software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies struggle with how to sell subscriptions.

SaaS Payments 54

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Subscription Payment Features 54

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In an integration platform, the product integrates with other types of software the product’s customers already use. Even if developers do come, and they happen to build integrations that help customers; if incentives aren’t aligned between the two companies, lasting investment will not happen, and the integrations will be poorly maintained.

Payments 56

Payments Business Model Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 56

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 3, 2018

Rohini Pondhi , product management lead for Square’s Invoices product, knows this challenge well. Here are five quick takeaways: Instead of relying on word of mouth to permeate the team, write things down. At Square, I manage a product called Square Invoices. Iterate on process the same way you iterate on product.

Payment Methods 195

Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payment Features 195

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

From strategies in recruitment and team building to sales tactics, these leaders from Salesforce, nCino, and Vlocity, will discuss the top tips for moving beyond horizontal SaaS and building a billion-dollar SaaS company. Grew to over a hundred million dollars in revenue in five years. I was amazed by the app exchange.

Payment Solutions 155

Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 155

FastSpring

APRIL 4, 2024

As an experienced sales and GTM leader, John Eitel has more than witnessed how product-led growth (PLG) has affected the tech and SaaS space in the last few years — he and his teams have been up close and personal with how PLG increased in popularity as a sales strategy. “I And it makes up for a lot of bad product experiences, right?

Scale 123

Scale Sales Payment Methods Merchant Services 123

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. Know who is the foundation of your product and build your product for that user (in Stripe’s case, developers). Our team is in Room 111.

Scale 157

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Scaling 157

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Building on the definitions from that essay and introducing a few new ones, here are the types of business models we’ll cover: SaaS: software that businesses access online and purchase via a subscription e.g. Slack, Adobe, Atlassian. A business is SaaS or SaaS-like if it sells anything else software-related.

Marketplace as a Service 52

Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 52

SaaStr

MARCH 18, 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. But we provide a combination of APIs and software. Our team is in Room 111. They were self taught developers. Dare I say SaaS. Your registration.

Scale 121

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Sales Hiring 121

ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Building a strong pricing strategy starts with hiring a professional team to conduct a pricing audit. A pricing audit assesses your subscription business’ pricing process to ensure consistency across similar accounts, maximize profitability, and benchmark against other companies. What does your revenue look like? Monetization.

Payments 45

Payments Pricing Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments 45

FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

Note: FastSpring offers advanced subscription management services that support free trials, monthly and annual paid plans, proration, discount management, and more. He then sent out a link to this page inside payment failure notification emails. How My Marketing Concepts upsells annual payments during trial. Learn more here.

Merchant Services 111

Merchant Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 111

OpenView Labs

AUGUST 2, 2019

You may start to miss your revenue targets. Giving in to stress and frustration only leads to bad decisions that could eventually sink you. Fortunately, thanks to the growing popularity of SaaS as a distribution model for business applications, enterprise-grade software products are now actually more affordable.

Startup 40

Startup Part-Time VPE Payment Solutions Underperforming Technical Team 40

ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Today, eBay may be looking to subscription to amp up its ecommerce reach. Listen wherever you get podcasts: Your top subscription news. And a subscription offering may just be the way to do so. For years, our friend Tien Tzuo over at Zuora has claimed that virtually every company will go subscription.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Payments Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 52

ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

the stuff that Customer Success teams are really meant to do). One customer success trend I’m seeing is the need to develop more repeatable customer education programs. The biggest trend I see emerging in Europe, which started at the end of 2018 is Customer Success Plans becoming a staple asset of Customer Success teams.

Customer Success 73

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 73

ProfitWell

MARCH 2, 2020

The subscription economy is built on relationships. A customer success strategy is also one of the most important tools that SaaS and subscriptions have for boosting retention rates. When a customer encounters an issue with a product or service, they’ll reach out to a customer service/support team to resolve them.

Customer Success 72

Customer Success SaaS Payments Strategy Payment Services 72

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

Not satisfied with reaching $1 billion in annual revenue, Atlassian furthered its commitment to product led growth by jumping on the freemium bandwagon. Is freemium an effective lead generation, conversion, and revenue driving strategy for your recurring revenue-based business? Freemium benchmarks.

Pricing 82

Pricing Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 82

FastSpring

JANUARY 31, 2023

To help you choose between Stripe vs. Paddle vs. FastSpring, this guide compares: What areas of the payment lifecycle each one provides a solution for (e.g., payment processing, gathering and remitting taxes, and subscription management) and what additional software you’ll need to add to your tech stack.

Payment Services 112

Payment Services Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Features 112

Kellblog

AUGUST 7, 2019

Say you sign a three-year deal with a customer that ramps in payment structure: year 1 costs $1M, year 2 costs $2M, and year 3 costs $3M. the right for 1,000 people to use a SaaS service) – so the payment structure is purely financial in nature and not related to customer value. Payment structure. $1M. GAAP revenue. $1M.

Deferred Revenue 74

Deferred Revenue Pricing Payments SaaS Payments 74