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. Software to track analytics, transfer payments, manage inventory, create videos and for many other things.

SaaS Payments 139

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Merchant Services Sales Recruiting 139

FastSpring

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In Dave’s words, “What is it about your product or service that the users say in their own words they love ?” That’s why Dave recommends testing all the way through to the client or customer taking a subscription. Ifprospects and customers don’t understand what your product is or what your service does, they’re not going to buy it.

Payment Methods 178

Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payments 178

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Check out this 2018 Europa session with Guillaume Princen, Head of France and Southern Europe @ Stripe, where he talks about the metrics you need to be focused on in your startup. So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey. MRR, obviously.

SaaS Payments 231

SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 231

User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Confused about trying to understand SaaS roles? SaaS companies have many moving parts, and it can be difficult to determine who does what. TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. What is a SaaS business model?

Sales Hiring 98

Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 98

Incredo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Asking “what’s the typical commission for SaaS salesperson?” is like asking “how expensive should I price my SaaS product?” what factors to consider before defining your SaaS sales commission percentage. We will share 8 ideas on how to increase your sales team’s productivity and help them close more deals. See below!

SaaS Payments 150

SaaS Payments Compensation Payment Services Sales Recruiting 150

Incredo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Asking “what’s the typical commission for SaaS salesperson?” is like asking “how expensive should I price my SaaS product?” what factors to consider before defining your SaaS sales commission percentage 4. and finally figure out how much that SaaS sales salary should be. In the end, a bonus section is waiting for you!

SaaS Payments 144

SaaS Payments Compensation Payment Services Sales Recruiting 144

Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . build smoother connections both with your prospects through optimized sales process. SaaS Sales Models.

SaaS Payments 157

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 157

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. Table of Contents.

Benchmarks 139

Benchmarks Churn Payments SaaS Payments 139

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Whether you created your SaaS product to help solve a problem you had or because you wanted some extra income, the truth is that your SaaS business is a valuable asset. Running a profitable SaaS business allows you to take control of your own schedule - some would even say your life! Develop a Full Marketing Strategy 2.

SaaS Payments 105

SaaS Payments Technical Review Development Team Review Software Review 105

Baremetrics

MAY 7, 2019

There are more funding and financing options for startups today than there ever have been before. There’s also been an explosion in debate and transparency about navigating startup funding and financing. Let’s explore the funding and financing options for your startup. Funding Your Startup. Buffer spent $3.3

Finance 111

Finance Startup SaaS Payments Payment Methods 111

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Ever since John Koenig first coined the term “SaaS” back in 2005, the software-as-a-service industry has been one of the fastest-moving and creative in the world. The SaaS business model powering all of this activity is startlingly unique, still young, and inextricably tied to the power of cloud computing. What is SaaS?

Business Model 54

Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Highlights from Our Conversation Where Should SaaS Companies Localize [2 min clip] David walked through a step-by-step process to assess where SaaS and software companies should consider localizing. Start with your existing sales and see where there’s interest from existing buyers. Watch the two minute clip for more details.

Payment Methods 78

Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Software Review 78

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Before Optimizely, Travis spent 6 years at Salesforce in a number of sales roles including building the first Platform Sales team. What does Travis advise founders when it comes to uniting customer facing teams? * Why does Travis believe that SaaS has upended the economic model but not the engagement model?

Underperforming Technical Team 163

Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Services Technical Advisors 163

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. What does Krish mean when he says, “In SaaS, you either sell to one of 2 customer profiles”? First, what is continuous customer development?

Scale 132

Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 132

SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

315: Harry Hurst is the Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ Pipe, the startup that gives you control of your cash flow by giving you access to the full annual value of your monthly subscriptions, upfront. Prior to Pipe, Harry co-founded Skurt raising over $11M in the process before being acquired by Fair.com. Loving our podcast content?

SaaS Payments 217

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Finance Payments 217

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 7, 2021

For example, if your conversion ratio is low, is that because your marketing team is bringing in poor leads, your sales team isn’t succeeding in converting high-quality leads, or your development team hasn’t put the best parts of your platform at the front for a successful free trial? Try Baremetrics free.

Payments 98

Payments Sales SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 98

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

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 Casey’s last essay, he covered the differences between regular SaaS companies and SaaS-like Networks. This essay is a collaboration with Gilad Horev.

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Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 52

SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Jos White of Notion and Christian Lanng of Tradeshift team up to show you how to work within, and sometimes around, rules in the workplace. I’m an entrepreneur-turned-investor, co-founder of an early generation one, SaaS company called Message Labs that we founded in 2000. Work smarter, not harder. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

Payments 102

Payments Payment Features SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 102

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. There’s a self-service page, which allows clients to update information on their own.

Merchant Services 51

Merchant Services Subscription Payment Features SaaS Payments 51

How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

SaaS is a global software solution created by different businesses in order to improve human activities in a matter of clicks. SAAS is also abbreviated as software as a service. In this saas marketing strategy guide, we are going to tell you everything about saas marketing. What is SAAS marketing?

Growth Hacking 105

Growth Hacking Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 105

Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

How long is a startup a startup? It came up because people regularly refer to Chargify as a startup, but our company has been around since 2009. Are we still a startup? There are specific stages a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company moves through during its life cycle. Pre-Startup.

Scale 74

Scale SaaS Payments Scaling Payment Services 74

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

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. Romain Huet | Head of Developer Relations @ Stripe. Want to see more content like this? Right, Renaud?

Payments 122

Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 122

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Inbound marketing is the process of getting potential clients to find your company. 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. Attract Attracting customers is a two-step process. Table of Contents.

Payments 98

Payments Payment Methods Payment Solutions Marketing 98

Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Whether you have a Software-as-a-Service, subscription or membership business or you sell one-off products or services and simply want to do business with your customer more than once, Customer Success should be your driving purpose. How to Develop a Customer Success Strategy. Sales Process Engagement.

Customer Success 136

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 136

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. Dare I say SaaS.

Scale 157

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Scaling 157

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 There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform.

Payment Solutions 108

Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 108

OpenView Labs

AUGUST 2, 2019

The farther you get into your startup journey, the bigger the challenges are likely to become. If you feel that your startup’s getting caught in the doldrums, it’s important for you to show focus and determination. Giving in to stress and frustration only leads to bad decisions that could eventually sink you.

Startup 40

Startup Part-Time VPE Payment Solutions Underperforming Technical Team 40

SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

Ep 255: Vikas Bhambri is SVP Sales and Customer Experience @ Kustomer, the startup providing Real-time, actionable views of customers with continuous omnichannel conversations and intelligence that automates repetitive, manual tasks. Why does Vikas believe that a wave of SaaS incumbents are about to be displaced or disrupted?

SaaS Payments 137

SaaS Payments Cloud Technical Review Scale 137

Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

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. But not all SaaS products are alike. Other types of SaaS are relevant only to companies in specific industries.

SaaS Payments 88

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 88

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. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Dare I say SaaS. Our team is in Room 111.

Scale 119

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Sales Hiring 119

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

This builds on the first essay in the series of how there has been an increase in interest of SAAS-like models interested in becoming marketplaces over time. In that essay , we also talked about how a more common route for a SaaS business is to become a platform. Integration platforms are ubiquitous in SaaS.

Payments 56

Payments Business Model Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 56

ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Today, eBay may be looking to subscription to amp up its ecommerce reach. Plus, Pipe, a B2B SaaS financial platform, raises $6 million. Listen wherever you get podcasts: Your top subscription news. And a subscription offering may just be the way to do so. Needless to say, we encourage the subscription embracement.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Payments Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 52

Baremetrics

MARCH 23, 2020

I spent over a week speaking with different SaaS founders and marketers about how they successfully reduced churn for their business. churn by doing something every SaaS business should be doing, but most don’t. For example, a churned user on a $50/mo plan isn’t nearly as bad as a churned user on a $500/mo plan. What is churn?

Churn 145

Churn Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 145

FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

When Justin and his initial team started looking for a way to capitalize on VR/AR technology, they focused their attention on the “made-to-order” industrial market. Dopple’s earliest customers are already seeing a 40% increase in conversions, and 71% of their visitors interact with 3D-enabled products. It starts with self service.

Payment Methods 140

Payment Methods Marketing Payments SaaS Payments 140

Kellblog

AUGUST 7, 2019

In this post we’re going to look at the management accounting side of multi-year SaaS deals that grow in value over time. 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. Let’s take an example from this KPMG data sheet on ASC 606 and SaaS.

Deferred Revenue 74

Deferred Revenue Pricing Payments SaaS Payments 74

OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Working with over 800 startups, many of which I’ve formed personal relationships with, has taught me a lot about what actually moves the needle to improve retention. Sean Ellis, who ran growth in the early days of Dropbox, LogMeIn and Eventbrite benchmarked nearly a hundred startups with his customer development survey.

Retention 52

Retention SaaS Payments Strategy Payment Solutions 52

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

Freemium in SaaS is old news. The much-discussed pricing strategy took over the SaaS world and helped fuel the phenomenal success of SaaS pioneers like Dropbox, Evernote, SurveyMonkey and Hootsuite. Freemium appeared to be declining in popularity and, when it was in place, drove next to zero new ACV for most SaaS companies.

Pricing 82

Pricing Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 82