FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

We asked a group of SaaS founders and software engineers what they look for, and we heard a wide variety of answers, including: Subscription management Payment methods Fraud detection and prevention PCI compliance Currency conversion Localization VAT and sales tax. Is it the interface? Conversion optimization options?

Payment Services 147

Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions 147

SaaStr

JULY 2, 2025

In Microsoft’s home state of Washington, software engineering was by far the largest single job category to receive layoff notices, making up more than 40% of the roughly 2,000 positions cut in the May round. These aren’t random cuts across the organization.

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Technical Review AI VP of Engineering Azure 203

FastSpring

MARCH 15, 2023

SaaS accounting software can help you automate: Recurring invoicing. Payment processing. Payment reconciliation. Payment reminders. Subscription management. And more … However, it’s almost impossible to find one accounting software solution that satisfies all your needs as a SaaS company.

Payment Solutions 78

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services Merchant Services 78

Stax

MAY 30, 2024

Field service management software is a system that helps a company monitor and coordinate their employees’ activities off the company’s premises. The software allows managers to view and modify work schedules, orders, inventory, invoices, customer account records, and other records in the database. You need to do it right.

Payment Solutions 88

Payment Solutions Payment Services Merchant Services SaaS Payments 88

How To Buy Saas

APRIL 8, 2024

Now, before we jump to the idea that software engineers will soon be relics of the past, let’s hit pause. They’re changing the game on how engineers work and the kinds of projects they dive into. Let’s peel back the layers on what low-code and no-code tech means for the software engineering world.

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Software Engineering Engineering Software Software Development 40

Stax

AUGUST 26, 2024

Talk to sales Let’s start at the beginning Stax—then called Fattmerchant—launched in July 2014 and was immediately viewed as a disruptor in the payments space due to its subscription-based model and transparent pricing for SMBs. “I’ve been at Stax for 8 years now. Stax is a fun place to work!

Payment Services 88

Payment Services Merchant Services Stax Payment Solutions 88

CloudGeometry

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The quality of collaboration in software development is measured by a direct line of sight into the customer experience. DevOps is a given in today’s software engineering world. ” It goes beyond the classic SaaS business metrics of churn, renewals, subscriptions, and other feature-driven indicators.

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DevOps as a Service Software Delivery Scale Benchmarks 130

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

We paid a $2500 bonus for any referral, and then we paid a $10,000 referral bonus for anybody that referred a software engineer. 10,000 bonus for referring a software engineer. A friend of mine introduced me to a book that I highly recommend to everybody. Very simple idea, $2000 bonus for referring anybody.

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Sales Recruiting Scale Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring 196

SaaSOptics

MAY 24, 2018

For a B2B SaaS or subscription business, finance operations are no longer just a back office function. We derive our assessment from the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) which was originally created by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) in the 1980s to assess the ability of government contractors to implement software projects.

Payment Services 40

Payment Services Finance Payment Features Payment Solutions 40

Baremetrics

AUGUST 5, 2021

While you’re here, you should try Baremetrics to view your subscription data and financial metrics in real-time, all in one place. Salaries, web hosting fees, transportation, software subscriptions, equipment purchases, hardware repairs, advertising fees etc are just some of the types of costs that compose a SaaS company’s expenses.

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Payment Methods Management Payment Solutions Payments 85

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey. In the world where tech talent is so hard to find and to recruit, what are your software engineers spending their time on? Transcript. Thank you very much. Hi, everybody. Thanks for coming.

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SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 247

The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The product development is led out of Germany by Jan Riedel, a software engineer virtuoso and veteran, who Loyalty Prime was able to win as their new CTO at the beginning of 2019. Riedel summarizes: “We will be extending the power of AI to all aspects of loyalty program management with our next generation SaaS platform.

Generative AI 90

Generative AI Artificial Intelligence CTO Coach Venture Capital 90

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

With the advent of the subscription economy, support is increasingly responsible for fostering that relationship over time (which can lead to more long-term revenue). It is very different than traditional software engineering. Short on time? It is very hard to do. How did we learn it? How did we focus?

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Scale Scaling Underperforming Technical Team AI Search 156

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2018

I thought, “If this guy can do it with a nuclear submarine, we can definitely do it with the internet and software.”. Sometimes it feels like there’s no idea sharing in the way that software engineers do management, where we think about, “How do you break things into component parts and have distributed systems that talk to each other?”

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Engineering Leadership Technical Review Software Review 135

Frontegg

JULY 23, 2020

Take a company like Stripe for example, an online payment processing gateway that handles all of your financial transactions, subscriptions and payment details. What if you decided to focus a large part of your development on figuring out how to receive payments from your customers while neglecting your true business features?

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SaaS Payments Development Payment Services Payment Solutions 98

Audacix

JUNE 9, 2023

Table Of Contents As a software engineering leader, you know application security is no longer an activity that you can palm off to someone else. With the increasing number of sensitive data security breaches, it's essential to have the right automated application security tools in place to protect your software.

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Software Review Software DevOps as a Service AWS 66

ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Your top subscription news. We’re eyeing the “ 8 tips for better negotiation ” that Product Manager and Software Engineer Matt Andrews outlined in a recent piece. T here you have it, your February 13 subscription news. This has been a Recur Studios production—the fastest-growing subscription network out there.

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Revenue Social Media Travel Pricing 52

Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

Best of all, the types of smart people that you run into in tech run the gamut from highly technical software engineers, to massively creative designers and marketers, to analytical data wizzes and finance experts. As a US citizen, it’s very clear to me that many of our best and brightest go into this field.

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Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 102

Outseta

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

The fund focuses exclusively on subscription software companies and is willing to invest in pre-revenue companies. Founders agree to a salary cap (based off of the average salary of a software engineer in the nearest major city), and can increase their salary up to that cap as the business makes money.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments SaaS 102

Valuize Consulting

APRIL 7, 2020

The previous example of outcome selling will have you acquiring customers who are at high risk of churn from day 1 of their subscription with your company. SaaStastic offers a software product that helps software engineering teams reduce costs. The pitfalls of unrealistic outcome selling.

Software Engineering 52

Software Engineering Sales Enablement Churn Engineering 52

ProfitWell

MARCH 25, 2019

Good morning subscription fans, Abby here on International Waffle Day. But first, let’s jump into the recurring revenue news that keeps us rolling. Abstract automatically updates work files, allows project managers to assign tasks, and enables designers and engineers to interface easily. The Rundown In resources.

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Software Review Scale Technical Review Software Engineering 45

ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Today's Top Subscription News. Stripe, the online payment processing system for internet businesses, is expanding across Europe. This isn’t surprising by any means - Europe has one of the highest densities of software engineers in the world and thriving startup ecosystems are growing across the region.".

Payment Solutions 40

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments Entertainment 40

Sylvia Ng

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

At least a Bachelor degree in software engineering. Exceptional proficiency in software engineering. Work closely with the CEO to realize vision for data infrastructure and business intelligence tools and hit subscription goals. Marketing or related field a plus. You have a Bachelor’s or better in a STEM field.

Engineering 74

Engineering Growth Hacking Scale Social Media 74

The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The product development is led out of Germany by Jan Riedel, a software engineer virtuoso and veteran, who Loyalty Prime was able to win as their new CTO at the beginning of 2019. Riedel summarizes: “We will be extending the power of AI to all aspects of loyalty program management with our next generation SaaS platform.

Generative AI 52

Generative AI Artificial Intelligence CTO Coach Venture Capital 52

How SaaS Works

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The simplest example of SaaS is a product accessed by a user through a web browser for a monthly subscription fee. SaaS has three primary qualifiers : The software product is centrally hosted by the vendor. The software product is continuously updated. The customer does not own the software but pays for the right to use it.

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SaaS Payments Scale Payment Solutions SaaS 40

Outseta

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Realizing that Codewars had helped them develop a strong methodology for assessing coding ability, the founders then pivoted and turned that same assessment methodology into a platform that companies use for hiring software engineers. Both markets segments are over-served and highly competitive.

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Product Marketing Marketing Sales Hiring Education 50

Chart Mogul

MARCH 10, 2023

– Nicholas Mills, President, Pitch The shift to subscription-based models has changed how a company operates. Slack’s magic in their use of PLG was that they were landing with software engineers in tech companies that were probably 40 to 50% of the overall company headcounts and very influential. That has gone away.

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VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Sales Compensation 52

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

And so I’m so thrilled to welcome back Krish Subramanian, founder and CEO at Chargebee, the startup that lets you go beyond payment, billing, and recurring invoices to delivering subscription experiences that wow and what they’re doing now in the world of rev ops, trust me, it’s pretty mind blowing.

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Scale Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Payment Services 156

Chaotic Flow

OCTOBER 13, 2015

We use the word ‘value’ alot in SaaS: lifetime customer value, average subscription value, total contract value, SaaS company value, and so on. The Forgotten Agile Customer. Agile SaaS aims to accelerate SaaS business growth increasing the velocity of value delivered to your SaaS customers.

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SaaS Software Development Software Review Outsourced Development 149

Neil Patel

MARCH 4, 2021

Messenger is a one-click subscription instead of having to type in your email, click submit, confirm email, etc. However, with the help of software engineers or a tool for beginners, you can too create a chat bot. From your perspective as a marketer, building an email list takes a lot of work.

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Underperforming Technical Team AI Search Sales Hiring Mobile 144

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Cassie spent the first pre-SaaS chapter of her tech career in growth roles in subscription and marketplace businesses (TheLadders.com, GLG). Katie Carty Tierney is an Area Vice President for the Americas at BMC Software. and then re-entering the workforce as a Solutions Engineer. Katie Carty Tierney.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 136

Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 8, 2024

We’ve even seen hospitals hiring software engineers to custom-build technology to manage these end-to-end processes. We’ve previously described alternative models for aligning the timing of payments with the realization of benefit, and some examples of subscription-based models have been implemented in the wild.

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Technical Review Payment Solutions Payment Services Healthcare 22

Clouded Judgement

APRIL 18, 2025

OpenAI has also talked about / previewed in recent interviews their own software engineering agent (SWE agent) that is on the horizon. Most public companies don’t report net new ARR, so I’m taking an implied ARR metric (quarterly subscription revenue x 4). Elsewhere, Anthropic recently launched Claude Code.

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Cloud AI ChatGPT Scale 176

FastSpring

MARCH 20, 2025

But most game developers, while they have a bunch of engineers at the company, they don’t have software engineers. It’s mainly driven by subscriptions and all players are effectively the same, or users are worth the same amount of money to you in a very real way. David Vogelpohl (08:22) Yeah.

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Payments Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Solutions 123