Stax

JANUARY 8, 2024

For SaaS companies, becoming a payment facilitator (or PayFac) offers a ton of advantages—including but not limited to—boosting retention and profitability while exercising greater control over the customer experience. However, several complex types of risks come along with this. Let’s get started.

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Merchant Services Payfac Payment Services SaaS Payments 88

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 this essay, we’ll go deeper into the gradients of marketplace models that a company can sequence to, and as a follow up, we will do the same for platforms.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In that essay , we also talked about how a more common route for a SaaS business is to become a platform. Platforms can create an immense amount of long-term value for companies, or be a minor component of their product strategy to maintain product/market fit. The Types of Platforms. Integration Platforms.

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Payments Business Model Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 56

User Pilot

MARCH 23, 2023

And how can customer success teams address them to ensure product growth? The key difference is that customer churn measures the number of customers a business lost, whereas revenue churn measures the revenue lost due to customer churn. 3: Poor customer service or experience with the sales teams can make customers churn.

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SaaS Payments Churn Underperforming Technical Team Payment Methods 93

FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2023

As the Director of Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships at WP Engine , Carl has worked on many acquisitions and partnerships, including brands like Flywheel, Perfect Dashboard, Block Lab, and recently, Delicious Brains. “This is everyday for me, so I love talking about it,” says Carl Hargreaves about mergers and acquisitions.

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Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review Branding 136

ChurnZero

AUGUST 14, 2020

At ChurnZero, we’re humble enough to admit that Customer Success software can’t do it all, and quite frankly, it shouldn’t. We stick to our circle of competence and focus on our area of expertise: Customer Success software. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Software. Customer Support/Service Software and Ticketing Systems.

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Payments Payment Solutions Customer Success Software Review 87

Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In this episode, a16z partner Seema Amble talks with Dimitri Dadiomov, the co-founder and CEO of payment operations platform Modern Treasury, about the challenges of creating a new category, hiring for marketing before you hire for sales, and why developing new features is similar to birding. And that was the origin story.

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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services Payments 113

User Pilot

OCTOBER 6, 2022

How can you analyze customer behavior in-app to deliver unparalleled in-app experiences? Group your user base into granular customer segments by shared characteristics—jobs to be done, in-app engagement , or user feedback. Design in-app strategies to improve retention based on the collected data.

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Payment Solutions Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Customer Lifetime Value 89

Scytale

MARCH 19, 2024

In this blog, we’ll walk through best practices for getting audit-ready, from getting your documentation together to prepping your team. We’ll share insider tips to help you approach your next audit with confidence, sail through with flying colors, and get back to business as usual. But first… What Are Third-Party Audits?

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Payment Services Payment Solutions compliance Payments 52

Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

If you’re looking the best online payment processor, you've likely come across options including Stripe and Zuora. Both power a wide range of companies, but which is the best for your business? Wide Range of Payment Options Stripe helps companies take their business international, with support for over 135 currencies.

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Payment Methods Payment Services Technical Review Merchant Services 75

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. What is a SaaS business model? Average salary: $192,383/yr. Average salary: $151,254/yr.

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User Pilot

APRIL 8, 2021

Here’s a sobering truth: if you run a SaaS company and don’t use customer analytics software , you probably won’t be in business very long. Gone are the days when business leaders can afford to make decisions solely on the basis of intuition. What is Customer Analytics Software? Best Customer Analytics Software 1.

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Payment Solutions Software Review SaaS Payments Software 52

Audacix

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Even after knowing the massive difference that automated vulnerability scanning tools can make, many organizations are hesitant to integrate application security tools in the software development life cycle. Similarly, testers and developers need to know about these features of application security tools.

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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. The main factors contributing to at-risk customers include poor onboarding process , lack of product value perception, lousy customer support, unfixed bugs, and no learning materials, resource center, and FAQs.

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Churn Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 95

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 10, 2021

It is not enough to just get as many eyes on your site as possible (although that is nice)—you need to get those visitors with needs that your platform meets. 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.

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Payments Payment Methods Payment Solutions Marketing 98

User Pilot

MARCH 26, 2024

As you’re researching digital analytics tools, you’ve probably noticed how hard it is to find reliable information on the available solutions. To make your life a little bit easier and help you choose the best digital analytics tool for your SaaS, we’ve produced a guide of 15 excellent analytics platforms available on the market in 2024.

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Artificial Intelligence SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 52

User Pilot

MARCH 26, 2024

As you’re researching digital analytics tools, you’ve probably noticed how hard it is to find reliable information on the available solutions. To make your life a little bit easier and help you choose the best digital analytics tool for your SaaS, we’ve produced a guide of 15 excellent analytics platforms available on the market in 2024.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 52

User Pilot

MARCH 26, 2024

As you’re researching digital analytics tools, you’ve probably noticed how hard it is to find reliable information on the available solutions. To make your life a little bit easier and help you choose the best digital analytics tool for your SaaS, we’ve produced a guide of 15 excellent analytics platforms available on the market in 2024.

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Artificial Intelligence SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 52

User Pilot

MARCH 26, 2024

As you’re researching digital analytics tools, you’ve probably noticed how hard it is to find reliable information on the available solutions. To make your life a little bit easier and help you choose the best digital analytics tool for your SaaS, we’ve produced a guide of 15 excellent analytics platforms available on the market in 2024.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 52

User Pilot

MARCH 26, 2024

As you’re researching digital analytics tools, you’ve probably noticed how hard it is to find reliable information on the available solutions. To make your life a little bit easier and help you choose the best digital analytics tool for your SaaS, we’ve produced a guide of 15 excellent analytics platforms available on the market in 2024.

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Artificial Intelligence SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 52

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.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Merchant Services Sales Recruiting 139

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. Matt Garratt: If you just look at Vlocity and nCino, amazing businesses. I was amazed by the app exchange.

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Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 148

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. Considering blogging is such a crucial part of the web, some website builders have been designed with a content management system in mind. Ease of use.

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Payment Methods Technical Review Software Review Systems Review 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.”.

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Benchmarks Churn Payments SaaS Payments 123

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.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Software Review 78

Neil Patel

JANUARY 21, 2021

If you’re serious about growing your startup, you’ll eventually need to put down the pen and paper to-do list and upgrade to a SaaS solution. Wrike is a versatile and comprehensive project management tool, perfect for startups and businesses of all sizes. It’s not just a platform for startups and solopreneurs, either.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions Outsourcing Services Payments 110

Casey Accidental

MAY 27, 2021

Every problem should have user research involved at the beginning, aligned on the problem instead of just validating or invalidating solutions. Every engineer, designer and product manager on the team should be involved in defining the problem and the solution. Product development projects always have very high opportunity cost.

Underperforming Technical Team 145

Underperforming Technical Team Payment Solutions Payment Services Payments 145

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 this essay, we’ll go deeper into the gradients of marketplace models that a company can sequence to, and as a follow up, we will do the same for platforms.

Marketplace as a Service 52

Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 52

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. Our team is in Room 111.

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Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Scaling 152

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Here’s a simple example of what it looks like (alongside HTML, in this case): The reason PHP is so popular is because it operates server-side, which means it’s already embedded in HTML so it’s simple, efficient, and forgiving. However, this flexibility is what gives developers room to work without too many restrictions.

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Underperforming Technical Team Payment Methods Payment Services Payments 124

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. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) was a true gamechanger in the software space, but even that is changing fast with the Product-Led Growth revolution. Reducing In-App Friction.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions Underperforming Technical Team 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.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments 105

User Pilot

JUNE 20, 2023

Some effective strategies for building user trust include: Mapping the customer journey to understand the difficulties users face as they progress through your app. Performing usability tests at different phases of your design process to help you identify and fix design problems. It provides fast, robust, and inexpensive results.

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Payment Methods SaaS Payments Strategy Payment Services 90

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

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Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 95

FastSpring

JANUARY 26, 2024

And at a company like Sideways 6 — whose product is an idea management software to help organizations engage people and foster innovation — that emphasis on collaboration gets even louder. But the support team are responsible for first response times, for things like NPS, whereas what we’re responsible for is, ultimately, outcomes.”

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Baremetrics

JANUARY 24, 2021

Transitioning to SaaS On January 1st 2020, we transitioned the company out of a strategic partnership (we were operating the platform under a non SaaS business model!). We were looking to relaunch the user-driven, SaaS side of our businesses. This means that our revenue churn was very low.

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Churn SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Solutions 71

Audacix

MAY 27, 2022

How to build a culture of security within your SaaS development team? In order to get your repeat business, they forget to explain just how you can build a repeatable, scaleable and consistent application security structure within your software development teams.

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Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team Payment Services 52