SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

ContaAzul is a business management platform for small businesses created in Brazil. Its focus is on helping companies handle financial routine and streamlining processes related to accounting, banks, stock, and electronic invoicing, among others. Vindi is a PCI-certified online payment platform for recurring billing.

SaaS Payments 257

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments 257

Subscription Flow

MAY 27, 2024

Its user-friendly interface and versatile range of features has made it a popular choice for consumers since its debut in 2014. Apple Pay recurring payments, one of the evolving features of this payment method, simplifies subscription billing for customers by storing all their payment information and passwords in one place.

Payment Features 105

Payment Features Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Solutions 105

Stax

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Stax Payments , a leading payment technology provider, has appointed Mark Sundt as Chief Technology Officer. Sundt brings more than 30 years of expertise as a technology leader to his new role, with a deep background in payments and transforming businesses with groundbreaking technology solutions. and Canada.

CTO 88

CTO Payments Stax Merchant Services 88

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Facebook was peerless, however, in being able to harness and monetize all that attention, even if that success brought uncomfortable scrutiny. In Asia, the likes of Alibaba’s Alipay and Tencent’s WeChat Pay demonstrate how apps are revolutionizing our economies – they have swiftly become the default payment mechanism across China.

Payment Solutions 259

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Software SaaS Payments 259

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

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. Payments has been around for thousands of years.

Scale 160

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Scaling 160

Buffer Resources

APRIL 10, 2024

In 2014, making money on social media was a feat for a select few people like travel creator Gabby Beckford ( @packslight ), who made $2,000 for six Instagram posts in the same year. Fast-forward a decade, and the landscape of creator monetization has changed completely. And this might be where your next monetization idea comes from.

Payments 118

Payments Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service Payment Services 118

Valuize Consulting

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In today’s competitive SaaS landscape, Customer Success has emerged as a vital strategic asset, driving revenue growth and long-term profitability. However, to fully unlock its potential, companies must go beyond qualitative insights and bring data into the decision-making process within Customer Success ranks and investments.

Payment Services 52

Payment Services SaaS Payments Customer Success Payments 52

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

A few of the leading companies in the Cloud 100 list, as put together by Forbes, of leading enterprise software companies are in industry verticals and just on the Salesforce platform, the three most valuable companies built on the platform were industry-vertical companies, including nCino, Vlocity, and Veeva.

Payment Solutions 215

Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 215

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Niche marketplaces allow businesses to leverage the power and branding of larger platforms to reach their target audiences. Today, with 11 percent of all shopping is done online , it’s vital you know the digital platforms that will give your B2C niche service brand the reach it needs to flourish. One excellent example is Amazon.

Marketplace as a Service 139

Marketplace as a Service B2C Payment Services Payments 139

ProfitWell

JANUARY 17, 2020

Over the past decade, ecommerce subscription companies have doubled down on the subscription model to monetize their relationships with customers. That’s why we’ve put together the platforms, tools, and strategies you need to make subscriptions work for your company. It’s one of the truest forms of monetized relationships.

Payment Methods 12

Payment Methods Payments Payment Features Merchant Services 12

Stax

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Fast forward to now where much has changed, and research anticipates contactless mobile payments to exceed one billion users globally by 2024. Customers can pay with their watch or phone just by tapping it on a card reader, and businesses can host an entire POS system on a mobile phone.

Payment Methods 88

Payment Methods Payment Services Mobile Payments Merchant Services 88

Buffer Resources

AUGUST 16, 2023

We’ve shared a number of parts of Buffer’s business transparently over the years — and one piece we’ve always wanted to expand on is where your money goes when you pay for a Buffer subscription. Since 2014 our team has grown from 34 to 78 team members. Stripe payments make up 98.5

Merchant Services 98

Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Features Payments 98

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

If you go back to before 2014, what you see is the power of the cloud. We celebrate businesses like that, and of course, the platform we’re on today with Zoom, that has really become a communications platform that’s defining this COVID era. It is staggering. We call that a second act.

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Sales Hiring Scale Payments Cloud 232

Tom Tunguz

APRIL 26, 2015

The Information reported last week that in 2014, only 11% of tech IPOs in 2014 were profitable when they became publicly traded companies, an all time low stretching back to 1980, when the figure was 88%. Some like LinkedIn do this in spectacular fashion, charting more than $569M in 2014 cash from operations.

Startup 100

Startup Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 100

Subscription Flow

MAY 27, 2024

Its user-friendly interface and versatile range of features has made it a popular choice for consumers since its debut in 2014. Apple Pay recurring payments, one of the evolving features of this payment method, simplifies subscription billing for customers by storing all their payment information and passwords in one place.

Payment Features 52

Payment Features Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Solutions 52

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 1, 2018

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. To bring us up to early 2014, you might be familiar with Product Hunt.

Retention 223

Retention Payment Methods Onboarding Payment Solutions 223

Chart Mogul

MARCH 6, 2018

Average Revenue Per Account (ARPA). ARPA is the lifeblood of any subscription business. New platform products such as a (rumored) smart speaker. “Our Ad-Supported Service serves as a funnel, driving more than 60% of our total gross added Premium Subscribers since we began tracking this data in February 2014.”

Metrics 75

Metrics Payments EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) SaaS Payments 75

Frontegg

MAY 27, 2021

Instead you should focus on Natural Rate of Growth (NRG) to determine the percentage of recurring organic revenue. This metric is a strong future revenue indicator. It allows your users to engage more with your platform thanks to customizable product tools, targeted messages and email sequences. Best For: Revenue Acceleration.

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Scale 98

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Micro startup acquisitions are a move away from buying businesses with established products or even proven revenue streams. These businesses usually consist of 2 to 3 people, and companies are taking bets on their products that aren’t even fully realized yet. The platform is free, private, and has no middlemen.

Technical Review 144

Technical Review Payment Methods Acquisition Development Team Review 144

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

Have revenue, but early, so like 50K ARR after two months of charging for a product. People were so excited about SaaS when public companies were trading at 30 to 50 X revenue that they would want to take that meeting. Now, revenue’s coming in looking good. Last year offered checks of between five and 10, early.

Scale 245

Scale SaaS Payments Scaling SaaS 245

Unbounce

JULY 22, 2020

Your ads reach people like this because of tracking, pixels, lookalike audiences , and all the other technical magic that powers Facebook’s advertising platform. Years ago, Facebook offered landing pages within their own platform. Further down, Taboola even includes concrete results that brands have gotten with the platform.

Payment Methods 145

Payment Methods Payments Advertising Sales Hiring 145

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) set out in 2014 to provide a framework to attain consistency in financial reporting, improve comparative analysis and reporting, and simplify the drafting of financial statements. The ASC 606 outlines a five-step model for revenue recognition.

Payments 84

Payments Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 84

OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

After four months of an unprecedented global crisis, SaaS companies are bouncing back while product led growth businesses are trading at almost 2x higher revenue multiples they started with. About half of respondents, evenly distributed across size or industry, were offering temporary relief on payment terms.

Pricing 135

Pricing SaaS Payments Payments SaaS 135

Stax

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Since the first plastic credit card was issued by American Express in 1959 , payment tech progress has been growing exponentially. Magnetic stripe payments enjoyed a 30-year reign between the ’70s and ’90s. Contactless payments became a must-have during COVID. NFC technology is in the midst of an evolution.

Merchant Services 88

Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Services Payment Solutions 88

Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

In 2014, Buffer started using both Baremetrics and Looker. While Baremetrics was fulfilling the desire for public transparency, internally the team was using Looker almost exclusively to track and report revenue metrics. Joel shares that at the time, the Average Revenue per Account (ARPA) was only $18-19. How was that possible?

Payment Solutions 113

Payment Solutions Payment Features Payments Social Media 113

SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

Giraffe is a mobile job matching platform that helps medium skilled workers get access to opportunities and helps businesses to recruit staff faster, and easier, and more affordably than any other way. Our first MVP was actually an SMS based app where job seekers would send six SMSes in order to register on our platform.

Scale 223

Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling SaaS Payments 223

Navint

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Sean has over 15 years of expertise in recurring revenue technologies, most recently hailing from Salesforce where he was a senior member of the product marketing team responsible for Salesforce CPQ & Billing. Navint clients expect vendor-neutral recommendations and best practices in implementations and integrations.

Payments 53

Payments Technology Scale Revenue 53

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Payment Structure: 3 payments (at close, 12 months & 18 months). This was important because many times, after months of due diligence, things invariably come up that reduce the purchase price: working capital requirements, unpaid PTO, unrecognized revenue, and a thousand other things. How we got here.

Technical Review 145

Technical Review Software Review Payment Solutions Payments 145

Baremetrics

AUGUST 21, 2021

We’ll also share an example of a cash flow statement to bring the concept to life and provide some tips for SaaS businesses seeking to simplify and streamline their cash flow statement activities. Benefits of cash flow planning for SaaS businesses SaaS-specific cash flow problems 1. Balancing immediate expenses with payment delays 2.

Payment Solutions 97

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payment Methods Software Review 97

Unbounce

OCTOBER 8, 2019

In addition, survey platforms like Qualaroo can poll visitors and find out what they don’t like about your site or why they’re lingering on certain product pages. Without proper protocols in place, online sellers put themselves and their customers at risk for payment fraud. Read about 900+ supported Unbounce integrations.

Payment Methods 111

Payment Methods Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 111

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Google also realizes that your business is ‘special.’ And, it released an algorithmic update, in July, 2014, to favor local businesses for neighborhood-focused mobile device queries. Plus, the information isn’t embedded inside a photo – search engine spiders can access it. So far, so good.

Payment Methods 126

Payment Methods Branding Payments Merchant Services 126

Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Eventually, the company needed to layer in new advertiser focused loops to monetize, but I’ll skip that detail for now. The company requires either new growth loops or new products to acquire, retain, or monetize better. The entirety of Pinterest for the first few years I was there was tuning these loops in one way or another.

Payments 63

Payments Scale Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team 63

SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

GIC manages a diverse portfolio, including investments in high growth tech businesses. BEENEXT is a Singapore-based VC investing in fintech, platforms, payments and SaaS businesses. Founded: 2014. Founded: 1981. Size of fund: $390B. Stage: Late Stage Venture. SaaS Investments: Weimob, and others. MDI Ventures.

SaaS Payments 190

SaaS Payments Venture Capital Payment Services Telecommunications 190

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 27, 2022

After running the first editions of the conference by himself, Alex sold B2B Rocks and, in 2019, he founded Collect , a platform that helps businesses collect and manage client documents, in the hopes that by putting this process on autopilot, teams can be more productive and focus their energy on bigger things.

Technical Review 118

Technical Review Software Review Development Team Review Systems Review 118

OpenView Labs

APRIL 22, 2020

There has never been a better time to test innovative pricing and monetization models to outmaneuver slow or legacy competitors. Or do you integrate with any of the products that are currently booming? Adopt more flexible payment terms and contract structures. The last few weeks have been Here’s what it’s been like.

Payments 54

Payments Pricing Payment Methods SaaS Payments 54

FastSpring

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

It’s called automated billing, and it’s changing the way we do business. Not only are subscriptions and automated billing services more convenient for our customers, but it also gives our businesses stability through recurring revenue. Automatically chasing payments: It happens: sometimes customers don’t pay their invoices.

Merchant Services 78

Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Features Payment Methods 78