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.

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Subscription Flow

MARCH 12, 2024

Established in the year 2015 because of Shola Akinlade as well as Ezra Olubi, Paystack Nigeria revolutionized the financial technology industry in the nation. In section 2, we will look at how Paystack integrates with SubscriptionFlow and why that is a good idea. But you probably already knew that, right?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2023

With nine figures in revenue, Ariel and SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin talk about all things Navan, rebranding when you have brand equity, building B2B software for people, pricing and business models, and much more. Before Navan, there were different apps for managing expenses, events and meetings, payments, etc.

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FastSpring

JUNE 22, 2022

Look at Zoom or Slack: businesses designed for enterprise organizations that use B2C-like onboarding flows (such as product-led growth, or PLG) to fuel interest and adoption. In fact, it’s telling that the number of publicly-traded PLG-led companies nearly quadrupled between 2015 and 2020. And we’re the same people when we go to work.

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FastSpring

MARCH 16, 2023

From 2015 to 2020, MapTiler doubled the number of countries where it has customers. MapTiler has seen significant growth in revenue in countries with active affiliate partnerships. Note: MapTiler Uses FastSpring’s Affiliate Marketing platform to easily track affiliate sales and pay out their partners.

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Stax

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

You’re making a purchase at a retail store, and the cash register is large, clunky, and painfully slow, even for 2004. Fast forward to now where much has changed, and research anticipates contactless mobile payments to exceed one billion users globally by 2024. Why Is Adding Mobile Payments Important to Businesses Today?

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Payment Methods Payment Services Mobile Payments Merchant Services 88

Stax

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

This figure used to be 24% in 2015 which makes it evidently clear that card usage is on the rise. This may be concerning for certain types of businesses as they need to spend more to process credit and debit card payments as compared to cash.

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SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

At the very first SaaStr Annual in 2015 , we picked 3 break-out leaders at $5m-$10m, and added Nick Mehta from Gainsight. You have a presentation online that’s called Unsexy, which you’ll have to explain to me later. They built themselves into a core platform for HR 2.0 Next up, we’ve got Nicolas Dessaigne.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Over the past decade, India’s central bank—the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)—has become one of the most proactive regulators in the world, advancing the digitization of payments and financial services at a rapid pace. Most importantly, perhaps, was the introduction of UPI in 2016—an instant, free national mobile payment system based on Aadhaar.

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Stax

AUGUST 20, 2024

In today’s digital age, more and more consumers are shopping online. With that, it’s no longer possible for merchants to check ID or signature to ensure that the person making a purchase is who they say they are. This article will discuss what 3D Secure Authentication is and how the 3DS authentication process works.

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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.

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SaaStr

JULY 15, 2019

The online design and publishing tool has over 15 million users across 190 countries. Prior to this, she was a Director at Apple where she led Worldwide Payments and Financing Programs for Online Stores. Prior to that, he held an eight-year tenure at Intuit as a VP for the Intuit Developer Platform.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Searches including the phrase “best place to buy” with the applicable product or service keyword grew by 70% between 2015 and 2018. Google also realizes that your business is ‘special.’ Google also realizes that your business is ‘special.’ I’ve written about local business marketing and local SEO before. But, guess what?

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FastSpring

AUGUST 13, 2019

Since 2015, they have built over 20,000 beautiful and functional intranet sites with more than 50 global partners. The ShortPoint team realized they need to revaluate their ecommerce set up in order to effectively capture more global sales and compete with larger competitors while staying lean as a company.

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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.

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All that Saas

OCTOBER 12, 2021

For the past couple of years, COVID-19 has steadily made the financial sector take 360 degrees by integrating tech to evolve buying and spending. It has been just two years and almost 150 Americans have chosen to switch from credit and cash to online digital wallets. The Best Digital Wallets for Online Payments in 2021.

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 10, 2018

You also need to make sure you partner with the right ecommerce platform that can help you efficiently (and compliantly) grow global sales without losing revenue. With cross-border shopping expected to rise to $627 Billion by 2020, capitalizing on this new wave of ecommerce growth can help grow your business even further.

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SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

Founded: 2015. Their mission is to help Hong Kong and Taiwan-based entrepreneurs and young people realize their dreams and visions for their businesses and communities. Founded: 2015. BEENEXT is a Singapore-based VC investing in fintech, platforms, payments and SaaS businesses. Founded: 2015.

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SaaS Payments Venture Capital Payment Services Telecommunications 190

Hacking Revenue

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Everything beyond, such as sales, operations and distribution, was based entirely on wholesale partners and distributors, leaving them with the larger piece of the revenues. . They master everything- from the design to the final sale, take over every part of the sale cycle, own the customer and keep all the revenue. The Value Chain.

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yoursales

JANUARY 28, 2022

It'll track any Google-based Sales Professional's efforts across email, calendar, and phone, and share interaction clients have had with emails, websites, or when they've called back. With the launch of the Pipedrive Marketplace a very wide range of third party apps & integrations. Drive Revenue. Grow Your Pipeline.

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FastSpring

APRIL 17, 2019

While one cannot deny the rise of social commerce and its pertinence to the overarching ecommerce industry, studies have shown that social-commerce strategies do not lead to as many purchases as you may think. . While I’m confident social platforms will play a crucial role in driving sales in the future, the current model needs some work.

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Stax

MARCH 14, 2024

EMV (Europay, Mastercard, and Visa) chip card use has continued to expand in use since its tumultuous rollout in 2015. Yet, while time has provided customers and businesses with more education on the security benefits of EMV card chips, many businesses and consumers are still confused about key components.

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yoursales

JANUARY 29, 2021

It'll track any Google-based Sales Professional's efforts across email, calendar, and phone, and share interaction clients have had with emails, websites, or when they've called back. Salesforce.com – The Customer Success Platform To Grow Your Business. Mimiran – More Leads and More Deals for SMB Services Business.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The ultimate goal of any developer with an idea for some useful software is monetization. Software monetization is simply the act of generating revenue from software. Baremetrics provides an easy-to-read dashboard that gives you all the key metrics for your business, including MRR, ARR, LTV, total customers, and more.

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yoursales

DECEMBER 23, 2019

It’ll track any Google-based Sales Professional’s efforts across email, calendar, and phone, and share interaction clients have had with emails, websites, or when they’ve called back. Salesforce.com – The Customer Success Platform To Grow Your Business. Capsule CRM – The smart simple online CRM.

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Valuize Consulting

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

As the popular saying goes ‘‘If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it,’’(Bolsinger 2015). In today’s competitive SaaS landscape, Customer Success has emerged as a vital strategic asset, driving revenue growth and long-term profitability. Example: Implementing a new customer education platform may have significant upfront expenses.

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yoursales

DECEMBER 12, 2018

During this year we’ll also start sharing the country sales tools stacks series entitles “Sales Tools made In…” Finally all that is being tied together in integrated tool stacks with some of our friends at the companies listed here. Salesforce.com – The Customer Success Platform To Grow Your Business.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

When the Apple Watch first came out in 2015, there were 3,000 apps available for download. As an entrepreneur, Apple Watches can be an excellent investment, as there is a wide variety of Apple Watch apps designed with business in mind. You don’t even need to pull your phone out of your pocket to do so. Location-Based Alerts.

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yoursales

DECEMBER 23, 2019

It’ll track any Google-based Sales Professional’s efforts across email, calendar, and phone, and share interaction clients have had with emails, websites, or when they’ve called back. Salesforce.com – The Customer Success Platform To Grow Your Business. Capsule CRM – The smart simple online CRM.

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Stax

JANUARY 24, 2024

Credit cards remain a favored way of making payments among customers. Purchase volumes through credit cards jumped 51% between 2015 and 2021. However, the idea of applying a credit card surcharge to offset the processing cost of credit cards has always been a hotly debated topic. The rate varies between 1.3 in most US states.

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Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Methods Point of Sale 88

Stax

JANUARY 24, 2024

Credit cards remain a favored way of making payments among customers. Purchase volumes through credit cards jumped 51% between 2015 and 2021. However, the idea of applying a credit card surcharge to offset the processing cost of credit cards has always been a hotly debated topic. The rate varies between 1.3 in most US states.

Merchant Services 88

Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Methods Point of Sale 88

yoursales

DECEMBER 12, 2018

During this year we’ll also start sharing the country sales tools stacks series entitles “Sales Tools made In…” Finally all that is being tied together in integrated tool stacks with some of our friends at the companies listed here. Salesforce.com – The Customer Success Platform To Grow Your Business.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Explore the Power of Changelog Integration in Our Documentation Navigating the Tax Landscape: Key Changes That Demand Your Attention in 2024 Quarterly B2B Onboarding Update: Your Complete Guide to Seamless Transactions! Changelog posts from 2015-2020 are available on the archived post located at the bottom of the changelog posts displayed.

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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. We gave up chasing these mythical “grow your website with this one weird trick” things.

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 16, 2023

Merchant Fees At Buffer, we rely on Stripe, Google, and Apple for our payment processing needs. Stripe payments make up 98.5 percent of our total revenue and 83 percent of our fees. Google and Apple payments make up 2.5% of our total revenue and 17 percent of our fees.

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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. This is not all. 6 ChargeBee.

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Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Scale 98

Chart Mogul

JULY 24, 2018

Subscription businesses are experimenting with hybrid billing models, mixing recurring revenue with one-time payments. In the enterprise software market, the move to a recurring revenue model is effectively complete. In fact, there’s plenty of diversity today in the way businesses make revenue from their customers.

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