FastSpring

JANUARY 8, 2019

But when it comes to digital businesses where all transactions and fulfillment take place online, there’s a whole new set of terms you need to know in order to keep up. But don’t worry, we’ve created an ecommerce glossary that includes all the terms and concepts you need to know to have a successful digital business. Affiliate links.

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Stax

MARCH 16, 2025

Acquiring new customers is significantly more expensive than retaining existing ones, with studies showing that customer acquisition costs (CAC) can be five to 25 times higher than the cost of keeping a current customer. Even if you believe your technology is easy to set up and use, it may not be for the average person.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

What if you could boost revenue without having to invest a small fortune in new customer acquisition? Start by mapping out the key stages in the journey, for example, awareness, acquisition, activation, adoption, retention , and revenue. You can then visualize the data as trends, funnels, paths, and heatmaps.

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USIO

JANUARY 15, 2024

Subscription Models: Usio will provide general insights into why subscription-based payment processing is often considered advantageous for Software as a Service (SaaS) businesses. Cash Flow Management: Subscription payments provide a steady cash flow. Scalability: Subscription models scale well with the growth of the customer base.

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Payrix

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Software-led payments have grown in popularity, and for good reason. Last year, we sat down with several of the payments experts that roam the halls of Worldpay to understand what was on the horizon for software platforms and payments. From those conversations, we made software-led payments predictions for 2024.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 3, 2018

That cash could be used for dividends, share buy backs and acquisitions. Several landscape altering SaaS acquisitions will come to fruition because of cash availability from repatriation and because there are enough public SaaS companies at scale to add material revenue and market cap to buyers. The scale is enormous.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Trial Type Highlights Gain a clear view of trial activations by type, including: trial with a payment method, trial without a payment method, and paid trials. Then use that data to shape the types of trials that your customers want, to drive more initial acquisition and adoption.

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Stax

JANUARY 28, 2024

This business model has now been adapted very well in the internet age, especially in the SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) and eCommerce industries. As more subscribers join, manually sending out invoices will result in a storm of wasted paper, missed payments, and late penalties—none of which are beneficial to your business.

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Payment Features Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 88

FastSpring

DECEMBER 22, 2020

While much of this was fueled by the strength of their offerings and the rise in ecommerce as a whole, at FastSpring, we rolled out a program to proactively assess and help optimize all facets of our customers’ ecommerce experience and rolled this program out to many of our largest customers. We acquired SalesRight.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2019

So data analytics, marketing customer analytics, and technology and acquisition. The second category is very interesting because this, you can translate that as the paid spend, of Facebook and what not, moving towards MarTech acquisition tools. Pauline : Yeah, so I work at OpenClassrooms, which is a European leader in online education.

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Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

Join the payments-led growth movement Sign up to keep up-to-date with the latest trends in payments, vertical SaaS, and technology from industry experts. Take a traditional business, like a furniture store. Customer acquisition cost. Customer lifetime value. More on that later.

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Scale Payment Services Payments SaaS Payments 117

How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

With so many SAAS getting visibility in online marketplaces, we found that new saas businesses are struggling hard to make it to the right set of customers. In saas marketing, you generally use online marketing strategies to generate more leads and conversions in your saas business. Setup Pricing model and payment gateways.

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User Pilot

MAY 6, 2024

TL;DR A user profile is a collection of details about an individual user: their identity, roles, personal details, or behavior. They may be inspired by a user but they don’t describe one real person. Transactional data on purchases, plans, and payments enables revenue analysis, recommendations, and frictionless buying experiences.

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Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payments 105

Neil Patel

APRIL 12, 2021

Next, determine your target consumer, meaning the person who needs that problem solved. Curation-type boxes offer samples of new products or items selected based on a consumer’s personal preferences. Customer acquisition cost (CAC): This refers to how much it costs to acquire a new customer. Personalized Subscription Boxes.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Byron Deeter and Elliott Robinson, partners at Bessemer Venture Partners, offer macro trends in the public and private cloud markets, strategic advice to cloud founders, and insights into why entrepreneurs should feel auspicious about the future. This episode is sponsored by Linode. They had to reinvent themselves.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 17, 2020

Over the past decade, ecommerce subscription companies have doubled down on the subscription model to monetize their relationships with customers. But starting an ecommerce subscription service isn’t an easy task. What are ecommerce subscription companies? 4 popular types of ecommerce subscriptions. Let’s dive in.

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Payment Methods Payments Payment Features Merchant Services 12

Stax

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Worldpay stands as a leading global payments company, offering a comprehensive suite of payment processing solutions to merchants and financial institutions across the globe. With a robust presence in over 146 countries, Worldpay is equipped with a team of seasoned experts who bring extensive experience in the payments industry.

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Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 88

Blulogix

JANUARY 2, 2025

Alongside this expansion, the industry is experiencing significant consolidation , with mergers and acquisitions creating larger, more diversified players. This trend creates formidable competitors with comprehensive offerings that can dominate markets.

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Payment Features Payments Subscription Payment Solutions 52

BrightBack

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

We found subscription companies have completed a shift in focus toward retention over acquisition, but still struggle to execute and engage their customers across teams and systems. The times they are a-changin: 93% of subscription businesses view retention as being just as or more important than acquisition.

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Unbounce

JUNE 29, 2021

While not technically a landing page, a splash page can serve the same purpose for visitors before they’re able to access the rest of your website. You can build popups like this one using Unbounce to turn any high-traffic page on your website into a lead-generating engine. Use these pages to walk your talk. The splash page.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 1, 2021

It offers a way to bring down customer acquisition costs and has been proven to keep users in a game for far longer than the pay-to-play method. In a Games as a Service environment, payments are unique and personalized, offering a wide range of accessibility to incoming gamers. Games as a Service Payment Options.

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Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 122

Payrix

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Software companies embark on their embedded payments journey only to discover they’ve underestimated the complexity that’s involved and struggle to launch. If you’re thinking about Embedded Payments for your platform, make time to listen to this episode of the PayFAQ Embedded Payments podcast. We’ve seen it far too often.

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Payments Merchant Services Embedded Payments Payment Services 100

BetterCloud

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Michael Weir is a former director of the collaboration operations function at Global Payments, a financial technology services company that has evolved into a global leader in the payments space over the last 53 years. Can you tell me about your role at Global Payments and how you got into your current role?

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Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments Payment Methods 98

ProfitWell

JUNE 15, 2020

How is DTC growth trending over time? ??7 Up and to the right —that's how overall DTC growth continues to trend. How are churn and new revenue trending over time? Some good news for MRR: both MRR gain and loss are trending positive. The fact that we are still trending positively is good. Trends to help you adapt.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Customer Lifetime Value Payments 76

FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2023

“This is everyday for me, so I love talking about it,” says Carl Hargreaves about mergers and acquisitions. 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.

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Payrix

MAY 14, 2024

Before joining Worldpay for Platforms, he was CRO at Chargebee, a subscription revenue management platform that manages billing subscriptions and payments for companies throughout the world. And […] payments certainly is one of those [and often] under monetized [opportunities],” shares Adam. “[At]

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Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 147

Full Session

DECEMBER 6, 2024

The ideal customer moves through the conversion funnel with little frictionthey view your website, click on your CTAs, and dive head-first into your desired action. Maximize Your Conversion Rate With FullSession See how our CRO tools help you improve website performance to drive conversions. What is a Conversion Funnel?

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Payment Methods Sales Payment Solutions Payment Services 98

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The idea for Stripe, I’m sure most of you know in the early days was to have just a few lines of code and lead developers accept payments in the apps and services. It was a distribution API in a very rudimentary form, and it allowed us to be present in other properties than our website.

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Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 166

FastSpring

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Three key trends driving this growth include: . This is why more and more SaaS companies are seeking out merchant-of-record solutions like FastSpring to simplify their payment stack and reduce the risk and complexity of transacting around the world. From pricing to payments, billing, tax management, and more.”.

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Merchant Services Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 78

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

If you’re like a lot of SaaS companies, chances are you’re fixated on customer acquisition. The truth that nobody tells you about customer acquisition Five customer expansion strategies for growth (with real life examples and results). What nobody tells you about customer acquisition Getting new customers isn’t a bad thing.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments 145

User Pilot

OCTOBER 15, 2023

TL;DR A SaaS conversion rate refers to the percentage of visitors who take a desired action on the website or in-app. SaaS conversion rate optimization is important to create the best customer experience that helps lower the customer acquisition cost and increase MRR. Four SaaS conversion rates are significant to focus on.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

TL;DR Funnel analysis helps map out all the steps website visitors and in-app users take to achieve conversion goals , like signing up for your tool or completing the onboarding process. Google Analytics – Best tool for tracking website conversion funnels. Funnel analysis allows you to: Measure company performance. Review funnel.

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Stax

APRIL 17, 2025

Well-timed upselling and cross selling effortstriggered by user behavior, milestones, or usage patternscan significantly boost customer lifetime value and reduce customer acquisition costs. Top upsell strategies include offering advanced features, expanding seat count, and introducing payment processing capabilities.

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Payments Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Services 88

Casey Accidental

JULY 17, 2023

And unlike most trends in tech that start on the consumer side and then migrate into B2B over time, the subscription model actually did the reverse. Founders and venture capitalists would preach the gospel of predictable revenue and sustainable growth, powered by growth of apps sold over the App Store. Why is B2B Subscription So Good?

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Payment Solutions Payments Payment Features Subscription 98

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

They seem to be completely at odds, with one focused on clients with a high acquisition cost and high ACV (annual account value), the other focused on a high sales velocity. Instead of selling face-to-face, inside sales utilizes all the communication tools that modern salespeople have at their disposal: Phone. CRM platforms.

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FastSpring

APRIL 4, 2024

As an experienced sales and GTM leader, John Eitel has more than witnessed how product-led growth (PLG) has affected the tech and SaaS space in the last few years — he and his teams have been up close and personal with how PLG increased in popularity as a sales strategy. “I Set up a demo or try it out for yourself. Jump to video.

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Scale Sales Payment Methods Merchant Services 158

Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

ABOUT IN THE VAULT “In the Vault” is a new audio podcast series by the a16z Fintech team, where we sit down with the most influential figures in financial services to explore key trends impacting the industry and the pressing innovations that will shape our future. Angela: Why Global Payments? Jeff Sloan: Thanks for having me, Angela.

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Payment Solutions Payments Payment Services SaaS Payments 81