Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 3, 2018

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. Machine learning fades as a buzzword. Apple could repatriate $252B, Cisco $65B, Google $55B.

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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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FastSpring

JANUARY 10, 2023

In broad strokes, recurring billing consists of four steps: Setting up trials, recurring billing intervals, and pricing models. Checkout (including payment processing and gathering sales tax, GST, and VAT). Handling failed payments and customer notifications. FastSpring: All-in-One Billing Solution for SaaS.

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2021

Shopify, since last year, has nearly tripled in market cap driven by the rise of e-commerce, but also the digital payments and the QR code system they provide for contactless payments. We’re bringing S-M-B back with SaaS. Data and machine learning infrastructure accelerates to new heights.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The commerce landscape—whether it’s retail, services or software—is moving faster than ever. We can see this trend in action in the realm of payment processing with the advent of recurring payments, also known as automatic payments. Learn More What are Recurring Billing and Payments?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 28, 2023

At a recent Workshop Wednesday , SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin answered the community’s most pressing questions about SaaS — from investor appetites and IPOs in 2024 to managing and hiring a Head of Sales as a solo founder to AI and the future of customer success. The number one is Klaviyo, the only SaaS IPO in two years.

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How To Buy Saas

MARCH 18, 2025

However, advanced SaaS solutions have opened up new possibilities across distinct categories. In this blog, youll discover the significant benefits of SaaS tools and platforms for game developers, the latest SaaS tools, and different challenges and opportunities. In fact, you can rent SaaS tools and get started any day.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

For example, HR and finance SaaS vendor Workday bought Scout RFP (a San Francisco startup with a team of 8) for $540 million. For example, when Instagram bought Luma (its first acquisition), the tiny three-person team was part of the deal. The Race for Artificial Intelligence With Micro Startups. Key Features.

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FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2024

We’d love to talk with you in person! This year’s themes cover the big topics in tech, including the Creator Economy, Gaming and eSports, B2B, and, of course, Artificial Intelligence. Schedule a demo now or at VivaTech in person! FastSpring is how SaaS companies sell online in more places around the world.

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Payrix

MARCH 6, 2024

Embedded Payments have become a popular feature in the ecosystem of software developers who understand their role in driving better user engagement, value, growth, and competitive advantage. But in the rapidly evolving world of digital payments, nothing stays the same for long. How will security and compliance impact Embedded Payments?

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Payments Embedded Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions 100

Stax

MAY 30, 2024

While remote work is all the rage these days, there is still very much a need for on-site services, particularly industries like construction, healthcare, utilities, and telecommunications. This is where field service management (FSM) come in.

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Blulogix

MARCH 27, 2025

By BluLogix Team How AI is Transforming Billing Billing has long been a complex and manual process, prone to errors, inefficiencies, and revenue leakage. Ready to see how BluIQ can transform your billing process and help you achieve integrated, automated, and accurate complex monetization?

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User Pilot

MAY 23, 2023

In this article, we’re going to unpack how AI customer experience can completely transform how people engage with your SaaS. AI customer experience, on the other hand, is all about using artificial intelligence (using computing power to solve problems) as a valuable tool to enhance the customer experience.

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User Pilot

MAY 17, 2024

Looking for the best no-code SaaS tools to build innovative solutions and improve your product management workflows? TL;DR No-code SaaS tools are software products that allow users to create applications, websites, or in-app experiences without writing any traditional programming code.

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Baremetrics

JANUARY 25, 2022

In recent years, a new discipline of financial management has emerged in response to cloud technologies and organizations growing reliance on cloud IT architectures and cloud-based business processes. Act FinOps Tools Cost Management Software Financial Modeling Tools EDI Systems Conclusion. Which cloud service providers do you use?

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Stax

APRIL 18, 2024

Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Software-as-a-Service Providers (SaaS) operate within the same market, thus creating a push-and-pull revenue dynamic. In this article, you’ll learn the differences between these providers and gain valuable insights for positioning your offerings successfully. What are SaaS companies?

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Artificial Intelligence. Account refers to a record of primary and background information about an individual or corporate customer, including contact data, preferred services, and transactions with your company. . B2B is an acronym for Business-to-Business, a model for selling, relationship-building or engagement. .

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The former tracks trends for software users , while a consumer behavior trend mainly refers to online shopping, such as buy-now-pay-later payment methods. Personalized experiences are becoming standard in the SaaS world. User behavior is primarily focused on SaaS platforms and how users leverage them.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

As the team at the Saas Commerce Platform Paddle has learned, real growth is about entering new markets – and that takes thoughtful attention to pricing, making inroads into new geographic regions, deciding whether to move upmarket (or downmarket), and offering new standalone products instead of bloated features tacked onto old ones.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 30, 2020

An affiliate network connects publishers, like blog owners or influencers, with companies looking to promote their products or services. Publishers or site owners sign up, choose the products or services they want to promote and receive custom links that track how many people purchase from their sites. What is an Affiliate Network?

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Point Nine Land

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

One of the lessons I, along with many other founders and investors, have learned in my roughly 15-year journey in SaaS investing is that most businesses adopt new technologies at a painfully slow pace. ServiceTitan, a leading vertical SaaS for home services, penetrated 1% of its core TAM of 900,000 home services businesses.

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Stax

AUGUST 22, 2024

Digital payments are increasingly becoming the norm. According to Forrester’s data, digital payments are the most used payment method today, with 69% of American adults using them to make payments online. Businesses must therefore adapt and be able to accept such payments.

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Merchant Services Payment Services Payfac SaaS Payments 88

Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 13, 2021

Existing customer renewal is a high priority for 59% of SaaS companies and a medium priority for 27%. However, the subscription business model can’t survive if you keep on acquiring new custo mers but the old ones keep on walking away. How to calculate this metric and what’s the average SaaS churn rate?

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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. Dare I say SaaS.

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Stax

JUNE 18, 2024

In a subscription business model, customers pay a recurring fee in exchange for a product or service. This could be a subscription box, a SaaS (Software as a Service) product, or even just a streaming platform like Netflix. In fact, 70% of customers now expect websites to include a self-service function.

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FastSpring

MAY 8, 2019

As we know, online search has redefined the traditional marketing funnel. Think with Google’s recent report, “How search enables people to create a unique path to purchase ,” is a deep dive into the journeys of two dozen customers exploring products in seven verticals. Help solve your customer’s problems. How to use these insights.

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Stax

DECEMBER 4, 2023

For any merchant selling products or services online, it’s always a good idea to allow customers to make payments on their platform itself—instead of redirecting them to a third-party website or gateway. With the global economy moving online, corruption, fraud, trafficking, and other illicit activities continue to rise.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 17, 2020

It’s actually quite simple: business process management (BPM) software. Visualize every process from end to end. If optimizing your business processes sounds like a good idea, this post will tell you everything you need to know about how to find the perfect BPM software for you. Process Visualization. Process Automation.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Romain Huet : See how you can turn like a SaaS business, or a core product you have and make it a very successful developer platform. Like, how can we provide economic infrastructure for developers to build applications and services and in a weird way, future proof? Let’s start with our five key steps.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 30, 2020

How do you manage the process of accepting money from your customers? This guide serves as a comprehensive overview of the options available for SaaS businesses. In this guide, we’re going to teach you what you need to know about SaaS billing systems and how to choose them. Payment gateway.

Payment Solutions 90

Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Features SaaS Payments 90

FastSpring

MARCH 3, 2023

Zuora is a recurring billing and monetization solution for: Subscription management Revenue recognition Payment collection Quotes And more… However, Zuora has one main shortcoming — it doesn’t handle sales tax or transaction liability for you. Related: Can SaaS Companies Afford to Ignore Sales Taxes and VAT?

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Payment Services Payment Methods Payments Merchant Services 78

Panintelligence

JULY 24, 2024

Key takeaways What is embedded finance and how it integrates financial services into non-financial platforms. Embedded finance is when financial services are built directly into the products or services of non-financial companies. By providing financial services right when needed, transactions become easier and more convenient.

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Payments Merchant Services Payment Services Finance 52

Baremetrics

AUGUST 20, 2019

The Wikipedia contributors define product innovation as “the creation and subsequent introduction of a good or service that is either new, or an improved version of previous goods or services.”. Note: These are written with SaaS and software products in mind, although many of the principles apply to other types of products as well.

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SaaSOptics

MARCH 10, 2022

It’s common for companies to have digitized some of their financial processes. While this is a step in the right direction, there are gaps in many processes that companies currently use that finance and billing tools can fill. Utilizing ePay tools makes sending invoices and receiving customer their payments easy. SaaSOptics.

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

As a leader in ecommerce for businesses selling software, SaaS, and digital products, we have first-hand experience with the impact of WordPress for growing businesses. In fact, we built a WordPress plugin that helps companies set up an online store in WordPress—no complex coding required! Types of WordPress Hosting.

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User Pilot

MAY 9, 2024

Google Analytics is a freemium website analytics software offering users robust customer analytics capabilities. Heap is a digital analytics platform with tools that facilitate digital experiences, user journeys, conversions, feedback, retention, and other tools. Cohorts in Amplitude. Setting up an event in Userpilot.

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Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 105

Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. But not all SaaS products are alike. Other types of SaaS are relevant only to companies in specific industries.

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