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SaaS: Is B2B Revenue Better than B2C?

FastSpring

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. Are you still making assumptions about your B2B go-to-market motion — assumptions that ignore B2C selling methods — that are limiting your growth potential?

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2Checkout vs. Stripe vs. FastSpring: Comparing Payments, Taxes, and Platform Features (+ Pricing)

FastSpring

If you’re currently using 2Checkout or Stripe to sell digital goods or SaaS but are considering switching — to the other, or to other options such as FastSpring — you may be wondering whether there are substantial differences between the platforms and their services. Payment Gateways , Payment Processing , PSPs, MoRs — What’s the Difference?

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14 Niche Marketplaces to List Your B2C Services

Neil Patel

However, it can be hard for smaller businesses to compete with well-known brands in their market. That is where B2C niche marketplaces can help. Alongside customer choice, brand awareness and visibility are critical to business success. What Are B2C Niche Marketplaces? This ultimately results in a boost in revenue.

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Most SaaS Metrics Really Only Work if You Have 75%+ Gross Margins and 100%+ NRR

SaaStr

In particular: Hybrid SaaS with payments and fintech usually has far, far lower gross margins than pure software. See, e.g. Shopify, whose blended gross margins with payments even at its scale are still less than 50%. Non-Recurring Revenue Doesn’t Count, At Least Not as Much. Pass-Through Revenue Simply Doesn’t Count.

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The Annual Per-Seat SaaS Contract: Not Quite The Gold Standard It Used To Be

SaaStr

Today’s buyer is as much influenced by Slack, Zoom, and even B2C apps as how someone used to pay for Oracle. The majority of Shopify revenue is from payments and merchant services, not even software. So the upfront payment for a year isn’t dead. ServiceNow does primarily 3 year, $1M+ contracts , for example.

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Unleash the power of payments: Expert marketing tips for software companies | Episode 41

Payrix

In the fast-evolving world of software, Embedded Payments have emerged as a crucial element for software companies aiming to grow their business, enhance customer experiences, and streamline transactions for consumers. Businesses today expect seamless transactions, both for themselves and their customers.

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8 Best Chargebee Alternatives and Competitors (And How They’re Different)

FastSpring

Chargebee is a robust subscription management platform. However, there are certain aspects of collecting recurring payments that you would still be responsible for when using Chargebee, such as: Connecting to payment gateways manually. Reconciling payments, fulfillment, refunds, etc. Process chargebacks.