SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

I think it’s a challenge to folks that think we are in some sort of terrible downturn for SaaS and cloud. While Azure and Google Cloud grew at record rates, Shopify for example, its SaaS business only grew 10% last quarter. So clearly there are areas of our economy that are slow growing and B2C has its challenges.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Precisely – about SaaS affiliate programs… SaaS partner programs entice both software providers and affiliate partners for various reasons: 1) SaaS products are usually low-cost. Software to track analytics, transfer payments, manage inventory, create videos and for many other things.

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FastSpring

MAY 25, 2023

FastSpring previously presented on SaaS fees pricing and packaging to combat stagflation in 2022, but this article is based on an updated presentation delivered in March 2023 by David Vogelpohl. This article offers tips for optimizing pricing and packaging of your SaaS products in a less-than-stellar economy: What is stagflation?

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FastSpring

JULY 15, 2022

In a one-hour webinar, we covered the four main ways that SaaS companies handle global sales taxes. We also covered: What happens when SaaS companies don’t properly comply with tax regulations. How tax liabilities vary for B2B and B2C purchases in different areas of the world. Stream the full event here. Presenters.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In our first post about our online community , we mentioned launching the Global SaaS Leaders Slack group because we saw a need for the kind of software-and-SaaS-focused community we’d want to be a part of. Our Guiding Principle: Our Software and SaaS Community Must Be Good for You in Order for It to Succeed.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) businesses need to constantly evolve their offerings to stay fresh and relevant. But if you’re a B2B solution, there’s a high likelihood that businesses will be interested in being able to accept customer payments, rather than just sending them a PayPal link or to a generic payment gateway.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2022

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. While Chargebee supports several different payment gateways, you have to set up and configure each one. Responding to and processing chargebacks.

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Every year we ask the OpenView network to weigh in, and this time around many folks unsurprisingly made predictions around a trend most of us in SaaS had to adapt to (and, to be honest, are still figuring out) in 2020: remote work. SaaS companies will evolve their products and messaging to support a fluid hybrid working model—office/home.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 18, 2020

It’s easy to think of online sales as a marketplace where we buy items for ourselves, but more and more B2B and SaaS sales are now happening online. According to Statista, B2B sales are now 6X larger than the business-to-consumer (B2C) market. As of 2019, B2B ecommerce sales globally have surpassed $12 trillion in revenue.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 10, 2023

Checkout (including payment processing and gathering sales tax, GST, and VAT). Handling failed payments and customer notifications. Reconciling payment with accounts and remitting sales tax, GST, and VAT. FastSpring: All-in-One Billing Solution for SaaS. Recurly: Easily Integrates with Multiple Payment Gateways.

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Payrix

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

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. Embedding payments into the platform experience makes this possible for software companies to deliver on those expectations.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Scheduled payments, aka recurring billing. Scheduled payments have become a core form of revenue collection. Of course, recurring payments vary depending on the business. As the subscription universe continues to expand, you can expect to see even more subscription payment plans. What are subscription payments?

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

From lead generation to lead nurturing to conversion, funnel AI tools help marketers improve their strategy and streamline their processes. Systeme offers an all-in-one sales funnel software that enables you to build and manage your funnel like a boss. Even small businesses need to adopt AI technology to keep up.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

Pricing is a SaaS company’s most efficient profit lever, but it’s also one of the easiest things to screw up. Nailing your SaaS pricing strategy requires more than just picking the optimal price and forgetting about it. It includes the latest and greatest SaaS pricing resources, as well as some timeless staples.

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Subscription Flow

OCTOBER 22, 2024

But when it comes to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) businesses, this statement stands even truer. So why is SaaS sales tax so challenging? The reason is, there doesn’t exist any single standardized system internationally to preside over SaaS sales tax. What is SaaS Sales Tax? Is SaaS taxable?

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The way you process B2B payments matters. To keep your company thriving, you need a fast, reliable method for collecting payments for services rendered. Understanding the intricacies of the B2B payments process, and the solutions that can help, will ensure that you’re never struggling to receive these payments.

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FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

Last week, I canceled an annual SaaS subscription (I had three weeks left until renewal). In the language of SaaS, I churned. In part two, we’ll cover five churn-prevention strategies that have been successful in other SaaS businesses. Part I: SaaS Churn Benchmarks. Is There an Ideal Churn Rate for SaaS?

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FastSpring

AUGUST 11, 2021

In Malaysia, Sales and Service Tax (SST) is a consumption tax imposed on a wide range of goods and services. is much simpler for businesses compared with the previous Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime it replaced and the old SST framework that preceded GST. Each has their own registration, compliance, and remittance processes.

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Baremetrics

JULY 8, 2021

Right away, its analytics tools made it easy to calculate key SaaS metrics and segment customers based on customizable attributes. MetricFire allows you to use Graphite-as-a-service to have your metrics displayed on user-friendly and aesthetically-pleasing Grafana dashboards. Solution: They signed up for Baremetrics. Table of Contents.

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User Pilot

JUNE 30, 2021

In this article, I will be going over two popular SaaS signup flows: friction-based signup flow vs. frictionless signup flow. In short, a friction-based flow is one that will make it harder for the user to complete the signup process in exchange for more value-added later on. A higher number of dropouts during the signup process flow.

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Point Nine Land

MAY 22, 2020

Businesses, on the other hand, are stuck in the dark ages, often relying on the phone, email, fax and even pen and paper when it comes to ordering goods or services. Whilst this means that B2B marketplaces may be tougher to build than their B2C counterparts, it should, in theory, result in more engagement and higher retention rates.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

You might be surprised to know that SaaS companies can learn a lot from their consumer subscription counterparts. I have spent over 20 years studying and working in the trenches of the membership economy, both with B2B and B2C organizations. The differences between SaaS and B2C companies. 3: Make onboarding seamless.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 5, 2021

Monitor important subscription events as they happen with the Live Stream Keep an eye on signups, cancellations, payments, upgrades, and more. Do you want to get really advanced and compare B2B to B2C customers? That's why we developed Recover , our in-house dunning service that lives right here in your metrics.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Before we look at the promised SaaS revenue models, let’s get a couple definitions out of the way. For example, a SaaS company might have a subscription revenue stream. In fact, the average SaaS business will use different ones over time as their business becomes more established in their chosen market. Table of Contents.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

FastSpring powers global D2C payments for game studios and app publishers. As a Merchant of Record, we provide a fully managed payment solution including customizable checkout, fraud mitigation, and 100% automated sales tax and VAT compliance. But there is a key difference between payment services providers and merchants of record.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

We’re a team of former investors and operators from the likes of Facebook, Deliveroo, and the Swedish payments company Klarna. Education has impacted both the supply of … we’re talking about the B2B SaaS entrepreneurs and the supply of investors. Maybe fifty of them are B2B SaaS. It’s become cheaper.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

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. . Accounts Receivable refers to the amount of money yet to be collected from your customers who purchased a product or subscribed to a service.

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Baremetrics

JUNE 27, 2021

Hopper How can you know if your SaaS business is profitable or not? That’s where SaaS metrics come into play and tell you what you need to know. To get a brief overview: Profitwell is a tool that can provide analytics for SaaS businesses. It has a variety of tools that monitor and analyze the performance of SaaS businesses.

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Baremetrics

JULY 22, 2021

PayPal is a popular choice for online payment processing. But for SaaS businesses, PayPal lacks the analytics and reporting features they need to support sustainable growth. PayPal analytics provide limited value for SaaS companies PayPal offers users the ability to conduct seamless online payments.

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In case you missed it, our recent 2023 SaaS and Software Holiday Spend Report highlights how, whether your business focuses on B2C, B2B, or both , SaaS and software Q4 sales bumps are significant around the globe. The post Holiday Specials: 2023 Cyber Weekend SaaS and Software Deals appeared first on FastSpring.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 2, 2020

We’ll talk through the importance of audience targeting, the kinds of resources that are helpful, and the ways to differentiate between B2C and B2C sales. The most important distinction you can make between different customers is whether your company is selling to individual customers (B2C) or to businesses (B2B). Let’s dive in.

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 27, 2021

We asked five SaaS and software companies what they did for existing customers around the holidays. Bookyourdata.com offers a loyalty program that includes lesser fees, faster service and 24/7 support from our customer services staff. Repeat customers also get several charges waived for our services,” CEO Gary Tailor explained.

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Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

The explosion of SaaS tools (and with it, data silos) together creates a need for a cross-functional, operations role to support go-to-market teams. Their job is to enable go-to-market teams through "joining the dots" between tools, teams & data, optimizing the business rules that drive growth.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2019

I’ve worked at multiple high growth SaaS businesses as a growth leader, and the data we’re seeing right now … This is from … is that CAC is increasing both in B2B and B2C, and you’re going to see how that relates, right? What’s the essential marketing stack every SaaS should have regardless of size?

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Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

A major issue that arises, especially in the B2B SaaS business model, is how to break into the upmarket market as startups develop into scaleups that are primarily focused on increasing their market capitalization. In their early stages, SaaS software startups typically target the early adopters in the tech or mid-market segments.

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Baremetrics

MAY 13, 2021

While we’ve spoken at length about working on financial modeling for your SaaS business , it’s important not just to have that data—you need to apply it. In addition to your financial model, you need to select a SaaS sales model that helps you improve the metrics and grow your business. Try Baremetrics free. Table of Contents.

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 20, 2021

ICYMI each week OpenView Partner Blake Bartlett breaks down the latest, greatest (and not-so-greatest) businesses and trends in the ever-changing world of SaaS, VC, and PLG. >> However this does have to do with financial tech taking the SaaS stage by storm. The Lines Between B2B and B2C are Getting Blurry Thanks to PLG.

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