Subscription Flow

MAY 2, 2024

Just when you thought the world of SaaS would not be changing any time soon, the groundbreaking new shift to crypto payment solutions hit SaaS businesses like a bus full of bricks. Despite their current status as a relatively uncommon payment option in global e-commerce, accounting for less than 0.2%

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Churn increase due to greater scrutiny of costs Contract values declining More stakeholders involved in decision-making Capchase combined the study with their data set of thousands of SaaS companies and looked at what the best companies do to overcome these hurdles. Lay out the sales process early on. Then, get something exchanged.

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USIO

AUGUST 26, 2024

SaaS Payment Solutions for Streamlined Business In today’s competitive business landscape, efficiency is key to staying ahead. One way to enhance efficiency is by implementing SaaS payment solutions. Simplified Payment Processing Firstly, SaaS payment systems simplify payment processing.

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SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2021

Monetizing ecommerce via subscriptions, but not payment processing. Billion in GMV processed, up a stunning 91% from 2019. But in contrast to Wix and Shopify, it doesn’t keep much of the revenue from merchant services itself. Rather, it charges for software subscriptions to take payments on its websites.

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SaaStr

MARCH 21, 2022

Q: Dear SaaStr: When should a SaaS Company allow Month-to-Month contracts vs requiring 12-month commitments? It’s how big company procurement and budgeting processes work. Nothing is a bigger headache in a Fortune 500 company than having to go back to procurement every single month to get an invoice approved.

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Subscription Flow

MARCH 1, 2024

When talking about ClickFunnels payment gateways – when a reliable payment gateway is integrated with ClickFunnels – this vision comes to pass. A payment gateway is not just an essential component that connects customers’ bank accounts to your merchant platform—it is more than a service.

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SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2021

A lot of our SaaS older times don’t quite know what to make with a lot of B2B startups these days, let alone some public SaaS companies. So many startups these days are claiming they have “ARR” from revenue that … doesn’t recur. Doesn’t ARR stand for Annual Recurring Revenue?

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Payrix

APRIL 3, 2024

We know it and you do too – Embedded Payments are growing in popularity among software companies. At a very high level, a referral partnership is an integrated payments model. You as the software company make an agreement with a payment processor to become one of their referral partner s.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 3, 2022

Few SaaS leaders have gone through more post-pandemic change than Shopify and Zoom. SaaS growth slowed to 10% year-over-year, down from a peak overall growth of almost 100% (!) Gross Margins declining toward 50% as payments, merchant services and more outpace the growth of SaaS subcriptions. More on that here.

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SaaStr

MARCH 24, 2022

BlueSnap helps businesses accept payments globally. Our All-In-One Payment Platform is designed to increase sales and reduce costs for all businesses accepting payments. Subskribe is the adaptive quoting and billing platform for modern SaaS companies. Totally unified. Zero reconciliation, from quote to revenue.

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Subscription Flow

MAY 14, 2024

Before talking about NMI gateway integration, it is important to understand what role payment gateways play. In the world of SaaS, a payment gateway is like a toll booth at which you pay a small fee to go from point A to point B. Either way, you landed on the right blog. But you already knew all of this, right?

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SaaStr

APRIL 12, 2022

So is Square a SaaS company? The majority of its revenue is now from Bitcoin transactions, not “traditional” payments and software. And yet … and yet … its engine is all software and really SaaS. Its software and services business is the one with the real operating margins. Going upmarket.

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Subscription Flow

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

If you are on the lookout for automated billing software for small businesses, this is the blog for you to read. In today’s world, having automated billing software is of immense importance because most SaaS companies are growing at an impossibly fast rate due to the various technological booms that are taking place around the world.

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SaaStr

MARCH 11, 2021

Q: Why do SaaS companies bill annually up front? A lot of SaaS pricing originally comes from classic enterprise software. SaaS then remixed this model by charging less in Year 1 for a “subscription”, but often more over time, especially by Year 3. So the upfront payment for a year isn’t dead. You no longer bought.

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SaaStr

MAY 8, 2021

I felt like when I was a SaaS CEO and had to go profitable, they helped saved my rear. But as time has gone by, and I’ve worked with more SaaS companies, I’ve also seen the downside of annual contracts at many start-ups as well: Annual deal collections can be tough for start-ups. This is still true. So for sure, do that.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Many of the fundamental business models that were once engraved in the SaaS playbook are now changing thanks to a tougher macro environment and a maturing market. PST, Stephanie Opdam, Partner at Notion Capital, shares four business model changes that will allow SaaS companies to build resilience and staying power over time.

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USIO

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

In the highly competitive Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) landscape, choosing the right payments provider is crucial for driving growth, scalability, and user experience by effectively accepting payments.

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Subscription Flow

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Recurrent Payment Processing is a key component of modern business models. Today, most of us rely on recurring payment solutions for streaming services, gym memberships and other similar subscription services regardless of industry. The concept of recurring payments drives business efficiency as well.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

The issue is that most SaaS start-ups are terrible at collecting cash that doesn’t come from a payment gateway. They hook up a payment system when they start as self-service, and the cash magically flows into the bank account. And add some services. Both of which require … invoicing.

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Stax

JUNE 18, 2024

Subscription models offer companies large and small the opportunity to build predictable revenue and high customer lifetime value. But managing subscriptions effectively and freeing up time and resources for expansion is no picnic. In a subscription business model, customers pay a recurring fee in exchange for a product or service.

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Subscription Flow

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Subscription pricing with the help of automated billing software has transformed many industries and provided businesses with a dynamic way to generate revenue, especially in the SaaS space. SaaS companies’ success is largely dependent on their use of subscription billing.

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SaaStr

MAY 12, 2022

Offering its services as a freemium-based model, CircleCI recognizes driving trials as the cornerstone of a go-to-market strategy for any developer tool. . Jim Rose, CEO of CircleCI, leverages his experience marketing to software developers to discuss the merits of moving from a subscription-based to a usage-based business model.

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Payrix

APRIL 24, 2024

Andy Meadows, the Head of Partner Success at Payrix joins host Ian Hillis to continue their conversation about building a successful Embedded Payments strategy. As the last episode of a four-part series on the topic, Andy and Ian tackle how software companies can minimize attrition and why it’s important to the payments conversation.

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Stax

MARCH 19, 2024

Business owners are increasingly showing an overwhelming preference for SaaS platforms with embedded payment capabilities as part of their offerings. Manual payment processing and disconnected software and payment solutions are dying out, and research by Sifted shows that the integrated financial services market will grow to $3.6

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Subscription Flow

JANUARY 19, 2024

Smooth payment processing is at the heart of any business’s smooth operations and growth. If this process is blotchy then you run the risk of losing money. If the process is not secure, then you run the risk of losing your customers’ trust resulting in catastrophic consequences for your business.

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Subscription Flow

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Revenue leakage is that amount of money from your customers which gets processed, but which does not end up in your account. For subscription-based businesses, revenue leakage means the waste of potential capital which has been rightfully earned. Boasting revenue is the central goal for subscription-based businesses.

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Baremetrics

JANUARY 24, 2022

It is no secret that in order to grow a SaaS company, business leaders need to consider cash flow. Invoice financing is an excellent option for SaaS companies looking for a fast and easy way to earn a short-term type of funding. What is Invoice Financing? How Does Invoice Financing Work? What is Invoice Financing?

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SaaStr

APRIL 19, 2023

And their mix of software, payments and hardware revenue drives up the total deal size — but puts a lot of pressure on margins. Payments are the largest segment (like Toast and Shopify as well), but at least low-margin hardware is a small percent of revenue. Subscription fees were essentially flat. #3.

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Subscription Flow

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Billing system migration is the process of replacing your existing billing system with a new one. Companies opt for this process to adopt new tools, and upgrade their functionality. It cannot handle complex payment scenarios. It does not support multiple payment gateways, and modern compliance standards.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Most SaaS businesses adopt a subscription-based model supported by a recurring payment system. Setting up a recurring payment system can be complicated and requires the right tools to measure, manage, and review payments regularly. What is Recurring Billing? How Does Recurring Billing Work?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 26, 2022

So this year has been rough on SaaS and Cloud stocks, with multiples down 75% from a year ago and the markets overall down 50% or more. Payments and e-commerce drag blended gross margins down to 60%. Wix along with Squarespace and also WordPress / Automatic have pushed deeply into e-commerce and as part of that, payments.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 21, 2024

Only 18% of Revenue From SaaS. Shopify and Bill both also get the majority of their revenue from financial fees and transaction fees, not software subscriptions. It’s probably not really a SaaS company, but close enough to include it in our series and our ecosystem. #3. HubSpot is, and Toast is as well. #2.

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SaaStr

JULY 14, 2020

With SaaS sales, annual price or monthly price that’s billed annually? This removes friction from the sales process, leading to a higher and faster close rate. Bigger customers, though, find most monthly payments a huge accounting headache. Let’s take a look at Zoom. So a discount for annual is appealing to them.

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Subscription Flow

JANUARY 2, 2024

The SaaS industry has been growing at a phenomenal rate for quite some time now, prompting many businesses to now think of ways in which they need to invest in efficient ways of running their business in the SaaS world. In doing so, SaaS businesses of all sizes face common payment processing SaaS challenges.

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Subscription Flow

MAY 30, 2024

Did you know the subscription economy is touted to reach $1.5 As a business that provides software as a service, you will not only need to jump on this bandwagon, but more importantly, you will need the right set of subscription management tools to stay on it to keep reaping the profits of this booming industry.

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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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The Angel VC

MARCH 23, 2016

Almost exactly four years ago I published a financial plan template for SaaS startups based on a model that I had created for Zendesk a few years earlier. I received a lot of great feedback on the template and the original post remains one of the most viewed posts on this blog up to this day.

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