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.

Payments 276

Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods SaaS Payments 276

Subscription Flow

OCTOBER 16, 2024

In today’s fast-tracked financial landscape, billing software has become a need. To run a business is like trying to balance several stacked plates in your hands. Operating a business entails a number of processes like managing products and payments, invoices, customer engagement, revenue, unpaid invoices and much more.

Payment Services 59

Payment Services Payment Solutions Payment Features SaaS Payments 59

SaaStr

MARCH 7, 2024

This was precisely my experience upon meeting Toni and Carlos, the founders of Embat, in an area we’ve extensively have been exploring: treasury management and payment automation. Embat is building the next-generation treasury management software. It’s one of the top 3 pain points of mid-market and enterprise CFOs.

Payments 272

Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions Scale 272

SaaStr

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Main investing areas include: AI, cloud, collaboration, consumer/marketplaces, cyber security, gaming, and fintech. Many founders hit the brakes on growth to pivot towards profitability when in reality, the right combination is aiming for durable growth with a profitable business model. Our current set of funds totals $3.4B. #3.

Technical Review 273

Technical Review Software Review Payment Solutions Venture Capital 273

Incredo

JULY 14, 2019

History of the subscription pricing model: From newspapers to the rise of SaaS subscription. What is the subscription pricing model? The subscription pricing model is a business model in which a customer pays a recurring fee on a regular basis (weekly, monthly, quarterly or annually) to use a service or product.

Payment Features 184

Payment Features SaaS Payments Payment Methods Subscription 184

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Getting the best inventory management software for your business will make all of it a reality. And if that isn’t enough, the software tool can also help you reduce operating costs, increase revenue, and most importantly, ensure greater customer satisfaction. How to Choose the Best Inventory Management Software for You.

Payment Solutions 103

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Software Review Payment Services 103

Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

Data cited by Statista shows that the software as service is expected to hit $299 billion by the end of 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. More on that later.

Scale 117

Scale Payment Services Payments SaaS Payments 117

SaaStr

MAY 12, 2022

CircleCI is a cloud-based continuous delivery platform that helps software delivery teams build, test, and ship changes to their applications. 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. .

Scale 258

Scale Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services 258

SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

We have a background doing software and standards for trade, and we thought that there’s a massive opportunity in this space. It is if you took LinkedIn, combined it with the app platform from Salesforce, and looked at the domain, which is supply chains. Third parties are developing apps for our platform.

Payment Solutions 174

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 174

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. TL;DR ISVs develop and distribute software products independently and often collaborate with hardware manufacturers and platform providers. Learn More What are ISVs?

Outsourcing Services 88

Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods 88

User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

This article will look at the most successful SaaS companies, so you can decide if you want to invest in them for your business. TL;DR A SaaS product delivers software remotely, reducing the need for local installation, maintenance, and updates.

SaaS Payments 104

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Services Payment Solutions 104

Stax

APRIL 17, 2024

Companies and software providers that embed payment solutions into their services and platform are likely to attract and retain more customers. By using a cloud-based integrated payment software solution, you can provide a streamlined user experience while also earning an additional revenue stream through monetization.

Payments 68

Payments Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Services 68

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The promise at the heart of the SaaS business model has always been that by sacrificing relatively large one-time payments, you’d maximize revenue over the long-term lifetime of the customer. In four letters, the promise of the SaaS model is CLTV (Customer Lifetime Value). So what’s the solution?

Customer Success 159

Customer Success Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Scale 159

ProfitWell

MAY 15, 2020

The SaaS model continues to gain traction. It seems as though more and more companies are jumping on the cloud bandwagon…and for good reason. If you haven’t transitioned to SaaS yet, I promise moving to a cloud-based computing system sounds more complicated than it actually is. What is SaaS?

SaaS Payments 75

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments 75

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Ever since John Koenig first coined the term “SaaS” back in 2005, the software-as-a-service industry has been one of the fastest-moving and creative in the world. The SaaS business model powering all of this activity is startlingly unique, still young, and inextricably tied to the power of cloud computing. What is SaaS?

Business Model 54

Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

Neil Patel

JANUARY 1, 2021

GaaS games can often be streamed directly from the cloud to a user’s device, which allows them to be accessed from anywhere, anytime. Games as a Service has also been referred to as “cloud gaming,” “gaming on-demand,” “live service games,” or “game streaming.” Games as a Service Payment Options. Cloud Gaming Services.

Payments 122

Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 122

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.

SaaS Payments 59

SaaS Payments Payments Business Model Payment Services 59

FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2023

But if you’re not dealing in mergers and acquisitions every day like Carl is, you might have a lot of questions about how to best position your business if you’re interested in selling. Today we’re going to be talking about a really interesting topic, I think, what brands look for when considering acquiring software companies.

Software Review 148

Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review Branding 148

SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

So my father sat down with me in our basement, and I remember working in this makeshift workstation that we built together and we learned how to code, because back then there weren’t a lot of applications, there weren’t a lot of games, a lot of software to be used, so we actually had to create it ourselves.

B2B 173

B2B B2C Scale New CTO 173

Stax

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) businesses need to constantly evolve their offerings to stay fresh and relevant. They must engineer a well-rounded solution that makes handling subscriptions a breeze (and yes, it is as hard as it sounds). How do you add payment processing capabilities to your software?

Payments 88

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services Merchant Services 88

Stax

MARCH 6, 2024

As the business landscape continues its unstoppable evolution, the necessity for operational efficiency and innovation becomes even more pronounced. Consider this: Consumers are already conditioned to the subscription model. Physical and eCommerce product subscription businesses are expected to make up 45% of the market’s value.

Merchant Services 88

Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Methods Payment Features 88

User Pilot

OCTOBER 24, 2023

To implement a usage-based pricing strategy, you must understand your value metrics, clearly communicate the pricing structure, set usage limits that trigger upgrade prompts, track usage across segments, and update your model as the product evolves. Pre-payment for pay-as-you-go plans could be on a monthly or annual basis.

Pricing 105

Pricing Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments 105

FastSpring

AUGUST 11, 2020

The way we purchase products is changing—and so are our business models. When it comes to software and online purchases, those transactions are increasingly moving to a subscription-based model, where customers put their purchases on autopilot so they can have continuous access to SaaS products. The best part?

Payment Features 120

Payment Features Payments Payment Methods Subscription 120

Aaron Beashel

MARCH 9, 2018

The best way to illustrate what I mean is by examples, and I’ve used the email marketing software category to illustrate some of the different models taken by different companies in the space. MailChimp (Touchless acquisition) – MailChimp is an email marketing tool that uses a touchless acquisition model to acquire customers.

Scale 192

Scale SaaS Payments B2B Strategy 192

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. Some solutions, like Slack or Microsoft, are useful for any kind of business.

SaaS Payments 88

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 88

Chart Mogul

JULY 24, 2018

Subscription businesses are experimenting with hybrid billing models, mixing recurring revenue with one-time payments. In the enterprise software market, the move to a recurring revenue model is effectively complete. In fact, there’s plenty of diversity today in the way businesses make revenue from their customers.

Payment Features 76

Payment Features Subscription Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 76

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Has been CEO before, was CEO of Alfresco Software and long career in software and comes in, I think, with a lot of passion for customers and customer success, which I’m excited to hear about and also comes in live streaming, my understanding is from a boat right now, right Bernadette? So they kind of got that wrong, right?

Payment Methods 263

Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 263

Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2020

As of late 2019, Amazon’s cloud services business, Amazon Web Services (AWS), accounts for about 71 percent of its parent company’s operating income and about 13 percent of the brand’s overall revenue. Put another way, cloud services are a huge part of Amazon’s 1,233 percent stock surge over the last decade. How Twilio Does It.

AWS 98

AWS Payment Services SaaS Payments Payments 98

SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

So we have over 260 portfolio companies globally, it’s all enterprise software, predominantly SaaS. And that is you’re seeing a bit of a separation in those companies that have really the stickiest, most critical solution. It’s a business crisis. Right now, learning for companies is only at 10% online.

Sales Hiring 204

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 204

Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

There’s the return of some old, favorite strategies like email marketing, but we’re moving forward into exciting new territory, too, especially when it comes to remote working and app development. Mobile apps and e-commerce stores are big business. It’s easy to integrate popular payment platforms, like Stripe. The upshot?

Entrepreneurship 144

Entrepreneurship Payment Methods Trends Payment Services 144

How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

SaaS is a global software solution created by different businesses in order to improve human activities in a matter of clicks. SAAS is also abbreviated as software as a service. SaaS as we already understood is a software as a service. These saas can be either web or app-based or even both.

Growth Hacking 105

Growth Hacking Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 105

Baremetrics

AUGUST 18, 2021

Invoicing is a sales process where a seller issues a commercial document to a buyer requesting payment. This document shows all products and services rendered, the payment owed, and the contact details of both the buyer and the seller. Invoicing can be done for both recurring and one-time payments.

Payment Features 83

Payment Features SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 83

OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 21, 2020

What does the future hold for B2B software? Focus on more flexible business models. One is connected to the payments business and what my company, Flywire, does, and the other is related to how organizations manage themselves. Employee engagement software is another interesting area for SaaS.

SaaS Payments 96

SaaS Payments Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 96

OPEXEngine

MAY 18, 2021

According to Bessemer ’s State of the Cloud 2021 as of this January, there were a total of 527 private unicorns (a unicorn is a private company with a valuation over $1B), with a total cumulative value of more than $1.9 More and more Cloud companies are translating usage fees to ARR which can be tricky if usage is hugely variable.

SaaS Payments 98

SaaS Payments Metrics Payments Payment Services 98

Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

When choosing the right billing software for your subscription businesses, there are many things to consider. If you are searching for a business metrics software that displays everything you need to know in an easy-to-use interface, Baremetrics offers a free trial which is a great way to get started.

Payment Solutions 59

Payment Solutions Payment Features Payments Merchant Services 59

OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Last month, we spoke with Dominic Ballinger, director of FP&A and Integration at Sage , to discuss how the new business environment we’re in has affected them, how they’ve adapted, and what advice they have for their fellow SaaS and software community members. Who are your typical customers and target companies?

SaaS Payments 81

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments 81

Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

The cloud application service market remains a huge challenge for all newcomers. A question may arise, what is sales model and what’s the difference between it and sales process. This view has been fostered by the rapid growth of many commodity-oriented SaaS companies and public cloud services. .

SaaS Payments 157

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 157