FastSpring

JANUARY 17, 2023

Most subscription billing platforms let you: Automate invoicing and payments. Provide a self-service portal to customers so they can manage their accounts (including payment information, seats, and more). Gather metrics and view reports on monthly recurring revenue. Optimize Your Checkout Process to Increase Conversions.

Payments 125

Payments Payment Features Payment Methods Payment Services 125

The Angel VC

APRIL 24, 2015

I’m not referring to sophisticated reports or analyses but to the much more mundane question of what exactly people mean when they use a term like “revenues”. That said, I believe most SaaS companies can focus on a small number of revenue metrics which aren’t overly complicated. Say you’ve acquired two new customers.

Payments 193

Payments SaaS Payments Metrics Revenue 193

Stax

MARCH 18, 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. Part of this can be attributed to the SaaS model’s unique aspect of relying primarily on future revenue. Take a traditional business, like a furniture store.

Scale 117

Scale Payment Services Payments SaaS Payments 117

FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

In the language of SaaS, I churned. And the experience got me thinking: Was immediate removal of paid features the best chance to keep me from churning? When did I officially count as “churned”? Did they count me as churned on the day I canceled? In part one, we cover benchmarks and common churn formulas.

Benchmarks 147

Benchmarks Churn Payments SaaS Payments 147

SaaStr

JANUARY 30, 2023

They focused on building a payment platform that empowers international talent and independent contractors to get paid on time in a compliant way while also ensuring that companies can hire international talent and make payments efficiently. This insight led Deel to focus on solving payments and compliance.

Sales Hiring 279

Sales Hiring Payment Services SaaS Payments Scale 279

FastSpring

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Many companies that expand globally reach a point where they can’t properly support their international customers with their current payment platform. An international payment gateway can help with some of these issues, but it’s only one piece of the puzzle. What is an international payment gateway? Table of Contents.

Payment Services 148

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 148

Subscription Flow

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Businesses may never know how much revenue might be leaking from overlooked nooks and crannies. The purpose of the revenue growth management strategy is to steer a business in an organized, and sustainable direction. After all, no business wants its success to be short lived.

Payments 52

Payments Payment Services SaaS Payments Revenue 52

FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2022

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.

Payment Methods 148

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Services Payments 148

Stax

APRIL 17, 2025

Instead of pouring resources solely into acquiring new customers, smart SaaS businesses focus on increasing revenue from existing customers by guiding them to higher tiers, unlocking premium features, and expanding their usage. Thats where premium support or onboarding packages come in.

Payments 88

Payments Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Services 88

Subscription Flow

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Operating a business entails a number of processes like managing products and payments, invoices, customer engagement, revenue, unpaid invoices and much more. A billing software is the ultimate solution to your growing business’s complex needs. Sounds like a mountain of work! How do you choose the best one for you?

Payment Services 59

Payment Services Payment Solutions Payment Features SaaS Payments 59

Baremetrics

JANUARY 9, 2022

Reducing churn is the single most important thing your SaaS. By some estimates, it is up to 25 times cheaper to keep a customer happy than to onboard a new one. So how do you identify customers at risk of churn? In this article, I will list a series of actions you can take to identify cohorts of customers most at risk of churn.

Churn 98

Churn Payments Payment Services SaaS Payments 98

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

What if you could boost revenue without having to invest a small fortune in new customer acquisition? A customer expansion strategy is a playbook for increasing the revenue from your existing customers, for example, by selling them additional products and services or encouraging them to upgrade to higher plans.

Strategy 105

Strategy Payment Solutions Payments Customer Lifetime Value 105

Chaotic Flow

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Great SaaS product management professionals don’t simply specify features and functions, they create online experiences that satisfy business, professional and personal needs. And in the course of satisfying those needs, they drive revenue growth by pushing the three fundamental SaaS growth levers.

SaaS Payments 200

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments Scale 200

User Pilot

JULY 18, 2023

Tracking your customer churn rate will help you keep tabs on business growth. You will have data sets for analyzing your churn/retention history, which will better position you to make intelligent business decisions. The most common reasons behind high churn rates are: Bad product-customer fit. Poor onboarding.

Churn 98

Churn SaaS Payments Payments Payment Solutions 98

Incredo

JULY 14, 2019

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. That means a company generates revenue on a regular basis based on how many customers it has and what subscription plan they choose. Key finding?

Payment Features 184

Payment Features SaaS Payments Payment Methods Subscription 184

Stax

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

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. How do you add payment processing capabilities to your software? What is a SaaS Billing Platform?

Payments 88

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services Merchant Services 88

User Pilot

JUNE 28, 2023

Sustaining user engagement throughout the entire onboarding process can feel like a task only large teams can achieve. Introducing core features, driving user activation, and maximizing retention rates after the user onboarding experience will all impact the user journey moving forward.

Onboarding 97

Onboarding SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 97

User Pilot

JULY 20, 2023

Wondering how to reduce customer churn rate for your business? In this article, we review different ways to identify potential churn and deal with it. Attrition is the bane of every subscription business; low retention rates will result in a duce and the customer lifetime value and revenue will plummet.

Churn 98

Churn SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Strategy 98

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 26, 2022

With Intercom Surveys , customer feedback helps you to continuously optimize your business in simple and efficient ways – so from lead capture through to onboarding, NPS, product feedback, and churn, survey insights will help you learn and scale. Are they due to order a refill?

Payment Methods 219

Payment Methods Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments 219

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. The second factor to consider is whether or not the solution was built for your type of business.

Payment Solutions 146

Payment Solutions Payment Features Payment Methods Software Review 146

Baremetrics

MARCH 31, 2020

Picture this: Over the past six months, your churn rate has gone from a respectable 4%, to now, over 10%. At this point, you could go into panic mode and make random, drastic changes to your business to stop the bleeding. Or, you can pause, take a step back and analyze what went wrong by doing some churn analysis.

Churn 122

Churn SaaS Payments Pricing Payment Services 122

Stax

JANUARY 29, 2024

In today’s fast-paced business landscape, efficient and seamless payment processing is paramount to your bottom line. As industry leaders in billing software, our mission is to help our customers work more efficiently, recover more revenue, and effortlessly collect invoices. Learn More What is a Billing Platform?

Stax 88

Stax Payments Payment Services Payment Features 88

FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

Each of the companies Jon worked with lowered churn by creating a better notification process, including a reminder about their renewal six weeks prior to the billing cycle. In this piece, we offer seven case studies from SaaS companies — small tweaks they made to reduce churn and increase customer LTV.

Merchant Services 146

Merchant Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 146

User Pilot

JANUARY 11, 2024

With so many options out there for consumers, the FinTech onboarding process is crucial for any FinTech company looking to set itself apart. A seamless onboarding experience , thus, creates the right first impression, setting you up for success. Make the onboarding journey enjoyable by providing clear instructions and guidance.

Onboarding 105

Onboarding Payment Services Customer Success Payment Solutions 105

Stax

JANUARY 17, 2024

Automated Clearing House (ACH) payments are a type of electronic bank-to-bank payment system in the US. Unlike payments facilitated by card networks like Visa or Mastercard, ACH payments are managed by a body called the National Automated Clearing House Association (NACHA). Let’s get started.

Payment Services 88

Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Facilitation 88

User Pilot

JANUARY 31, 2023

How to prevent churn by identifying at-risk customers? In SaaS, you can grow your revenue only if your churn rate is low, so retaining at-risk customers is crucial. In this article, we will discuss the ins and outs of at-risk customers, how to detect them, and five actionable strategies to help you prevent churn.

Churn 98

Churn Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 98

ChurnZero

APRIL 25, 2025

Onboarding and retention strategies are standard practice. And the shift to better integrate CS and sales is well underway. Renewals forecasting was historically a sales game, but increasingly, CS teams are responsible for expansion revenue. Customer teams have more data at their fingertips than ever before. Where can you start?

Forecasting 52

Forecasting Customer Success Payments Data 52

Casey Accidental

JUNE 9, 2020

Retention is not only the primary measure of product value and product/market fit for most businesses; it is also the biggest driver of monetization and acquisition as well. We typically think of monetization as the lifetime value formula, which is how long a user is active along with revenue per active user.

Retention 145

Retention Benchmarks Payments Payment Methods 145

Baremetrics

AUGUST 22, 2021

Subscription revenue can be defined most simply as a model which generates income from customers through recurring fees that are paid at regular intervals. These can be weekly, monthly, or annual payments. Before we get into the more complicated stuff, let’s consider the difference between earning revenue and collecting revenue.

Payment Features 90

Payment Features Payments Subscription Revenue 90

SaaStr

MAY 16, 2019

We are a customer service platform for e-commerce websites, and one of the things we try to do is to automate customer support. Two books that were great to us were Predictable Revenue by Aaron Ross. It can also be money, so in this case, annual recurring revenue. When you want to automate something you need to do two things.

Merchant Services 211

Merchant Services Payment Methods Data Sales Hiring 211

FastSpring

JANUARY 5, 2021

To help you find the right billing software for your online business, we’re covering the ten features your billing software needs to have: 1. Revenue Recovery. Third-Party Integrations. Again, you’re not an accountant; you’re a business owner. Or at least view screenshots of the actual platform. Simplicity.

Payment Methods 125

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payment Services Payments 125

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Tracking revenue on a spreadsheet is easy, but understanding the underlying factors influencing revenue growth rate is a different ball game. As you read on, you will learn: How to properly define revenue growth. Related metrics that impact your revenue and how to use the insights to turn your product into a growth engine.

Payments 105

Payments Revenue Payment Features SaaS Payments 105

User Pilot

MARCH 17, 2023

How do you perform a customer churn analysis that gives you the necessary insights to boost retention and grow your SaaS business ? In this article, we cover how to measure and analyze churn to gather actionable data. Plus, learn four efficient strategies to lower your churn rate. Learn from churning customers.

Churn 98

Churn SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Customer Lifetime Value 98

Baremetrics

JULY 8, 2020

Customers churn because they don’t want to use your product anymore, right? There’s this “little” thing called involuntary churn that’ll slowly eat away at your business if you let it go unchecked. The end result is unnecessary cancellations, lost revenue, sadness, despair, misery, nightmares… Ok, maybe that’s a little extreme.

SaaS Payments 97

SaaS Payments Churn Payment Solutions Payments 97

Valuize Consulting

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In today’s competitive SaaS landscape, Customer Success has emerged as a vital strategic asset, driving revenue growth and long-term profitability. However, to fully unlock its potential, companies must go beyond qualitative insights and bring data into the decision-making process within Customer Success ranks and investments.

Payment Services 52

Payment Services SaaS Payments Customer Success Payments 52

User Pilot

JANUARY 17, 2022

When designing an onboarding system , it’s more efficient to look at the product onboarding best practices established by other businesses than it is to try to do it all alone. To help out with this here are some of the best practices you should keep in mind when building your user onboarding process.

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Onboarding Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payment Methods 105

Totango

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Customer success tools extend the functionality of your CS platform, multiplying its value. This allows you to leverage all your data by integrating it into your customer success strategy. Putting this plan into practice to make the most of customer success tool integration requires choosing the right tools. Billing: Zuora.

Payment Solutions 117

Payment Solutions Payments Customer Success Payment Methods 117