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

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

A recent Forrester Consulting study commissioned by Intercom, Drive Conversational Experiences For A Future-Ready Customer Support Strategy , revealed that 54% of teams can’t personalize support with their tech stack and 50% waste time jumping between tools. All without burning out your team or budget. It includes: Live chat. Team Inbox.

Technical Review 249

Technical Review Customer Support Payment Methods Payment Solutions 249

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 31, 2021

Today, customers’ expectations for fast, personal support are higher than ever – making automation essential for resolving simple, repetitive queries at scale. Human support is an essential part of any successful support strategy, but the reality is that it doesn’t scale and it’s expensive to operate. Be personal.

Payment Methods 213

Payment Methods Scale Payment Solutions Payment Services 213

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

What we learned from ’08-’09 in SaaS: First, SMB churn went through the roof — as SMBs went under much more quickly and often. The first thing SMBs did was look at their credit card payments and cancel everything they could. Anyone processing a lot of SMB and credit-card deals saw churn probably double.

SaaS Payments 280

SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale SMB 280

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 16, 2019

However, that doesn’t necessarily mean a “pivot”, but more often the evolution is a shifting business model as the company scales and the user base grows and changes. It’s all too easy to make the mistake of adopting a pricing model that is ill-suited to other aspects of your company, such as the go-to-market strategy or sales strategy.

Business Model 195

Business Model Scale Pricing Payment Methods 195

Chaotic Flow

OCTOBER 8, 2013

From a SaaS customer’s point of view, there is little distinction between your SaaS product, website, mobile app, support, service and community. It is a seamless online experience…if you design it that way! Free trial facilitates product evaluation and shortens sales cycles. Don’t settle for less.

SaaS Payments 200

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments Scale 200

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. Take a traditional business, like a furniture store. Churn rate. Churn is the percentage of customers that end their subscriptions within a certain amount of time.

Scale 117

Scale Payment Services Payments SaaS Payments 117

SaaStr

MAY 4, 2022

These days, as the business lead for invoicing at Stripe, Xie has earned her own stripes in navigating the unique challenges of building and thriving in the SaaS marketplace. Market trends: why is it easier than ever to build an online business? Despite all these growing pains, it’s still never been a better time for online businesses.

Payment Features 262

Payment Features Payment Services Outsourcing Services Payment Solutions 262

FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

What makes a company choose one SaaS payment processing provider over another? For example, at FastSpring, we have a lot of data about online shopping carts. But we wanted to hear directly from technical founders and software developers about what you look for in a SaaS payment processing service. Is it the interface?

Payment Services 147

Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions 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. Trust the process.

Sales Hiring 278

Sales Hiring Payment Services SaaS Payments Scale 278

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey. It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. One is your churn.

SaaS Payments 246

SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 246

SaaStr

MAY 8, 2021

Close say a $125k contract, even after a healthy sales commission, that’s $100k+ in the bank right now! bills, “payment terms”, and often, repeated follow-up. Most start-ups don’t have a good enough finance person or firm to be good at collections. Annual deals mask churn. So for sure, do that.

SaaS Payments 317

SaaS Payments Payment Services Scale Payments 317

Baremetrics

APRIL 1, 2021

When choosing a payments processor, businesses have a lot of goals in mind. So, when it comes to comparing platforms, major players like Stripe and Shopify Payments are likely to top your list. Both of these platforms are excellent, particularly for budding startups, but are they the right fit if you want to scale up fast?

Payment Methods 98

Payment Methods Payment Services Merchant Services SaaS Payments 98

FastSpring

JUNE 11, 2019

Ways to improve ecommerce conversion rates. Cutting through the noise is now less dependent on your ability to bombard prospects with more information and more about creating messaging that your customers naturally want to engage with. Podcast: Ecommerce Conversations by Practical Ecommerce. How to reduce customer churn.

Payment Methods 98

Payment Methods Scale Payments Payment Services 98

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. Remitting taxes at the end of the year.

Payment Methods 148

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Services Payments 148

SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2023

But, if you have a founder leading the way, it can be successful. Before Navan, there were different apps for managing expenses, events and meetings, payments, etc. So, he went online and found it for $199 a night and put it on his own credit card. It was a big project because people knew about TripActions.

Payment Solutions 288

Payment Solutions Payments Travel Scale 288

User Pilot

MARCH 29, 2023

How can you use NPS eCommerce to gain qualitative feedback as part of your online store strategy? How to use NPS to boost sales Send customers who answered the NPS survey a follow-up question so you can make sense of the score they provided. Why is NPS score important for eCommerce businesses?

Payment Methods 94

Payment Methods Scale Payment Services Sales 94

Baremetrics

MARCH 23, 2021

Your payment processor may be an important element of your business. However, with so many of these payment platforms on the market, how are you supposed to choose? While there is a plethora of payment platforms to consider, Stripe and PayPal should be at the top of the list. After all, it plays a big role in how you get paid.

Payment Methods 93

Payment Methods Payment Services Payments Merchant Services 93

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. Small things matter,” Jon added.

Merchant Services 146

Merchant Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 146

yoursales

JANUARY 28, 2022

Sales Stack 2022 Sales Tools for Professional B2B Sales SALES STACK 2022: Sales Tools for. Professional Sales SALES STACK. 2021: Sales Tools. Sales W hich challenges would you like sales technology to solve for your sales team? What is sales technology here to do?

Scale 113

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 113

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. Recurly: Easily Integrates with Multiple Payment Gateways. Case Study Examples. And much more.

Payment Solutions 146

Payment Solutions Payment Features Payment Methods Software Review 146

yoursales

JANUARY 29, 2021

Sales Stack 2021. Sales Tools for Professional Sales. SALES STACK 2020: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2020: THE TOOLS. Sales technology for professional sales will be more important than ever. In 2020 almost every single Sales Professional was forced inside. Same goes for Sales Professionals.

Scale 106

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 106

USIO

JANUARY 15, 2024

Subscription Models: Usio will provide general insights into why subscription-based payment processing is often considered advantageous for Software as a Service (SaaS) businesses. This reduces the churn rate, ensuring a more stable customer base. Cash Flow Management: Subscription payments provide a steady cash flow.

SaaS Payments 130

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 130

SaaStr

MAY 16, 2019

Gorgias helps brands automatically respond to basic questions, and track the impact of customer service on sales so support becomes a profit center. We are a customer service platform for e-commerce websites, and one of the things we try to do is to automate customer support. In our case, with Gorgias, we sell to stores on Shopify.

Merchant Services 210

Merchant Services Payment Methods Data Sales Hiring 210

SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Leveraging survey data from 66+ enterprise SaaS companies, Matt Garratt, Managing Partner of Salesforce Ventures shares the landscape of how businesses are shifting their sales & GTM strategies to react to today’s uncertain times. Adnan Chaudhry | SVP of Sales @ Salesforce. There was not a lot of outbound sales or marketing.

Sales Hiring 216

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 216

yoursales

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Sales Stack 2020. Sales Tools for Professional Sales. SALES STACK 2020: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2020: THE TOOLS. W elcome to "Sales Stack 2020 - Sales Tools for Professional Sales". Next to that we'll continue to have the full list of sales tools available right here.

Scale 103

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 103

yoursales

DECEMBER 23, 2019

SALES STACK 2020. Sales Tools for Professional Sales. SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS. W elcome to "Sales Stack 2020 - Sales Tools for Professional Sales". Next to that we'll continue to have the full list of sales tools available right here.

Scale 103

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 103

SaaStr

JUNE 13, 2019

In addition, we believe that this data is representative, because if you look at the different kinds of buyers from the respondents, you see it spans everything from operations and marketing to sales and engineering, even down to legal. Net dollar retention, also called negative net churn, also called account expansion. Salespeople.

Scale 254

Scale SMB Sales Hiring Payment Services 254

yoursales

DECEMBER 12, 2018

SALES STACK 2019 SALES TOOLS FOR. PROFESSIONAL SALES SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS I t’s 2019 and we’re back at the sales tools workshop, working out the best sales tools for your sales process. Which sales tools best support your sales process?

Scale 100

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Outsourcing Services 100

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

With the rise of AI, new sales technology and automation at the forefront of the sales echo chamber these days, we thought we’d take a moment to bring it back to BASICS – that’s why we’ve rounded up this complete glossary of sales terms and definitions to help you remember where it all started.

Scale 105

Scale Payment Methods Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments 105

yoursales

DECEMBER 12, 2018

SALES STACK 2019 SALES TOOLS FOR. PROFESSIONAL SALES SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS I t’s 2019 and we’re back at the sales tools workshop, working out the best sales tools for your sales process. Which sales tools best support your sales process?

Scale 100

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 100

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

If you look back on February 5th, 2019, which was the SaaStr Annual, hopefully many of you were there in person, we gave the state of the cloud presentation and talked about the power of the industry, and the power that’s been building in terms of market capitalization of just the public cloud companies and what they show.

Sales Hiring 235

Sales Hiring Scale Payments Cloud 235

FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

When you’re trying to decide how to scale your business and how to calculate profits, there are tons of metrics out there you can use. In this article, you’ll learn all about LTV, why it’s important, how other companies have used it to scale, and finally—how to calculate your company’s LTV.

Scale 148

Scale Payment Methods Payments SaaS Payments 148

FastSpring

JANUARY 19, 2023

NitroPack , a website performance optimization platform, has become one of the fastest-growing startups in CEE. When NitroPack was first getting started, they used PayPal to accept and process payments. “It Why NitroPack Couldn’t Scale PayPal NitroPack faced two issues trying to scale using PayPal.

Merchant Services 147

Merchant Services Payment Services Payments Payment Features 147

FastSpring

MARCH 3, 2023

Send invoices and/or payment notifications. To learn more about how FastSpring can help you scale quickly, sign up for a free account or request a demo today. As MoR, we take on transaction liability for you, meaning we: Collect and remit the right amount of sales tax, VAT, and GST for you. We take the lead on audits.

Payment Services 142

Payment Services Payment Features Merchant Services Payments 142

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). The remaining options on this list serve both ecommerce and companies selling physical goods and services. Legal compliance.

Payments 124

Payments Payment Features Payment Methods Payment Services 124

Sales Hacker

JULY 18, 2022

Which is why it’s key to strengthen customer retention processes by automating them, keeping customers engaged, and detecting any signs of churn before they happen. One surefire road to customer churn is the customer not knowing how to use the product. EXAMPLE: A customer moves into the ‘Won’ stage of our sales pipeline.

Payment Services 105

Payment Services Churn Payment Methods Payment Solutions 105