Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 26, 2022

Since the pandemic, consumer habits have really changed – shoppers have migrated online en masse, their expectations are higher than ever, and brand loyalty is harder to maintain. For example, you can create messaging campaigns based on customers’ answers, personalize support content, and more.

Payment Methods 219

Payment Methods Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments 219

SaaStr

APRIL 1, 2023

Rewind The Clock — How Did We Get Here Most small businesses in pre-2010 didn’t have computers in their store or restaurant. Throw in the rise of social media and mobile web payment systems like Stripe and Braintree, and something revolutionary was at our doorstep. Everyone was stuck in place and online was the answer.

Scale 245

Scale SMB Merchant Services Payment Methods 245

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

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

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

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

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

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! SaaS Product Secret #3 | Enable Ecommerce. SaaS Product Secret #1 | Optimize Public Pages.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments Scale 200

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

FastSpring

JUNE 11, 2019

Ways to improve ecommerce conversion rates. Podcast: Ecommerce Conversations by Practical Ecommerce. You may already be familiar with Practical Ecommerce, one of the leading sites for ecommerce tips and news. But are you aware of their podcast Ecommerce Conversations ? How to reduce customer churn.

Payment Methods 98

Payment Methods Scale Payments Payment Services 98

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

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

SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

Join Anish Shivdasani, CEO of Giraffe, as he provides unique African experiences learned from scaling to 1M users. I’m probably the most hated person in the room right now, but please indulge me. Want to see more content like this? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. Anish Shivdasani, CEO @ Giraffe. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW. Yeah, great.

Scale 219

Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling SaaS Payments 219

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

SaaStr

MAY 8, 2021

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. Forcing your sales team to do collections is OK in the early days, but doesn’t work perfectly either, and doesn’t scale. Annual deals mask churn.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Scale Payments 306

User Pilot

MARCH 29, 2023

How can you use NPS eCommerce to gain qualitative feedback as part of your online store strategy? Keep your best customers loyal to your store by rewarding them with discount coupons or referral bonuses. Why is NPS score important for eCommerce businesses?

Payment Methods 94

Payment Methods Scale Payment Services Sales 94

SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Bill.com is a bit — OK, maybe a lot — more lower profile than many of the SaaS Unicorns to IPO lately, but it’s one of my personal favorites. You don’t need to be a math whiz to see that means it started slow and then truly accelerated only once scale was hit. First, we run SaaStr on Bill.com. Almost always.

Payment Services 271

Payment Services Payments Payment Methods SMB 271

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. Can one person buy via a credit card or will multiple stakeholders need to be involved? Goal of website. How much value does the application offer?

Business Model 195

Business Model Scale Pricing Payment Methods 195

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 269

Sales Hiring Payment Services SaaS Payments Scale 269

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. Zoho Subscriptions: Online Subscription Billing Platform.

Payment Solutions 146

Payment Solutions Payment Features Payment Methods Software Review 146

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

AUGUST 12, 2022

Jason recently opened up an AMA on Twitter Spaces to answer questions about scaling and VC funding. If you send that cold email personalized to every SaaS investor at eight to 10K or beyond, I think you’re going to get some meetings. Microsoft Azure’s at incredible scale and it still grew 40% last quarter.

Scale 245

Scale SaaS Payments Scaling SaaS 245

SaaStr

DECEMBER 12, 2022

But once you begin to scale your business, you realize that you also need principles in place to strengthen your appetite for growth and expand profitably. This immediate time-to-value applies to your product and the content you share on your website. As soon as users land on your website, they should get the value quickly.

Payment Methods 241

Payment Methods SaaS Payments Company Culture Payment Solutions 241

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

This seems almost impossible in the early days, unless you give her a big quota, which as we’ve discussed, doesn’t scale. And I got most of this wrong before I got it right personally. no guaranteed bonus for X months until you scale). The VP Sales has to somehow be accretive. Sounds fair — on the surface. It’s tough.

Sales Hiring 355

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Payments 355

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 123

Payments Payment Features Payment Methods Payment Services 123

SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2023

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. Pushing Hard for CAC When Churn is Low During COVID, Navan lost $100M in revenue overnight. It was a Frankenstein for transient travelers.

Payment Solutions 276

Payment Solutions Payments Travel Scale 276

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

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. You talk to other people, you do things that don’t scale, but you don’t really know how you get those customers and how to get them in a sustainable way. We got this data. First use of data, find.

Merchant Services 205

Merchant Services Payment Methods Data Sales Hiring 205

User Pilot

MARCH 23, 2023

What are the reasons for customer churn in SaaS? However, sometimes things don’t go as planned, and customers churn. By the end of this article, you’ll have a better understanding of the common pitfalls that lead to customer churn and how to avoid them. Create a personalized onboarding flow to help users reach the Aha!

SaaS Payments 98

SaaS Payments Churn Underperforming Technical Team Payment Methods 98

Stax

JANUARY 28, 2024

This business model has now been adapted very well in the internet age, especially in the SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) and eCommerce industries. As more subscribers join, manually sending out invoices will result in a storm of wasted paper, missed payments, and late penalties—none of which are beneficial to your business.

Payment Features 88

Payment Features Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 88

Baremetrics

MARCH 31, 2021

SaaS and subscription companies like yours need to collect and manage recurring payments at scale. Regular payment gateways like SagePay and WorldPay won't cut it. All the data your startup needs Collecting payments is just one step of effective subscription management. It's the No.1 Try Baremetrics free. Square Fees: 3.5

Merchant Services 98

Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Features 98

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. Personalize campaigns further than mail merge. Educational sequences.

Payment Services 103

Payment Services Churn Payment Methods Payment Solutions 103

FastSpring

AUGUST 11, 2020

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. A lot of the software and digital products we use online, we use continuously. It’s Easier to Scale.

Payment Features 120

Payment Features Payments Payment Methods Subscription 120

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. Plus, FastSpring has comprehensive solutions for the entire payment lifecycle including: Localized checkout (i.e., Manage active subscriptions (e.g.,

Payment Services 142

Payment Services Payment Features Merchant Services Payments 142

FastSpring

JUNE 6, 2024

Xsolla is a merchant of record (MoR) payment provider that serves the video game industry. The platform includes a broad feature set that provides game developers with the infrastructure needed to sell online and accept online payments globally, without having to manage localization, sales tax and VAT, or fraud prevention on their own.

Payment Services 78

Payment Services Merchant Services Payments Payment Methods 78

Neil Patel

APRIL 12, 2021

Next, determine your target consumer, meaning the person who needs that problem solved. Curation-type boxes offer samples of new products or items selected based on a consumer’s personal preferences. You should track, at minimum, the following four metrics : Churn rate (CR): CR is how many customers you lose, on average, each month.

Outsourcing Services 123

Outsourcing Services Payment Methods Payment Features Subscription 123