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). The Customer Success Paradox.

Customer Success 168

Customer Success Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Scale 168

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Product demos can be used at various stages in the customer journey, such as on your website to engage potential customers, in email campaigns to nurture leads, during sales calls to provide a “try before you buy” experience, and for customer onboarding to help new users get up to speed quickly.

Payment Methods 103

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Software Review SaaS Payments 103

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Perhaps the most common app onboarding design problem is trying to build your entire onboarding process from scratch. It’s much smarter to study app onboarding best practices and work with onboarding software that will massively reduce your labor time. What is app onboarding?

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions Onboarding Software Review Social Media 98

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. As with every digital product, the first few minutes on your app will determine whether the user sticks with it or abandons it. to assist customers at all times. What is FinTech onboarding?

Onboarding 105

Onboarding Payment Services Customer Success Payment Solutions 105

Payrix

APRIL 17, 2024

You’ve decided to offer Embedded Payments to your customers. Adding Embedded Payments gives you an exciting opportunity to grow your business and solve real pain points for your customers. However, to capture success you’ll need to promote your new payments offering with customers and prospects.

Payments 130

Payments Embedded Payments Merchant Services SaaS Payments 130

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

In-app behavior , like events they’ve completed, features they’ve used, or in-app flows they’ve engaged with. Technographics, like operating system or device type. Collect customer feedback about features they find most valuable. A personalized in-app prompt to upgrade created in Userpilot.

Strategy 105

Strategy Payment Solutions Payments Customer Lifetime Value 105

Totango

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Customer success tools extend the functionality of your CS platform, multiplying its value. By connecting data from other success tools to your CS tool, you can view and manage all your customer data from one place instead of leaving it isolated in separate information silos. CRMs: Salesforce and HubSpot. Billing: Zuora.

Payment Solutions 94

Payment Solutions Payments Customer Success Payment Methods 94

FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

Vinay solved this problem by implementing a special billing page that his customers could use without logging in. He then sent out a link to this page inside payment failure notification emails. Users could now forward the payment failure email to the right person, without that person having an Enchant account.

Merchant Services 146

Merchant Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 146

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. Customer acquisition cost. More on that later.

Scale 117

Scale Payment Services Payments SaaS Payments 117

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. Support sales early.

Sales Hiring 279

Sales Hiring Payment Services SaaS Payments Scale 279

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Build your sales, marketing, customer success, and product development efforts around the needs of your ideal client.”. Brex identified start-ups and technology companies struggling to find credit as its ICP and built their sales, marketing, customer success, and product strategies around this.

Payments 243

Payments Payment Methods Embedded Payments Scale 243

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

Totango

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Customer success is the key to building strong customer relationships. When your brand helps your customers succeed at their goals, they want to continue your relationship. Customer success nurtures the positive experiences of your brand, promoting repeat business and retention.

Customer Success 117

Customer Success Payments Payment Methods Payment Solutions 117

SaaStr

APRIL 1, 2023

She had recently been hired at Box, and her first big project was to upgrade the internal user experience for vendor onboarding and management. So no payment until the solution goes live. She was looking for someone willing to partner with her, who felt that her success was just as important as their success.

Payment Methods 241

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payment Services Sales Hiring 241

FastSpring

JANUARY 26, 2024

With years of experience at managing customer success (CS), Jake Dipple knows how important it is to foster collaboration between businesses and their customers. In this episode of Growth Stage, host and CMO of FastSpring David Vogelpohl interviews Jake about his thoughts on: What Customer Success is at a high level.

Customer Success 158

Customer Success VP of Engineering Payments Payment Methods 158

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

Stax

JUNE 18, 2024

In a subscription business model, customers pay a recurring fee in exchange for a product or service. This could be a subscription box, a SaaS (Software as a Service) product, or even just a streaming platform like Netflix. In fact, 70% of customers now expect websites to include a self-service function.

Payment Features 88

Payment Features Payment Solutions Payment Services Payments 88

FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In our first post about our online community , we mentioned launching the Global SaaS Leaders Slack group because we saw a need for the kind of software-and-SaaS-focused community we’d want to be a part of. The group is professionally moderated, there’s no cost, and you don’t need to be a FastSpring customer to apply.

SaaS Payments 148

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Software Review 148

SaaStr

MAY 16, 2019

I would argue that since now we have access to … we have lots of data points about trade shows we go to, the payment information, the sales data in CRM. We can combine all these data points and start building the machine, early on, as soon as you have fifty customers. In our case, it was installing competitor apps.

Merchant Services 211

Merchant Services Payment Methods Data Sales Hiring 211

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 31, 2021

They’re the type of messages your customers need to receive even if they’re unsubscribed from other categories of messages, like promotional ones. Payment expirations. These transactional messages are an integral part of any customer communication strategy. Onboarding customers. Password reset. Hi [name] !

Payments 218

Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Features 218

Totango

JANUARY 2, 2024

In an era when customer success (CS) has become pivotal, it’s no longer enough to have a team dedicated to CS. More importantly, you need an organizational strategy that ensures your customers don’t just come to you but stay, thrive, and become your biggest promoters.

Payment Services 106

Payment Services Merchant Services Customer Success Business 106

Totango

JUNE 3, 2022

Customer success email templates form a foundation for effective CS automation. While customer success management can result in a rewarding payoff, it can also be very time-consuming if you don’t use the right strategies. Customer check-ins. Sales to Customer Success Handoff Email Template.

Customer Success 115

Customer Success Payments SaaS Payments Payment Methods 115

User Pilot

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Customer success has gone from strength to strength in recent years. With that in mind, we thought we’d take a look at the best customer success tools. of customer success tools out there, and it can be hard to know which is the right one for you. Let’s jump in… What are customer success tools?

Customer Success 95

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Scale 95

User Pilot

JANUARY 10, 2022

How important is customer success KPIs to your SaaS business? Customer success metrics help you analyze how effectively you help customers gain value from your SaaS product. When measuring customer success metrics, it’s never only about the results. What is customer success in SaaS?

Customer Success 105

Customer Success SaaS Payments Customer Lifetime Value SaaS 105

User Pilot

JANUARY 31, 2022

If you’re a SaaS owner with a multi-platform product, you may be wondering what the difference between in-app notifications and push notifications is. Today we’re going to compare the two so you know which one to use for your in-app marketing goals! What are in-app notifications? Push vs In-app notifications.

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Customer Lifetime Value Payment Methods 98

Totango

JULY 13, 2021

Strategy for customer success growth has changed as commerce has gone digital and big data has made marketing and sales customer-centric. Tell people about your business, get them in the store, sell them things, then look for more customers. Businesses need a new strategy for customer success growth.

Customer Success 107

Customer Success Payment Methods Payments Payment Services 107

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Creating a new product category also creates a plethora of challenges – from spotting the right market niche to convincing customers that yours is a service they need. If people aren’t looking for your solution, you have to educate them about the problem your product solves. You started off in engineering, I believe.

Scale 162

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Marketing 162

FastSpring

APRIL 1, 2021

It helps you find super customers and fine-tune your ideal customer profile. It provides insights into product functionality and onboarding. Tracking your free trial conversion rate is important because it gives you a concrete way to optimize the way you acquire customers. Inefficient or broken onboarding experience.

Payment Solutions 135

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payment Methods Strategy 135

Baremetrics

MARCH 23, 2020

Another walked me through the onboarding emails he sends to retain 94.7% of his customers. It could be the way you’re acquiring customers, your onboarding, or another part of your business. But if over 10% of your customers are cancelling, it makes it difficult to grow long term. in just a few months.

Churn 145

Churn Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 145

User Pilot

MAY 8, 2023

What are the main customer onboarding trends to watch out for in 2023? Userpilot’s State of SaaS Onboarding 2023 has just landed and we’re sharing the key insights. Primary onboarding flows should be short and focused on training customers in basic functionality. Book the demo!

Onboarding 97

Onboarding SaaS Payments Trends Payment Methods 97

CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 7, 2022

It’s undeniable that the SaaS model works differently and attracts revenue on a monthly or annual basis, unlike the on-premise software that deals with one-time payments. So, it’s legit to have a customer success team in hand. Assess the quality of the customer success efforts. That is important to track.

Customer Success 98

Customer Success Payments SaaS Payments Revenue 98

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

So I’m Nick Mehta, CEO of Gainsight and you probably have heard of Gainsight in the world of customer success and really excited to have two different voices in the world of how companies think about their customers. Jay Snyder: Today I have to manage and track health and my customer success, right?

Payment Methods 274

Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 274

Totango

AUGUST 23, 2022

In this way, customer journey B2B touchpoints serve as a powerful tool for increasing the effectiveness of your customer success strategy. In this article, we’ll cover what you need to know about B2B customer journey touchpoints and how to plan them out to deliver tremendous customer success. Tech support.

B2B 122

B2B Payment Methods Payments SaaS Payments 122

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

There are certainly tactics that work best for specific groups: by industry (software vs hardware, or retail, or services, or healthcare, etc.) 2: Payment structure SaaS is paid on a recurring basis. You subscribe to the service, rather than owning the software outright. 3: Make onboarding seamless. 4: Consider community.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Subscription Payment Features B2B 52

SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Today marketing, there’s only me doing it and then I have someone in customer success who is helping me and so we’re mostly using Intercom for one-on-one interaction with our users. At Sunrise for example, we had a 1 million monthly active users, so we were not about discovering who our customer was or how to speak to them.

Sales Hiring 195

Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Solutions Marketing 195

ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

As ChurnZero recently secured a Series B investment bringing our total funding that has been raised to date to $35 million, we thought we’d take a look back and see the role that Customer Success plays at each respective stage of funding for SaaS companies. Early-Stage Funding & Customer Success.

Scale 98

Scale Customer Success Payments Underperforming Technical Team 98

ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

But what if you could have a better idea of the changes 2019 has in store for Customer Success professionals? We’ll see more applications of AI in Customer Success, but these will mostly be behind-the-scenes. the stuff that Customer Success teams are really meant to do).

Customer Success 73

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 73