FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

In this piece, we offer seven case studies from SaaS companies — small tweaks they made to reduce churn and increase customer LTV. Note: FastSpring offers advanced subscription management services that support free trials, monthly and annual paid plans, proration, discount management, and more. How Castos upsells subscription tiers.

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Merchant Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 145

Blulogix

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

By Kegham Khrigian The New Standard for Subscription Renewals: Intelligent, Automated, and Scalable For subscription businesses, renewals are the foundation of predictable revenue and long-term growth. Subscription models thrive on automation, accuracy, and data-driven decision-making and renewals should be no different.

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Payment Features Subscription Payments Payment Services 59

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.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Skyflow ’s data privacy vaults deliver security, compliance, and governance via a simple API. Expensify is a payments superapp that helps individuals and businesses around the world simplify the way they manage money. Avoma analyzes conversation insights, and intelligence to help reps shorten sales cycles and delight more customers.

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Stax

JANUARY 28, 2024

Long before the digital age, newspaper and magazine companies have been using the subscription model to create and retain a consistent readership for their publications. This business model has now been adapted very well in the internet age, especially in the SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) and eCommerce industries. The alternative?

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Payment Features Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 88

FastSpring

MARCH 8, 2024

After adopting FastSpring as their merchant of record, SocialBee even saw 2x year-over-year growth in monthly recurring revenue (MRR) after their first year with FastSpring. Our continued focus on developing and improving a great product , especially features and tools for subscription management to support SaaS businesses.

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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.

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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 lifetime value. Churn rate. More on that later.

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Payrix

APRIL 2, 2024

A comprehensive Embedded Payments strategy isn’t complete without value added services. But, as a software platform, what value added services should you be considering? And when should you start thinking about these solutions and infusing them into your payment ecosystem and experience?

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

You might be surprised to know that SaaS companies can learn a lot from their consumer subscription counterparts. 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.

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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.

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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. Subscription services are what customers want. How to move to a subscription revenue model.

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Payment Features Payments Payment Methods Subscription 102

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 10, 2022

When integrated with Intercom, you can uncover what happens when a customer visits your site or app, and how to proactively improve their experience. Address things like “rage clicking” directly with real-time, outbound messages to your customers to help them preemptively resolve issues. not JUST when they’re at the checkout).

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Payment Methods Technical Review Payments Payment Solutions 209

Blulogix

MARCH 25, 2024

By BluLogix Team Mastering the Art of Complex B2B Recurring and Subscription Billing: Navigating Financial Process Complexity in B2B Subscriptions The financial backbone of B2B subscription models rests on efficiently managing complex processes spanning billing, payments, revenue recognition, and reporting.

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Payment Services Payment Features Subscription Payments 94

ChurnZero

AUGUST 14, 2020

At ChurnZero, we’re humble enough to admit that Customer Success software can’t do it all, and quite frankly, it shouldn’t. We stick to our circle of competence and focus on our area of expertise: Customer Success software. It’s Customer Success for us. What is customer support software?

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Payments Payment Solutions Customer Success Software Review 87

FastSpring

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Pricing your software correctly is a crucial part of selling software , but sometimes it’s hard to know if you’re on the right track with your pricing strategy. We’re sharing some tips for setting up a pricing model that attracts and retains long-term customers for your software company. Offer a Range of Options .

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Payrix

MAY 14, 2024

When it comes to software, success doesn’t hinge on innovation alone. No one knows this better (or more intimately) than a software company Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Adam Tesan, CRO at Worldpay for Platforms, is a seasoned executive leader with decades of experience in sales, marketing, and revenue in the software space.

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FastSpring

AUGUST 2, 2023

When TestDome was created, CEO and co-founder Mario Zivic knew the pre-employment testing software company wouldn’t be able to rely on domestic sales to succeed. “As Selling Software Internationally With FastSpring Croatia is a relatively small country with a population of only 4 million people. “We Here’s why. Now, Stripe offers it.

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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Merchant Services AI Search 148

SaaStr

JUNE 18, 2023

And it’s sometimes easier to administer — automated monthly credit card payments are easy nowadays, but any invoicing process more than an annual one can be a big administrative headache. There is no way they want to get 12 invoices a year through procurement. And let the customer pick what is best for them.

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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.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Software Review 148

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 31, 2021

With these new transactional messaging capabilities, you can reach your customers where they already are, using timely, relevant, personalized messages that are simple to set up and easy to measure – no engineering team required. Payment expirations. Save time with one unified platform for all your customer messaging.

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Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Features 218

Baremetrics

JULY 8, 2021

In order to run efficiently, they needed the right tool to analyze data from Stripe and segment their customers. Solution: They signed up for Baremetrics. Right away, its analytics tools made it easy to calculate key SaaS metrics and segment customers based on customizable attributes. Table of Contents.

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Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments SaaS Payments 105

ChurnZero

JANUARY 24, 2022

Building a business from the ground up always has its challenges, but maintaining a subscription-based business can be particularly difficult due to its ongoing nature. One of the most effective ways to run a subscription-based business is through a customer-centric strategy. You might be wondering, what is customer centricity

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Payment Features Subscription SaaS Payments Payment Services 98

FastSpring

JULY 10, 2019

Thinking about transitioning to a subscription-based business model? In fact, according to a recent report from Gartner, more than 90 percent of software providers are expected to migrate to a subscription-based business model by 2022. Why should I care about subscriptions? You’re not alone. How do I reduce churn?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

I am Matt Garratt, Managing Partner of Salesforce Ventures, and we will be talking about the secrets to building a $1 billion vertical SaaS company, and we’re very fortunate to have two executives from leading enterprise software companies who have done this. I was amazed by the app exchange. Actually, two. Matt Garratt: Fantastic.

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Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 218

Stax

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Although credit cards have been around since the 1950s, in recent years, they’ve started to dethrone cash from its position as king of payment methods. With a whopping 84% of American adults owning at least one credit card (the average is 3 credit card accounts per person), card payments reached $9.43 trillion in 2021.

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Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Features 88

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.

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Baremetrics

MAY 4, 2020

The customers who actively cancel their subscription. The customers whose subscriptions end because their credit card payments failed and they never made up for the payment. According to our data, SaaS and subscriptions businesses lose around 9% of their MRR due to failed payments on average.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 11, 2014

When I started in the venture business and met software companies, I never heard the words customer success during pitches or throughout diligence or in board meetings. A few years later, customer success has become equal in importance to sales and marketing and engineering and product within SaaS companies.

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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? Book a Userpilot demo today!

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The ability to follow up on failed payments without putting customer retention at risk is a delicate task that must be handled carefully. Dunning emails tend to be the most effective way to remind customers about a failed payment and speed up the payment process by offering alternative options.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payment Services Payment Features 104

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.

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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.

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Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Marketing 162

FastSpring

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Not only is feedback helpful when optimizing your product and customer experience, but it shows your customers you care about their opinions. By creating a good relationship with your customers, they’re more likely to return. Stay Connected with Customers Via Email Campaigns.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 19, 2020

Are you responsible for getting subscription metrics like MRR right? At ChartMogul, we auto-generate subscriptions and metrics from invoices and transactions — we believe this gives you the most trustworthy picture of where your business stands at the moment. Why is my MRR different from what I see in our billing system?

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Payment Features Subscription Metrics Payment Solutions 75

User Pilot

MARCH 7, 2023

That’s why we have ten reasons why your users are canceling their subscriptions and what you can do to mitigate them and drive long-term customer retention. TL;DR In SaaS, cancellation (also referred to as “ churn “) is when a customer stops using your product and then unsubscribes from their plan.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

It’s especially important to note that Digital River is a merchant of record (MoR), which means that many payment service providers may not include the kind of comprehensive services you’re used to with an MoR. Three other payments options in 2024. What Makes a Merchant of Record Different From Payment Service Providers ?

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