FastSpring

MARCH 8, 2024

SocialBee , a social media management platform and SaaS based in Romania, first started using FastSpring in 2018. 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.

Merchant Services 158

Merchant Services Payments Payment Features Subscription 158

Stax

MARCH 16, 2025

As a SaaS business leader, reducing software user churn is an important part of maintaining your customer base and increasing revenue. By pinpointing the exact reason for user churn, you can determine how to avoid it and ensure that your business continues to have strong profits. Looking to measure churn? Contact sales 2.

Payment Solutions 88

Payment Solutions Software Review Churn SaaS Payments 88

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.

Payment Features 102

Payment Features Payments Payment Methods Subscription 102

Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Monthly recurring revenue is one of the least exciting topics to take on in 2020. While I was researching this topic, I reached out to our Customer Success and Sales teams to see if many customers were coming to them with questions about MRR. MRR stands for Monthly recurring revenue. What is MRR?

Payments 145

Payments Revenue Payment Features SaaS Payments 145

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

While its software has decent margins of 66%, software is only 10% of Toast’s total GAAP revenue. It loses money on the hardware (gross margin negative) and the payments solutions have barely a 20%+ margin and constitute the vast majority of revenue today. Mediocre margins in payments. And a few bonus notes: #6.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments Cloud 327

SaaStr

MAY 8, 2021

bills, “payment terms”, and often, repeated follow-up. Monthly invoices can make things even worse, of course. Monthly invoices can make things even worse, of course. But getting paid in a simple ACH or credit card payment each month can be magical. Annual deals can create unnecessary customer friction.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Scale Payments 317

Stax

JUNE 18, 2024

Subscription models offer companies large and small the opportunity to build predictable revenue and high customer lifetime value. But managing subscriptions effectively and freeing up time and resources for expansion is no picnic.

Payment Features 88

Payment Features Payment Solutions Payment Services Payments 88

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 10, 2022

From a support perspective, creating FAQs and knowledge hubs should definitely be your first port of call – but what if you could reach your customer before frustration gets the better of them? No, you don’t need to be psychic – maintaining a joyful CX is made easier with platforms like FullStory. Pain points made powerful.

Payment Methods 209

Payment Methods Technical Review Payments Payment Solutions 209

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. Billing: Zuora.

Payment Solutions 117

Payment Solutions Payments Customer Success Payment Methods 117

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?

Payment Features 88

Payment Features Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 88

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. We also show you how to personalize your billing practices with advice from our experience working with thousands of SaaS businesses. How My Marketing Concepts upsells annual payments during trial.

Merchant Services 145

Merchant Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 145

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2021

Large customers only pay via invoices, especially for any deal of any material size (>$10k a year). Invoices have their own annoying set of characteristics (they can be Net 60+, you have to deal with procurement, etc.). The smaller the customer, the more important micro-cash management is. Now, there are exceptions.

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Payment Features Outsourced Development Scale Payment Services 251

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.

Payment Services 94

Payment Services Payment Features Subscription Payments 94

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

What if you could boost revenue without having to invest a small fortune in new customer acquisition? While it may sound too good to be true, the reality is that you can achieve this by implementing an effective customer expansion strategy. How to calculate customer expansion revenue?

Strategy 105

Strategy Payment Solutions Payments Customer Lifetime Value 105

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

You might be surprised to know that SaaS companies can learn a lot from their consumer subscription counterparts. When you sell to a business, the buyer might be thinking about the needs of the company, of their team, and of themselvesso you might need three value propositions! 2: Payment structure SaaS is paid on a recurring basis.

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SaaS Payments Payment Features Subscription B2B 52

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. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Software.

Payments 87

Payments Payment Solutions Customer Success Software Review 87

SaaStr

JULY 22, 2020

Almost Complete Hand-off of Customers to “Others”, Customer Success, Account Manager, etc. Very little post-sale involvement with customer. Doesn’t Maximize Revenue or Success Per Lead. Every potential customer fawned over. Revenue per lead fell by over 50% with the BigCo sales plan.

Scale 363

Scale Sales Hiring Sales SaaS 363

SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2019

SaaS is about creating long-term value for your customer, and being compensated appropriately for that value as a business. Learn actionable monetization tips from a Product/Growth operator turned VC. This is a mobile solution for SMB’s to send an invoice and get paid. Want to see more content like this?

Payments 113

Payments Pricing Compensation Scale 113

Chart Mogul

MARCH 4, 2020

Extracting value from revenue data is a vital element in running a successful subscription business. Today, we’re excited to share the next step in the evolution of ChartMogul by launching the world’s first Subscription Data Platform. Introducing the ChartMogul Subscription Data Platform.

Payments 72

Payments Payment Features Subscription Payment Solutions 72

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. Billing: Zuora.

Payment Solutions 94

Payment Solutions Payments Customer Success Payment Methods 94

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 31, 2021

We’re excited to announce that you can now send transactional messages using Intercom, empowering you to send all your customer messages from one easy-to-use platform. These messages can be triggered based on specific customer actions or dates, such as an upcoming subscription renewal or customer birthday.

Payments 218

Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Features 218

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Facebook was peerless, however, in being able to harness and monetize all that attention, even if that success brought uncomfortable scrutiny. In Asia, the likes of Alibaba’s Alipay and Tencent’s WeChat Pay demonstrate how apps are revolutionizing our economies – they have swiftly become the default payment mechanism across China.

Payment Solutions 259

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Software SaaS Payments 259

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. Stay tuned and read on to incur extra SaaS revenue. Didn’t this get you curious already?

Customer Success 98

Customer Success Payments SaaS Payments Revenue 98

Totango

AUGUST 16, 2022

Customer retention software has become essential for effective SaaS customer success strategies. A winning SaaS business model must prioritize retaining customers, which is far more cost-efficient than acquiring new clients to offset churn. What Is Customer Retention Software?

Payment Solutions 106

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Retention Customer Success 106

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 ?

Merchant Services 78

Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Services Payments 78

FastSpring

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Netflix, for example, markets free trials heavily because their data shows that they work, retaining about one in three people for a subscription. Once they’ve seen the platform or software in action, they’re more likely to continue to use your product and extend their subscription beyond the free trial period.

Payment Features 83

Payment Features Payment Solutions Subscription Pricing 83

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

Baremetrics

JULY 8, 2021

This allows their team to focus on product, sales, and customer success while staying lean. MetricFire is a full-scale platform that offers infrastructure, system, and application monitoring using a suite of open-source monitoring tools. Stripe is the leading payment processing service for SaaS and subscription businesses.

Payment Services 105

Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments SaaS Payments 105

FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

Last week, I canceled an annual SaaS subscription (I had three weeks left until renewal). Interestingly, even though I paid for a year-long subscription, the company didn’t let me keep the last three weeks of access to its premium features. This action will immediately downgrade your subscription.

Benchmarks 146

Benchmarks Churn Payments SaaS Payments 146

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. What is Customer Centricity?

Payment Features 98

Payment Features Subscription SaaS Payments Payment Services 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. In the old days, growing your business was easy. Tell people about your business, get them in the store, sell them things, then look for more customers.

Customer Success 107

Customer Success Payment Methods Payments Payment Services 107

FastSpring

MAY 25, 2023

Pricing your software as a service (SaaS) can be hard enough even during the best of times, but figuring out how to dial in the right pricing to drive more revenue in times of stagflation can be even more challenging. Optimizing your SaaS Pricing Strategy for new MRR vs. net revenue retention. Inflation isn’t flat: Vary your strategy.

SaaS Payments 148

SaaS Payments Pricing Payments Merchant Services 148

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.

Payment Services 88

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Features 88

ChurnZero

MAY 20, 2021

When you build a Customer Success organization from the ground up, it’s easy to get caught in the trap of doing the wrong things well. To figure out where you should begin on your growth and scaling journey, it’s helpful to first orient yourself with where you stand using a Customer Success maturity model.

Customer Success 90

Customer Success Payments Payment Services Scale 90

Chart Mogul

APRIL 20, 2023

The new version of our Chargebee integration provides you with more accurate cash flow reporting, more detailed reporting for add-ons, improved handling of prorated charges, and support for open invoices. We have hundreds of customers using Chargebee. We have hundreds of customers using Chargebee.

Payment Features 52

Payment Features Payments Subscription Data 52

User Pilot

JANUARY 10, 2022

How important is customer success KPIs to your SaaS business? The corporate world is becoming increasingly dependent on data and analytics to make informed business decisions. Customer success metrics help you analyze how effectively you help customers gain value from your SaaS product.

Customer Success 105

Customer Success SaaS Payments Customer Lifetime Value SaaS 105

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

A few of the leading companies in the Cloud 100 list, as put together by Forbes, of leading enterprise software companies are in industry verticals and just on the Salesforce platform, the three most valuable companies built on the platform were industry-vertical companies, including nCino, Vlocity, and Veeva. Trisha Price: Yes.

Payment Solutions 218

Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 218