SaaStr

APRIL 1, 2023

The SMBTech economy is very different from enterprise software, and there is massive opportunity to capture it. Rewind The Clock — How Did We Get Here Most small businesses in pre-2010 didn’t have computers in their store or restaurant. Companies were forced to transition from pen and paper to digital solutions quickly.

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Scale SMB Merchant Services Payment Methods 245

SaaStr

AUGUST 18, 2022

ChurnZero is Customer Success software for growing SaaS and subscription businesses. Our platform is uniquely designed to integrate with CRM systems and tightly into an application or service. Stax is an industry-leading payments technology provider that is revolutionizing the payments processing experience completely.

Stax 55

Stax Payment Services Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 55

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 10, 2022

With lockdowns preventing in-store experiences, shoppers have gravitated towards brands that can provide the best online experience possible. And, as society reopens, it is vital to maintain ease of movement between in-store and online channels – not just for your customers, but for your teams.

Payment Methods 209

Payment Methods Technical Review Payments Payment Solutions 209

Totango

AUGUST 16, 2022

Customer Retention Software Cuts Down Client Churn. 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.

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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Retention Customer Success 106

SaaStr

DECEMBER 28, 2023

At a recent Workshop Wednesday , SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin answered the community’s most pressing questions about SaaS — from investor appetites and IPOs in 2024 to managing and hiring a Head of Sales as a solo founder to AI and the future of customer success. Vertical software is nothing new,” Jason says.

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Sales Hiring Payment Solutions AI SaaS Payments 302

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.

Payment Solutions 148

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Merchant Services AI Search 148

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.

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Payments Embedded Payments Merchant Services SaaS Payments 130

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.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions Software Review SaaS Payments 103

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.

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Payments Payment Methods Embedded Payments Scale 243

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: Got hotspot on my phone, so hopefully we’ll hold still.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 273

SaaStr

MAY 25, 2024

Lesson #1: Invest In Customer Support Early Cloudinary strongly believes that customer success and support are enablers of PLG growth and aren’t just a cost center. If you think about Cloudinary’s core audience in the beginning, developers, the fifth employee they hired was the first person in the customer success group.

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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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Payment Solutions Payments Customer Success Payment Methods 117

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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Payments Embedded Payments Merchant Services Payment Services 124

FastSpring

MAY 20, 2024

Moving some, all, or simply more of your software offerings from a one-time perpetual license model to a software as a service (SaaS) subscription model can be daunting, but it’s so powerful for building dependable, recurring revenue. Are you looking for a merchant of record that will partner with you to grow your SaaS business?

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Payments SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions 157

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.

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Merchant Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 146

FastSpring

AUGUST 6, 2024

She recently assisted a European software company that was contacted by African taxing authorities inquiring about an unpaid tax liability. Without intervention, it’s likely that Tanzania would have opened a full multi-year audit, and result in back taxes, and interest and penalty payments for the customer. RH: Correct.

Merchant Services 167

Merchant Services Payment Services Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 167

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. Take a traditional business, like a furniture store.

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Scale Payment Services Payments SaaS Payments 117

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The first thing SMBs did was look at their credit card payments and cancel everything they could. But second, enterprise customers all renewed. They still needed to process payments, track orders, ship orders, run financials, sign contracts, store data, etc. Almost irrationally. Almost all of them. functioned. But plenty.

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SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale SMB 280

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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Payment Solutions Payments Customer Success Payment Methods 94

Tom Tunguz

MARCH 19, 2020

Some of these customers will be insulated from the virus. Customer success and account management teams should focus on understanding customer health. This is important to project churn rates, assess timing of software payments, and estimate the impact on cash flows/burn. Others may benefit from it.

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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. Userpilot allows you to collect customer feedback via in-app surveys and automatically track all user actions in your app.

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Strategy Payment Solutions Payments Customer Lifetime Value 105

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. The path to success is filled with challenges at every milestone. Listen to your team.

Sales Hiring 278

Sales Hiring Payment Services SaaS Payments Scale 278

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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Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 147

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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Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Services Payments 78

Unbounce

JANUARY 6, 2025

A landing page funnel guides potential customers through your sales process. It’s a series of steps designed to convert visitors into leads and eventually into paying customers. Unlike a regular website, a landing page funnel focuses on specific actions you want visitors to take, like signing up for your email list or purchasing.

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Sales Funnel Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Services 111

SaaStr

MAY 16, 2019

I’m Romain, I’m the founder of Gorgias, and so today we’re going to talk about how to get a thousand customers using data. We are a customer service platform for e-commerce websites, and one of the things we try to do is to automate customer support. So, we have this data about a target market.

Merchant Services 210

Merchant Services Payment Methods Data Sales Hiring 210

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. are what we like to have in an online forum. As a business person yourself, you know how it works.

SaaS Payments 148

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Software Review 148

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. The most potent benefit of the subscription-based business model is that companies are guaranteed a fixed revenue stream—if they can retain their customers or subscribers.

Payment Features 88

Payment Features Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 88

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

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.

Payment Solutions 218

Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 218

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2024

The traditional SaaS model doesn’t always scale, and not every company has all the bells and whistles to fund marketing, sales, and customer success teams. The Drawbacks of Sales-Led Growth There is limited customer feedback because the salesperson is always interested in closing the lead in the shortest amount of time.

Underperforming Technical Team 288

Underperforming Technical Team Enterprise Scale Payments 288

SaaStr

APRIL 1, 2023

Box was already in the midst of RFP reviews for the project, but when the Certa team asked Linda if she wanted a demo of their “supplier lifecycle management solution,” it piqued her interest. So no payment until the solution goes live. Linda sees her relationship with suppliers like dating.

Payment Methods 241

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payment Services Sales Hiring 241

SaaStr

DECEMBER 12, 2022

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. You want your customers to make the payment decision as soon as possible. Once you do that, customers will start spreading the word.

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Payment Methods SaaS Payments Company Culture Payment Solutions 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.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Customer engagement has quickly become a widespread use for AI in the retail industry and beyond. With more customers expecting a hyper-personalized, real-time experience, the demand for AI technology in marketing has never been greater. Here is a deeper look at nine of the top AI tools for successful marketing funnels.

AI 139

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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. This wasn’t the case.

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SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 246

SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2019

So if we can pop up the Slido slide and I want to invite you all to take your phone and go on slido.com for this session so that you can start asking the panel questions. Pauline : Yeah, so I work at OpenClassrooms, which is a European leader in online education. I want to invite you all to go on Slido.

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Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Solutions Marketing 194