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

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

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

SaaStr

JULY 20, 2021

Cecily Sackey, Senior Customer Success Manager @ Capchase & Alex Pedraza, Head of New Business @ Capchase. Secrets to Aligning Marketing and Revenue Strategies with Marqeta’s CMO. Mahmoud Abdelkader, CEO @ Very Good Security & Christina Monets, Senior Director of Operations @ Very Good Security.

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Payments Payment Services SaaS Payments Banking 279

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. With Quolum ‘s SaaS Card you only pay for SaaS that you use.

Stax 55

Stax Payment Services Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 55

Payrix

MAY 14, 2024

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. It was an Embedded Finance play starting with payments. [It

Payments 147

Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 147

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. Part of this can be attributed to the SaaS model’s unique aspect of relying primarily on future revenue. Take a traditional business, like a furniture store.

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Scale Payment Services Payments SaaS Payments 117

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

The ultimate failure of Siri to dominate the AI personal assistant game might come to be seen as its biggest miss of the decade. Google, too, saw a smooth transfer of power from its founders to a new CEO, Sundar Pichai, while also strengthening its core business of search advertising and reorganizing under Alphabet.

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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Software SaaS Payments 259

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

JULY 30, 2024

Okta’s VP of Engineering, Monica Bajaj, and Senior Director of Platform Product Marketing, Priya Ramamurthi, share Okta’s playbook to PLG, developer experience, and Enterprise ARR. 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.

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Underperforming Technical Team Enterprise Scale Payments 288

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. Integrating customer-facing subscription management tools on your own site.

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Payments SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions 157

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.

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Sales Hiring Payment Services SaaS Payments Scale 278

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.

Scale 316

Scale Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Development 316

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.

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Payment Solutions Payments Customer Success Payment Methods 117

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. But getting paid in a simple ACH or credit card payment each month can be magical. Annual deals can create unnecessary customer friction. Is it worth it?

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Scale Payments 317

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. What’s the difference between a website, a landing page, and a funnel? Landing page: a single page.

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Sales Funnel Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Services 111

FastSpring

AUGUST 2, 2023

As a startup with only two or three people, it would be absolutely impossible to go international without this kind of platform.” Are you looking for a merchant of record that will partner with you to grow your business internationally? Selling internationally is key to their business model. Here’s why. Now, Stripe offers it.

Payment Solutions 148

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Merchant Services AI Search 148

FastSpring

AUGUST 6, 2024

FastSpring is a merchant of record that can help you easily grow your business internationally. We provide an all-in-one payment platform for SaaS, software, video game, and other digital product businesses, including VAT and sales tax management, payment localization, and award-winning consumer support.

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Merchant Services Payment Services Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 167

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

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. But second, enterprise customers all renewed. At EchoSign / Adobe Sign, we really lost almost no enterprise customers at all. functioned.

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SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale SMB 280

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

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

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. The 100th likely doesn’t have enough oxygen or revenue.

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Sales Hiring Payment Solutions AI SaaS Payments 302

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. Set up a demo or try it out for yourself.

Merchant Services 158

Merchant Services Payments Payment Features Subscription 158

FastSpring

AUGUST 11, 2020

The way we purchase products is changing—and so are our business models. More and more, customers are looking for ways to streamline their purchases and make transactions easier. Subscription services are what customers want. In this comprehensive guide, we’re going to take a deep dive into: What is subscription revenue?

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Payment Features Payments Payment Methods Subscription 113

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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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Average Revenue per Customer. Customer Lifetime Value (LTV). Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). & So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey. So the first question is what made SaaS so successful. MRR, obviously.

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SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 246

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. Onboarding.

Payment Solutions 106

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Retention Customer Success 106

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.

Payment Solutions 94

Payment Solutions Payments Customer Success Payment Methods 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?

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Strategy Payment Solutions Payments Customer Lifetime Value 105

SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

You have a presentation online that’s called Unsexy, which you’ll have to explain to me later. Algolia went from zero to seven figures in revenue in 12 months, and the launch of their search as a service product, and grew pricing from $19 a month to $100,000, which sounds amazing. Next up, we’ve got Nicolas Dessaigne.

Sales Hiring 278

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Payment Methods 278

Sales Hacker

MARCH 29, 2021

Building the right partner tech stack can dramatically increase the revenue flowing from your partners, even if your partnership team is small. The growing role of partnerships in driving revenue. Businesses are continuing to streamline their purchasing. Processing and remitting payments.

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Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 112

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

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. Simple answer. You buy it.

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Merchant Services Payment Methods Data Sales Hiring 210

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 146

Merchant Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 146

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

We’ve invested in over 300 companies at Salesforce Ventures and have partnered with both of you closely and it’s been amazing to see this story up close and personal over the years. Matt Garratt: If you just look at Vlocity and nCino, amazing businesses. Grew to over a hundred million dollars in revenue in five years.

Payment Solutions 218

Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 218

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.

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Customer Success Payments Payment Methods Payment Solutions 117

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