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

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.

Payment Solutions 106

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Retention Customer Success 106

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Putting narrative order on the past decade, a 10-year-period that has somehow remained stubbornly nameless, is quite the challenge, but it’s impossible to make sense of the 2010s without understanding the role of software. To give some perspective, there were about 300 million smartphones sold in 2010.

Payment Solutions 259

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Software SaaS Payments 259

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

And they are both incredibly impressive — 118% growth at $3B run-rate and $500m in ARR in software alone may be an all-time record — but also, perhaps not SaaS? #1. With gross margins of only 21%, is Toast really a software company? Wix just has more software revenue to blend the total margins higher.

Payment Methods 327

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments Cloud 327

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.

Sales Hiring 302

Sales Hiring Payment Solutions AI SaaS Payments 302

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 117

Payment Solutions Payments Customer Success Payment Methods 117

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 165

Customer Success Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Scale 165

SaaStr

JULY 31, 2020

And some of the marquee customers include MongoDB, Gitlab and Qualtrics. . Last year, the company doubled its headcount, tripled revenue and landed on G2’s Top 100 Global Software list. . The NLP (Natural Language Processing) technology has even provided guidance on how to handle COVID-19 discussions with customers and prospects. .

Scale 359

Scale Artificial Intelligence Payments Payment Services 359

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

SaaStr

APRIL 1, 2023

The SMBTech economy is very different from enterprise software, and there is massive opportunity to capture it. Throw in the rise of social media and mobile web payment systems like Stripe and Braintree, and something revolutionary was at our doorstep. There are over 400M small businesses worldwide.

Scale 245

Scale SMB Merchant Services Payment Methods 245

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 162

Merchant Services Payment Services Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 162

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

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

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 146

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Merchant Services AI Search 146

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?

Payments 124

Payments Embedded Payments Merchant Services Payment Services 124

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

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Well implemented, product demos help to: Improve user engagement : Today’s B2B buyers are independent—they want to research and evaluate solutions on their own terms. Step 2: Collect internal assets Once you’ve decided on your use case, it’s time to dig into your internal assets to gather crucial customer data.

Payment Methods 103

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Software Review SaaS Payments 103

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.

Payments 147

Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 147

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. More on that later.

Scale 117

Scale Payment Services Payments SaaS Payments 117

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Expensify is a payments superapp that helps individuals and businesses around the world simplify the way they manage money. More than 10 million people use Expensify’s free features, which include corporate cards, expense tracking, next-day reimbursement, invoicing, bill pay, and travel booking in one app.

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Payments Payment Services AI Search Payment Solutions 278

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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Customer Success VP of Engineering Payments Payment Methods 152

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?

Payments 142

Payments SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions 142

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?

Payments 87

Payments Payment Solutions Customer Success Software Review 87

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

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 129

Merchant Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 129

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

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

Totango

AUGUST 21, 2020

In our latest installment in the CXO Series , we sat down with Keith Strodtman, COO, Customer First and Shelby Czarnota, Vice President, Customer Success Business Solutions at SAP as we discussed SAP’s Transformation and Innovation in Customer Success and why they deployed Totango as their One Customer Success Platform.

Innovation 117

Innovation Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Services 117

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

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.

Payment Solutions 214

Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 214

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

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).

Payment Methods 209

Payment Methods Technical Review Payments Payment Solutions 209

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!

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions Onboarding Software Review Social Media 98

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. Don’t worry about customer success hires and scaled sales reps.

SaaS Payments 280

SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale SMB 280

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.

Startup 247

Startup SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods 247

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.

Sales Hiring 278

Sales Hiring Payment Services SaaS Payments Scale 278

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 141

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Software Review 141