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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FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

Small tweaks to your SaaS billing practices can make a huge impact on the customer experience. For example, Jon Torres — a digital marketing consultant specializing in SaaS commerce — noticed that, for some of his clients, refund requests spiked around renewal time. “It 7 growth hacks from the SaaS experts. Learn more here.

Merchant Services 110

Merchant Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 110

Stax

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Offering payment processing services is a move that makes sense for a lot of SaaS companies, particularly if your software helps your customers run their business. Adding payments to your suite of features and offerings enables you to provide more value to your users. What Is Merchant Underwriting?

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Merchant Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Payments 88

Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 6, 2015

SaaS Enabled Marketplaces employ elegant business models. They are verticalized SaaS companies that manage a marketplace to create winner-take-all market dynamics. Free software becomes an education tool and lead generation to a second value proposition. In addition, a startup must determine what rake to charge.

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Payrix

MAY 14, 2024

Before joining Worldpay for Platforms, he was CRO at Chargebee, a subscription revenue management platform that manages billing subscriptions and payments for companies throughout the world. During his tenure, Chargebee experienced high growth, scaling from processing about $3 billion in revenue to $13-14 billion.

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Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 147

Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 4, 2020

And is Stripe a good choice as your billing and payment provider? When Stripe was launched in 2010, dealing with payments online wasn’t a straightforward matter. Fast forward 10 years and setting up shop and accepting payments has become a lot easier, thanks to a large extent to Stripe. Is Stripe worth $100B?

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Payment Methods Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 105

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The SaaS industry is constantly evolving, and for many companies in the space, that means having to evolve their business model. Determining where you are on the spectrum leads to the sort of customers you plan to target, your route to market and the most effective sales process. Entry level application (<$5,000 p.a.).

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) Foundation celebrates and promotes the intrinsic value of music education. The NAMM Foundation advances active participation in music making across the lifespan by supporting scientific research, philanthropic giving and public service programs. The post FastSpring at NAMM 2024!

Merchant Services 153

Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 153

Payrix

MARCH 12, 2024

Embedded Payments have become a popular initiative among vertical specific software companies looking to deliver a more seamless customer experience, introduce new revenue into the business, and stay competitive in today’s digital world. How do they think about attaching payments to those existing customers? But where to begin?

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Payments Embedded Payments Merchant Services SaaS Payments 100

Baremetrics

MAY 4, 2020

When most SaaS companies talk about reducing churn, they’re usually referring to voluntary churn. 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. I’m talking about involuntary churn.

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Payment Methods Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 124

User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

There are many SaaS products , but knowing that, how do you choose the best? This article will look at the most successful SaaS companies, so you can decide if you want to invest in them for your business. TL;DR A SaaS product delivers software remotely, reducing the need for local installation, maintenance, and updates.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Services Payment Solutions 76

FastSpring

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The Game Developers Conference (GDC) brings the game development community together to exchange ideas, solve problems, and shape the future of the industry across five days of education, inspiration, and networking. FastSpring is how plugin, theme, and SaaS companies sell online in more places around the world.

Merchant Services 133

Merchant Services Development Payment Services SaaS Payments 133

Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. But not all SaaS products are alike. Other types of SaaS are relevant only to companies in specific industries.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 88

Incredo

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Precisely – about SaaS affiliate programs… SaaS partner programs entice both software providers and affiliate partners for various reasons: 1) SaaS products are usually low-cost. Software to track analytics, transfer payments, manage inventory, create videos and for many other things.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Merchant Services Sales Recruiting 139

Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 13, 2021

Existing customer renewal is a high priority for 59% of SaaS companies and a medium priority for 27%. However, the subscription business model can’t survive if you keep on acquiring new custo mers but the old ones keep on walking away. How to calculate this metric and what’s the average SaaS churn rate?

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Churn Payment Services 105

Buffer Resources

AUGUST 16, 2023

We’ve shared a number of parts of Buffer’s business transparently over the years — and one piece we’ve always wanted to expand on is where your money goes when you pay for a Buffer subscription. Our hosting costs include service providers like AWS, Cloudflare, MongoDb, Twitter, etc.

Merchant Services 91

Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Features Payments 91

ProfitWell

JUNE 27, 2019

From CRM software to coffee beans, shaving blades to designer gowns, recurring billing is the lifeline for every subscription business. It’s easy to see why—automatic charges for subscriptions are simple and convenient for customers and predictable and sustainable for companies. What is recurring billing?

Merchant Services 76

Merchant Services Payment Features Payments SaaS Payments 76

FastSpring

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

For example, not long ago, we were migrating the subscriptions of a new customer into our system. This process is normally straightforward, but in this case, we ran into a delay. Rather than frustrating our new customer with a delay, we simply looked up how many rebills they had to process in the next few days.

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Merchant Services B2B Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 135

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 16, 2021

You can also onboard and educate new customers so they’re set up for success with your product from day one and have all of the information they need to get started and overcome common hurdles, such as configuring your app or installing it on mobile. There’s nothing more exciting than when a new customer signs up for your product or service.

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Payment Methods Payments Scale SaaS Payments 201

Baremetrics

AUGUST 5, 2021

Monitor important subscription events as they happen with the Live Stream Keep an eye on signups, cancellations, payments, upgrades, and more. Baremetrics Dives Deep into the most Important SaaS Metrics Get deep insights into MRR, churn, LTV and more to grow your business. How many new customers did we get last week?

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User Pilot

APRIL 24, 2024

SaaS renewals can be a breath-holding moment. TL;DR SaaS renewals includes the process of renewing a subscription to an online-hosted software service. TL;DR SaaS renewals includes the process of renewing a subscription to an online-hosted software service.

SaaS Payments 76

SaaS Payments Retention Payment Services Payment Solutions 76

FastSpring

MAY 16, 2024

Young minds aged 10-16 will dive into the world of WordPress and beyond, guided by expert educators and business owners. FastSpring is how plugin, theme, and SaaS companies sell online in more places around the world. Attendees will create their own websites, explore VR and AI, and learn essential internet safety.

Merchant Services 123

Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payment Services 123

ProfitWell

JANUARY 17, 2020

Nowadays, it seems like you can buy just about anything on a recurring monthly plan: razors, clothing, knick-knacks, candles, etc. Over the past decade, ecommerce subscription companies have doubled down on the subscription model to monetize their relationships with customers. What are ecommerce subscription companies?

Payment Methods 12

Payment Methods Payments Payment Features Merchant Services 12

Frontegg

MAY 27, 2021

Embrace self-service: Your development teams are embracing the self-service philosophy – your teams can focus on product adoption and self-service enablement. Also, no PLG strategy can work with traditional SaaS indicators. Best For: Multi-Tenant User Management, Self-Service Enablement.

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Scale 98

Subscription Flow

DECEMBER 12, 2024

These are the functions that need to be streamlined for optimum revenue growth: pricing, product launch, marketing, service innovation, customer retention etc. In short, RGM indicates that all of a businesss processes must be aligned, and working toward a unified goal. And that goal is to boost profitability in a sustainable manner.

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Payments Payment Services SaaS Payments Revenue 52

Subscription Flow

APRIL 1, 2024

A merchant of record for digital products is the legal body permitted to handle client payments for digital goods and services as companies negotiate the intricacies of online commerce. Read more: Optimizing Cross-border Trade: Merchant of Record for SaaS Companies What are the digital products you may need a merchant of record for?

Merchant Services 98

Merchant Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Methods 98

Incredo

MAY 22, 2019

Simply having a SaaS product that is useful, easy to use, customizable and affordable is not enough in order to ensure a steady stream of users. To attract customers and show how beneficial their product is, nearly every single SaaS company offers users a free trial. Sad, but true. Account for Varying Stages of The Buyer’s Journey.

SaaS Payments 101

SaaS Payments SaaS Payment Services Payment Methods 101

User Pilot

MARCH 23, 2023

What are the reasons for customer churn in SaaS? As a SaaS company, your ultimate goal is to retain customers and keep them happy with your product. Reducing churn is critical for SaaS because it cuts back customer acquisition costs and increases customer retention. Why is preventing churn critical for SaaS?

SaaS Payments 85

SaaS Payments Churn Underperforming Technical Team Payment Methods 85

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

What you’ll see in that cloud spend box is actually Gartner’s 2020 estimate for infrastructure as a service spending for companies, which was $50 billion. And if you also look at the platform as a service category, that’s also an additional $50 billion of spend, and that’s typically with those same vendors.

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Scale Marketplace as a Service Cloud SaaS Payments 194

Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Nearly every three weeks since the day I first signed up for a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution for web hosting, email, and domain registration services, I've been receiving renewal notifications. I think the first notice indicated "345 days remaining on your subscription." So far, so good. Here's the deal.

SaaS Payments 100

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Services Payment Solutions 100

SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

More than half of Kenya’s GDP is now transacted through a mobile, through arguably the most successful mobile banking and payment system called M-Pesa. You have to leverage existing behaviors that the market already understands so that you don’t need to educate users. For example, in Kenya. It’s interesting.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling SaaS Payments 165

Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Explain that existing legal contracts, developed for on-premise applications, usually don't fit SaaS solutions. For a SaaS solution, however, this idea of "acceptance testing" usually doesn't apply. The vendor's obligation is to provide access to a service that functions according to the spec.

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Outsourced Development SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 100

User Pilot

DECEMBER 3, 2022

The next stage is acquisition, where customers sign up for a product or service for the first time. In SaaS, this is usually the moment they start a free trial or freemium plan. In SaaS, this is when they upgrade from a free trial to paid, or from a freemium to a premium plan. This all leads to a purchase decision. Acquisition.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Software Review Payment Services 87

SaaStock

MARCH 5, 2019

Cledara was going to solve the problem of companies having too many SaaS subscriptions that were increasingly difficult to keep track of. Cledara would serve as their home and the payment hub powered through a digital Mastercard. She had quit her job four months earlier and incorporated the company in London. We are one of them.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 23, 2019

The success of many SaaS businesses is dependent on how well they can effectively acquire and retain new customers. It seems then, that recurring billing is one proven way to grow your business. Brand the entire billing process. Active churn – like the kind when customers decide to leave your business is easy to spot.

Payment Methods 61

Payment Methods Payments SaaS Payments Payment Features 61

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Security is a primary concern in today’s SaaS market. To alleviate the distrust of nebulous subscription payments, SaaS companies need a strong focus on keeping customer data secure and communicating that security to their users. What is SaaS security? 3 layers of SaaS security.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Technical Review Payment Methods 74

ProfitWell

MARCH 24, 2020

The subscription model is booming. Almost everything is sold as a subscription, from socks to razor blades, and of course software. Without further ado, let's look at nine subscription-based companies absolutely nailing it in 2020. What is a subscription company? So why the subscription business model?

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