FastSpring

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

As you work to expand your SaaS, software, mobile games, or other digital product business worldwide, having the right payment methods available to global customers is key to ensuring they all feel comfortable purchasing. If you want to offer more payment methods around the world, don’t miss this episode of Growth Stage.

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FastSpring

MARCH 3, 2023

When you’re using a DIY payment solution like Stripe, making it work for your business falls on your developers. From testing out plugins to setting up new payment methods, maintaining Stripe can be very time-consuming. I interviewed him live on LinkedIn about four signs that SaaS companies have outgrown Stripe.

Merchant Services 148

Merchant Services Payment Services Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 148

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

But thankfully, that’s not what your payroll process has to look like. The best payroll services help you automate paying your employees and simplify the entire process, so you can gain more control over how you spend your time. The 6 best payroll service options for 2020. How to choose the best payroll service for you.

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Payment Services SaaS Payments Outsourcing Services Payment Solutions 145

SaaStr

MAY 10, 2021

There’s one theme we’ve reiterated over the years, at least since 2017 or so when we interviewed the CEOs of Twilio and Veeva back-to-back : To grow quickly after $100m ARR, you probably need a second core product. But customers who also use it for security grew 56%, and customers who also used it for customer service grew 40%.

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Merchant Services SaaS Payments SMB Payment Solutions 264

Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 29, 2024

Given that lender-negotiated key terms impact origination parameters and limit certain business operations, what tools and which best practices should you leverage to ensure you stay compliant while managing your business efficiently against those covenants? We’d like to wrap up by focusing on how to manage debt post-closing.

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Payment Services Payment Solutions Development Team Review Outsourcing Services 93

FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In two one-hour interviews, FastSpring sales leaders Todd Stellfox and Tony Markov each interviewed Kurt about pricing strategies that work in volatile markets and beyond. Stream both interviews below and see highlights from each. How to Price a New Product. About Our Presenters. Kurt Smith, Chief Product Officer at FastSpring.

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Pricing Payment Solutions Payment Services Scale 146

FastSpring

JANUARY 9, 2025

In this episode of Growth Stage, we interview gaming D2C and creator marketing expert Justin Sacks of Nexus about his thoughts on: What winning strategies AAA and AA publishers use for D2C in mobile. Podcast Full Interview: Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. Jump to video. Jump to transcript.

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Stax

MAY 30, 2024

While remote work is all the rage these days, there is still very much a need for on-site services, particularly industries like construction, healthcare, utilities, and telecommunications. This is where field service management (FSM) come in. Who needs my service? – Who are the customers already doing business with you?

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Payment Solutions Payment Services Merchant Services SaaS Payments 88

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

This both shortens the sales process and enhances the customer experience. Here’s how: Conduct internal interviews : Talk to your sales team, customer success managers, and product team members. Check internally for any existing resources you can use to speed up the development process. Mercury’s interactive product demo.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions Software Review SaaS Payments 103

FastSpring

MARCH 15, 2021

If you have a product or service that can be offered as a subscription, right now is the perfect time to make the transition. The post-checkout fulfillment process happens automatically. With active subscribers, recurring payments are sent automatically, giving you predictable cash flow and a steady income stream.

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Payment Features Payment Services Subscription Payment Solutions 147

Chart Mogul

JUNE 6, 2019

With only 2 people on our Finance & Operations team, we have to be smart about how we use our resources. Finance & Operations. The Finance & Operations Team at ChartMogul. She’s been with ChartMogul for almost a year now and has helped us a lot to improve & document our reporting and other processes.

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Payrix

JANUARY 30, 2024

Real Green’s journey to embedded payments is also rooted in innovation. According to Kellie Kucik, Head of Payments, the company has spent the last decade focused on developing its Customer Assistant Website. Our first integrated payment solution was a referral agreement with a third-party ISO. For us, it just wasn’t feasible.”

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Payments Payment Solutions Payment Features Merchant Services 130

SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Manual processes first. Dare I say SaaS.

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Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Scaling 163

FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

It’s a valid concern: We help facilitate literal transactions for online businesses, so it’s easy for all of us to fall into the rut of having a — well, transactional relationship. We provide a service; you make money; repeat on autopilot. Strengthening Customer Relationships.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Software Review 148

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

10 Great Questions to Ask a VP Sales During an Interview. Let me give you a partial interview script that may help a bit. Your VP Sales needs to be smarter than you in sales, sales processes, and building and scaling a sales team. Top-line revenue, inclusive of churn, inclusive of upsells and self-service, net of everything.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

But that’s easier said than done, which is why we’ve published our new book Intercom on Sales : a deep dive into the many lessons we’ve learned about how selling works at scale, covering everything from hiring tactics to the needs of modern buyers to fundamental processes for forecasting and managing deals. Sales is a brutal profession.

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Scale Sales Hiring Scaling Payment Services 172

SaaStr

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Stand Out by Being Concise and Easy to Understand Michael has done over 2000 YC interviews, and the one thing founders don’t understand is that if investors don’t know what your company does, they can’t fund you. “The They collect the payment online and take a 15% fee for every booking. Let’s use Airbnb as an example. That’s it.

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Payment Methods Startup Payment Solutions Sales Hiring 279

Buffer Resources

JANUARY 18, 2023

🔗 Read about how to use AI for content creation to see the different ways you can apply AI tools to your creative process. These tools can help simplify the chaotic process of planning content – and save you time by scheduling your work ahead of time. The tools that follow make that process easier.

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Payment Services Payments Payment Methods AI Search 138

FastSpring

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In Dave’s words, “What is it about your product or service that the users say in their own words they love ?” Ifprospects and customers don’t understand what your product is or what your service does, they’re not going to buy it. Or what is it about your product or service that the users say in their own words they love.

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Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payments 179

FastSpring

AUGUST 2, 2023

Now as a successful international business, TestDome has been with FastSpring through all of it, and even when other payment platforms launched intriguing new products, Mario never saw a good reason to leave FastSpring. Our customers have been quite happy with the service.” Set up a demo or try it out for yourself. Braintree offers it.

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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Merchant Services AI Search 148

FastSpring

JANUARY 8, 2019

They also offer Fulfillment by Amazon, where they handle the fulfillment process for your business at extra cost. An API may be used for a web-based system, operating system, computer hardware, or software library. A security mechanism that determines if a payment account has sufficient funds to complete a given transaction.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Services Outsourcing Services 84

Sales Hacker

JUNE 7, 2021

For example, a minimum number of maintenance technicians would be critical if you sell a field service app. Persona and market insights come in here – even though we’re at an early point in the sales process. If not then you may be wasting your time but we will come back to disrupting the status quo later. and capture them.

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Sales Recruiting Payment Services Payment Methods Sales 123

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 27, 2020

From the new services that legacy businesses are bringing to market to the metrics being used to fight churn, everything must be designed around the customer. From legacy business to subscription service. In a nutshell, you have to be really monitoring the activities that give the customers the most value from using your service.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 4, 2021

Instagram Shopping is a pretty simple process for Instagram users. According to Instagram, eligibility includes but is not limited to: Operating in a supported market (dependent on your location) Having an e-commerce website from which you sell products. Submitting and Receiving Payment for Instagram Shopping Products.

Payment Methods 145

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payment Services Payments 145

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 3, 2018

Iterate on process the same way you iterate on product. If a process doesn’t stick, don’t hesitate to move from it. But a lot of our merchants aren’t face-to-face with their buyers, or they have a sale that happens 30-90 days after they deliver a good or finish a service. Iterating on process.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payment Features 195

User Pilot

JUNE 28, 2023

Sustaining user engagement throughout the entire onboarding process can feel like a task only large teams can achieve. Platformly uses a progress bar and empty state CTAs to simplify the onboarding process for their complex product. Tips for improving the onboarding experience : Use UI patterns to draw users towards activation points.

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Onboarding SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 97

Agile Payments

MARCH 19, 2019

Recently, PYMNTS, a leading payments and commerce industry news site published a piece on PayFacs based on an interview with WePay co-founder Richard Aberman. Hyperbole aside, we want to examine Mr. Aberman’s view and provide some balance to the conversation for companies exploring payment facilitation.

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Payfac Payment Services Payment Facilitation Interviewing 84

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In Part B (coming soon), we’ll be summarizing interviews with key decision makers at leading payor and provider enterprises on what entrepreneurs should consider as they bring their AI products to market. The tasks are labor-intensive, with low historical adoption of traditional software products to facilitate them.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Common operational pitfalls founders should avoid that can make acquisitions more difficult. Financial buyers operate more like holding companies and are often interested purely in potential cash flows from an acquisition. What factors beyond financials makes a target even more valuable. Jump to highlights.

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FastSpring

JUNE 22, 2022

We don’t have to look far to find examples of B2B SaaS companies that have found traction using a self-service or product-led motion. I was recently interviewed by my friend Steve Lurie, who’s the Chief Engagement Officer of B2B Rocks. And that decision shapes their product and sales processes for the life of their company.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 23, 2024

At a16z’s recent Connect/Fintech event, a16z Partner Alex Immerman sat down for a broad conversation with Immad Akhund , co-founder and CEO of banking startup Mercury , and René Lacerte, founder and CEO of financial services company BILL. Mercury has never monetized via subscription and just focused on payments and float.

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Payments Forecasting Payment Services Sales Hiring 110

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 22, 2018

Fast forward to today, and Eventbrite is the world’s largest self-service event ticketing and registration platform – processing more than 3 million tickets each week. Going back a bit, Brian was a co-founder at SkillSlate, a local services marketplaces similar to Thumbtack.

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Marketplace as a Service Scale Payment Solutions Payment Services 189

Payrix

JUNE 25, 2024

Embedded Finance is more than just a buzzword; it represents a fundamental shift in how financial services are delivered and consumed today. Ian Hillis, Head of Growth at Worldpay for Platforms discusses this new term and what the opportunity may await software providers on our latest episode of PayFAQ: The Embedded Payments podcast.

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Payments Payment Solutions Finance Embedded Payments 100

User Pilot

MAY 8, 2024

You can identify needs through surveys , interviews, social listening, competitor analysis, user behavior analysis , and customer journey mapping. Deliver exceptional customer support using AI and self-service resources. Customer needs are desires, requirements, and expectations customers have when they look for a product or service.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services Payments 105

User Pilot

APRIL 24, 2024

TL;DR SaaS renewals includes the process of renewing a subscription to an online-hosted software service. Renewal management varies by company size but usually the customer success team handles this vital process. SaaS renewals refer to the process of a subscription renewal to a software service that is hosted online.

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Buffer Resources

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The clean and consistent visuals make it easy for the audience to follow along and understand the process. Showcase your products or services Use carousels to showcase your products or services in a visually appealing way. The post highlights their services, such as visa sponsorship and standard onboarding processes.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Over the past seven years, she’s been responsible for scaling Stripe’s worldwide business operations. And then from 2004 to 2014, she was at Google and managed lots of different things, including the self-driving cars project, global sales and operations, and the business teams for checkout in Google Apps.

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