FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

What makes a company choose one SaaS payment processing provider over another? We know that conversion rates for SaaS and software companies will vary by 30% or more just based on the checkout experience. If you’re taking payments, your customer’s financial and personal data is one of your top concerns.

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Stax

JANUARY 22, 2024

In a world where we’re spending more and more time online and every click is a potential transaction, it’s no surprise the eCommerce and digital payments sectors are experiencing exponential growth. In this article, we’ll dive into the intricacies of two types of players in the eCommerce ecosystem: payment gateways and payment facilitators.

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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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SaaStr

MARCH 24, 2022

BlueSnap helps businesses accept payments globally. Our All-In-One Payment Platform is designed to increase sales and reduce costs for all businesses accepting payments. Subskribe is the adaptive quoting and billing platform for modern SaaS companies. Totally unified. Zero reconciliation, from quote to revenue.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

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. So the first question is what made SaaS so successful. Customers love SaaS products and tools because it simply works. Why do developers love SaaS products?

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Payrix

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Software companies embark on their embedded payments journey only to discover they’ve underestimated the complexity that’s involved and struggle to launch. If you’re thinking about Embedded Payments for your platform, make time to listen to this episode of the PayFAQ Embedded Payments podcast. We’ve seen it far too often.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 29, 2021

RevOps has grown in importance as SaaS products have continued to proliferate and organizations have recognized the importance of good data, efficient workflows, and ensuring cross-department collaboration. Processing and remitting payments. Businesses are continuing to streamline their purchasing.

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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. Purchase process. Gaining new customers.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In SaaS, #1 most common misfire, with a bullet, is the VP/head of sales. Because in SaaS start-ups, it seems like the majority of first VP Sales fail. First, in this post, I want to outline what a VP of Sales in a SaaS company actually does. That’s the magic in a great SaaS VP Sales. Don’t even make it 12 months.

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FastSpring

MARCH 8, 2024

SocialBee , a social media management platform and SaaS based in Romania, first started using FastSpring in 2018. However, as SocialBee utilizes many different ways to package and monetize their software as a service subscriptions, they began discovering new ways to test the FastSpring platform’s capabilities.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

An ICP aligns your product, sales, marketing, service, and executive teams to all focus on your highest-value accounts. Let’s examine how an ICP focus has helped two businesses win in a competitive marketplace. . Brex then scaled its payments business quickly. Just like a boat needs an anchor, your SaaS process does too.

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Stax

JUNE 20, 2024

The SaaS space is one of the most dynamic industries out there, which is why smart comapnies team up with strategic partners to drive growth and innovation. Enter ISVs, which play a crucial role in enhancing and extending the capabilities of SaaS solutions. Its purpose? To foster symbiotic relationships that drive mutual growth.

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2021

Shopify, since last year, has nearly tripled in market cap driven by the rise of e-commerce, but also the digital payments and the QR code system they provide for contactless payments. Cloud Marketplaces. We’re bringing S-M-B back with SaaS. Fintech and crypto players are changing financial services forever.

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Point Nine Land

MAY 22, 2020

Businesses, on the other hand, are stuck in the dark ages, often relying on the phone, email, fax and even pen and paper when it comes to ordering goods or services. Whilst consumer-facing marketplaces have become an essential part of our daily lives, business-to-business marketplaces are only just beginning to emerge.

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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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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Steep fees from platforms like the Apple App Store and Google Play can understandably cause game developers and app creators to look beyond the convenience and ubiquity of traditional app marketplaces, but restrictions from the platform providers have made it difficult. Interested? Set up a demo or try it out for yourself.

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Stax

APRIL 18, 2024

Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Software-as-a-Service Providers (SaaS) operate within the same market, thus creating a push-and-pull revenue dynamic. SaaS companies deliver software applications over the internet on a subscription basis, simplifying access and management for users. What are SaaS companies?

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Baremetrics

JANUARY 24, 2022

It is no secret that in order to grow a SaaS company, business leaders need to consider cash flow. Invoice financing is an excellent option for SaaS companies looking for a fast and easy way to earn a short-term type of funding. What are the Benefits of Invoice Financing for SaaS Companies? Table of Contents. Invoice financing.

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

For app entrepreneurs and ecommerce store owners, the battle to be noticed in the marketplace is ongoing. For customers, the process of looking for apps to download usually takes place in one of the four leading app marketplaces; Google Play, Apple App Store , Windows Store, and the Amazon App Store. Is it safe?

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 17, 2020

It’s actually quite simple: business process management (BPM) software. Visualize every process from end to end. If optimizing your business processes sounds like a good idea, this post will tell you everything you need to know about how to find the perfect BPM software for you. Process Visualization. Process Automation.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 18, 2020

It’s easy to think of online sales as a marketplace where we buy items for ourselves, but more and more B2B and SaaS sales are now happening online. If a product or service is being sold online—regardless if the sale itself happens through a sales-rep assisted process, online shop, or platform—it’s considered B2B ecommerce.

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 23, 2024

So where do you start if you want to provide more global payment solutions to your player base while chipping away at the hefty 30% fees that mobile marketplaces charge? Very simply, a merchant of record (MoR) is a legal entity that sells services or goods to a customer. How Is an MoR Different From a Payment Service Provider ?

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Stax

JANUARY 8, 2024

For SaaS companies, becoming a payment facilitator (or PayFac) offers a ton of advantages—including but not limited to—boosting retention and profitability while exercising greater control over the customer experience. The potential impact of failed or inadequate internal systems, processes, procedures, etc.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

For example, HR and finance SaaS vendor Workday bought Scout RFP (a San Francisco startup with a team of 8) for $540 million. Micro Acquire is a marketplace that connects startups to buyers. The marketplace is designed to cut down on the time you need to sell your business and find startups to invest in. Micro Acquire.

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FastSpring

APRIL 7, 2022

Learn more about how FastSpring helps SaaS and software companies collect and remit taxes globally or localize and accept global payments. Messente is a global messaging SaaS that helps companies send SMS messages and PIN codes in countries around the world. Note: If you’re expanding to new regions, we can help.

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

SaaS is a global software solution created by different businesses in order to improve human activities in a matter of clicks. SAAS is also abbreviated as software as a service. In this saas marketing strategy guide, we are going to tell you everything about saas marketing. What is SAAS marketing?

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

But these platforms typically have an extensive marketplace with a plethora of plugins—so it shouldn’t be too difficult, even though it requires an extra step. But if you’re using a site builder or SaaS CMS, you can usually expect 24/7 support. SaaS (software as a service) CMS are typically cloud-hosted subscription-based tools.

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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. The challenge, however, is that because of the limited disposable income that both consumers and businesses have, you can’t charge a lot of money for services there.

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SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

Here’s a chance to look back at 4 pre-IPO SaaS leaders today, and how they were doing and what they were thinking in the run up to $10m ARR. 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.

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Subscription Flow

APRIL 23, 2024

Understanding Paddle in 2024 Catering to more than 3000 SaaS clients in over 200 markets, Paddle is a market-leading billing and revenue management software. What Retain does is that it retries payments at optimal times for success and dispatches proven notifications to aid in revenue recovery.

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Point Nine Land

APRIL 9, 2021

What does it take to raise capital, in B2B marketplaces, in 2021? Over the last few years, we’ve published a number of SaaS funding napkins as well as marketplace napkins. This year, we’re shaking things up with our first ever B2B marketplace napkin! What does it take to raise capital, in B2B marketplaces, in 2021?

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How To Buy Saas

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Black Friday Saas Deals is one of the greatest sales of the year and this sale is going to live now with exciting discounts on tons of SaaS Tools that usually businesses need in order to manage their operations. Refund Policy: Check the refund policy of every saas before buying it. Discounts On Black Friday Saas Deals.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

It’s become apparent that for hypergrowth SaaS startups today, there are two distinct phases. So how did they go from product-market fit to actually scaling a sales org around a repeatable sales process? The self-service model requires little to no selling whatsoever, saving time, labor and resources for a growing startup.

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OPEXEngine

MAY 18, 2021

We’ve talked to dozens of our SaaS customers, as well as investors to learn more about what is happening with these key metrics. SaaS metrics are viewed differently at different stages of growth and for different sales models, primarily whether a company is selling into an SMB or enterprise marketplace.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Romain Huet : See how you can turn like a SaaS business, or a core product you have and make it a very successful developer platform. Like, how can we provide economic infrastructure for developers to build applications and services and in a weird way, future proof? Let’s start with our five key steps.

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 9, 2021

While Stripe is indispensable for the average online business, providing many different tools, reports, and customizations that power online payment processing , when it comes to finding the billing history for Stripe customers, things are needlessly complicated. Stripe is a fully integrated suite of payment products.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

We have a lot of SaaS companies, by the way, from Denmark if you haven’t noticed. Tradeshift Buy, which is essentially what we call private marketplaces. Tradeshift Pay is an entrant payment solution for supply chains, meaning no matter where your supplier is in the world, we can make sure they get paid.

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