SaaStr

MARCH 21, 2025

So RevenueCat has its latest “Sate of Subscription Apps 2025” report out and there is a ton of great stuff in here. So they see 40% of all mobile subscriptions — and a ton of data from it. Across a stunning 75,000 paid subscription mobile apps. Not all of it is relevant to B2B but a big chunk is.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 4, 2023

With the turbulence in the market in 2023, sales cycles have only been getting longer and a lot more complicated. At this year’s SaaStr Annual , CEO and co-founder of Capchase Miguel Fernandez and Director of Marketing Rose Johnson share five tips for getting sales right in any market. Lay out the sales process early on.

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SaaStr

JULY 22, 2020

I’m not ashamed to admit that when I set up our first SaaS sales comp plan, I had no idea what I was doing. But I did all the sales myself, and stupidly, had no sales comp plan at all ??. Then, as we first scaled up a sales team, we ended up literally copying Salesforce’s comp plan. the Moment After Sale.

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Blulogix

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

This is where the concept of real invoice calculation comes in, fundamentally changing the way organizations approach revenue projection. Schedule a Demo Today What is Real Invoice Calculation? Real invoice calculation is an approach to revenue prediction that goes beyond simple estimates.

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Stax

MAY 20, 2024

The concept of unearned revenue can easily trip up SaaS companies that offer subscription services and products on a recurring basis. Unlike when selling ordinary products, you cannot recognize the revenue earned from a subscription all at once. In the case of SaaS subscriptions, this could take several months—or even years.

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USIO

MARCH 7, 2025

By embedding payment capabilities directly into existing business systems, companies can eliminate redundancies, improve cash flow, and create a smoother experience for customers and partners alike. Manual invoicing, reconciliation, and transaction approvals require time and personnel, leading to higher operational costs.

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Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 130

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

And, when you do, do you even think about sale tax compliance? vary on how they handle sales tax and SaaS. It can be confusing to understand how and where you should charge sales tax. Let’s explore a few more ways in which sales tax compliance could impact your growing business. Here’s why you should. .

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Blulogix

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

By Kegham Khrigian The New Standard for Subscription Renewals: Intelligent, Automated, and Scalable For subscription businesses, renewals are the foundation of predictable revenue and long-term growth. Subscription models thrive on automation, accuracy, and data-driven decision-making and renewals should be no different.

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Payment Features Subscription Payments Payment Services 59

Blulogix

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

By Inga Broerman How High-Performing Subscription Businesses Maximize NRR For subscription-based businesses, Net Revenue Retention (NRR) is the ultimate measure of growth and sustainability. If a business is retaining and expanding existing customer revenue , it can grow without constantly chasing new sales.

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Payment Features Subscription Payments Payment Services 59

SaaStr

MAY 8, 2022

SaaStr 552: 5 Lessons on Building Your Sales Organization for Scale with Than Hancock, EVP of Sales @ Podium and Carlie Adams, Head of West Coast Sales @ Podium. Unlocking Growth in the Internet Economy: a Perspective from Stripe Head of Invoicing, Suzanne Xie. When to Go Multi-Product in SaaS. Top Podcasts This Week: 1.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Cyvatar is a technology-enabled cyber security as a service (CSaaS) provider disrupting a $150 billion industry by introducing and delivering smarter, measurable managed security subscriptions to help you achieve compliance and security faster and more efficiently.

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Banking Payment Features Venture Capital Subscription 264

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2021

Even if a lot of the revenue isn’t truly recurring SaaS revenue. “We define ARR as annualized invoiced amounts per solution sku from subscription licenses and maintenance obligations assuming no increases or reductions in their subscriptions.” ” #5. But interesting, the U.S.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 18, 2022

ChurnZero is Customer Success software for growing SaaS and subscription businesses. Stax is an industry-leading payments technology provider that is revolutionizing the payments processing experience completely. Our platform is uniquely designed to integrate with CRM systems and tightly into an application or service.

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Stax Payment Services Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 55

Stax

OCTOBER 13, 2024

It is a subscription-based integrated payment platform that helps you process credit card payments. Quicken vs QuickBooks: Pricing If Quicken has one major advantage over QuickBooks, it is that its pricing is less expensive than QuickBooks’ subscription plans.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments Payment Services 88

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. Salesloft is the provider of the leading sales engagement platform that helps sellers and sales teams drive more revenue. Totally unified.

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Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 260

Payrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The most successful payment processors bring these third-party technologies and services together seamlessly to facilitate the transaction with simplicity, speed, and security. Digital wallets also allow users to easily view payment histories and store other important digital documents. How do payment processors secure payments?

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Payment Services Payments Merchant Services Payment Methods 130

SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2021

Q: What is a good model for SaaS product sales commission? The average package price is USD 500 for subscription/month. Sometimes for very transactional, low ACV sales, the percent can be lower. Sometimes for very transactional, low ACV sales, the percent can be lower. That’s pretty do-able for inside sales.

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 13, 2024

This feature not only enhances the shopping experience for followers but also provides creators with valuable data on what content drives sales, helping them to optimize their affiliate marketing efforts. Pricing: Shopify Collabs is available to Shopify merchants as part of their existing subscription. 

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Payments Branding Merchant Services Payment Methods 112

SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2022

With early revenue, you start thinking about churn and scalability of every aspect of the business, including product, infrastructure, customer support, sales and marketing. Let’s say you receive a contract from a customer that outlines they will pay you $100 for the monthly subscription with an invoice of terms Net 30.

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Finance Outsourcing Services Systems Review Technical Review 334

SaaStr

MAY 22, 2022

The #1 Mistake I See Founders Make When They Hire Their First VP of Sales. SaaStr 552: 5 Lessons on Building Your Sales Organization for Scale with Than Hancock, EVP of Sales @ Podium and Carlie Adams, Head of West Coast Sales @ Podium. Cloud Stocks May Be Down. But the Cloud Remains on Fire. That Matters More.

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Scale Sales Hiring Payment Features Marketing 306

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2021

Large customers only pay via invoices, especially for any deal of any material size (>$10k a year). Invoices have their own annoying set of characteristics (they can be Net 60+, you have to deal with procurement, etc.). The last thing a VP in a Fortune 5000 company wants to deal with is credit card payments or monthly invoicing.

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Payment Features Outsourced Development Scale Payment Services 250

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

You might be surprised to know that SaaS companies can learn a lot from their consumer subscription counterparts. So even though you do need to continually win your subscriber on an ongoing basis, by the time it comes up for that first renewal, the sales rep may be long gone. 1: Balance acquisition, engagement, and retention.

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SaaS Payments Payment Features Subscription B2B 52

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

An open discussion with Sam Blond, CSO at Brex, and Kristen Habacht, VPS at Atlassian, about adjusting their sales process during Covid-19. Kristen Habacht runs EDR sales at Atlassian, which I got a check today, $40 billion-$50 billion company. Four, people in the sale? Kristen Habacht: Well, there’s none in sales.

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Merchant Services Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 263

FastSpring

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

We are excited to share the release of three new groundbreaking features designed to turbocharge your subscription revenue! They also complement several other subscription focused capabilities we have released over 2023. Check out our announcements for the Proration Preview and Subscription Plan Change History APIs. Interested?

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Payment Features Subscription Payment Methods Payment Solutions 157

Subscription Flow

OCTOBER 2, 2024

For subscription-based businesses, revenue leakage means the waste of potential capital which has been rightfully earned. The causes behind this gap range from errors in subscription handling to recurring billing inefficiencies. Boasting revenue is the central goal for subscription-based businesses.

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Payments Payment Features Payment Services Payment Solutions 105

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Metronome’s sophisticated billing and subscription management platform enables companies to easily manage and automate complex billing and invoicing processes. Prior to that, she was President at Salesforce, responsible for the company’s worldwide sales organization. Most recently, Hilarie was President at New Relic.

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Scale Software Review Payment Features AI 289

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 7, 2022

The promise of live chat for sales teams is being able to connect faster with higher quality leads. But any target-focused sales professional will want to know: how well does live chat actually work? Want to get started with live chat for sales? Why live chat is the missing ingredient in your sales funnel. Opportunity.

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Sales Funnel Sales Headcount Payment Features 245

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Everything from hiring on the GTM side to layering in a sales-led motion into PLG. From a Go-To-Market perspective, Zapier uses a hybrid model that involves a combination of freemium offerings, subscription plans, and partnerships. Let’s dive into what’s making that hybrid model successful: PLG and Sales Led?

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Marketing 321

SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2021

This usually doesn’t happen in the very early days, when you just have a few employees and almost no real marketing or sales expense. It’s just, to invest in sales and marketing now, and make those extra hires, the burn rate is growing even faster at 12% a month after $100k MRR. Renewals take a few years to kick in.

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Sales Hiring Scale Payment Features Finance 331

SaaStr

MAY 15, 2022

SaaStr 552: 5 Lessons on Building Your Sales Organization for Scale with Than Hancock, EVP of Sales @ Podium and Carlie Adams, Head of West Coast Sales @ Podium. Unlocking Growth in the Internet Economy: a Perspective from Stripe Head of Invoicing, Suzanne Xie.

Scale 277

Scale Sales Hiring Payment Features Marketing 277

FastSpring

MARCH 8, 2024

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. Our continued focus on developing and improving a great product , especially features and tools for subscription management to support SaaS businesses.

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Merchant Services Payments Payment Features Subscription 151

SaaStr

MAY 23, 2022

Let go of your bottom 20% of sales reps, concentrate leads in the best reps. Relatively speaking, the easiest sales are from your existing customers. No matter what the contract says, get the renewal invoice out at least 60 days prior to expiration and ask for payment no later than the contract end date. More here.

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Sales Hiring Management Airlines Venture Capital 325

FastSpring

JUNE 13, 2024

Increased Sales: With more than 60% of mobile wallet transactions going through Apple Pay, adding it to your checkout can lead to higher conversion rates and fewer abandoned carts. Secure Transactions: Apple Pay employs device-specific numbers and unique transaction codes to ensure the security and privacy of each purchase.

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Payment Methods Payments Payment Services Payment Features 156

Payrix

JANUARY 30, 2024

The company’s clients depend on cash flow, and having a credit card on file means technicians in the field can immediately invoice from their mobile app and see cash in their bank account 24 hours later. We realized how much opportunity we bring to the table, as the nature of our industry is reliant in large part on recurring payments.

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Payments Payment Solutions Payment Features Merchant Services 130

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

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. Avoma is an AI Meeting Assistant, Collaboration and Intelligence platform for Sales, Implementation, and Customer Success teams.

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Payments Payment Services AI Search Payment Solutions 278

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

How do you build a sales organization from scratch? What about moving from founder-led sales to building a sales team and scaling your revenue growth? Build a predictable sales process. Before you hire your first sales reps, you need to have a justifiable reason to do so. Cold calling.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Today, let’s dive deeper into the feature itself and see exactly what it offers and how it can improve your sales-assisted transactions while using FastSpring as your Merchant of Record. If you’re interested in using the Hubspot integration with FastSpring reach out to our sales team or submit a ticket to our customer team here.

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Payments Merchant Services Payment Services SaaS Payments 132