SaaStr

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Rattle is building a magical combination between Salesforce and Slack that lets the sales team track and update Salesforce all while sitting in Slack. Chargebee is a recurring billing and subscription management tool that helps SaaS and SaaS-like businesses streamline Revenue Operations.

Payment Features 259

Payment Features Payment Services Payments Sales Hiring 259

SaaStr

JANUARY 8, 2025

When Lindsey joined, she inherited an already built-out self-serve/PLG model for small businesses and a mid-market and enterprise sales, customer success, and post-sales team. But at the start of its expansion play, Checkr’s enterprise motion failed, and sales cycles were slow, taking up to a year for $100k & up deals.

Revenue 293

Revenue Scale Sales Hiring Compensation 293

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.

Payment Features 167

Payment Features Payments Payment Services SaaS Payments 167

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.

Payment Features 59

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.

Payment Features 59

Payment Features Subscription Payments Payment Services 59

Blulogix

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

By BluLogix Team The Role of Invoice Forecasting in Financial Planning Introduction Predicting revenue accurately is a game-changer for businesses of all sizes. Invoice forecasting is not just a financial functionits a strategic tool that helps companies optimize cash flow, improve budgeting, and reduce financial risk.

Payment Features 59

Payment Features Forecasting Subscription Data Analysis 59

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?

Payment Features 167

Payment Features Subscription Payment Methods Payment Solutions 167

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. .

Payment Services 335

Payment Services compliance SaaS Payments Scale 335

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.

Merchant Services 158

Merchant Services Payments Payment Features Subscription 158

FastSpring

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

As always, our support and sales engineering specialists are available to help if you need assistance along the way. Add a Subscription to Cart PHP & Javascript <? Add a Subscription to Cart PHP & Javascript <? > Expand Subscription Creation via FastSpring Webhook PHP & Javascript <?

Payment Features 158

Payment Features Subscription Merchant Services Payment Methods 158

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.

Banking 261

Banking Payment Features Venture Capital Subscription 261

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.

Outsourcing Services 362

Outsourcing Services Outsourced Development Payment Features Cloud 362

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.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payment Features Subscription B2B 52

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.

Payment Features 52

Payment Features Payments Revenue SaaS Payments 52

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.

Stax 54

Stax Payment Services Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 54

FastSpring

JANUARY 28, 2025

Are you a Digital River customer in emergency need of a new payment and subscription provider ASAP? FastSpring has already helped many Digital River customers make the switch , and if youre looking for a new merchant of record to help your digital business with payments and subscriptions, were here to help you, too.

Merchant Services 136

Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 136

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.

Payment Methods 88

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments Payment Services 88

Stax

MARCH 27, 2025

ACH payment is more affordable and can be automated and payee-initiated, making it ideal for recurring transactions and subscription payments. Clients only need to swipe a card at your point-of-sale (POS) terminal or enter their bank account number into your website (Initiation).

Payment Methods 88

Payment Methods Payment Services Merchant Services SaaS Payments 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.

Payments 257

Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 257

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Sales up 22%! Owner.com has distinguished itself by consolidating dozens of point solutions into a single, integrated platform that helps small business owners compete effectively online. A huge congrats to Team @owner for a record start to 2025!! New restaurants up +31% in 1 month! Join a rocketship.

AI 222

AI Technical Review Artificial Intelligence Systems Review 222

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?

Payment Services 130

Payment Services Payments Merchant Services Payment Methods 130

SaaStr

DECEMBER 25, 2022

RevenueCat (where I was lucky enough to be the first investor) automates subscription management for mobile apps. It recently published its annual review of data from the 10,000+ mobile apps it powers subscription management for and I learned a few interesting things: Longer Trials Are Better.

Mobile 329

Mobile Payment Features Subscription Data 329

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.

Scale 233

Scale Sales Compensation Churn 233

Blulogix

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Centralizing pricing data not only reduces the chance of errors but also helps ensure that all teams—from sales to finance—are working with consistent information. Automate Proration and Usage-Based Adjustments : One common challenge for UCaaS companies is managing proration and changes to subscription levels mid-cycle.

Pricing 110

Pricing B2B Payment Features Subscription 110

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. 

Payments 111

Payments Branding Merchant Services Payment Methods 111

SaaStr

MAY 10, 2024

So HubSpot had a great quarter, despite there being many challenges in the sales and marketing segments overall in the past 18 months: $2.5B This is probably what most of you are seeing for pure-play B2B SaaS sales, too. What about outside of sales and marketing software etc? mobile subscriptions. It just hasn’t.

B2C 282

B2C Mobile B2B Payment Features 282

FastSpring

APRIL 23, 2024

Depending on your needs, sellers may run into a number of potential limitations with the Paddle platform: Paddle doesn’t accept as many alternative payment methods as other MoR partners. The subscription management system doesn’t support multi-product transactions. Digital invoices. Subscription and recurring payment collection.

Payment Methods 139

Payment Methods Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions 139

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. Letting FastSpring handle the subscription infrastructure.

Payments 158

Payments SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions 158

SaaStr

APRIL 8, 2020

Click here for ChartMogul’s free-forever launch plan that will give SaaS businesses access to the world’s first subscription data platform so they can analyze and improve key metrics like MRR, churn and LTV. Mixmax is the #1 sales engagement platform for the complete sales cycle. What are they all about?

Machine Learning 304

Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence SaaS Consulting 304

SaaStr

JANUARY 11, 2024

A magic cure for sales costs that are just too high. Sometimes in great ways — forcing B2C subscription businesses to relentlessly provide a great end-user experience. Every month, the meal kit, the clothing, the game subscription, the video subscription almost has to be better than the month before.

Retention 317

Retention B2C B2B Churn 317

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.

Sales Funnel 245

Sales Funnel Sales Headcount Payment Features 245

FastSpring

JANUARY 9, 2025

Justin Sacks (02:08) Taking me back, I think I got a summer job in high school so that I could pay for my own WoW subscription. Back in the day, games, well, at least large online multiplayer games, required a subscription rather than just a one-time fee. How many years you recall did you pay for the subscription?

Payments 164

Payments Mobile Payment Methods Revenue 164

SaaStr

APRIL 1, 2022

5 Interesting Learnings: #1, 16,000 customers at an average of $100,000 per customer — with a mix of inside sales, field sales, and free trials. CrowdStrike has admirable sales & marketing efficiency. They’ve crossed $1.7 Billion in ARR growing a breathtaking 65% year-over-year. ” Wow!

Scale 313

Scale Cloud Scaling Payment Features 313

SaaStr

AUGUST 30, 2021

This is pretty impressive for a high ACV SMB sale, although pretty consistent with where Zendesk is today as well at 120%. #3. 62% of revenue from annual subscriptions. A reminder that, like Zoom , you don’t have to force annual subscriptions. NRR of 118%. 49% revenue growth from 20% customer growth.

Scale 361

Scale SMB Scaling Payment Features 361

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.

Finance 332

Finance Outsourcing Services Systems Review Technical Review 332

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.

Scale 284

Scale Software Review Payment Features AI 284

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.

Payments 105

Payments Payment Features Payment Services Payment Solutions 105