SaaStr

MAY 4, 2022

These days, as the business lead for invoicing at Stripe, Xie has earned her own stripes in navigating the unique challenges of building and thriving in the SaaS marketplace. What makes a SaaS business so hard? As your business grows in complexity, these drags on your infrastructure can impact your product development.

Payment Features 259

Payment Features Payment Services Outsourcing Services Payment Solutions 259

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

How can a simple offering be transformed into its own platform? Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Want to see more content like this?

Payments 171

Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 171

SaaStr

MARCH 7, 2024

This was precisely my experience upon meeting Toni and Carlos, the founders of Embat, in an area we’ve extensively have been exploring: treasury management and payment automation. This includes real-time bank connectivity, treasury forecasting, payment automation and automated accounting and reconciliation with e.g. ERPs.

Payments 278

Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions Scale 278

Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

Join the payments-led growth movement Sign up to keep up-to-date with the latest trends in payments, vertical SaaS, and technology from industry experts. Part of this can be attributed to the SaaS model’s unique aspect of relying primarily on future revenue. Take a traditional business, like a furniture store.

Scale 117

Scale Payment Services Payments SaaS Payments 117

FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Current market trends in Asia that can affect expansion and the challenges associated with those market trends. The payments landscape and how it affects businesses trying to grow in Asia. If you’re not sure how to kickstart growth for your digital products or software business in Asia, listen or watch now!

Merchant Services 192

Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Methods SaaS Payments 192

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The problem with selling your startup is the long exit time. Sometimes it can take as long as seven years before you can sell your business and hop on the next idea. Who wants to wait almost a decade to buy a startup when the face of tech is evolving at such a rapid pace? Micro startup acquisitions. And the investors?

Technical Review 144

Technical Review Payment Methods Acquisition Development Team Review 144

FastSpring

JUNE 22, 2022

We talked about one of the biggest trends playing out in the software industry: the convergence of B2B and B2C. Are you making it easy for all your customers to pay you (such as localized currency and payment methods)? The most successful SaaS businesses over the next 3-5 years will be the ones that are the most iterative.

B2C 148

B2C Payments SaaS Payments B2B 148

Incredo

JULY 14, 2019

Whether you are a startup owner, a manager of a growing business or the CEO of an established company, you might find yourself asking questions like “ Should our SaaS subscription model be monthly, annually or both ?” The recurring revenue (subscription) model is usually “opposed” to the transactional or pay-as-you-go model.

Payment Features 184

Payment Features SaaS Payments Payment Methods Subscription 184

Tom Tunguz

JULY 15, 2019

It’s a coaches poll of the top enterprise startups broken into early, mid and growth stage. I analyzed the data set and added a few columns to it to see if there are any trends. Applications are software used by business users. published the Enterprise Tech 30 last week. I categorized each company by their primary buyer.

Enterprise 214

Enterprise Payments Payment Solutions SMB 214

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. In this essay, we’ll go deeper into the gradients of marketplace models that a company can sequence to, and as a follow up, we will do the same for platforms.

Marketplace as a Service 141

Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 141

Stax

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

But if you’re a B2B solution, there’s a high likelihood that businesses will be interested in being able to accept customer payments, rather than just sending them a PayPal link or to a generic payment gateway. How do you add payment processing capabilities to your software? What is a SaaS Billing Platform?

Payments 88

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services Merchant Services 88

Baremetrics

MARCH 30, 2021

Your business requires a fast and reliable tool for sending and receiving payments from clients. But with so many payment processing tools on the market, which one should you choose? Here's a list of six payment processing platforms for 2021. 1 Different B2B Payment Processing Tools 1.

Payment Services 80

Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payments 80

Stax

AUGUST 29, 2024

The dominance of cashless commerce means only businesses that ensure the seamless processing of in-store and online credit and debit card payments will remain competitive. The question is: how do payment service providers work and how can you choose the right one for your business?

Merchant Services 88

Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 88

Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 3, 2018

Below are 7 predictions about the startup software ecosystem. Several landscape altering SaaS acquisitions will come to fruition because of cash availability from repatriation and because there are enough public SaaS companies at scale to add material revenue and market cap to buyers. How many of them do you agree with? and $10B.

SaaS Payments 203

SaaS Payments Scale Blockchain Machine Learning 203

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

A few of the leading companies in the Cloud 100 list, as put together by Forbes, of leading enterprise software companies are in industry verticals and just on the Salesforce platform, the three most valuable companies built on the platform were industry-vertical companies, including nCino, Vlocity, and Veeva. How did you manage that?

Payment Solutions 215

Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 215

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

But while the “e” may be silent for customers – who understandably want a consistent, personalized shopping experience regardless of whether they’re buying online or in-store – it still rings out loud and clear for the businesses who need to ensure they have the right tools to deliver that unified, excellent experience across multiple channels.

Payment Methods 239

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payment Services Scale 239

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Userpilot is a digital adoption platform (DAP) with strong CRO tools to boost conversions like user behavior tracking, funnel analysis, and A/B testing. Hotjar is a popular heatmap and product insights tool that offers cross-platform heatmaps, rage clicks, and scroll maps. See our pricing or get a free Userpilot demo !

Payments 104

Payments Revenue Payment Solutions Payment Methods 104

Subscription Flow

MAY 16, 2024

Did you know that the value of all card payments grew to more than $8 trillion in 2018? A major payment gateway that handled all this was CardConnect. One other reason was also that businesses could do recurring billing with CardPointe but, alas, that is no longer the case. What is CardPointe?

Payment Features 105

Payment Features Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 105

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. Paddle counters churn by integrating with Retain, thereby feeding your data to algorithms informed by extensive payment information.

Payment Solutions 104

Payment Solutions Payments Payment Services Payment Features 104

Baremetrics

MAY 16, 2021

Revenue forecasting software is used to create predictions of sales. These models can then feed into the larger overall financial model for your SaaS business, and help you plan the next phase of your growth. All the data your startup needs Get deep insights into your company's MRR, churn and other vital metrics for your SaaS business.

Forecasting 80

Forecasting Payments Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 80

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Revenue Performance Management (RPM) is when a company monitors its revenue performance, tracks how revenue is affected by strategic decisions, figures out revenue drivers, and then optimizes operations to drive revenue growth. Without the systemized focus on pushing revenue up, companies can falter.

Payments 97

Payments Revenue Payment Services SaaS Payments 97

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Tracking revenue on a spreadsheet is easy, but understanding the underlying factors influencing revenue growth rate is a different ball game. As you read on, you will learn: How to properly define revenue growth. Related metrics that impact your revenue and how to use the insights to turn your product into a growth engine.

Payments 105

Payments Revenue Payment Features SaaS Payments 105

ProfitWell

JANUARY 17, 2020

Over the past decade, ecommerce subscription companies have doubled down on the subscription model to monetize their relationships with customers. That’s why we’ve put together the platforms, tools, and strategies you need to make subscriptions work for your company. It’s one of the truest forms of monetized relationships.

Payment Methods 12

Payment Methods Payments Payment Features Merchant Services 12

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 27, 2020

Today the subscription management platform is helping industry powerhouses across the Fortune 500, including Ford, Caterpillar, and Thermo Fisher, shift their perspective from transactions to relationships. It really leads to better revenue and lower churn when customers make changes. Over the last 7.5 Over the last 7.5 With a Ph.D.

Scale 211

Scale Payments Payment Features Subscription 211

SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2019

In this session, the audience will learn about Adyen’s journey from a Dutch payments startup, to a global public company with more than 15 offices around the world working with large global companies like Facebook, Spotify, Uber and Microsoft. And that’s where we’ve been building from. Aydin Senkut: Yeah.

Payment Methods 160

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payments Payment Services 160

Full Session

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Whether you’re a startup or an enterprise, by the end of this article, you’ll have enough information to select the best platform for your business. PostHog: A self-hosted product analytics platform with customer data tracking, analysis, and extensive integrations. Book a demo to learn more.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments SaaS Payments 52

FastSpring

APRIL 18, 2024

Some businesses outgrow their home countries after a seed or startup period that saw initial success domestically, while some businesses founded with niche markets or in smaller countries may need international sales as table stakes on day one. Learn more about what DutchBasecamp does here.

Payment Methods 78

Payment Methods Payments SaaS Payments Merchant Services 78

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

In the early days of running a software company, collecting payments was pretty straightforward. Fast forward to today when most software companies use a Subscription as a service (SaaS business model , and things aren’t as simple. Luckily, like most complex processes and tasks, it can be simplified. Think of it this way.

Payment Solutions 105

Payment Solutions Merchant Services Systems Review SaaS Payments 105

Stax

JUNE 18, 2024

Subscription models offer companies large and small the opportunity to build predictable revenue and high customer lifetime value. In a subscription business model, customers pay a recurring fee in exchange for a product or service. But managing subscriptions effectively and freeing up time and resources for expansion is no picnic.

Payment Features 88

Payment Features Payment Solutions Payment Services Payments 88

Tom Tunguz

APRIL 26, 2015

This raises the seemingly absurd question, how important is it to be profitable for a startup? All 48 companies have recorded a year with positive cash flow from operations, and the median company reaches cash flow positive six years after founding, and sustains the trend. It’s a much higher bar. We can argue both sides.

Startup 100

Startup Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 100

Baremetrics

APRIL 6, 2021

The recurring revenue growth platform provides users with valuable insights into subscription funnels and one-click analytics for Stripe. This platform drives explosive subscriber growth with an enormous suite of SaaS metrics. Other features include metered billing, multiple gateway support, and CRM integration.

SaaS Payments 93

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 93

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.

Payment Services 98

Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 98

Stax

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

So, of course when it came to revenue-driving activities, Ford knew that success in marketing—and business—wasn’t about how much your marketing spend is, but how efficiently you spend it. Enter the SaaS Magic Number, which measures the return on sales and marketing spend in generating new subscription revenue.

SaaS Payments 88

SaaS Payments Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 88

FastSpring

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Looking to join SaaS founders and tech enthusiasts who are discussing the most innovative trends for SaaS companies? FastSpring makes it easy for digital goods and software companies to sell around the world by handling business needs such as VAT and sales taxes, fraud detection, and global compliance.

Merchant Services 158

Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Services 158

Casey Accidental

JULY 17, 2023

And unlike most trends in tech that start on the consumer side and then migrate into B2B over time, the subscription model actually did the reverse. Founders and venture capitalists would preach the gospel of predictable revenue and sustainable growth, powered by growth of apps sold over the App Store. In short, everything.

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions Payments Subscription Payment Features 98

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Connect Baremetrics to your revenue sources and start seeing all of your revenue on a crystal-clear dashboard. You can even see your customer segmentation , deeper insights about who your customers are , forecast into the future, and use automated tools to recover failed payments. Integrations 3. Table of Contents.

Payments 94

Payments Payment Solutions SaaS Payments PayPal 94

Panintelligence

JULY 22, 2024

Fintech , short for financial technology, uses technology to provide financial services like mobile banking, online payments, blockchain, and cryptocurrency. In summary, Fintech is transforming financial services for both consumers and businesses. What is Fintech? It aims to make financial services more accessible and efficient.

Payments 52

Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 52