Stax

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) businesses need to constantly evolve their offerings to stay fresh and relevant. 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.

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Stax

JUNE 27, 2024

As a business owner, you engage in many daily transactions, from receiving customer payments to paying your bills and suppliers. But cash and checks are rapidly declining as preferred modes of payment. Brainy Insights valued the digital payments market at $102.60 billion in 2022 and estimated it to reach $510.30

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Stax

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The commerce landscape—whether it’s retail, services or software—is moving faster than ever. We can see this trend in action in the realm of payment processing with the advent of recurring payments, also known as automatic payments. Learn More What are Recurring Billing and Payments?

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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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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

So one of SaaStr Fund’s latest investments is Mangomint, a vertical SaaS platform for spas and salons. There are multiple vendors in different segments, including Mindbody which IPO’d a SaaS generation ago and then taken private in a $2B Vista acquisition. And why is Vertical SaaS thriving today? Pretty cool!

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The payments landscape and how it affects businesses trying to grow in Asia. Podcast Full Interview: Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. In simple terms, we handle everything from payments to fraud management, to custom support and tax compliance, so that sellers can focus on growing their business.

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Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Methods SaaS Payments 168

Subscription Flow

JANUARY 8, 2024

The reason why it is important for you to know the acute differences between a merchant account vs payment gateway is because it will allow you to better understand the ways in which online payments generally work. What is a payment gateway? Read more: What Is Merchant of Record (MoR)?

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Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Services 52

Payrix

MARCH 12, 2024

Embedded Payments have become a popular initiative among vertical specific software companies looking to deliver a more seamless customer experience, introduce new revenue into the business, and stay competitive in today’s digital world. How do they think about attaching payments to those existing customers? But where to begin?

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Subscription Flow

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In today’s meteoric SaaS landscape, there is a whirlwind of business growth. This is where the revenue operations (RevOps) SaaS enters the chat. RevOps makes sure that your revenue processes are streamlined. But what exactly is revenue operations SaaS, and why is it pivotal for expanding SaaS businesses?

Payment Services 52

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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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Subscription Flow

OCTOBER 22, 2024

But when it comes to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) businesses, this statement stands even truer. So why is SaaS sales tax so challenging? The reason is, there doesn’t exist any single standardized system internationally to preside over SaaS sales tax. What is SaaS Sales Tax? Is SaaS taxable?

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Payrix

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In the fast-evolving world of software, Embedded Payments have emerged as a crucial element for software companies aiming to grow their business, enhance customer experiences, and streamline transactions for consumers. Embedding payments into the platform experience makes this possible for software companies to deliver on those expectations.

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Stax

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Navigating the world of payments can be complicated, especially when you’re running a software business with many moving parts. Embedding payments is a great first step, but encouraging merchants to adopt payments and onboarding them is another hurdle many ISV/SaaS businesses run into.

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Stax Payments Merchant Services SaaS Payments 88

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. Although your business has received payment, this cannot be credited to your bottom line until delivery of the product is completed. If this question is confusing, you’re not alone.

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Subscription Flow

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Deferred revenue refers to the income that you have collected, but not yet earned. What is Deferred Revenue in SaaS? SaaS subscription-based businesses require the customers to make upfront payments to access their services. That is because the company has yet to provide its steaming services to the customer.

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SaaStr

MAY 25, 2024

Lesson #1: Invest In Customer Support Early Cloudinary strongly believes that customer success and support are enablers of PLG growth and aren’t just a cost center. Twelve years after hiring their first CS person, customer service is still the number two reason people like Cloudinary and what drives word of mouth in the developer ecosystem.

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FastSpring

AUGUST 11, 2021

In Malaysia, Sales and Service Tax (SST) is a consumption tax imposed on a wide range of goods and services. is much simpler for businesses compared with the previous Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime it replaced and the old SST framework that preceded GST. Each has their own registration, compliance, and remittance processes.

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Merchant Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Methods 144

Payrix

MAY 14, 2024

Before joining Worldpay for Platforms, he was CRO at Chargebee, a subscription revenue management platform that manages billing subscriptions and payments for companies throughout the world. During his tenure, Chargebee experienced high growth, scaling from processing about $3 billion in revenue to $13-14 billion.

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Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 147

User Pilot

APRIL 24, 2024

SaaS renewals can be a breath-holding moment. TL;DR SaaS renewals includes the process of renewing a subscription to an online-hosted software service. TL;DR SaaS renewals includes the process of renewing a subscription to an online-hosted software service.

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SaaS Payments Retention Payment Services Payment Solutions 78

Stax

DECEMBER 4, 2023

For any merchant selling products or services online, it’s always a good idea to allow customers to make payments on their platform itself—instead of redirecting them to a third-party website or gateway. In this article, we’ll discuss everything you need to know about ensuring AML compliance as a payment facilitator (or PayFac).

Merchant Services 88

Merchant Services Payment Services Payfac Technical Review 88

Subscription Flow

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Revenue leakage is that amount of money from your customers which gets processed, but which does not end up in your account. They also work on potential solutions to plug the holes in their accounting processes which cause revenue leakage. The resulting flaws accumulate over time and can prove costly to your SaaS business.

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Payments Payment Features Payment Services Payment Solutions 105

Stax

MARCH 6, 2024

For businesses offering subscriptions, memberships, retainers, and other recurring services, recurring billing is a powerful solution to streamline processes and ultimately enhance revenue generation. Almost everyone — 98% of consumers —has a streaming service subscription. 98% of consumers have a streaming service subscription.

Merchant Services 88

Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Methods Payment Features 88

SaaSOptics

APRIL 18, 2022

Quote-to-cash refers to the entire end-to-end sales process, starting with product configuration and pricing, quoting, customer acceptance, order fulfillment, and managing revenue. What is the Quote to Order Process? With so many moving parts, it’s easier to break up the quote to cash process into three separate layers.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 80

SaaStr

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Churn increase due to greater scrutiny of costs Contract values declining More stakeholders involved in decision-making Capchase combined the study with their data set of thousands of SaaS companies and looked at what the best companies do to overcome these hurdles. Lay out the sales process early on. Then, get something exchanged.

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FastSpring

MAY 25, 2023

FastSpring previously presented on SaaS fees pricing and packaging to combat stagflation in 2022, but this article is based on an updated presentation delivered in March 2023 by David Vogelpohl. This article offers tips for optimizing pricing and packaging of your SaaS products in a less-than-stellar economy: What is stagflation?

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SaaS Payments Pricing Payments Merchant Services 143

FastSpring

AUGUST 12, 2024

Self-Service : AI assistance empowers users to find answers independently, reducing the need for support tickets. Continuous Improvement : Feedback loops enable Owlbot to learn and improve over time. ” the AI might respond, “Typically, invoices may not appear due to incomplete payment information.”

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Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Once the SaaS startups are out of their initial phase and gain some sort of stability, they are posed with new practical challenges. There are many Customer Relationship Management Softwares which can greatly facilitate businesses in all the above mentioned problems and as a result, SaaS businesses are able to function smoothly.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions Payment Methods 59

Stax

JANUARY 28, 2024

This business model has now been adapted very well in the internet age, especially in the SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) and eCommerce industries. They were able to sign up for subscription-based services for things like groceries, cosmetics, clothing, etc. The alternative? What Is Recurring Billing?

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Payment Features Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 88

Blulogix

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Ready to see how BluIQ can transform your billing process and help you achieve integrated, automated, and accurate complex monetization? Whether a business operates in SaaS, manufacturing, retail, or services, adhering to revenue recognition standards is essential for building trust, ensuring compliance, and achieving sustainable growth.

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Subscription Flow

JANUARY 30, 2024

SaaS renewal management’s primary goal is to increase customer retention and in turn, recurring revenue growth. To encourage your customers to renew their subscriptions at the end of their term, a number of procedures and tactics are involved in devising your B2B SaaS renewal strategy.

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SaaStr

APRIL 29, 2021

The Covid Boost for SaaS. It would be so helpful to know, as the #1 leader in SMB eCommerce, and also one of the very top leaders in SaaS SMB overall. When you add in payments, i.e. merchant services, NRR for 2018+ is about 110%, based on the below new chart. But likely it’s below 100% excluding payments.

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Merchant Services Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payments 242

Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

A major issue that arises, especially in the B2B SaaS business model, is how to break into the upmarket market as startups develop into scaleups that are primarily focused on increasing their market capitalization. In their early stages, SaaS software startups typically target the early adopters in the tech or mid-market segments.

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SaaS Payments Payments Business Model Payment Services 59

Baremetrics

JANUARY 25, 2022

In recent years, a new discipline of financial management has emerged in response to cloud technologies and organizations growing reliance on cloud IT architectures and cloud-based business processes. Over the previous decade, many companies have embraced cloud-based services. It is useful to consider a three-stage model of FinOps.

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Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Scaling 97

Stax

JULY 25, 2024

Thanks to the rise of SaaS platforms, that’s no longer the case. – Your POS system needs to support the products and services you sell. Perhaps you want one to help you track your inventory or streamline your accounting processes. POS systems today have capabilities exceeding transaction processing.

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Point of Sale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payment Services 88

User Pilot

MARCH 23, 2023

What are the reasons for customer churn in SaaS? As a SaaS company, your ultimate goal is to retain customers and keep them happy with your product. TL;DR Customer churn refers to the rate at which a business loses customers within a specific period. Helps users adopt advanced features with a continuous onboarding process.

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Subscription Flow

MAY 22, 2024

First impressions are rarely the last impressions, but they can prove to be just that for your company if you do not strategize a high customer lifetime value (LTV) for SaaS businesses. Why is CLTV an important SaaS metric? Let’s imagine a SaaS company called “ConnecTech” that offers project management software for small businesses.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The former tracks trends for software users , while a consumer behavior trend mainly refers to online shopping, such as buy-now-pay-later payment methods. Personalized experiences are becoming standard in the SaaS world. More users are adopting micro-SaaS products for the specialized value and low cost that they offer.

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