SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2022

With that, I asked my first controller at my first start-up, Anita Kutlesa, who has since gone on to be CFO at several SaaS and software companies, from Pipedrive to Coverity and more, to share her suggestions and learnings: … The Top 10 Important Finance Mistakes First Time Founders Make. Anita Kutlesa. But don’t.

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Subscription Flow

OCTOBER 10, 2024

If a business wants to shift to an entirely new model, such as it wants to move from a traditional model to a subscription based one, it needs to migrate to a new billing system. A system which supports recurring subscriptions, and advanced pricing strategies. The subscription plans must be transferred to the new software as they are.

Payment Solutions 105

Payment Solutions Payment Services Systems Review SaaS Payments 105

Tom Tunguz

MARCH 24, 2020

The corollary to working online will be software to improve collaboration for distributed teams. In tandem, security software spend is sure to grow. I wonder if we will get to a point where we are routinely selling and deploying costly and complicated enterprise software entirely remotely. Could we do it at $500k or $5M?

Software Review 361

Software Review Technical Review Entertainment Outsourced Development 361

FastSpring

JANUARY 31, 2023

payment processing, gathering and remitting taxes, and subscription management) and what additional software you’ll need to add to your tech stack. Finally, we share several customer reviews and case studies for each solution. Flexible subscription management and recurring billing tools. B2B digital invoicing.

Payment Services 147

Payment Services Payment Methods Merchant Services Software Review 147

SaaStr

MAY 4, 2022

The internet economy is expected to double from 2019 to 2023—and that’s after the cost of software tools to run your business has collapsed, from $4M in 2011 to a paltry $4000 today. You can deploy subscriptions as a service, billing as a service, fraud prevention as a service. The explosion of low and no-code solutions.

Payment Features 262

Payment Features Payment Services Outsourcing Services Payment Solutions 262

FastSpring

JANUARY 10, 2023

There are tons of monthly recurring billing software solutions available, so it can seem difficult to determine which one is right for your business. Chargebee: Supports Complex Subscription Management. Zoho Subscriptions: Online Subscription Billing Platform. Wave: Invoicing and Accounting Software for Small Businesses.

Payment Solutions 146

Payment Solutions Payment Features Payment Methods Software Review 146

Clouded Judgement

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. A budget flush occurs when companies rush to spend remaining budgeted funds before the fiscal year ends, often due to a "use it or lose it" mentality. As a result, software vendors often see an uptick in revenue and bookings during these periods.

Cloud 167

Cloud Cost optimization & reporting GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Software Review 167

SaaStr

AUGUST 3, 2022

Not due to lack of execution, but due to a rapid return to on-site and IRL shopping. Payments still materially accelerating overall growth to 16%, and predicting revenue growth from payments and merchant solutions to more than double that of subscriptions and SaaS. More on that here. But — margins are materially lower. #3.

Payment Methods 288

Payment Methods Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 288

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

While their core web site “Creative Subscriptions” are growing at a still impressive 23% year-over-year, their Business Solutions segment with ecommerce and more are growing 60% year-over-year at $200m in ARR. This may be in part due to Wix’s original Israeli roots, but an impressive 43% of revenue is outside the U.S.

Payment Methods 312

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Metronome is a cutting-edge billing infrastructure company designed to support the rapid growth and adaptability required by modern software companies. Metronome’s sophisticated billing and subscription management platform enables companies to easily manage and automate complex billing and invoicing processes.

Scale 289

Scale Software Review Payment Features AI 289

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 ?” or “ What are the best tips I can get in terms of annual vs monthly subscription models ?”. Boring, right?).

Payment Features 184

Payment Features SaaS Payments Payment Methods Subscription 184

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

SaaStr

APRIL 19, 2023

So one large category of software spend is on Point of Sale systems. But “POS” systems and software are everywhere, and are a lot more than just Toast and Square. And their mix of software, payments and hardware revenue drives up the total deal size — but puts a lot of pressure on margins.

Payment Solutions 289

Payment Solutions Point of Sale Payments SaaS Payments 289

FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

Note: FastSpring offers advanced subscription management services that support free trials, monthly and annual paid plans, proration, discount management, and more. How Castos upsells subscription tiers. His podcast hosting company uses data analytics that looks at which users are most likely to grow out of their current subscriptions.

Merchant Services 146

Merchant Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 146

FastSpring

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Q4 sales numbers usually outperform the rest of the year thanks to year-end holidays and their associated shopping cycles — but how much does that trend carry over into software and SaaS sales? We’ve analyzed aggregate sales data to give you insights into just how important Q4 can be for your software, SaaS, or other digital goods business.

SaaS Payments 158

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Software Review Merchant Services 158

Subscription Flow

OCTOBER 16, 2024

In today’s fast-tracked financial landscape, billing software has become a need. That is why most modern SaaS and subscription-based businesses have transitioned to using a good billing software, reducing their workload by a great deal. A billing software is the ultimate solution to your growing business’s complex needs.

Payment Services 59

Payment Services Payment Solutions Payment Features SaaS Payments 59

SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2024

Generative AI is a platform shift where models can take inputs such as text, image, audio, video, and code and generate new content into any of the modalities mentioned. Businesses are changing the way you create music, recreating how films are made or dubbed, and disrupting the way programmers code. That’s every other line of code.

Generative AI 298

Generative AI Outsourcing Services AI Software Review 298

FastSpring

MARCH 3, 2023

Most billing and subscription management solutions let you: Build various trial and subscription models (e.g., free or paid trial and usage-based or fixed price subscriptions). Manage active subscriptions (e.g., upgrades, downgrades, and adding or removing products). Send invoices and/or payment notifications.

Payment Services 142

Payment Services Payment Features Merchant Services Payments 142

Clouded Judgement

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Subscribe now 2023 Top Performers In 2023, there were 14 cloud software companies that were up 100%+ this year (in the index I track of ~80 total)! Follow along to stay up to date! And the overall basket has seen ~25% multiple expansion (6.5x

Cloud 196

Cloud Software Review Payment Features Subscription 196

FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

If you sell software internationally, you know how difficult handling cross-border payments can be. According to SEPA rules, you must send your customers a pre-notification to inform them when they can expect a single payment or regular subscription to leave their bank account. The last payment will be taken on September 22, 2022.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 148

SaaStr

JUNE 5, 2020

It’s hard to imagine a world where analysis didn’t understand recurring, subscription based revenue for technology products. Salesforce’s IPO is also seen as a test of a new business model that could shake up the software industry. interest rate due in 2025. This CNET article captures the uncertainty well: .

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Venture Capital Technical Review SaaS Scale 299

User Pilot

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Unlike traditional businesses, most SaaS businesses operate the subscription pricing model. Instead, it involves several key aspects, including: Product functionality : The software solves the problems it was designed to solve. According to one report, 95% of customers will read online reviews before buying a product.

Business 111

Business Underperforming Technical Team Customer Lifetime Value Systems Review 111

Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. The unlock here of “group + triage + agent” will be the backbone for the next wave of software. Not the best start to cloud software earnings season! Follow along to stay up to date! Overall, there was weakness across the board.

Systems Review 144

Systems Review Cloud AI Artificial Intelligence 144

Stax

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Small businesses in America and worldwide have to choose from a wide variety of accounting software solutions, and this range of choices can be overwhelming. Research shows that 64% of small businesses use accounting software and the market for accounting software solutions is projected to be worth $4.3billion by 2023.

Payment Methods 88

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments Payment Services 88

Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Subscribe now Are Software Companies Over or Undervalued? Today I wanted to dig in to this question and its implications: “Are software companies fairly valued today?” Follow along to stay up to date! ” Let’s dig in.

Software Review 190

Software Review Cloud Software Revenue 190

FastSpring

DECEMBER 9, 2022

SaaS billing software automates one or more of the various aspects of the recurring billing process — payment processing, fulfillment, dunning, and more. With many payment processors, you’ll need additional software to manage complex recurring payments, taxes, chargebacks, dunning, and more. 3 Subscription Management Software.

Payment Services 147

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Methods SaaS Payments 147

Stax

APRIL 8, 2025

Always review pricing models, monthly fees, per-transaction markups, hidden fees, and contract terms before making a decision. 3.5%) due to online fraud concerns. Merchant Category Code (MCC) Card networks assign different interchange rates based on your industry, meaning some businesses naturally pay higher or lower fees.

Payment Services 88

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Methods Payments 88

Subscription Flow

MAY 7, 2024

One thing that we have observed becoming an increasing reality in the world of SaaS is that customers have been demanding subscription solutions that are ever more customizable and scalable. Increased demand for scalable and customizable subscription solutions. The market for SaaS is saturated.

Payment Solutions 104

Payment Solutions Software Review Payment Services SaaS Payments 104

TechEmpower SaaS

JULY 24, 2023

eCommerce Does your startup run on a subscription model? How many kinds of subscriptions do you support? What are the rules for subscriptions? Accounting Beyond reviewing transactions, what accounting support do you need? Team and Process Are you using, or planning to use any software development methodologies?

Innovation 780

Innovation Development CTO Hire Technical Review 780

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

He founded four companies: Skok Systems, Corporate Software Europe, Watermark Software, and SilverStream Software and did one turnaround with Xionics. David’s successful exits as an investor at Matrix include HubSpot, JBoss, AppIQ, Tabblo, Netezza, Diligent Technologies, CloudSwitch, TribeHR, GrabCAD, OpenSpan, and Enservio.

Technical Review 208

Technical Review Development Team Review Software Review Scale 208

FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Chargebee is a robust subscription management platform. While Chargebee lets you automate many mundane accounting tasks and integrate with account software, you still have to track and record every transaction, refund, etc. Zoho Subscriptions. Create Flexible Free Trials and Recurring Billing Logic Without Code.

Payment Methods 148

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Services Payments 148

FastSpring

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The fourth quarter is the most important quarter for software companies around the world. . We confirmed this by reviewing sales data from over 300 SaaS and software companies that use our billing platform. In November, software companies see 11% to 24% over the average monthly revenue. Average US SaaS and Software Sales.

Payment Methods 148

Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Software Review 148

Clouded Judgement

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Some of these drops rival one of the worst ever software earnings reaction of Tableau in 2016! On Thursday the software index (WCLD) was up ~3%! So what’s holding up software stocks valuations?? Follow along to stay up to date!

Software Review 167

Software Review Cloud Software Azure 167

Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

Examples of modern digital payment processing systems include online payment gateways, digital wallets, QR code payments, and cryptocurrencies. Systems used for this include payment gateways , subscription billing software, and eCommerce platforms with built-in payments.

Payment Services 88

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 88

Payrix

MAY 14, 2024

When it comes to software, success doesn’t hinge on innovation alone. No one knows this better (or more intimately) than a software company Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Adam Tesan, CRO at Worldpay for Platforms, is a seasoned executive leader with decades of experience in sales, marketing, and revenue in the software space.

Payments 147

Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 147

Stax

APRIL 3, 2025

Encryption – Encryption converts plain text into coded characters that can only be decoded by authorized users. Ensure it integrates with accounting software like Xero, QuickBooks, and FreshBooks for streamlined financial tracking and tax reporting. This protects sensitive payment data from interception by cybercriminals.

Payment Methods 88

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 88

Clouded Judgement

AUGUST 25, 2023

This is the first S-1 we’ve seen in almost 2 years from a software company! We focused on marketing automation within eCommerce as our first application use case, and we believe our software is highly extensible across a broad range of functions and verticals.” The vast majority of our subscription plans today are monthly.

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Benchmarks Artificial Intelligence Data Software Review 246