What if Paying For Services Was as Easy as Clicking a Button?

What we’ll cover today:

💳 What if Paying For Services Was as Easy as Clicking a Button?
🔍 Two Things That Helped Me Grow My SaaS to $400K ARR
💸 Jake Heller on Billion Dollar SaaS Companies.
🔗 The Event Roundup.

What if Paying For Services Was as Easy as Clicking a Button?

SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) is driving this shift by streamlining payment processes across retail, healthcare, and education industries.

Lemon’s flexible payment options allow SaaS teams to:

• Avoid high upfront costs.

• Offer manageable payments over time.

• Get paid in full while customers pay in instalments.

HubSpot’s acquisition of Cacheflow improves subscription billing and quote processes by:

• Automating billing.

• Streamlining sales quotes.

• Reducing sales bottlenecks.

Small businesses also benefit from partnerships like Cross River Bank with Forward and UNIPaaS with American Express.

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1. Two Things That Helped Me Grow My SaaS to $400K ARR.

This is a tweet from Leo. He built and scaled his first SaaS to $30k+ MRR and is now building another.

He tweets: “Two things that helped me grow my SaaS to $400K ARR:

1) Feedback loop - actively listening to users and making quick improvements based on their needs

2) Paid ads - running ads to consistently bring in new customers and retargeting ads to boost conversions.”

Here’s The Tweet.

2. Jake Heller on Billion Dollar SaaS Companies.

Jake Heller is YC alum and also the co-founder and CEO of Casetext (which sold to Thomson Reuters for $650 million in cash in 2023).

Jake Heller says the real value in SaaS lies in going from 70% to 100% reliability through rigorous testing, which can transform AI Agents from cool demos to mission-critical tools.

Here’s The Tweet.

1. Hubler accelerates retail store launches with configurable SaaS platform.

Hubler, a no-code platform for retail, food, manufacturing, and direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands, has unveiled its New Store Opening (NSO) software, designed to transform how businesses manage their store launches. 

This solution offers configurability, allowing Procurement, Operations, and Project leaders to tailor workflows and automate processes according to specific organisational needs.

2. To Reduce The Ad Tech Tax, Sovrn Expands Its SaaS Pricing Model.

Ad tech fees are too high. And the idea of a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model for SSPs and publisher tech is gaining momentum.

Publisher monetisation platform Sovrn is expanding the availability of its SSP’s flat CPM pricing model to attract smaller pubs sick of sharing a percent of every CPM with their tech partners.

3. Crawford & Company Launches Turvi, an AI-driven SaaS for Claims.

Claims management specialist Crawford & Company has announced the launch of Turvi, a new insurtech company offering software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions to enhance the property and casualty claims ecosystem.