Background: As part of our ongoing commitment to providing you with the best possible experience, we’re streamlining our payment methods to ensure the highest standards of safety and compliance. In alignment with this commitment, certain payment methods are being carefully evaluated and, where necessary, removed. This proactive measure enables us to maintain a robust security framework, protecting both your interests and the integrity of our services. What Is Changing? FastSpring will discontinue support for the following payment methods. Payment method Platform* Discontinue Date iDeal Cl ..read more

As an experienced sales and GTM leader, John Eitel has more than witnessed how product-led growth (PLG) has affected the tech and SaaS space in the last few years — he and his teams have been up close and personal with how PLG increased in popularity as a sales strategy. “I think there was a time of, ‘Everybody should be doing it; why aren’t you doing it?,” he says. After becoming the It Thing that many organizations adopted quickly — “The pendulum swung maybe a little too far,” John explains — GTM teams are now finding a balance between sales led motions and product led motions to fully optim ..read more

Todd Harris knows how to leverage effective video game marketing strategies to get games in front of players.  As the former COO and Co-Founder of Hi-Rez Studios, he spent 15 years making games and marketing them to gamers — with the studio’s games reaching 150 million players. (At the time of writing, Hi-Rez’s 2014 release SMITE sits at #15 on Steam’s “Most played Massively Multiplayer games” list, with SMITE’s Steam page boasting 40+ million players.) And as the CEO of both Skillshot Media (a turnkey events production company for esports events) and Ghost Gaming (a “gaming lifestyle bra ..read more

SocialBee, a social media management platform and SaaS based in Romania, first started using FastSpring in 2018. Co-Founder and Chief Executive Bee Ovi Negrean has used the word “flawlessly” to describe how FastSpring’s merchant of record use case has worked for SocialBee (more on that below!). 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. However, as SocialBee utilizes many different ways to package and monetize their software as a service subscriptions, they began d ..read more

Every year on March 8th, the world unites to celebrate International Women’s Day (IWD). It’s a day to acknowledge the incredible achievements of women, reflect on the challenges they still face, and recommit ourselves to building a future where equality truly reigns. At FastSpring, we know this day didn’t blossom overnight. It’s a culmination of decades of struggle, resilience, and unwavering determination. Today, we honor this day and encourage you to as well as we go on a brief  journey of the rich history of IWD, a testament to the ongoing power of collective action. From Seeds of Chan ..read more

Working at FastSpring means having a true commitment to fostering a culture of recognition and appreciation, where we all feel valued and encouraged to contribute our best. The Springie Award, our quarterly Peer-to-Peer appreciation award, exemplifies this commitment, providing a platform for employees to recognize their colleagues’ exceptional contributions. After being at FastSpring for nearly 9 years, it comes at no surprise that Jon Tewes has won the Q4 2023 Springie Award! Jon is a Senior Solutions Architect who has consistently demonstrated the embodiment of FastSpring’s core values – Ma ..read more

A lot of big changes around direct-to-consumer options in the games industry have been going on in the past few months. For example:  The settlement between U.S. States and Google.  A ruling in favor of Epic in Epic Games v. Google.  The Supreme Court rejecting appeals from Apple and Epic. Apple’s most recent announcement of policy changes skirting around the new DMA rules.  These changes indicate one thing: The mobile games industry is changing, but Apple and Google will fight with everything they have to keep their grip on payment processing — and by extension, players ..read more

Ready to join the game industry’s premier professional event? If so, join FastSpring at Game Developers Conference 2024 at Booth S1931! We’d love to talk with you in person! Join us at the Moscone Center in San Francisco from March 18-22nd, for an extraordinary event dedicated to continually defining market innovations and providing insight into the future of games.  The Game Developers Conference (GDC) brings the game development community together to exchange ideas, solve problems, and shape the future of the industry across five days of education, inspiration, and networking. Attendees ..read more

About this series: fsBuilds features developer-built projects showing step-by-step examples, code snippets, and advice on how to approach building with FastSpring. The goal of this series is to not only help you build with FastSpring, but also to inspire you with new and unique ways to leverage FastSpring’s systems to best serve your company. As always, our support and sales engineering specialists are available to help if you need assistance along the way. Generate Digital Invoices and Quotes Within FastSpring from Salesforce Job to be done: You are a B2B company with a sales-led or sales-ass ..read more

Thanks to Tony Markov for contributing to this article! If you’re not sure how to sell an app direct to consumer (D2C) outside the app stores — or if you’re looking for a new way to monetize your mobile app or game — you may be wondering what options you have. Steep fees from platforms like the Apple App Store and Google Play can understandably cause game developers and app creators to look beyond the convenience and ubiquity of traditional app marketplaces, but restrictions from the platform providers have made it difficult. However, because of ongoing court cases and the development of new l ..read more