Marketeq Digital

B2B SaaS Payment automation

MarketEQ Digital

Payment automation in B2B SaaS software

✦ OVERVIEW

Blend metrics, a B2B SaaS website where the  users can automate payments so that services never get interrupted.

MY ROLE

UX Researcher and Designer

Team

PM, Developers, Snr UX designer

Focus

Design system, Responsive web design

TIMELINE

3 Months

Tools

Figma, Miro, Slack

✦ results

15%

More user retention rate expected

70%

NPS score

✦ THE USER PROBLEM

users doesn't trust defaulting a card for variable fees

Users are billed based on the team’s use of resources. This fee being unpredictable, users are not font of defaulting a card for it.

✦ THE BUSINESS PROBLEM

Interrupted services

Since payments are manual, admins often miss them, causing access interruptions.

✦ PROBLEM STATEMENT

How might we

increase trust in payment automation  for users so that they can avoid service interruptions?

What
Who
Why

✦ SOLUTION

E-wallet designed to adapt  to changing funding needs.

Funds from the e-wallet will be used automatically to ensure uninterrupted service.

Automation but with more control

You can set a trigger amount and a recharge amount to automate the minimum balance in an e-wallet.

✦ HOW DID I GET THERE?

End-to-end product design roadmap

Explanatory research since the problem was known

✦ Explanatory User research

the problem was known, so I started with interviews.

User empathy with unbiased data

Find why users prefer manual payments of variable fees
Find users' workarounds
Find competitions offerings
3 user interviews
20 min each - remote
Semi-open questions
1M, 1F

5 Insights and 2 main themes

Affinity mapping and clustering for insights and themes

trust issues

"What if if they charge me more?"

Users needed more "Monitored Payment Automation"than defaulting a card.
Need for a Monitored Payment Automations

need for communication

Variable fee bacame a hidden fee

Users needed to be aware of the teams usage in a timely manner.
Need for tracking usage and the related fees

Flexibility required

Building trust takes time

User needed time to adopt to automatic payments. So, Both types of payments was to be kept alive.
Need for automatic + Manual Payments
In short, my users wants to "Trust Payment Automations". But since they are not informed about extra usage fee in a timely manner, they don't trust defaulting a card. They needed to be aware of variable fees in a timely manner so that the payments for extra usage is no longer a surprise.

✦ Competitive analysis

How does 30+ competitor provide more "Trust" in payments?

UX/UI audit of competitors to understand market beset practices for automatic payments in B2B platforms

AHA moment!

Twilio offers an e-wallet feature that allows users to withdraw funds from their account more quickly and conveniently based on their usage. Additionally, users have the option to set a minimum balance settings on the platform.

✦ Ideation

Defining success, collaborating with the PM

We defined the essential features that define success for the user. To ensure a balanced approach that considers both UX and budget feasibility, we utilized the Moscow Method to create the Phase 1 product features.

Fail, but fail fast.

Tested Internally with 2 team members.

Visual brand definition + Responsiveness + Accessibility

Developers and the client loved using untitled UI as the design system. It helped in saving time and money.

✦ FINAL DESIGN

Hi-Fi prototype in production

Automate Payments with E-wallet

Now usage charges are taken out of e-wallet for an uninterrupted services.

The client loved e-wallet Automation!

Admin can set a trigger amount and recharge amount to automatically top up their e-wallet.

The client loved this because
1. Happy users
2. Early payment
3. They get to keep the remaining unused money

Invoices

Easily filter between overage charges and other payments

Usage

View overage usage, identify the top consumer responsible, and set a payment method for overages.

Add new payment methods

Add/edit  payment method sand set if as default

✦ Is the app easy to use?

Usability testing

3 Participants, 2 hours and 7 tasks per person
100% success
All pass
94% easiness
Difficulty in sorting overage charge
94% Confidence
Confusion in locating e-wallet
1/3
"Where is e-wallet?"
2/3
"How do I sort overage charges?"

making e-wallet more prominent

Dashboard now clearly indicates e-wallet and related resources

Easy overage charge filtering

Sorting out what’s the monthly subscription charge and what’s the overage has never been easier!

More emphasis overage visual data

Visual call out of overage usage, without compromising information hierarchy.

✦ Learnings

Self Reflection

Takeaways

Adhering to the cleint requirement, I used an open-source design system -  Untitled UI for a faster hand-over.
Client loved e-wallet, because if users abandoned the app for some reason, they get to keep that money.

Next steps

I take user retention very seriously. So I proposed user flows which could be as small as a cold email saying "hey you have some money in your wallet"
A/B test the use of onboarding tutorial. Will that help in faster user aquisition is what I will be testing.

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