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Chargebee vs. Zuora: A Detailed Look

Baremetrics

Do any of them have what you want in a subscription management service? Zuora Founded in 2007, Zuora is an enterprise billing and invoicing company that helps businesses launch and manage their subscription-based services. Just like Chargebee, it is web-based and offers 24-7 customer service. What suits your business?

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Companies With Usage-Based Pricing Grow 38% Faster

OpenView Labs

Today we know of HubSpot —the maker of marketing, sales, and service software products—as a preeminent public company with a market cap above $17B. The company struggled with poor churn and anemic expansion revenue. Once a customer has churned off the platform, it’s extremely difficult to win them back.

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The SaaS Trust Crisis with Godard Abel (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

The SaaS Trust Crisis is making it harder to market and sell software and services than ever before. And today, I’m very excited to be the co-founder and CEO of G2 where we’re building the world’s leading marketplace for SaaS software. The situation is getting worse. Godard Abel | Co-Founder and CEO @ G2.

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Navigating Choppy SaaS Waters

Chart Mogul

In the SaaS world, that means the consumer-facing apps & marketplace SaaS have a tougher time ahead. You might be hard-pressed by your AWS bill but you’re not going to start replacing the engine to lighten the load mid-flight. This is one of the tactics SaaS companies use to shore up churn.

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Using Gross Margin to Score Your Product’s Maturity

OpenView Labs

Creating a marketplace does just that. For example, when coming to a cloud vendor, deciding to be vendor agnostic at the time of product design ensures you aren’t tied down to AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud. It’s logical, therefore, that spoilage is a leading indicator of churn. Not always. It also requires vigilance.

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Create Pricing Models Like AWS and Twilio with Events-Based Billing

Chargify

Backed by an army of developers, data engineers, and finance professionals, this events-based billing model allowed these large companies to directly link the value that their services provided with the cost presented on a customer’s invoice. What Amazon Web Services and Twilio Get Right. How AWS Does It.

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A Look Back: “SaaS Metrics Masterclass: Key Business Metrics, Pricing Strategies and Billing Models with Stripe’s Head of France and Southern Europe, Guillaume Princen” (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. One is your churn. SaaS businesses have churn. Churn, think we’re all familiar with what churn is. We talked about churn. MRR, obviously.