FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

Last week, I canceled an annual SaaS subscription (I had three weeks left until renewal). Interestingly, even though I paid for a year-long subscription, the company didn’t let me keep the last three weeks of access to its premium features. This action will immediately downgrade your subscription. Table of Contents.

Benchmarks 135

Benchmarks Churn Payments SaaS Payments 135

User Pilot

JANUARY 31, 2023

How to prevent churn by identifying at-risk customers? In SaaS, you can grow your revenue only if your churn rate is low, so retaining at-risk customers is crucial. In this article, we will discuss the ins and outs of at-risk customers, how to detect them, and five actionable strategies to help you prevent churn.

Churn 90

Churn Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 90

FastSpring

APRIL 30, 2024

If you’re selling your software, plugin, add-on, or other digital product for a one-time fee, you’re likely thinking about switching to a recurring subscription model. While the financial reasons are strong to switch to subscriptions, your path to roll out this massive change to your business is filled with peril.

Subscription 146

Subscription Payment Features Payments Payment Solutions 146

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Retention truly is the foundation of growth for software as a service (SaaS) companies, but oftentimes, it is overlooked and undervalued. High SaaS churn is a corollary of poor retention - but it can creep up unannounced, and rather than deal a single fatal blow, it causes death by a thousand small cuts.

Churn 152

Churn SaaS Payments SaaS Payments 152

User Pilot

MARCH 25, 2024

TL;DR Customer attrition or customer churn is the loss of a customer(s) by a business. Understanding and limiting customer churn improves customer loyalty and the customer’s lifetime value. To calculate the churn rate, divide the number of customers lost by the total number of customers at the beginning of that period.

Underperforming Technical Team 77

Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods 77

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2020

The situations that portend failure are varied and unfortunately common – no product-market fit, no cash, bad product, burnout, to name just a few of the most obvious. Just look at subscription analytics startup ChartMogul whose brand and product are now a household name in the SaaS community. Poor marketing.

Underperforming Technical Team 183

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Payments Payment Services 183

Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Before reading through yet another “Top-29 SaaS billing platforms” feature comparison post, decide how you want the billing tool to play with the rest of your operations stack. This post is part of an ongoing series for SaaS founders and CEOs on setting up their financial stack in a scalable manner.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Software Review 52

Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 13, 2021

Existing customer renewal is a high priority for 59% of SaaS companies and a medium priority for 27%. However, the subscription business model can’t survive if you keep on acquiring new custo mers but the old ones keep on walking away. How to calculate this metric and what’s the average SaaS churn rate?

SaaS Payments 105

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Churn Payment Services 105

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey. So the first question is what made SaaS so successful. Customers love SaaS products and tools because it simply works. The second constituent there is the developer. MRR, obviously.

SaaS Payments 230

SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 230

Point Nine Land

JUNE 18, 2023

Everything you always wanted to know about cohort analysis (but were afraid to ask) Back in 2012, I wrote a blog post titled “Know your user cohorts” , which began like this: “One of the most important tools to better understand the usage of a web application — or a service, a game or a mobile app, it doesn’t matter — is a cohort analysis.

SaaS Payments 128

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments SaaS 128

Baremetrics

DECEMBER 28, 2020

If you’re running a subscription or SaaS business, you know that at the end of the day your chief metric is monthly recurring revenue (MRR). Arguably the biggest factor standing in the way of consistent monthly revenue is your customer churn rate. You may be thinking, “How bad can it be?” What is a dunning process?

SaaS Payments 105

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments 105

CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 17, 2022

How unfortunate is it to see a subscriber canceling their recurring payment! Product analytics is the process of evaluating how your customers or users engage with your product. This enables your product team to identify and track engagement data and optimize the product. Why is it not easier to predict churn?

Churn 52

Churn SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team Payment Features 52

User Pilot

MARCH 9, 2023

Want to improve the current customer attrition rate in your SaaS company? Customer attrition is one of the main problems for SaaS companies. In this article, we’ll discuss customer attrition in depth and discuss the strategies you can use to reduce churn and increase customer retention and loyalty.

Underperforming Technical Team 90

Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 90

Frontegg

AUGUST 19, 2021

Instant gratification is now a mandatory aspect of SaaS application usage. Users don’t want to write emails or engage with support teams anymore. Companies are shifting towards Product-Led Growth strategies and self-service features are making it all happen. Related: Top 10 PLG Tools for Your SaaS Application.

SaaS Payments 98

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions Underperforming Technical Team 98

Baremetrics

MARCH 23, 2021

Introduction You want a subscription model for your business that increases revenue and keeps customers. You think about either Stripe , a payment platform, or Recurly , a customer-driven one to handle your billing. Let's jump right in and get you going towards picking the best subscription billing platform for you.

Payment Services 69

Payment Services Payment Features Payment Methods Payments 69

Baremetrics

JANUARY 12, 2022

This article is one such list, where we take a deep dive into cash flow modeling for SaaS businesses and the software that can help you do it. Why is cash flow modeling important for SaaS? However, not having a good idea of how much money is entering or exiting your business over time is always bad! Table of Contents.

Payment Services 95

Payment Services Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 95

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Unfortunately, things only get more difficult when it comes to running the whole business as a Shopify app developer. This article will cover 10 business tips for improving your Shopify app’s development, marketing, and sales. 10 business tips for Shopify app developers 1. The Shopify QA team are your friends 6.

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development Development 98

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Shopify is a huge opportunity for developers looking to expand into the micro-SaaS space. The Shopify App Store brings together Shopify app developers and Shopify shop owners for their mutual benefit. Why you need to track business metrics for Shopify App Developers 10 business metrics for Shopify App Developers 1.

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions Outsourced Development Underperforming Technical Team Metrics 98

Baremetrics

JANUARY 24, 2021

Anyone managing a SaaS or subscription business is aware of customer churn. That means achieving any essence of “growth” requires replacing lost customers faster than the rate at which they churn. The graph below, taken from our Baremetrics account, shows our customer churn throughout January 2020.

Churn 71

Churn SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Solutions 71

User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Confused about trying to understand SaaS roles? SaaS companies have many moving parts, and it can be difficult to determine who does what. TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. What is a SaaS business model?

Sales Hiring 88

Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 88

ChurnZero

AUGUST 14, 2020

And by virtue of that, it’s essential that Customer Success software – like a Customer Success team – plays well with the others it works alongside if the customer is to truly come first. Customer Support/Service Software and Ticketing Systems. Customer Support/Service or IT Operations. Not product management. Who owns it?

Payments 87

Payments Payment Solutions Customer Success Software Review 87

Incredo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Asking “what’s the typical commission for SaaS salesperson?” is like asking “how expensive should I price my SaaS product?” what factors to consider before defining your SaaS sales commission percentage. We will share 8 ideas on how to increase your sales team’s productivity and help them close more deals. See below!

SaaS Payments 150

SaaS Payments Compensation Payment Services Sales Recruiting 150

ProfitWell

MARCH 12, 2020

The subscription-based economy boom has brought with it more competition than ever before, raising the bar for companies trying to offer recurring products or services to their customers. However, behind the boom lies the rising consumer demand for subscriptions. Some examples of common pain points include: Churn.

SaaS Payments 59

SaaS Payments Subscription Payment Features Payments 59

Incredo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Asking “what’s the typical commission for SaaS salesperson?” is like asking “how expensive should I price my SaaS product?” what factors to consider before defining your SaaS sales commission percentage 4. and finally figure out how much that SaaS sales salary should be. In the end, a bonus section is waiting for you!

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SaaS Payments Compensation Payment Services Sales Recruiting 144

Baremetrics

MARCH 23, 2020

I spent over a week speaking with different SaaS founders and marketers about how they successfully reduced churn for their business. churn by doing something every SaaS business should be doing, but most don’t. And one showed me a simple tactic their company used that helped reduce churn from 9% to 7.5%

Churn 145

Churn Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 145

Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

If you’re looking the best online payment processor, you've likely come across options including Stripe and Zuora. Rich Developer Toolkit For organizations with the right technical chops, Stripe gives developers the power to put their own touch on payment processing, with tools such as Stripe Elements, Stripe Sources, and Stripe Connect.

Payment Methods 75

Payment Methods Payment Services Technical Review Merchant Services 75

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Whether you created your SaaS product to help solve a problem you had or because you wanted some extra income, the truth is that your SaaS business is a valuable asset. Running a profitable SaaS business allows you to take control of your own schedule - some would even say your life! Develop a Full Marketing Strategy 2.

SaaS Payments 105

SaaS Payments Technical Review Development Team Review Software Review 105

CustomerSuccessBox

JULY 11, 2022

Especially, with a big account churn. How you handle, communicate with, and learn from account churn—user offboarding—is as crucial especially when the churned customer is a major account. This trip begins for the majority of SaaS products when a user clicks a “cancel subscription” button of some sort.

Churn 52

Churn Payment Services Payment Methods SaaS Payments 52

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Ever since John Koenig first coined the term “SaaS” back in 2005, the software-as-a-service industry has been one of the fastest-moving and creative in the world. The SaaS business model powering all of this activity is startlingly unique, still young, and inextricably tied to the power of cloud computing. What is SaaS?

Business Model 54

Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

User Pilot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Looking for a good user engagement analysis tool and wondering which one of Heap, Pendo, and Baremetrics is the best option for your SaaS company? In this post, we’ll discuss exactly that – which tool is best for user engagement analysis depending on the different criteria that different SaaS companies may have.

Engagement 52

Engagement Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services 52

User Pilot

JULY 24, 2023

What is SaaS marketing? We’re all familiar with the basics of SaaS product marketing such as attracting users to a SaaS product with a subscription business model. That said, there are key differences between a SaaS marketing strategy and standard digital marketing. Offering self-service support.

SaaS Payments 65

SaaS Payments Marketing Payment Solutions SaaS 65

Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . build smoother connections both with your prospects through optimized sales process. SaaS Sales Models.

SaaS Payments 157

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 157

User Pilot

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Spot account expansion opportunities, and locate friction points to prevent churn. These interactions include engaging with the onboarding checklist, clicking, hovering over a particular feature, canceling a subscription, and more. Poor customer service — leads to negative word-of-mouth, dissatisfaction, and churn.

Payment Solutions 82

Payment Solutions Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Customer Lifetime Value 82

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Looking for a good SaaS analytics tool and wondering which one of Appcues, Product Fruits, and Baremetrics is the best option for your SaaS company? There are plenty of tools for SaaS analytics on review sites, but they don’t make the choice any easier. There is a better tool for your SaaS than Appcues!

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payments Payment Solutions Software Review 52

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Looking for a good SaaS reporting tool and wondering which one of Appcues, Product Fruits, and Baremetrics is the best option for your SaaS company? There are plenty of tools for SaaS reporting on review sites, but they don’t make the choice any easier. There is a better tool for your SaaS than Appcues!

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 52

User Pilot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Looking for a good user behavior analysis tool and wondering which one of Heap, Pendo, and Baremetrics is the best option for your SaaS company? In this post, we’ll discuss exactly that – which tool is best for user behavior analysis depending on the different criteria that different SaaS companies may have.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Payments Payment Methods Payment Services 52

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 7, 2021

For example, if your conversion ratio is low, is that because your marketing team is bringing in poor leads, your sales team isn’t succeeding in converting high-quality leads, or your development team hasn’t put the best parts of your platform at the front for a successful free trial? Try Baremetrics free.

Payments 98

Payments Sales SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 98