FastSpring

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

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OPEXEngine

MAY 18, 2021

In this blog, we are looking at the business metrics that can be measured quantitatively and providing a few insights on how investors analyze them. We’ve talked to dozens of our SaaS customers, as well as investors to learn more about what is happening with these key metrics. Here is a simple formula to calculate ARR.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

IPO behind them, we can take a look behind its metrics. While its software has decent margins of 66%, software is only 10% of Toast’s total GAAP revenue. It loses money on the hardware (gross margin negative) and the payments solutions have barely a 20%+ margin and constitute the vast majority of revenue today.

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Chart Mogul

AUGUST 9, 2021

Their community management platform was born from CEO and electronic musician Benji Vaughan’s need to better engage his fans. Their community management platform was born from CEO and electronic musician Benji Vaughan’s need to better engage his fans. Disciple uses Recurly to manage subscriptions. Who is Disciple Media?

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ProfitWell

MARCH 24, 2020

The subscription model is booming. Almost everything is sold as a subscription, from socks to razor blades, and of course software. Without further ado, let's look at nine subscription-based companies absolutely nailing it in 2020. What is a subscription company? So why the subscription business model?

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Baremetrics

MAY 12, 2021

This article is a step-by-step guide on how to integrate Google Sheets with Baremetrics. Baremetrics is the leading number one subscription analytics software for business metrics as it can integrate easily with popular payment platforms such as Stripe , Recurly , and Braintree with its simple API function.

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Baremetrics

APRIL 25, 2021

RESULTS Within just one month of using Baremetrics, Cancel Timeshare has saved hours of manual entry, recovered over $680 in failed payments, and supported their customer service goals. They guide timeshare owners through the timeshare exit process with transparent service and fair pricing. Table of Contents.

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OPEXEngine

APRIL 16, 2020

OPEXEngine fielded a second quick poll to the SaaS Finance community between April 2-April 14, 2020 – over 60 individual companies participated, ranging from companies with under 100 employees to companies with more than 5000 employees. For all other size ranges, 30 – 35% of companies are planning to change FY 2020 Sales Quotas.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 24, 2020

2020 is the year of Corona Virus thus far but it’s also the year in which the subscription business model is excelling. Subscription companies have become incredibly popular in the past two decades. Almost everything is sold as a subscription, from socks to razor blades, and of course software.

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Chart Mogul

AUGUST 9, 2021

Their community management platform was born from CEO and electronic musician Benji Vaughan’s need to better engage his fans. Their community management platform was born from CEO and electronic musician Benji Vaughan’s need to better engage his fans. Disciple uses Recurly to manage subscriptions. Who is Disciple Media?

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OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 10, 2019

The Subscription Show is coming to Boston in a few weeks at the World Trade Center. I’m thrilled to be speaking there about SaaS Metrics and Benchmarks. The show is 100% focused on subscription models, operations, pricing, marketing and subscription-centric technologies, and organized by Subscription Insider.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 9, 2019

From the rise of SaaS to the sudden glut of subscription boxes, the subscription business model has never been more popular. So much so that Gartner research predicts that in 2020, all new entrants to the software market and 80% of existing companies will offer some sort of subscription package. Do your research.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 8, 2020

By 2019, Watch had 270 million monthly users, and by 2020, that number had shot up to over 1.25 In this post, I’ll dive deep into how to use Facebook Watch for marketing, now that the platform has matured. When you start a new platform, you’re going to have to throw a bunch of stuff at the wall and see what works and what doesn’t.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

In SaaS, you need to calculate the growth rate for a handful of different metrics. For example, you need to calculate the growth rates for monthly recurring revenue (MRR), active customers, average revenue per user (ARPU), and more. For example, you might look at the revenue of the business.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 19, 2021

If you accept payments in different currencies, you should understand how currency fluctuations impact your Monthly Recurring Revenue in any given month. Global businesses need localized strategies. If you’re managing multi-currency payments already, keep on reading! Their subscription hasn’t changed.

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Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The Shopify Marketplace Kit is an ecommerce tool that allows developers to sell directly from any platform, instead of going through the Shopify app. It functions as a collection of APIs (Application Program Interface) that integrate with Shopify, so that any kind of platform can function as a storefront. Start a free trial.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 19, 2021

If you accept payments in different currencies, you should understand how currency fluctuations impact your Monthly Recurring Revenue in any given month. Global businesses need localized strategies. If you’re managing multi-currency payments already, keep on reading! Their subscription hasn’t changed.

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ProfitWell

MAY 21, 2020

And we'll be sharing with you an overall subscription index, from companies on Profitwell, that will be updated weekly. Table of Contents: Overall SaaS and subscription index. Impact of COVID-19 on SaaS and subscription companies. Impact of COVID-19 on SaaS and subscription companies. Metrics you need to stay on top of.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 6, 2020

We are back and feeling better than ever , kicking off what we’re hearing is "the year of subscription growth and iteration." We also have 10 must-have features for subscription billing platforms in 2020. Your top subscription news. 2020: the year of subscription growth and iteration.

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 22, 2020

New business pipeline has fallen off a cliff and will likely remain depressed through 2020. Churn rates are starting to tick up, and not only for businesses with a customer concentration in hospitality or travel. And major layoffs have been announced, even among SaaS companies recently touted as possible 2020 IPO candidates.

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ProfitWell

JULY 8, 2020

In this post, we'll go over what those rules are for the 21 states that have sales tax laws on the books that pertain to SaaS businesses and products. These are the laws as of 2020, but you should always talk to a tax professional as the final word in sales tax & compliance issues. 21 states that tax SaaS sales in 2020.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 13, 2022

Pricing Transformations in 2020. 45% of SaaS companies said they had some form of usage-based pricing, up from 34% in 2020. These companies might have introduced a new usage limit for their free plan or for an entry-level paid subscription, for example, rather than testing a more disruptive pay-as-you-go offering.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 16, 2021

The usage-based pricing model almost feels like a cheat code —it enables SaaS companies to more efficiently acquire new customers, grow with those customers as they’re successful, and keep those customers on the platform. But the shift from pure subscription to usage-based pricing is nearly as complex as going from on-premise to SaaS.

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Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 13, 2021

This obsession with getting new customers is natural: the more customers you convert, the more revenue you will make. 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?

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Baremetrics

MAY 20, 2021

No one could have predicted a global pandemic in 2020—much less the resulting damage done to businesses of all sizes across industries. Estimating your cash inflows and outflows for a given period of time using historical data and other metrics lets you know where your large or small business is heading financially.

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BrightBack

JUNE 30, 2020

Today Brightback is launching Experience Manager in beta, a way subscription managers can easily implement retention tactics we’ve rigorously tested with direct-to-consumer and SaaS businesses over the past 18 months. 2020 is a watershed moment for customer retention. What’s coming: Retention experiments that drive results.

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Unbounce

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Thousands of businesses are willing to spend unbelievable amounts of money to rank at the top of search engine results pages (SERP) and in the most relevant places for their users around the web. In 2019, small businesses spent between $9,000 and $10,000 per month on PPC , with Google making an average of $116.5 Retargeting.

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Chart Mogul

AUGUST 31, 2021

We’ve been witnessing a shift towards digitization for several years now but the acceleration increased dramatically in 2020. It was a mobile-first solution where a one-time payment of $5 would get users credits for signatures. To increase revenue we really need to understand what is working well for us.

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Chart Mogul

AUGUST 31, 2021

We’ve been witnessing a shift towards digitization for several years now but the acceleration increased dramatically in 2020. It was a mobile-first solution where a one-time payment of $5 would get users credits for signatures. To increase revenue we really need to understand what is working well for us.

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ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

And the question remains: Are subscription cars the future of transport? Your top subscription news. She tweeted insights from Benedict Evans' latest deck, "Tech in 2020: Standing on the shoulders of giants." Now that independent ecommerce has exploded—so have the platforms enabling ecommerce transactions.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

360: Digital transformation marks a radical rethinking of how companies use tech, people, and operations to fundamentally change their business performance. Coupa CEO, Rob Bernshteyn, and SaaStr CEO, Jason Lemkin, will discuss how the Cloud has changed in 2020. Matt Garratt: If you just look at Vlocity and nCino, amazing businesses.

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Baremetrics

JANUARY 24, 2021

Anyone managing a SaaS or subscription business is aware of customer churn. The Problem In January of 2020, we realized that one of the major problems holding back our company was a customer churn rate of 19%. The graph below, taken from our Baremetrics account, shows our customer churn throughout January 2020.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

What you’ll see in that cloud spend box is actually Gartner’s 2020 estimate for infrastructure as a service spending for companies, which was $50 billion. And if you also look at the platform as a service category, that’s also an additional $50 billion of spend, and that’s typically with those same vendors.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Monthly recurring revenue is one of the least exciting topics to take on in 2020. Twitter hive, at @ChartMogul we’ve set out to write the MRR guide for 2020 — something that goes beyond the “How to calculate MRR” that you’re so tired of. — Ilia Markov (@nochainmarkov) August 27, 2020. What is MRR?

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Compared to 2020, the number of SaaS enterprises that IPOed in 2021 has surged by a whopping 121% , and there is little doubt why Saas companies are getting so much investor interest. You want to define and obsess over your unit economics and critical SaaS metrics. When it comes to IPOs, 2021 was an excellent year for SaaS companies.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

Flash forward to 2020 and freemium again feels cutting edge. Product led businesses need to get their products in the hands of would-be users as efficiently as possible–hopefully at near zero CAC. Is freemium an effective lead generation, conversion, and revenue driving strategy for your recurring revenue-based business?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

How can a simple offering be transformed into its own platform? Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

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