OPEXEngine

AUGUST 17, 2021

If you’ve underestimated the importance of financial operations for both the short and long-term success of your SaaS business, you’re not alone. With the explosive growth of the SaaS business model impacting businesses worldwide, many are navigating SaaS financial operations and subscription management for the first time.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Scheduled payments, aka recurring billing. Scheduled payments have become a core form of revenue collection. Of course, recurring payments vary depending on the business. As the subscription universe continues to expand, you can expect to see even more subscription payment plans. What are subscription payments?

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FastSpring

MARCH 9, 2022

Because we have data from thousands of Saas and software websites. In this article, we’ll show you examples from a variety of SaaS pricing pages. No matter how you’re selling your SaaS products, you’ll find best practices to improve your pricing page for increased conversions. 7 SaaS pricing page examples. How do we know?

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Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Now more than ever, it is crucial for businesses to invest in SaaS customer journey in this era of the complete overhaul of the digital world. What is SaaS customer journey? You can improve every facet of your SaaS business with an accurate mapping of the customer journey. Naturally, though, it is never sufficient.

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Point Nine Land

APRIL 9, 2021

What does it take to raise capital, in B2B marketplaces, in 2021? Over the last few years, we’ve published a number of SaaS funding napkins as well as marketplace napkins. This year, we’re shaking things up with our first ever B2B marketplace napkin! What does it take to raise capital, in B2B marketplaces, in 2021?

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Free trials can impact cash flow and revenue generation, especially if a significant portion of trial users don’t convert into paying customers. Types of free trial models in SaaS: opt-in and opt-out free trials, freemium , free trial after a demo, and free trial with gamified extensions. What’s a free trial in SaaS?

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CustomerSuccessBox

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) can be calculated by dividing all the Marketing and Sales costs required to acquire a new customer within a specific time. An average SaaS business spends 92% of their first-year revenue on customer acquisition. In other words, it takes 11 months to pay back their customer acquisition cost.

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FastSpring

APRIL 4, 2024

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 Set up a demo or try it out for yourself. Jump to video.

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SaaSOptics

MAY 25, 2021

Accounting for SaaS Companies: Why Go GAAP Early in SaaS? In most emerging and growth SaaS businesses, the focus is on cash flow and growth. Accounting for SaaS Companies . But when it comes to accounting for SaaS companies, there really is a need. It’s called liquidity! Cash Accounting vs. Accrual Accounting .

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OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

And there’s more and more bifurcation between the ‘haves’ – the fast growers – and the ‘have nots’ of SaaS than ever before. The ‘haves’, defined by growing quickly out of the gate and then maintaining 50% or faster revenue growth at significant scale, have seen their valuations skyrocket over the years.

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OPEXEngine

JANUARY 14, 2020

The typical SaaS company grows faster, loses more money, and has a higher valuations than product sale companies. Price/Revenue Ratio. Public SaaS Companies. -8%. Source: SEC filings – weighted average by company revenue. High-growth SaaS companies are often unprofitable. SaaS Companies Trade Profits for Growth.

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ProfitWell

MAY 21, 2020

We've been working around the clock to develop an index displaying MRR and growth trends across SaaS companies. Click below to get the complete ProfitWell Index for B2B or DTC. Table of Contents: Overall SaaS and subscription index. Table of Contents: Overall SaaS and subscription index. 3 ways to boost retention.

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Hull

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

We’ve compiled a list of common B2B use cases along with links to our related resources pages with tactical takeaways to get up-and-running in no time. Acquisition. How one SaaS company fixed their 50% demo drop-off rate. Related Resources: Send product usage data to your CRM to enable sales to upsell or prevent churn.

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Valuize Consulting

AUGUST 17, 2020

Deferred payment terms on subscription renewals, additional discounts, free professional services—these offers might work now, but can you afford to keep applying them next quarter or next year? Achieving the latter, true version of adoption will enable you to reduce churn. These outcomes serve as adoption milestones.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 16, 2019

It’s the question on every SaaS founder’s lips: Is my churn rate too high? So how do you know what a healthy churn rate is for your SaaS company? Some companies report revenue churn, others only share customer or user churn numbers, and often there’s no distinction between whether churn numbers are annual or monthly.

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FastSpring

APRIL 16, 2019

The best thing about a subscription program is the reliable revenue it generates. The worst thing about it is that a healthy chunk of that “reliable” revenue is actually pretty unreliable. Consider putting part of your prepaid income toward customer acquisition to buffer monthly churners. Yes, we’re talking about churn.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

Freemium in SaaS is old news. The much-discussed pricing strategy took over the SaaS world and helped fuel the phenomenal success of SaaS pioneers like Dropbox, Evernote, SurveyMonkey and Hootsuite. Freemium appeared to be declining in popularity and, when it was in place, drove next to zero new ACV for most SaaS companies.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Vikas made his way into the world of SaaS and came to be at the rocketship that is Kustomer. * Why does Vikas believe that a wave of SaaS incumbents are about to be displaced or disrupted? How does Vikas see the space play out in the coming years when it comes to acquisitions?

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BrightBack

JANUARY 17, 2022

Factor in the huge uptick in global demand for online subscriptions services that arose through the pandemic, and we see that succeeding at retention has never been more important, and becomes a key differentiator for those who do it.

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SmartKarrot

JUNE 3, 2021

As a SaaS business company, you need to do more than just serving the customers. SaaS marketing is important to achieve success. A good SaaS marketing plan is necessary to improve brand reach. You can build a SaaS partner program to get better success. Most of the successful SaaS businesses are built on partnerships.

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CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 3, 2022

Since email marketing plays such an important role in customer acquisition, retention, etc., CustomerSuccessBox is a customer success platform that helps high-growing B2B SaaS companies reduce churn and grow their recurring revenue. And now it’s time for you to start managing your processes. We call it playbooks.

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Aysling

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Reason for that, is because those groups are 100% focused on the accounting aspect, and we have realized that there are many components that we do better elsewhere, and rather than attempt to rebuild the wheel, it made sense to create advanced integrations that allow your business processes to flow from one system to the next.

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ProfitWell

JULY 23, 2020

Direct to consumer retail eliminates the middleman from the buying process. Rent the Runway: Online service providing rental designer clothing and accessories, with the option to subscribe. Many of these metrics are intersectional with B2B and SaaS because they reveal important data all businesses need to know.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2019

I’ve worked at multiple high growth SaaS businesses as a growth leader, and the data we’re seeing right now … This is from … is that CAC is increasing both in B2B and B2C, and you’re going to see how that relates, right? So data analytics, marketing customer analytics, and technology and acquisition.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Every SaaS will feel the pressure to scale, whether upmarket or abroad. To start, you could move your SaaS upmarket — go after bigger fish, the higher-value customers who will amplify your recurring revenue. This is what Tomasz Tunguz has called “ the most successful SMB SaaS acquisition channel ever built.”

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ProfitWell

MAY 8, 2020

Listen wherever you get podcasts: How is B2B SaaS growth trending over time? ??7 How are churn and new revenue trending over time? Now, what's happening in B2B SaaS news? Jay Nathan , B2B SaaS retention, expansion, and scaling expert, says: “We are all in sales.”. I'll tell ya just why.).

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SmartKarrot

JUNE 16, 2022

The primary responsibility of a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) is to ensure that various financial business processes such as billing and payment procedures are working smoothly. Subscription billing is defined as the implementation and execution of automated recurring billing processes and consumer payments.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

SaaS companies have transformed the way global businesses work. Ever since its inception in the 1960s, SaaS has evolved from a mere time-sharing system to innovative and efficient applications that can be accessed on multiple computers. In this blog we’ll talk about SaaS business and top 50 SaaS companies in 2020.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 1, 2019

Over the past few years, the term “Growth” has been one of the most frequently used buzzwords in the SaaS world, especially at product led growth businesses. Recently I surveyed over 350 SaaS companies and found that 43% of B2B software companies already have a dedicated growth team and 27% are looking to fill a growth role.

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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.

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ProfitWell

JUNE 15, 2020

How are churn and new revenue trending over time? MRR gain is new revenue from either acquired customers or upgrades in a given month. MRR loss is churn, or lost revenue from cancellations or downgrades. Many of these metrics are intersectional with B2B and SaaS because they reveal important data all businesses need to know.

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SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

As a SaaS company, you will need to keep track of the recurring billings for your products and services. When you are picking your SaaS subscription billing software, you must ensure that you have considered the specific requirements of your customers before making your decision. Sage Intacct. SaaSOptics.

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SmartKarrot

JULY 14, 2020

The B2B Tech world is booming with SaaS business models. Statistics claim that about 50% of the enterprises run their operations by depending on a SaaS platform, of which 38% work exclusively on the SaaS module. Let us dive right into this article and explore the world of SaaS and its facets deeply.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

They seem to be completely at odds, with one focused on clients with a high acquisition cost and high ACV (annual account value), the other focused on a high sales velocity. Inside sales may be used by any sales team, but it’s one of the top sales models in B2B, especially for SaaS and tech. CRM platforms. And much more.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 9, 2023

Most Stripe alternatives fall into one of two categories: (1) payment processors, or (2) a billing solution that covers payment processing and other aspects of billing such as fraud detection, checkout, and more. can provide payment processing, order fulfillment, financing options, and more. Table of Contents.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 5, 2022

SaaS companies undergo a dynamic learning process. Though every SaaS founder is in the game to solve certain problems, they might make some mistakes along the way. However, it is tough to make the cut, and hence many SaaS startups fail due to bad strategy, planning, and miscommunication. Bad Market Research.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The process of an acquisition is, more often than not, a black box. Behind closed doors, negotiations are dragged on for months while founders and executives figure out ways to eliminate friction and create a synergy that can drive the most value of their shared cultures, processes, and systems.

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