OPEXEngine

JUNE 11, 2020

You hear the terms SaaS, subscription, term licenses and perpetual license software tossed around frequently. At OPEXEngine, we pull apart the different nuances of each business model to make sure we are benchmarking companies correctly. In addition, it affects cash flow.

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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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User Pilot

OCTOBER 15, 2023

SaaS conversion rate optimization is important to create the best customer experience that helps lower the customer acquisition cost and increase MRR. Use benchmarks to monitor your performance to see how well each stage converts. But, the ultimate goal for any SaaS business is to translate this perceived value into actual revenue.

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User Pilot

APRIL 29, 2024

A good SaaS renewal strategy helps drive customer retention , increases the customer lifetime value , and improves your monthly recurring revenue. The renewal rate is calculated as the number of customers who renew their subscription divided by the total number of customers up for renewal at any given period.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 5, 2023

TL;DR The CAC payback period measures the time it takes for a company to recover the money invested in new customer acquisition. This metric helps SaaS companies choose the most effective customer acquisition channels , diagnose inefficiencies in customer retention strategies , and inform pricing decisions. Book the demo to see how!

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Chargify

OCTOBER 21, 2020

As many leading companies know, customer subscription management isn’t a “set it and forget it” concept. It is important for businesses to constantly analyze the health of their subscription model to make sure it is truly working for their customers and their bottom line. Objectively Measuring Your Subscription Business.

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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. Customer churn happens when an existing customer stops doing business with you. Yes, we’re talking about churn. What is churn?

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

For example, you need to calculate the growth rates for monthly recurring revenue (MRR), active customers, average revenue per user (ARPU), and more. Growth rates in population Growth rates in personal financial savings Growth rates in business What is the Growth Rate Formula? Is the amount of revenue increasing?

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OPEXEngine

MAY 18, 2021

SaaS Metric #1 – Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR). ARR is an essential subscription metric that identifies the recurring revenue expected on an annual basis from the subscriber base. ARR = (Overall subscription per year + recurring revenue from add-ons or upgrades) – revenue lost from cancellations.

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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. Prioritize retention.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Retaining customers is an incredibly important part of any growth-driven business. According to Havard Business Review, customer acquisition requires 5 to 20 times more resources than customer retention. Customer retention can help you drive recurring revenue, reduce customer acquisition costs, and drive customer loyalty.

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Why you need to track business metrics for Shopify App Developers 10 business metrics for Shopify App Developers 1. Monthly recurring revenue (MRR): How much subscription revenue are you bringing in monthly? Churn rate: How quickly are you losing customers or revenue? What is Baremetrics?

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

This post is part of a continuing series evaluating the S-1s of publicly traded SaaS companies in order to better understand the core business and build a library of benchmarks that might be useful to founders. All of the businesses we’ve looked at in the past have been purely SaaS businesses.

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 25, 2019

If the customer doesn’t stay with the company long enough to at least break even on acquisition costs, it can sink the business. It’s this period, the Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) Payback Period, that companies need to keep an eye on to maintain profitability. SaaS Industry Benchmarks for CAC Payback Periods.

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Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Net Dollar Retention (NDR) is an essential metric for growing SaaS businesses. Though lesser known, it provides deeper insights than Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) and Annual Run Rate (ARR). Many companies mistakenly only track these two benchmarks. In January, seven customers cancel subscriptions. 1 + 100/1000.)

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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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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

A pricing audit assesses your subscription business’ pricing process to ensure consistency across similar accounts, maximize profitability, and benchmark against other companies. Conducting a pricing audit goes through five factors—acquisition, monetization, retention, pricing strategy, and discounts.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 10, 2023

How to use relational and transactional NPS data to drive business growth: Segment detractors and reach out to them to offer personalized help. A product adoption platform like Userpilot will enable you to create and trigger surveys contextually across the customer journey and tag responses to identify patterns. an invoicing app.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 31, 2021

It's one of the most critical metrics SaaS and subscription companies can measure. A high retention rate suggests you have a low churn rate , which is good news for your business. Learn the easiest way to calculate retention rates in your business with this simple guide. How can you improve customer acquisition?

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Baremetrics

JANUARY 24, 2021

Anyone managing a SaaS or subscription business is aware of customer churn. The benchmark customer churn for SaaS for SMBs is 5%. We knew if we wanted to keep our business growing, we needed to figure out why so many customers were leaving, and provide the value-add they need to stay.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Small and Mid-Market (SMM) SaaS Companies serve customers with annual revenues of $1 million to $1 billion and with a typical employee base of 100 to 1,000. Customer success is usually staffed by a mix of customer support, sales, and engineering folks contributing some portion of their time to the Cost of Revenue.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

Product led businesses need to get their products in the hands of would-be users as efficiently as possible–hopefully at near zero CAC. Not satisfied with reaching $1 billion in annual revenue, Atlassian furthered its commitment to product led growth by jumping on the freemium bandwagon. Freemium benchmarks.

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FastSpring

AUGUST 11, 2020

When it comes to software and online purchases, those transactions are increasingly moving to a subscription-based model, where customers put their purchases on autopilot so they can have continuous access to SaaS products. Subscription services are what customers want. What are the advantages of using subscriptions as a revenue model?

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Baremetrics

MAY 7, 2019

Company C was funded by pre-orders from customers, a friends and family round, and then through revenue-based financing for a period of time. After seriously considering an acquisition offer, Wistia decided to take on $17.3M Bootstrapping purists insist on only using revenue from customers to fund the business.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Why is it so hard to define an average churn rate—and what does that mean for your subscription business? 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. Let’s find out. What is the average churn rate?

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OPEXEngine

JANUARY 14, 2020

Price/Revenue Ratio. Source: SEC filings – weighted average by company revenue. Many factors drive the high-growth of SaaS companies, including higher market adoption of SaaS and the structural advantages of the recurring subscription revenue model – see Why SaaS Companies Grow Faster. Public SaaS Companies. -8%.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 12, 2020

And Rent the Runway adds a new membership option to amp up its presence in the subscription clothing space. Listen wherever you get podcasts: Your top subscription news. We’ve had our eyes on Rent the Runway on the show before , as one of the more popular clothing subscriptions out there. Not exactly.

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OPEXEngine

JULY 28, 2020

It then laid out a careful strategy to transform Adobe, largely via M&A, into a company offering cloud-based subscriptions that would “give everyone everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences.” Since 2008, its revenue has tripled and its stock price has soared 14-fold in response.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 19, 2020

It is no secret that customer churn hits recurring revenue businesses hard, but what’s its real impact on their long-term health and valuation? This is also annual payments only. The bigger comment is divorce from contract; it’s just based on payments. If you joined late, we went through definitions.

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Net revenue retention (NRR) and gross revenue retention (GRR) are two important metrics. NRR and GRR are important secondary metrics for any SaaS enterprise that brings in money through a subscription revenue model. Sign up for the Baremetrics free trial and start seeing more into your subscription revenues now.

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User Pilot

APRIL 24, 2024

TL;DR SaaS renewals includes the process of renewing a subscription to an online-hosted software service. Tracking SaaS renewal rates enables predictable revenue, aiding financial planning and resource management for future growth. In this article, we’ll share everything you need to know for increasing customer renewals.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

There are a lot of moving parts when it comes to ensuring your subscription business stays healthy. Find out why SaaS analytics are important, which to track, and which tools are best for your subscription business. SaaS analytics are analytics specific to the SaaS subscription industry. What are SaaS Analytics?

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Customer acquisition cost. The percentage of subscribers who discontinue their subscriptions within a given time period. The total revenue a company can expect from a single customer over the course of their relationship. Monthly and annual recurring revenue. The total expense of bringing a new customer on board.

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All that Saas

MAY 1, 2021

In this roundup, we are going to have a look at some of the best Influencer Marketing Platforms that you can use to connect with the right influencers, manage campaigns, measure analytics, and a lot more. Influencer marketing platforms are a great solution to engage with your audience in the right way. dollars in 2018. Influence4you.

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Baremetrics

APRIL 6, 2021

An in-depth study on everything you need to know about subscription marketing, and how Baremetrics features are designed to help you navigate the subscription economy. For marketing a subscription business, it’s critical to find loyal new customers and reduce churn. 1 What is Subscription Marketing?

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Baremetrics

JULY 21, 2021

As a SaaS or subscription-based company, you want to keep a watchful eye on your monthly recurring revenue and net MRR. MRR as a SaaS metric is pretty straightforward , but there are some nuances that you'll want to take into consideration depending on your business model. Table of Contents. 1 What is MRR Growth Rate?

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Baremetrics

MARCH 23, 2020

Typically it’s referring to users or revenue lost and is usually represented with either a percentage or dollar amount. Or if you said you had $2,000 in monthly revenue churn, that means you lost $2,000 in monthly recurring revenue from either customer cancellations or downgrades. So, when should you start worrying?

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