Baremetrics

AUGUST 22, 2021

Subscription revenue can be defined most simply as a model which generates income from customers through recurring fees that are paid at regular intervals. These can be weekly, monthly, or annual payments. Subscription Pricing Models How to Get Subscription Pricing Right The Advantages of a Subscription Revenue Model 1.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 31, 2023

What is customer acquisition for SaaS, and how can you leverage it to drive sustainable growth ? The purpose of customer acquisition is to expand and make more revenue. Customer acquisition funnel stages in SaaS are Awareness, Consideration, Evaluation, Conversion. What is customer acquisition?

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Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

Subscription billing is a payment structure that allows service providers to charge their clients based on a fixed timeframe. This article will help you with everything you need to know about subscription billing and subscription billing solutions. 1 What Does Subscription Billing Mean? Table of Contents.

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Subscription Flow

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

While this may seem like a workable model on its own, it can be further automated to enhance the company’s workflows by integrating that CRM with a robust subscription management software (like, say, SubscriptionFlow). Within your CRM, payment details can be directly linked to contacts, sales, and membership records.

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Incredo

JULY 14, 2019

Whether you are a startup owner, a manager of a growing business or the CEO of an established company, you might find yourself asking questions like “ Should our SaaS subscription model be monthly, annually or both ?” or “ What are the best tips I can get in terms of annual vs monthly subscription models ?”. Boring, right?).

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

For SaaS products, achieving sustainable revenue growth is often a top-level goal, aligning with broader business objectives like market expansion , profitability, and shareholder value. Improve business valuation Your company’s valuation is tied closely to its revenue performance, especially because you’re a subscription business.

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User Pilot

APRIL 29, 2024

Mastering SaaS renewals’ best practices can transform a routine administrative task into a strategic opportunity to drive customer success and propel your business toward sustainable growth. TL;DR The SaaS renewal process involves a series of actions on/before the renewal date that lead to a customer’s renewal.

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FastSpring

JUNE 25, 2019

A challenge faced by all subscription-based businesses is figuring out a way to keep recurring payments flowing for their company. And since revenue is closely tied with business growth and wellbeing, any dip in recurring revenue is immediately felt throughout the entire organization.

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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.

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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.

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Stripe is indispensable for the average online business, providing the many different tools, reports, and customizations that power online payment processing, but it isn’t without limitations. For example, the Stripe analytics dashboard is lacking the needed depth for SaaS businesses that rely on recurring revenue.

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Blulogix

JANUARY 5, 2024

Key Definitions in Subscription Billing: Demystifying the Jargon By BluLogix Team Welcome to the fourth installment of our comprehensive guide on selecting the right subscription billing platform. Before we go much further, let’s go deep into essential definitions and concepts in the world of subscription billing.

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Baremetrics

APRIL 6, 2021

ProfitWell is a cloud-based app that generates real-time financial and subscription metrics for data-driven SaaS enterprises. The recurring revenue growth platform provides users with valuable insights into subscription funnels and one-click analytics for Stripe. But ProfitWell does not benefit all SaaS companies.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

For modern Software as a Service (SaaS) companies, the automobile is replaced by primarily digital and cloud-based solutions and software. And because of the digital nature of SaaS businesses and their subscription-based business models, the ability to collect data on how the company is performing is easier and faster than ever.

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Subscription Flow

JANUARY 26, 2024

When evaluating the growth and valuation of SaaS businesses, Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) is arguably the most commonly used SaaS metric out of all of them. Keeping all that in mind, in this blog we will be underscoring the importance of SaaS MRR growth. How to increase SaaS MRR growth using SubscriptionFlow?

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Churn is the share of your customer base that has stopped using your service over a defined period of time. Churn can be calculated in two ways, namely customer churn and revenue churn , and there are good reasons to calculate both. 1 What is customer churn? 2 What causes customer churn?

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

So, let’s start with the basics: TL;DR A Go-To-Market (GTM) strategy is an action plan that outlines the time, the place, the positioning, the audience, and the goal of a new product or service. There are 12 essential GTM metrics that every SaaS should know about: New user growth rate. Customer acquisition cost.

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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

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Running a subscription business is a lot of work. Every month you need to make sure recurring payments are being processed by your payment gateway and accepted by various merchant accounts. If you miss out on a one-time payment or recurring charge, that’s money you might not get back.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Step 1: Define your conversion points There are several conversion points in SaaS, each action bringing users closer to being paid customers or loyal users of your premium plans. Rushing to perform CRO audits without proper planning or a good strategy can skew your data and make you jump to the wrong conclusions. Feature tagging on Userpilot.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). & 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. They love SaaS products.

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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.

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FastSpring

APRIL 16, 2019

The best thing about a subscription program is the reliable revenue it generates. Yes, we’re talking about churn. What is churn? Customer churn happens when an existing customer stops doing business with you. Your subscription churn rate is the number of subscribers you lose over a given period.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 16, 2021

What does it mean to reactivate a subscription? There are several reasons a customer would cancel their subscription. Reactivating the subscription could mean many things, but primarily it means the customers decided to activate the subscription and make payment for another billing cycle. Table of Contents.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 21, 2020

Subscriptions are the lifeblood of any SaaS business model. However, SaaS subscriptions can also cost businesses money if they’re not set up with the customer’s experience in mind. Incorrect payment details can lead to one of the unspoken reasons behind customer losses in the SaaS industry—involuntary churn.

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FastSpring

JUNE 28, 2019

When companies look at strategies to scale their business there’s almost always a prevalent focus on customer acquisition. As interest in subscription services continues to rise, maximizing customer lifetime value becomes even more important than ever before. What is customer churn? How to calculate churn rate.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The subscription revenue model is hardly new. But in the past few years, subscriptions have seen a bit of a resurgence. In fact, you'd be hard-pressed to find an industry that hasn't seen at least one subscription success story: Cars. Even the humble houseplant doesn’t seem immune to the subscription economy.

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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.

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User Pilot

MAY 6, 2024

This article focuses on user profiles in the SaaS context. Demographic information like age, gender, location, and income helps tailor services for different population segments. Transactional data on purchases, plans, and payments enables revenue analysis, recommendations, and frictionless buying experiences.

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User Pilot

JUNE 19, 2023

There’s no magic number when it comes to conversions, but knowing B2B SaaS funnel conversion benchmarks can benefit any SaaS product manager. In this article, we will discuss the most common B2B SaaS conversion rate metrics and their benchmarks. Education-related SaaS platforms come second with 7.5% adoption rate.

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Frontegg

AUGUST 19, 2021

Instant gratification is now a mandatory aspect of SaaS application usage. Companies are shifting towards Product-Led Growth strategies and self-service features are making it all happen. Onboarding, user management, subscriptions – let’s take a closer look at the potent self-service and PLG combo.

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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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User Pilot

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Reducing the CAC payback period can help SaaS companies boost their financial performance and drive growth. TL;DR The CAC payback period measures the time it takes for a company to recover the money invested in new customer acquisition. There are 3 main reasons why a SaaS company should track the CAC payback period.

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Baremetrics

JULY 27, 2021

As a SaaS founder, you know that customer churn has the greatest negative impact on your business. You could continue iterating your onboarding flows, discover new acquisition channels, or even reach out to customers directly to ask them for feedback. But nothing you do is going to matter until you improve your churn.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

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. Use notification banners to prevent involuntary churn.

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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.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

When choosing the right billing software for your subscription businesses, there are many things to consider. Recurly vs. Zuora at a Glance Geared towards the subscription economy, both platforms help clients with their billing and invoicing while helping with customer relationship management (CRM). Want to Reduce Your Churn?

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