Stax

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

So, of course when it came to revenue-driving activities, Ford knew that success in marketing—and business—wasn’t about how much your marketing spend is, but how efficiently you spend it. Enter the SaaS Magic Number, which measures the return on sales and marketing spend in generating new subscription revenue.

SaaS Payments 88

SaaS Payments Payments Payment Services Stax 88

FastSpring

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Integration of PLG and sales-led business models: Supporting multiple GTM strategies has become the standard for SaaS. This is why more and more SaaS companies are seeking out merchant-of-record solutions like FastSpring to simplify their payment stack and reduce the risk and complexity of transacting around the world.

Merchant Services 78

Merchant Services Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 78

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?

Payment Services 98

Payment Services Churn Merchant Services SaaS Payments 98

Casey Accidental

JULY 17, 2023

Founders and venture capitalists would preach the gospel of predictable revenue and sustainable growth, powered by growth of apps sold over the App Store. The average VC tweet storm or LinkedIn thinkfluencer will tell you it’s all about predictable revenue. So in any B2B subscription business, sure, some customers will churn.

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions Payments Subscription Payment Features 98

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

OCTOBER 29, 2018

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. A high churn rate is highly undesirable as it shackles growth , is a source of friction and (rightly) raises tough questions about product/market fit.

Churn 152

Churn SaaS Payments SaaS Payments 152

Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

To achieve this, vertical SaaS products bring in experts from niche markets to develop industry-specific features, ensure compliance with industry standards or regulations, and integrate with key business platforms that are standard within that industry. What is Horizontal SaaS? Consider the following.

SaaS Payments 88

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 88

Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

The contracts are identical twelve month contracts except for the payment terms. Contract B relaxes payment terms to monthly payment, 12 monthly installments for the next year. The payback period metric doesn’t capture the difference in the quality of the revenue/cash collections.

Sales Hiring 333

Sales Hiring Scale Payments Payment Solutions 333

FastSpring

MAY 25, 2023

Pricing your software as a service (SaaS) can be hard enough even during the best of times, but figuring out how to dial in the right pricing to drive more revenue in times of stagflation can be even more challenging. Optimizing your SaaS Pricing Strategy for new MRR vs. net revenue retention. Inflation isn’t flat: Vary your strategy.

SaaS Payments 144

SaaS Payments Pricing Payments Merchant Services 144

Stax

JANUARY 28, 2024

This business model has now been adapted very well in the internet age, especially in the SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) and eCommerce industries. The most potent benefit of the subscription-based business model is that companies are guaranteed a fixed revenue stream—if they can retain their customers or subscribers.

Payment Features 88

Payment Features Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 88

User Pilot

APRIL 3, 2024

Prioritizing user experience optimization in product-led growth is crucial for creating intuitive, enjoyable products that retain customers and drive revenue growth. Choose the right monetization model that aligns with your product’s value and user payment willingness. Product engagement levels.

Innovation 84

Innovation Payments Strategy Payment Solutions 84

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. Connect Baremetrics to your revenue sources, and start seeing all of your revenue in a crystal-clear dashboard.

Payments 95

Payments Retention Revenue Payment Services 95

SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2019

SaaS is about creating long-term value for your customer, and being compensated appropriately for that value as a business. Learn actionable monetization tips from a Product/Growth operator turned VC. Built out a bunch of the orb across product, data, analytics to do much of the same work, to drive retention and monetization.

Payments 100

Payments Pricing Compensation SaaS Payments 100

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. Before we get into the more complicated stuff, let’s consider the difference between earning revenue and collecting revenue.

Payment Features 90

Payment Features Payments Subscription Revenue 90

Baremetrics

AUGUST 28, 2021

As a business owner, you measure your incoming profits and revenue with several metrics. Some of the common metrics for this include net income, gross revenue, and net revenue. But what are the differences among these measurements, and which is the best measurement to tell you the financial health of your business?

Payments 90

Payments Revenue Payment Services SaaS Payments 90

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

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.

Payment Methods 119

Payment Methods Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions 119

Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Most companies have a primary acquisition loop that drives this scalable growth, and unfortunately, there aren’t that many acquisition loops that really scale. And you start being able to acquire more of them in a scalable way i.e. an acquisition loop. In fact, they complain more, because they like the product enough to care.

Payments 63

Payments Scale Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team 63

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. It’s the engine that drives revenue predictability and customer relationships.

Subscription 52

Subscription Payment Features Payment Services Payments 52

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Average Revenue per Customer. Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). & The last kind of constituent here is investors and business owners. And basically SaaS revenue models is just magical for investors and for businesses. First one and the most important one is obviously the MRR, monthly recurring revenue.

SaaS Payments 237

SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 237

Baremetrics

APRIL 6, 2021

When you’re looking at your business goals, you need to consider not only your existing monthly revenue but your contraction monthly recurring revenue (MRR). Contraction Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) is an extremely important metric for subscription businesses. Want to Reduce Your Churn?

Outsourced Development 99

Outsourced Development Payments Revenue Payment Services 99

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. Managing churn is much like a constant game of plugging holes in a bucket so that you can eventually have a “rising tide” of water.

Churn 71

Churn SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Solutions 71

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Revenue Performance Management (RPM) is when a company monitors its revenue performance, tracks how revenue is affected by strategic decisions, figures out revenue drivers, and then optimizes operations to drive revenue growth. Without the systemized focus on pushing revenue up, companies can falter.

Payments 97

Payments Revenue SaaS Payments Payment Services 97

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 82

Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods 82

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The pre-revenue startup phase has a host of stresses that hopefully disappear as the company begins to earn revenue. You also might need to be watching your burn rate extra closely as the pre-revenue stage is by no means the pre-expense stage. What is a pre-revenue startup? What is a pre-revenue startup?

Payments 110

Payments Revenue Startup Development Team Review 110

ProfitWell

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Most SaaS companies approach churn management all wrong. They spend huge amounts of money and time getting customers in the door but don't think about addressing churn until it becomes a major problem. The number one reason most SaaS companies struggle to lower their churn rate is simply that they aren’t being proactive.

Churn 72

Churn Management SaaS Payments Strategy 72

Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) is the amount of money a company can expect to bring in from subscriptions on an annual basis. Subscription businesses rely on their sales and marketing teams to bring money into the company in two ways: by selling new subscriptions and by selling upgrades to existing subscribers. Table of Contents.

Payments 91

Payments Revenue SaaS Payments Payment Services 91

Baremetrics

APRIL 6, 2021

The recurring revenue growth platform provides users with valuable insights into subscription funnels and one-click analytics for Stripe. This platform drives explosive subscriber growth with an enormous suite of SaaS metrics. Grow MMR Reduce churn Generate accurate insights Start your free trial today from Baremetrics!

SaaS Payments 93

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 93

Subscription Flow

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Having a CRM like Salesforce for membership management allows your company’s technical staff to focus on other, more productive aspects of business management like expanding the company’s clientele and revenue. Within your CRM, payment details can be directly linked to contacts, sales, and membership records.

Payment Features 52

Payment Features Payment Solutions Payments SaaS Payments 52

Chart Mogul

MARCH 16, 2018

How do you measure mobile app monetization in the context of subscription revenue? Historically, mobile app monetization has largely been about scaling and optimizing ad revenue from in-app purchases (IAP). Today, publishers have a lot more choice when it comes to picking a monetization strategy.

Payments 49

Payments Mobile Payment Solutions Subscription 49

FastSpring

AUGUST 11, 2020

15% of people who shop online now pay for at least one subscription and nearly 90% of businesses are looking for ways to adapt their online payment platforms so they can handle recurring subscription payments. In this comprehensive guide, we’re going to take a deep dive into: What is subscription revenue?

Payment Features 85

Payment Features Payments Payment Methods Subscription 85

User Pilot

APRIL 24, 2024

Tracking SaaS renewal rates enables predictable revenue, aiding financial planning and resource management for future growth. Proactively managing SaaS renewals and customer engagement reduces both involuntary and voluntary churn. Effective SaaS renewal management influences your stability and your business’s financial health.

SaaS Payments 82

SaaS Payments Retention Payment Services Payment Solutions 82

Casey Accidental

JUNE 9, 2020

These plans included a lot of the goals you likely have in your company: improvements in acquisition, activation, and retention. Retention is not only the primary measure of product value and product/market fit for most businesses; it is also the biggest driver of monetization and acquisition as well.

Retention 145

Retention Benchmarks Payments Payment Methods 145

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. CAC is an important metric for growing businesses to determine profitability and efficiency. An average SaaS business spends 92% of their first-year revenue on customer acquisition.

Acquisition 52

Acquisition Payments Scale SaaS Payments 52

User Pilot

JANUARY 19, 2022

Documentation guides can be tricky so here’s an article on everything you need to know about Userpilot integrations and how you can build better user experiences by sending data from Userpilot to your other apps. We cover how our one-click integrations work, how to set them up, and which apps Userpilot integrates with.

Payments 89

Payments Technical Review SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 89

ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The subscription revenue model is hardly new. It’s simple: the subscription revenue model benefits both customers and companies. Meanwhile, companies offering subscriptions can scale with confidence, with predictable revenue and deeper relationships with their customer base. What is the subscription revenue model?

Payment Features 74

Payment Features Payments Subscription Revenue 74

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 8, 2021

To run a business online, you probably need a customer relationship management ( CRM ) software package and/or payment processor to manage your customers and their invoices. Stripe is often the payment processor of choice for SaaS businesses because it can handle recurring revenue streams. Table of Contents.

Payment Services 94

Payment Services Payments SaaS Payments Payment Features 94

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.

Payment Services 97

Payment Services Payment Features Payment Methods Payments 97