FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Revenue vs. profit vs. income: The terms may seem synonymous and are sometimes even used interchangeably, but they tell different stories about a company. Revenue growth suggests an expanding business and in-demand product, but whether there is any financial gain for the business is determined by the income.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Some of the changes we’ve seen in the last year or two include: CAC reduction Headcount optimization Price complexity Quality of revenue A different environment means a different strategy, and Notion Capital lays out four business model changes that could be helpful based on what peers are doing. Strive for $150k of revenue per FTE.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2024

Solving High Volume, Low Conversion at Lattice Dini Mehta joined Lattice at $3M in revenue when it had just 10 people in seat for Go-To-Market and 7 salespeople. Joining Box as CRO When They Had a Churn Issue Mark joined Box four years ago at $600M in revenue and 4-5 years past IPO. The result?

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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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Payment Features Subscription Payment Services Payments 52

FastSpring

MARCH 9, 2022

Answer: It’s the pricing page. The path to a signup or purchase may include a variety of page views, but it almost always includes the pricing page. In this article, we’ll show you examples from a variety of SaaS pricing pages. 7 SaaS pricing page examples. Add a summary table for pricing plans. How do we know?

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SaaS Payments Pricing Payments Payment Methods 130

Blulogix

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

How Recurring Revenue Sustains Modern Businesses Amidst Uncertainty By BluLogix Team The Vital Role of Recurring Revenue In an era marked by rapid technological advancements and shifting consumer preferences, recurring revenue models have become the lifeline for modern businesses.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

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?

Merchant Services 68

Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Features Payment Services 68

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Optional product pricing can help SaaS companies earn more money while charging less for their otherwise premium product. TL;DR Optional product pricing is a strategy where you sell your core product at a low cost and then encourage consumers to buy more accessories, features, or complementary products.

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Pricing Customer Lifetime Value Advertising Strategy 88

Subscription Flow

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Recurring revenue models, or subscription models , can be a great way for businesses to generate income while providing customers with the options they want. However, a distinct set of metrics is needed for the subscription business model in order to track and keep an eye on the company’s health.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 13, 2020

There’s a question that every startup founder, subscription service provider, and ecommerce store owner, needs to ask themselves on a regular basis: Is this the most effective price for my product or service? If the answer is no, then there is potential for revenue-related issues as your company matures.

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Clouded Judgement

APRIL 11, 2024

This has all resulted in the median stock price declining 5% YTD. It looks at the YoY dollar change in quarterly revenue from the hyperscalers (just looking at Azure / AWS because the data goes back further) going back a few years. Beating consensus revenue estimates is the first aspect of a successful quarter.

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OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Dive Brief: Usage-based pricing has grown 32% this year and now 45% of software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies use it all or in part, up from 34%, an OpenView survey shows. The subscription in the earlier model was a little bit more like shelfware,” the company’s CFO, Chitra Balasubramanian, told CFO Dive. Pricing model growth.

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Payment Features Subscription Pricing SaaS 52

Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 12, 2024

The ZIRP period created a lot of confusion given software buying was happening at a break neck pace - and it was easy to think you had differentiated product market fit because your business momentum (ie revenue) suggested you did. Revenue multiples are a shorthand valuation framework. Have these conversations today.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

was pretty simplified, mostly made up of annual or monthly subscriptions. From 2010 until 2015, the SaaS world was becoming more complex with the introduction of static bundles and recurring revenue as an addition to the annual/monthly subscription model. Mergers and acquisitions. Era 2, SaaS 2.0: Era 3, SaaS 3.0:

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Subscription Flow

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The essence of the Subscription Economy lies in its ability to forge lasting relationships between businesses and consumers, transcending traditional transactional models. For instance, subscription businesses observe customer retention rates, customer acquisition, and whatnot.

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Chart Mogul

AUGUST 20, 2020

4x entrepreneur Andrew Gazdecki shares how you can better prepare yourself for your startup's acquisition, and make the journey a rewarding one. The better prepared you are for an acquisition, the smoother it’ll go, leaving you financially, operationally, and psychologically stronger during negotiations. Speak to other founders.

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SaaSOptics

MAY 19, 2022

What Is Customer Acquisition? Customer Acquisition is the process of acquiring new customers in a business. Not only is it one of the main drivers of revenue growth for early-stage companies, but it’s a primary goal for SaaS businesses across market stages. More customers = more revenue. Plain and simple.

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Acquisition Scale Strategy Software Review 59

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?

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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.

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Payments Revenue SaaS Payments Payment Services 91

FastSpring

DECEMBER 20, 2018

SaaS Pricing can be difficult to determine for many digital businesses. First, you need to be sure that you’ve priced your product fairly, and second, you want to offer the payment option that will appeal to the largest number of users. Usage-based pricing models, like pay-per-use, certainly have their place.

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Clouded Judgement

APRIL 5, 2024

A favorite clip of mine is when Russ Hanneman is talking about how pre-revenue businesses are the best kind of businesses. Here’s part of his quote: “If you show revenue people will ask how much and it will never be enough…If you have no revenue you can say you’re pre revenue. This list goes on.

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Cloud Scale Pricing Revenue 161

FastSpring

MAY 14, 2019

The price you paid at checkout was essentially a perpetual license for the lifetime of the application. Here’s how your company can benefit from switching from a perpetual license to a subscription plan. Reason #1: Subscriptions support product innovation. Reason #2: Subscriptions increase the accessibility of your software.

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Payment Features Payment Methods Subscription Payment Services 71

Neil Patel

APRIL 12, 2021

They offer some of the best-known subscription boxes around, reflecting an increasingly popular (and potentially lucrative) business model. Why Should You Launch a Subscription Box? According to MarketsandMarkets , the subscription and recurring billing market will grow to around $7.8 Recurring Business Revenue.

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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.

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Benchmarks Churn Payments SaaS Payments 123

Clouded Judgement

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Q3 Revenue Relative to Consensus Estimates Now let’s dive in to the financial results of Q3 starting with revenue. Beating consensus revenue estimates is the first aspect of a successful quarter. The formula to calculate this is: (Q3 ’23 revenue) / (Q3 ’22 revenue) - 1.

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Cloud Software Benchmarks Retention 177

SaaStr

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Leaders like ZoomInfo and Paycom that combine strong growth with strong profits have seen their stock prices stay relatively high, often at 15x ARR still. It’s barely trading at 3x revenue. Business Solutions” including payments has gross margins of only 21%. Embedded fintech often has a price. #3. Wix is one.

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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. What is CAC payback?

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SaaS Payments Customer Lifetime Value Payment Solutions Acquisition 93

ProfitWell

JUNE 27, 2019

From CRM software to coffee beans, shaving blades to designer gowns, recurring billing is the lifeline for every subscription business. It’s easy to see why—automatic charges for subscriptions are simple and convenient for customers and predictable and sustainable for companies. What is recurring billing?

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Merchant Services Payment Features Payments SaaS Payments 76

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

From a Go-To-Market perspective, Zapier uses a hybrid model that involves a combination of freemium offerings, subscription plans, and partnerships. The first role that comes to mind is driving revenue and it’s probably within sales. What are the most important things about this acquisition strategy that make it successful?

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Baremetrics

MARCH 7, 2021

Read what you should know about subscription management and why it is important in recent times! Many products and services online are beginning to adopt subscription-based systems for their billing processes. Apart from the recurring revenue, subscription billing systems also offer appreciable stability to businesses.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

When choosing the right billing software for your subscription businesses, there are many things to consider. Zuora at a Glance 2 Recurly Overview 3 Zuora Overview 4 Features Recurly's Best Features Zuora's Best Features 5 Pricing 6 Ease of Use 7 The Bottom Line 8 Billing Software Made Simple. Want to Reduce Your Churn?

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Payment Solutions Payment Features Payments Merchant Services 59

SaaStr

DECEMBER 27, 2020

Those of us who’ve been around a while think of New Relic as a freemium and almost SMB tool, but today 77% of their revenue comes from accounts greater than $100k. New Relic’s net negative churn / net dollar retention has dropped to 98% in the last quarter, despite a record 77% of revenue being from the enterprise.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 9, 2020

The subscription business model has seen an immense rise in popularity in recent years, and with good reason. The subscription-based economy grew 350% between 2012 and 2019, and subscription businesses grew revenues about five times faster than S&P 500 company revenues during that time. Convenience.

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User Pilot

MARCH 25, 2024

An accurate valuation is necessary to secure the right price for the company or adequate funding without diluting its share value. It uses revenue and operating costs to determine the company’s value. The multiple depends on numerous factors, like sustainability and transferability of revenue and growth.

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SaaS Customer Lifetime Value Acquisition Metrics 89

OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 10, 2019

The Subscription Show is coming to Boston in a few weeks at the World Trade Center. The show is 100% focused on subscription models, operations, pricing, marketing and subscription-centric technologies, and organized by Subscription Insider. What to Expect at the Subscription Show. Hope to see you there!

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Payment Features Subscription Payment Services Benchmarks 40

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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Totango

APRIL 30, 2021

Comparing the cost of customer retention versus customer acquisition underscores why retaining clients is so important. Calculating the Cost of Customer Acquisition. To calculate your average CAC, total up all the marketing and sales costs that go into your acquisition efforts for a given period. Price comparison engines.

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