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Is it Really ARR? In 2021+, Yes. As Long As NRR is > 100%

SaaStr

ARR now really means revenue with 100%+ Net Revenue Retention. 50% revenue from software (recurring), 50% from payments (not-recurring). . And half from fees on transactions it processes: Is this all really ARR? Fast forward to day, Merchant Solutions is a much larger share of revenue than software subscriptions.

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SaaS Growth: Top Strategies and Trends for SaaS Growth

ProfitWell

Gartner is estimating that the cloud services industry as a whole will outpace the growth of overall IT services by a factor of three, with SaaS making up $143.7 Here are some of the biggest trends in the industry right now: Cloud-based Services. Churn rate is how many customers are leaving your service in a given period.

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Nov 18 – Customer Success Jobs

SmartKarrot

Drive customer success outcomes by focusing on improving an already high retention rate, with less than 5% churn per year. Collaborating with the sales, partnerships, and marketing team to develop a regular stream of multi-channel engagement programs to drive product adoption, retention, and customer advocacy. Ensure Smartly.io

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How Top Sales Leaders are Adjusting their Sales Process (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

An open discussion with Sam Blond, CSO at Brex, and Kristen Habacht, VPS at Atlassian, about adjusting their sales process during Covid-19. Because sales folks want to close the biggest deal and they may not like downgrades or logo retention, how are you thinking about this issue? Sam Blond | CSO @ Brex. A little bit of a bit of bump.

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A Look Back: “SaaS Metrics Masterclass: Key Business Metrics, Pricing Strategies and Billing Models with Stripe’s Head of France and Southern Europe, Guillaume Princen” (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

This is basically designed around there being an intensive human interaction and human process to convince businesses to adopt your tools. And account management, which is basically around for retention and also upsell of different products. I didn’t want to pay for this service.” This is the Salesforce model.

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Subscription renewal: getting customers to renew subscriptions

ProfitWell

Yes, they might kick the can down the road a little longer, but they only delay the inevitable while giving customers an awful experience in the meantime. The key feature separating subscription businesses from their more standard counterparts is the recurring nature of payments. Of course, you know better.