OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Every year we ask the OpenView network to weigh in, and this time around many folks unsurprisingly made predictions around a trend most of us in SaaS had to adapt to (and, to be honest, are still figuring out) in 2020: remote work. SaaS companies will evolve their products and messaging to support a fluid hybrid working model—office/home.

SaaS Payments 96

SaaS Payments Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 96

Baremetrics

MAY 7, 2019

There are more funding and financing options for startups today than there ever have been before. There’s also been an explosion in debate and transparency about navigating startup funding and financing. Let’s explore the funding and financing options for your startup. Funding Your Startup. How To Evaluate Funding Options.

Finance 111

Finance Startup SaaS Payments Payment Methods 111

Chart Mogul

JUNE 24, 2021

Pricing localization is a strategy where you present the price of your SaaS differently depending on where the customer lives. The same could also be true for your SaaS business. In our B2B SaaS Pricing Masterclass , we detail the importance of SaaS pricing and how to get it right for your audience.

Pricing 128

Pricing SaaS Payments Payments Payment Features 128

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 9, 2021

While Stripe is indispensable for the average online business, providing many different tools, reports, and customizations that power online payment processing , when it comes to finding the billing history for Stripe customers, things are needlessly complicated. Stripe is a fully integrated suite of payment products.

Payment Services 98

Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 98

ChurnZero

AUGUST 14, 2020

Using third-party integrations to bring company-wide customer data into a central hub that’s designed to automate and optimize a Customer Success Manager’s output is when Customer Success really becomes a force to be reckoned with. What are the benefits of integrating with Customer Success software? Who owns it? Who owns it?

Payments 87

Payments Payment Solutions Customer Success Software Review 87

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

In SaaS, you need to calculate the growth rate for a handful of different metrics. For example, you need to calculate the growth rates for monthly recurring revenue (MRR), active customers, average revenue per user (ARPU), and more. What are the most important growth rates in SaaS? Is the amount of revenue increasing?

SaaS Payments 81

SaaS Payments Payment Features SaaS Payments 81

OPEXEngine

MARCH 15, 2022

In the first 10 years of the SaaS industry, US SaaS companies didn’t need to go overseas to build highly valuable companies. But that dynamic has changed in lockstep with the growth of the SaaS market. High Growth SaaS Companies Get A Significant Portion of Revenues Internationally. Source: OPEXEngine.

Payment Services 40

Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payments 40

Baremetrics

AUGUST 30, 2021

Few business owners are as passionate about what they do as those of SaaS companies. Baremetrics has supported hundreds of SMEs with comprehensive analytics as they develop, build and maintain their business over time. Connect Baremetrics to your revenue sources and start seeing all of your revenue on a crystal-clear dashboard.

SaaS 97

SaaS Outsourced Development Payment Services Payments 97

OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

When it comes to IPOs, 2021 was an excellent year for SaaS companies. Accelerated digital transformation across industries put SaaS companies firmly on the hypergrowth path. According to Gartner , the SaaS industry has grown from $35 billion in 2015 to $145 billion in 2021. Automate to future-proof your business.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions SaaS 52

User Pilot

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Reducing the CAC payback period can help SaaS companies boost their financial performance and drive growth. This metric helps SaaS companies choose the most effective customer acquisition channels , diagnose inefficiencies in customer retention strategies , and inform pricing decisions. Let’s get right to it! What is CAC payback?

SaaS Payments 96

SaaS Payments Customer Lifetime Value Payment Solutions Acquisition 96

Chart Mogul

JUNE 24, 2021

Pricing localization is a strategy where you present the price of your SaaS differently depending on where the customer lives. The same could also be true for your SaaS business. In our B2B SaaS Pricing Masterclass , we detail the importance of SaaS pricing and how to get it right for your audience.

Pricing 52

Pricing SaaS Payments Payments Payment Features 52

OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Member Spotlight Series: An Interview with Dominic Ballinger, Director of FP&A and Integration at Sage. Typically, we work with CFOs, chief people officers, and senior finance and HR executives.”. How has the new business environment affected your business, and are you considering any changes to your business model going forward?

SaaS Payments 81

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments 81

OPEXEngine

APRIL 23, 2020

We are hearing from members of the SaaS Community that they expect a reduction in office space requirements in the new normal. If you haven’t seen the results from the past two poll results, you can click here for the Changes to SaaS Sales Quotas, Territories, and Commission Payments results. What are you planning?

Sales Hiring 59

Sales Hiring Benchmarks Payments Compensation 59

OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 10, 2019

I’m thrilled to be speaking there about SaaS Metrics and Benchmarks. I’ll be talking about how investors are evolving the KPIs by which they value SaaS going into 2020, the latest on the Rule of 40, and how companies are bringing together operations and Finance to better instrument growth. Sessions Organized by Topic.

Payment Features 40

Payment Features Subscription Payment Services Benchmarks 40

Baremetrics

AUGUST 5, 2021

Business owners are constantly thinking about company finances. Is my business growth sustainable long term? Salaries, web hosting fees, transportation, software subscriptions, equipment purchases, hardware repairs, advertising fees etc are just some of the types of costs that compose a SaaS company’s expenses.

Payment Methods 85

Payment Methods Management Payment Solutions Payments 85

ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Your core is a lot like pricing in SaaS companies. It’s the center of your business. A pricing audit assesses your subscription business’ pricing process to ensure consistency across similar accounts, maximize profitability, and benchmark against other companies. Monetization. Next is monetization.

Payments 45

Payments Pricing Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments 45

SaaSX

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

It can make the difference between needing to make deep cuts when the business climate gets rocky versus making slight adjustments. When I was a bootstrapped SaaS founder, my company was inherently capital-efficient, even though that wasn’t a term I would have used to describe it. Revenue per Employee. Churn Rate.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Software Review Software Payments 52

OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 9, 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 52

Sales Hiring Scale Payments SaaS Payments 52

OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Weaker demand, slower sales cycles, and customer insistence on pricing concessions and payment deferrals have conspired to cloud the outlook for many tech companies’ growth. For certain businesses, COVID-19’s impact on revenue was immediate. Forecasting Growth in a Pandemic: A Difficult Job Just Got Harder. Cash Is King (Again).

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Scale Payment Services Marketing 52

OPEXEngine

MARCH 10, 2020

Gross margin is a metric that measures your profits as a share of revenue. A higher gross margin or gross margin rate means that you have a highly profitable business. Gross Margin = Revenue – Cost of Goods Sold (COGS). Typically, gross margin is quoted as a percentage of revenue. Gross Margin Benchmark.

Payment Methods 59

Payment Methods Scale Benchmarks Payments 59

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.

Payments 52

Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services 52

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The ASC 606 outlines a five-step model for revenue recognition. Recognize revenue when or as the entity satisfies a performance obligation. These rules are now enforced for both private and public businesses. These rules are now enforced for both private and public businesses. What is revenue recognition?

Payments 84

Payments Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 84

OPEXEngine

MAY 3, 2022

This SaaS metric is defined as the sum of Deferred Revenue and Backlog. Deferred Revenue for SaaS companies is the contractual obligation to deliver the SaaS product for the period invoiced. The former amount resides on the balance sheet as Deferred Revenue and has always been reported as required by GAAP.

Deferred Revenue 59

Deferred Revenue Metrics SaaS Payments Payment Features 59

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Since the original version of this post from early 2017, we’ve worked with many more SaaS companies and a common theme has been moving companies from a starter template to a more robust financial model. This model allowed me to work with dozens of SaaS startups using spreadsheets, while we built our financial modeling software Flightpath.

Deferred Revenue 111

Deferred Revenue SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Services 111

OPEXEngine

AUGUST 4, 2020

Modern tools use integrations to eliminate rekeying data, share information across teams or departments, and gather intelligence to enable broader analysis and faster decisions. For most companies following a best-in-class technology strategy, the finance system is the hub for the other systems they use.

Payments 52

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 52

OPEXEngine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

As we head into the final stretch of the year, here’s a look at some of the top operational and business trends that we are hearing about. Most SaaS and Software companies are starting to gear up for end of the year budgeting and planning exercises. This budgeting and planning process will be like no other that anyone has experienced.

Payment Services 59

Payment Services SaaS Payments Trends Payment Solutions 59

SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Because there is not benchmarks. I’m an entrepreneur-turned-investor, co-founder of an early generation one, SaaS company called Message Labs that we founded in 2000. I’m an entrepreneur-turned-investor, co-founder of an early generation one, SaaS company called Message Labs that we founded in 2000.

Payments 102

Payments Payment Features SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 102

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Account-Based Everything / Revenue. Annual Recurring Revenue. Analytics is the active study of different types of data with the aim of discovering meaningful patterns and translating these into insight (such as historical analyses and forecasts), or action (such as those intended to improve business performance). . AB Testing.

Scale 99

Scale Payment Methods Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments 99

Baremetrics

AUGUST 11, 2021

GAAP is important to SaaS Businesses. Revenue recognition, as per GAAP, states that payment is recognized as revenue after delivering the product or service in its entirety. Of course, that’s not how SaaS revenue works. (We We wrote more about revenue recognition here!) Revenues 3.

Payment Methods 59

Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Features Payment Services 59

ChurnZero

MARCH 22, 2019

Did you know: For every 1% increase in revenue retention, a SaaS company’s valuation increases by 12% after five years? To better understand the impact, we had Rob Belcher, Managing Director at SaaS Capital share benchmarking data from their eighth annual survey of private B2B SaaS companies. Q&A Recap.

Retention 61

Retention Payment Methods SaaS Payments Outsourced Development 61

User Pilot

JANUARY 15, 2021

Your KPIs are driven by your business goals. You need to make sure they are SMART, quantitative and benchmarked. The Best Product Analytics Tools for SaaS. In the SaaS world, the overwhelming majority of your users’ interactions with your company take place through your product. How to do Product Analytics. Efficiency.

SaaS Payments 65

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payments Underperforming Technical Team 65

SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How did Peter make his way into the world of enterprise SaaS with the founding and selling of 6 companies and how did InCountry come about? What benchmarks should startups bake into the agreements? * And so there was this Cambrian explosion of little SaaS start-ups. Do they really mean anything?

VP of Engineering 132

VP of Engineering CTO Hire Technical Review Sales Hiring 132