OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

In 2021 the ‘ Rule of 40’ died, according to our latest 2021 Financial & Operating Benchmarks report that launched last week. . The ‘haves’, defined by growing quickly out of the gate and then maintaining 50% or faster revenue growth at significant scale, have seen their valuations skyrocket over the years.

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Payment Services Benchmarks SaaS Payments Merchant Services 80

User Pilot

APRIL 29, 2024

A good SaaS renewal strategy helps drive customer retention , increases the customer lifetime value , and improves your monthly recurring revenue. A proper SaaS renewal management strategy helps you in three key ways: Drive customer retention. This helps you to extract more revenue from the customer over their lifetime.

SaaS Payments 79

SaaS Payments Business SaaS Payment Solutions 79

User Pilot

JULY 18, 2023

You will have data sets for analyzing your churn/retention history, which will better position you to make intelligent business decisions. This article shows you various ways to calculate churn, make sense of the data, and create proactive solutions to retain more customers. Monthly recurring revenue. Multiply the result by 100.

Churn 84

Churn Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 84

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. What is Stripe?

Payment Services 98

Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 98

Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Confused about customer churn vs. revenue churn? Revenue churn — the amount of revenue you've lost. Revenue churn = money lost. This article will cover everything you need to know about customer churn vs. revenue churn. What is Revenue Churn? How to Prevent Customer Churn and Revenue Churn Bottom Line.

Churn 105

Churn Payments Revenue SaaS Payments 105

User Pilot

OCTOBER 5, 2023

This metric helps SaaS companies choose the most effective customer acquisition channels , diagnose inefficiencies in customer retention strategies , and inform pricing decisions. Userpilot onboarding, analytics , and feedback features can help you reduce CAC and boost revenue. Book the demo to see how! What is CAC payback?

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SaaS Payments Customer Lifetime Value Payment Solutions Acquisition 96

Baremetrics

AUGUST 6, 2021

Stripe is a payment processing company but is also used to create reports. Close to 2 million websites use Stripe reports and the company holds a 18.54% market share in the payments processing category. Stripe is a payment processor with some financial reporting. (mostly referred to as Stripe) was founded in 2010.

Payment Services 98

Payment Services Payments SaaS Payments Payment Methods 98

OPEXEngine

JUNE 11, 2020

You hear the terms SaaS, subscription, term licenses and perpetual license software tossed around frequently. At OPEXEngine, we pull apart the different nuances of each business model to make sure we are benchmarking companies correctly. The product is hosted by the vendor or a 3 rd party (like AWS).

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Subscription Payment Features 52

CustomerSuccessBox

OCTOBER 21, 2021

But just having a customer success department does not solve issues with your churn rate, customer lifetime value, retention rate, or MRR/ARR. But it is also a boon to the SaaS businesses because now you can earn much more through recurring payments. The Golden Benchmark in Customer Success. million dollars.

Payments 52

Payments Customer Success SaaS Payments Revenue 52

Totango

AUGUST 23, 2022

By charting the points in your SaaS customers’ journeys, you can plan how to deliver clients’ desired outcomes and satisfying experiences that promote subscription renewals and higher revenue. Touchpoints also include occasions when clients interact with your software app in a SaaS context. Delivering customer support.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MARCH 25, 2021

No matter what era we live in, customer retention is something that will never fade away. They’ve moved down your marketing and sales funnel and have finally invested in your software. . It is the key to getting the pulse on the importance of customer retention. That is fundamentally how SaaS retention is different.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

So I’ll unpack some of our favorite tools that cater to certain needs—analytics, accounting, retention, pricing, and more. There are hundreds of SaaS tools online that will help your business increase retention and decrease churn. Accounting software will keep all revenue assets organized. Is there support for this tool?

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OPEXEngine

MAY 18, 2021

SaaS Metric #1 – Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR). ARR is an essential subscription metric that identifies the recurring revenue expected on an annual basis from the subscriber base. ARR = (Overall subscription per year + recurring revenue from add-ons or upgrades) – revenue lost from cancellations.

SaaS Payments 98

SaaS Payments Metrics Payments Payment Services 98

FastSpring

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Pricing your software correctly is a crucial part of selling software , but sometimes it’s hard to know if you’re on the right track with your pricing strategy. We’re sharing some tips for setting up a pricing model that attracts and retains long-term customers for your software company. Benchmark Growth with Measurable Metrics.

Payment Features 67

Payment Features Payment Solutions Subscription Pricing 67

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

According to Havard Business Review, customer acquisition requires 5 to 20 times more resources than customer retention. This article will walk you through 15 practical strategies to improve customer retention , boost loyalty, and ensure customer satisfaction. What is customer retention? Book a demo to get started!

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BrightBack

JANUARY 17, 2022

But in practice, being best-in-class at digital retention is a key challenge for most startups and enterprises, as it requires significant engineering to connect 3 to 5 systems of record (e.g. In an ideal world, it should be easier and more affordable to retain existing customers than acquire new ones.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 19, 2020

It is no secret that customer churn hits recurring revenue businesses hard, but what’s its real impact on their long-term health and valuation? To answer that and more, we invited SaaS Capital’s Managing Director, Rob Belcher, and Software Equity Group’s Managing Director, Allen Cinzori, to join us for a webinar. Q&A Recap.

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SaaS Payments Retention Metrics Payment Solutions 72

SaaSX

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

For many startup software companies (and their founders), an early capital-efficient approach to growth can make a huge difference in the long run. In the simplest terms, capital efficiency means growing profitably , without overinvesting to land customers and drive revenue. Revenue per Employee. What Is Capital Efficiency?

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Software Review Software Payments 52

Baremetrics

JULY 30, 2021

Within their platform, users can manage various aspects of their online customers such as subscription, recurring billing, invoicing, payments, accounting, taxes, and more. Baremetrics on the other hand monitors subscription revenue for businesses that bring in revenue through subscription-based services. Table of Contents.

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User Pilot

APRIL 24, 2024

TL;DR SaaS renewals includes the process of renewing a subscription to an online-hosted software service. Tracking SaaS renewal rates enables predictable revenue, aiding financial planning and resource management for future growth. In this article, we’ll share everything you need to know for increasing customer renewals.

SaaS Payments 83

SaaS Payments Retention Payment Services Payment Solutions 83

Chart Mogul

JUNE 9, 2023

After analyzing data from over 2,100 SaaS startups to publish the SaaS Benchmarks Report 2023 Sid is full of insights on the topic at hand. Logo acquisition is harder: upselling and retention are crucial. Christoph elaborates on how a long-term, strong economic market with low interest rates led to an influx of capital in the system.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JULY 14, 2021

Generally, a subscription-based business, renewals, and recurring payments hold the key values. If paying customers aren’t fully utilizing your software, they will cancel or not renew their subscription. After implementing a product adoption framework, businesses experience higher user retention, as well as lower churn.

Customer Lifetime Value 52

Customer Lifetime Value Payment Features Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 52

Baremetrics

JANUARY 24, 2021

The benchmark customer churn for SaaS for SMBs is 5%. Revenue churn vs. customer churn Up until January 2020, almost all of our growth over the past 5 years had been generated through a pretty traditional sales-led growth strategy. This means that our revenue churn was very low. At 19.20%, we were dramatically off-base.

Churn 71

Churn SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Solutions 71

OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Small and Mid-Market (SMM) SaaS Companies serve customers with annual revenues of $1 million to $1 billion and with a typical employee base of 100 to 1,000. An additional non-financial constraint is a fact that these customers typically lack experience in software procurement and implementation, and this adds friction to the sales cycle.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 52

OPEXEngine

AUGUST 9, 2022

By benchmarking critical go-to-market KPIs, like the Magic Number – which measures how many new dollars of revenue growth are obtained getting from your sales and marketing investment compared to your competitors. Few accounting systems can easily report profitability that way. Amplify low-cost sales channels.

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Scale VP of Engineering Payment Services Underperforming Technical Team 59

Baremetrics

MARCH 7, 2021

Baremetrics has a solution for your business metrics and visualization needs. The ability to analyze KPIs from various marketing campaigns easily and accurately is an essential way to ensure that marketers can convey to customers the importance of their initiatives at all times and have performance benchmarks. Wondering how?

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Marketing Payment Solutions Scale Business 45

ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

A pricing audit assesses your subscription business’ pricing process to ensure consistency across similar accounts, maximize profitability, and benchmark against other companies. Conducting a pricing audit goes through five factors—acquisition, monetization, retention, pricing strategy, and discounts. What does your revenue look like?

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Payments Pricing Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments 45

ProfitWell

JULY 14, 2020

A yearly payment option is important for every SaaS company. How are churn and new revenue trending over time? The MRR gain Index, aka upgrades and new revenue, is up at +0.26% over the last 24 hours, while MRR loss (namely, representing churn in the market) has gone down a bit at -0.77% over the last 24 hours. 7 day +1.06% | ??

Payments 66

Payments SaaS Payments Outsourced Development Payment Services 66

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 9, 2019

So much so that Gartner research predicts that in 2020, all new entrants to the software market and 80% of existing companies will offer some sort of subscription package. Use a reliable billing system. Prioritize retention. Use a reliable subscription billing system. Define your value proposition. Do your research.

SaaS Payments 61

SaaS Payments Payment Services Subscription Payment Features 61

FastSpring

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Understanding what your CAC Payback Period is will not only help you determine how much cash flow you need, but it can also highlight problems in your marketing and retention strategies. On the flip side, if your CAC Payback Period is relatively short, but your customer churn is high, your SaaS needs to look at improving retention instead.

Payments 61

Payments Scale SaaS Payments SaaS 61

SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

In his most recent role, Dave was the CEO @ Host Analytics where he quintupled ARR, halved customer acquisition costs and increased net retention rates before selling the company to a private equity sponsor. Finally pre-Salesforce, Dave was CEO @ MarkLogic where he grew the team from 40 to 240 and revenues from $0 to an $80m revenue run rate.

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Sales Hiring Payment Services SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 142

ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Customer retention can hold more weight than acquisition. Retention shows that you are providing a valuable service that keeps your customers coming back. An easy way to visualize retention is through the leaky bucket metaphor. Trying to build a business with poor retention is like trying to fill a leaky bucket.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Retention Payments Software Review 52

User Pilot

JANUARY 26, 2023

Implement an in-app knowledge base with self-help resources. Send payment reminders both through email and in-app to prevent involuntary churn. Churn and retention are inversely correlated. Customer retention rate Customer retention is a company’s ability to keep doing business with customers continuously.

SaaS Payments 96

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Metrics Payment Methods 96

wepay

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

If your customers use your platform more frequently that in turn drives up overall usage and in the end, revenue. Before you take action on what you have discovered about your users and their activity it makes sense to also look at what the standards and benchmarks are for user engagement for a SaaS or ISV business.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 23, 2020

Typically it’s referring to users or revenue lost and is usually represented with either a percentage or dollar amount. Or if you said you had $2,000 in monthly revenue churn, that means you lost $2,000 in monthly recurring revenue from either customer cancellations or downgrades. So, when should you start worrying?

Churn 145

Churn Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 145

FastSpring

AUGUST 11, 2020

When it comes to software and online purchases, those transactions are increasingly moving to a subscription-based model, where customers put their purchases on autopilot so they can have continuous access to SaaS products. In this comprehensive guide, we’re going to take a deep dive into: What is subscription revenue? The best part?

Payment Features 85

Payment Features Payments Payment Methods Subscription 85

Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

How after that payment was processed or that service order was signed, you set your sights on cloning that customer. Which can get even further fleshed out into guidance/assets like this: Example of objection handling tree for “We’re going to build our own solution” ( Click to zoom image ). Here’s what I mean….

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