ChurnZero

MAY 16, 2025

It’s the ultimate technology dilemma for customer teams and the execs who control budgets: should you buy or build your customer success platform? It’s harder to do on your own, and you’ll be less successful ultimately. The resourcing drawbacks of a custom CRM build.

Payments

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Customer expansion drives recurring revenue and long-term growth. By increasing the value provided to existing customers through different expansion tactics, companies can reduce churn and enhance customer lifetime value. A personalized in-app prompt to upgrade created in Userpilot.

Strategy

Valuize Consulting

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In today’s competitive SaaS landscape, Customer Success has emerged as a vital strategic asset, driving revenue growth and long-term profitability. However, to fully unlock its potential, companies must go beyond qualitative insights and bring data into the decision-making process within Customer Success ranks and investments.

Payment Services

Blulogix

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Yet, many companies still rely on outdated, manual processes that create inefficiencies, revenue leakage, and higher churn rates. Companies that fail to modernize their renewal strategies risk falling behind, losing customers, and missing expansion opportunities. Proactively engage customers before they consider canceling.

Payment Features

ChurnZero

APRIL 25, 2025

And since customer lifetime value and NRR are integral to broader revenue goals, it is time for CS to embrace the predictive, in which strong forecasting begets lower churn. Weve outlined a process for data driven customer success renewals forecasting, plus some extra tips on how ChurnZero can help. Where can you start?

Forecasting

SaaStr

JANUARY 15, 2025

Marchelle’s personal journey took her from early adopter of Mangomint, to 6 years later, VP of Sales over a 25+ person SMB sales team. Let customers start a free trial instantly, but use that trial strategically: “We’re really using it as a way to witness the behavior of the customer… Where do they go first?

Scale

User Pilot

MAY 28, 2025

Meanwhile, your users churn because they find the app confusing. This lets you spot friction points, capture feedback at the moment of confusion, and fix problems to prevent churn. You can also personalize flows using behavior-based triggers. Build custom user segments with Userpilot. Your product team deserves better.

Mobile

Stax

JUNE 17, 2025

The world of payments is constantly evolving, with new technologies and shifting business demands reshaping how money moves. In an interview with Karen Webster , CEO of PYMNTS , Paulette Rowe , CEO of Stax, pulled back the curtain on the critical strategies and innovations driving the next wave of payment partnerships.

Payments

User Pilot

APRIL 24, 2025

This article shares exciting product manager roles focused on retention and churn and showcases standout candidates in the field. Stripe: Product Manager, Local Payment Methods Cost Optimization Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Recommended product manager job openings in data-driven companies 1.

Payment Methods

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

There’s so many breadcrumbs online, but they’re everywhere. I used to be an inbox zero kind of guy, but as my personal media presence, the fund and our community [00:02:00] grew, it became harder and harder to actually make that happen. We’re basically the same person. Jordan Crawford: The list is the message.

ChatGPT

User Pilot

MAY 30, 2025

They track 47 different key performance indicators (KPIs) in their mobile analytics platform , spend hours debating dashboard numbers, yet can’t predict which users will churn next week The problem here isn’t a lack of data. You’re hunting for the psychological journey leading to payment. What happens before that?

Payment Solutions

User Pilot

MAY 17, 2025

Similarly, colors, icons, date formats, and even payment methods can have vastly different meanings and usability standards across regions. Your localized experiences, combined with other in-app personalization strategies, will enable you to consistently deliver value and reduce user churn.

Mobile

SaaStr

APRIL 1, 2023

Rewind The Clock — How Did We Get Here Most small businesses in pre-2010 didn’t have computers in their store or restaurant. Throw in the rise of social media and mobile web payment systems like Stripe and Braintree, and something revolutionary was at our doorstep. Everyone was stuck in place and online was the answer.

Scale

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

What we learned from ’08-’09 in SaaS: First, SMB churn went through the roof — as SMBs went under much more quickly and often. The first thing SMBs did was look at their credit card payments and cancel everything they could. Anyone processing a lot of SMB and credit-card deals saw churn probably double.

SaaS Payments

SaaStr

MAY 4, 2022

Market trends: why is it easier than ever to build an online business? Despite all these growing pains, it’s still never been a better time for online businesses. You can now outsource most of your business needs, from e-commerce (like Shopify) to website building (like Wix). Design a product that aligns you with your customers.

Payment Features

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Average Revenue per Customer. Customer Lifetime Value (LTV). Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). & So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey. So the first question is what made SaaS so successful. One is your churn.

SaaS Payments

SaaStr

MAY 8, 2021

bills, “payment terms”, and often, repeated follow-up. Most start-ups don’t have a good enough finance person or firm to be good at collections. But getting paid in a simple ACH or credit card payment each month can be magical. Annual deals can create unnecessary customer friction. More on that here.

SaaS Payments

Totango

AUGUST 16, 2022

Customer Retention Software Cuts Down Client Churn. Customer retention software has become essential for effective SaaS customer success strategies. A winning SaaS business model must prioritize retaining customers, which is far more cost-efficient than acquiring new clients to offset churn.

Payment Solutions

Totango

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Customer success tools extend the functionality of your CS platform, multiplying its value. By connecting data from other success tools to your CS tool, you can view and manage all your customer data from one place instead of leaving it isolated in separate information silos. CRMs: Salesforce and HubSpot. Billing: Zuora.

Payment Solutions

Tom Tunguz

MARCH 19, 2020

Some of these customers will be insulated from the virus. Customer success and account management teams should focus on understanding customer health. This is important to project churn rates, assess timing of software payments, and estimate the impact on cash flows/burn. Others may benefit from it.

Startup

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Can one person buy via a credit card or will multiple stakeholders need to be involved? The key here is to keep the cost of customer acquisition down. If possible, incentivize visitors to pay up front for the year given the positive cash flow implications and churn reduction benefits. Goal of website.

Business Model

FastSpring

JANUARY 26, 2024

With years of experience at managing customer success (CS), Jake Dipple knows how important it is to foster collaboration between businesses and their customers. In this episode of Growth Stage, host and CMO of FastSpring David Vogelpohl interviews Jake about his thoughts on: What Customer Success is at a high level.

Customer Success

Totango

JULY 13, 2021

Strategy for customer success growth has changed as commerce has gone digital and big data has made marketing and sales customer-centric. Tell people about your business, get them in the store, sell them things, then look for more customers. Setting foot in a physical store has become completely optional.

Customer Success

SaaStr

JANUARY 30, 2023

They focused on building a payment platform that empowers international talent and independent contractors to get paid on time in a compliant way while also ensuring that companies can hire international talent and make payments efficiently. The path to success is filled with challenges at every milestone. Listen to your team.

Sales Hiring

Totango

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Customer success is the key to building strong customer relationships. When your brand helps your customers succeed at their goals, they want to continue your relationship. Customer success nurtures the positive experiences of your brand, promoting repeat business and retention.

Customer Success

SaaStr

MAY 16, 2019

I’m Romain, I’m the founder of Gorgias, and so today we’re going to talk about how to get a thousand customers using data. We are a customer service platform for e-commerce websites, and one of the things we try to do is to automate customer support. So, we have this data about a target market.

Merchant Services

SaaStr

DECEMBER 12, 2022

This immediate time-to-value applies to your product and the content you share on your website. As soon as users land on your website, they should get the value quickly. You want your customers to make the payment decision as soon as possible. Lesson 3: Let customers do the talking.

Payment Methods

FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

In the language of SaaS, I churned. And the experience got me thinking: Was immediate removal of paid features the best chance to keep me from churning? When did I officially count as “churned”? Did they count me as churned on the day I canceled? In part one, we cover benchmarks and common churn formulas.

Benchmarks

The Angel VC

MARCH 23, 2016

As I wrote in the original post: It's a simple plan for an early-stage SaaS startup with a low-touch sales model – a company which markets a SaaS solution via its website, offers a 30 day free trial, gets most of its trial users organically and through online marketing and converts them into paying customer with very little human interaction.

SaaS Payments

Totango

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Customer success tools extend the functionality of your CS platform, multiplying its value. By connecting data from other success tools to your CS tool, you can view and manage all your customer data from one place instead of leaving it isolated in separate information silos. CRMs: Salesforce and HubSpot. Billing: Zuora.

Payment Solutions

Sales Hacker

JULY 18, 2022

Which is why it’s key to strengthen customer retention processes by automating them, keeping customers engaged, and detecting any signs of churn before they happen. Automate these 5 processes to boost customer retention. One surefire road to customer churn is the customer not knowing how to use the product.

Payment Services

FastSpring

MAY 20, 2024

Prepare for renewals with value adds to reduce churn. FastSpring provides an all-in-one payment platform for SaaS, software, video game, and other digital goods businesses, including subscription management, payment localization, VAT and sales tax management, consumer support, and more. Recurring payment processing.

SaaS Payments

FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

“It turned out that many refund requests happened because the company had failed to inform customers about their upcoming billing cycle,” Jon told us. And interestingly, many of those customers resubscribed later on in the year.”. How Enchant reduced churn and support requests related to account owner issues.

Merchant Services

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. The alternative?

Payment Features

Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

Join the payments-led growth movement Sign up to keep up-to-date with the latest trends in payments, vertical SaaS, and technology from industry experts. Take a traditional business, like a furniture store. If customers want to make a switch to another SaaS competitor, it’s easier to do so, affecting the bottom line.

Scale

User Pilot

JANUARY 11, 2024

A stellar FinTech onboarding process builds user trust , improves the customer experience , and reduces customer churn. Personalize the onboarding experience to highlight features that help each user achieve their primary goal. Offer multichannel support through chat, email, phone, etc.,

Onboarding

FastSpring

JANUARY 19, 2023

NitroPack , a website performance optimization platform, has become one of the fastest-growing startups in CEE. When NitroPack was first getting started, they used PayPal to accept and process payments. “It Our platform calculates VAT, sales, and GST taxes and collects them on behalf of our customers.

Merchant Services