OPEXEngine

MAY 18, 2021

SaaS metrics are viewed differently at different stages of growth and for different sales models, primarily whether a company is selling into an SMB or enterprise marketplace. Growth Stage – Scaling the Business, and . SaaS Metric #1 – Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR). Almost all revenue is from new contracts.

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Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 19, 2018

See how GymForLess is leveraging their revenue data to drive predictable growth. GymForLess is a desktop and mobile marketplace that gives fitness enthusiasts instant access to thousands of gyms across Spain. Services like this are a natural fit for subscriptions, but that’s not where GymForLess started. The result?

Merchant Services 40

Merchant Services Payment Services Marketplace as a Service Churn 40

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The profit and loss statement details the revenue, expenses, and any profit or loss (hence the name) during a specified period of time, usually monthly, quarterly, or annually. There are many ways to draft the profit and loss statement depending on the detail desired and the complexity of the business. Try Baremetrics free. Expenses i.

Payments 98

Payments Payment Methods Payment Services Payment Solutions 98

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

See what the top 10 platforms you should be looking at in 2021 are to make an informed decision for your business needs. Most enterprise CRMs offer more features than simple CRMs and can support complex sales operations with advanced reporting capabilities, product libraries, sales enablement and tools, and more.

Payment Solutions 86

Payment Solutions Enterprise Scale Payments 86

ProfitWell

APRIL 1, 2020

White-labeling services for SaaS products have become very popular over the past decade. When done correctly, an entire brand can be built around a SaaS white-label product, but you’ll need to price it correctly in order to maximize revenue. Either they use it as their own, or they resell said platform to another company.

Payment Solutions 59

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Payment Services 59

OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

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. Start by tackling churn since expansion only takes you so far if you’re trying to expand fewer and fewer customers.

Payment Services 80

Payment Services Benchmarks SaaS Payments Merchant Services 80

Stax

JANUARY 17, 2024

Automated Clearing House (ACH) payments are a type of electronic bank-to-bank payment system in the US. Unlike payments facilitated by card networks like Visa or Mastercard, ACH payments are managed by a body called the National Automated Clearing House Association (NACHA). Let’s get started.

Payment Services 88

Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Facilitation 88

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 13, 2022

It requires rethinking everything from billing and revenue forecasting, to the role of Account Executives, to how to drive a customer success mindset across the entire organization. Many value promises are made by marketing and sales. High interest rates will suck up government revenues. Toast generated $823M in revenue in 2020.

Pricing 82

Pricing Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 82

Baremetrics

AUGUST 6, 2021

If you are running a small business with subscription revenue, you can monitor all of your finances using Baremetrics. Wouldn’t something like this be great for your business? If you want to see your business metrics on an easy to use dashboard, sign up for the Baremetrics free trial and get started. Try Baremetrics Free.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions Business 105

SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

Giraffe is a mobile job matching platform that helps medium skilled workers get access to opportunities and helps businesses to recruit staff faster, and easier, and more affordably than any other way. Our first MVP was actually an SMS based app where job seekers would send six SMSes in order to register on our platform.

Scale 157

Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling SaaS Payments 157

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In SaaS, #1 most common misfire, with a bullet, is the VP/head of sales. It goes something like “You’ve Got to Get Past the Carcass of Your First VP of Sales” or “It’s The Second VP of Sales When You Really Start Selling” or variants thereof. Because in SaaS start-ups, it seems like the majority of first VP Sales fail.

Sales Hiring 363

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 363

Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. Because horizontal SaaS companies serve both startups and enterprise businesses, scalability is a key selling point.

SaaS Payments 88

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 88

yoursales

JANUARY 28, 2022

Sales Stack 2022 Sales Tools for Professional B2B Sales SALES STACK 2022: Sales Tools for. Professional Sales SALES STACK. 2021: Sales Tools. Sales W hich challenges would you like sales technology to solve for your sales team? What is sales technology here to do?

Scale 111

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 111

Point Nine Land

MAY 22, 2020

Businesses, on the other hand, are stuck in the dark ages, often relying on the phone, email, fax and even pen and paper when it comes to ordering goods or services. Whilst consumer-facing marketplaces have become an essential part of our daily lives, business-to-business marketplaces are only just beginning to emerge.

Marketplace as a Service 83

Marketplace as a Service B2B Payments SaaS Payments 83

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Average Revenue per Customer. It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. The last kind of constituent here is investors and business owners. Or annual recurring revenue for some types of companies.

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SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 236

OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

At its core, gross margin (GM) speaks to the relationship between sales and its costs. For example, 84% GM means that for every dollar of product sold, a business keeps 84 cents. Understand the levers of costs, also known as cost of goods sold (COGS) or cost of sales (COS). Now, for each segment, isolate its revenue and COGS.

Scale 52

Scale Payment Methods Payment Services Systems Review 52

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Stripe is indispensable for the average online business, providing the many different tools, reports, and customizations that power online payment processing, but it isn’t without limitations. For example, the Stripe analytics dashboard is lacking the needed depth for SaaS businesses that rely on recurring revenue.

Payment Services 97

Payment Services Payment Features Payment Methods Payments 97

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

How should sales and marketing work together on pricing? I was working on a startup that was an early mobile payment platform. It was basically using Bluetooth and an app on PalmPilots to do wireless payments in restaurants. And there’s a lot of benefit to running a software as a service, in general.

SaaS Payments 254

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 254

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

It is the dissection of the entire service to determine the likely cost behind each portion to come up with an estimate of a vendor’s cost structure. Baremetrics is a business metrics tool that provides 26 metrics about your business, such as MRR, ARR, LTV, total customers, and more. Cost analysis is a companion term.

Pricing 83

Pricing SaaS Payments Payments Payment Methods 83

SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Leveraging survey data from 66+ enterprise SaaS companies, Matt Garratt, Managing Partner of Salesforce Ventures shares the landscape of how businesses are shifting their sales & GTM strategies to react to today’s uncertain times. Adnan Chaudhry | SVP of Sales @ Salesforce.

Sales Hiring 156

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 156

ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

That’s never been truer for software businesses in particular than in the past 10-15 years, with the internet stimulating an explosion in the number of viable revenue models. Let’s take a look at some of the most popular revenue models used today — why they’re popular, why they work, and why they will (or won’t) work for you.

Payments 40

Payments Revenue Payment Methods SaaS Payments 40

SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

We looked at the world in 2008, 2009, and we said, “How come it’s almost impossible to connect two companies to do business, especially if they have complex business processes, but we can all connect as consumers on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, every single day we want to do business?”

Payment Solutions 142

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 142

Mucker Capital

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

If you’re thinking about launching a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company, there are two different ways to approach the market. Horizontal SaaS: These companies aim to create a product that services a specific type of employee, function or division across all industries. So what’s behind this resiliency?

SaaS Payments 49

SaaS Payments Outsourcing Services Payment Services Payments 49

ProfitWell

MARCH 11, 2020

But as cost containment becomes a priority for businesses looking to thrive in the modern digitally-transformed marketplace, keeping existing customers happy and loyal is now a primary concern. Where is the revenue leakage happening? While a piñata game is best played with a blindfold, business isn't.

Retention 52

Retention Metrics SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 52

SaaStr

MAY 4, 2022

These days, as the business lead for invoicing at Stripe, Xie has earned her own stripes in navigating the unique challenges of building and thriving in the SaaS marketplace. What makes a SaaS business so hard? As your business grows in complexity, these drags on your infrastructure can impact your product development.

Payment Features 198

Payment Features Payment Services Payment Solutions Outsourcing Services 198

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2020

Nick and Ed’s content strategy took inspiration directly from ChartMogul’s mission – to help readers build a better subscription business. That meant producing useful content, not thinly veiled sales pitches. Integrations with other products can add valuable functionality making your own product stickier.

Underperforming Technical Team 183

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Payments Payment Services 183