Stax

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Here’s an interesting stat: 70% of businesses consider subscription and membership models indispensable for future commercial growth and expansion. They must engineer a well-rounded solution that makes handling subscriptions a breeze (and yes, it is as hard as it sounds). However, only 10% of them currently employ these models.

Payments 88

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services Merchant Services 88

Stax

JANUARY 29, 2024

However, staying focused on the big picture can be challenging if your business is bogged down by repetitive payments and intricate billing procedures—both common hurdles for a billing system with inadequate functionality. Stax Bill simplifies invoice and subscription billing management by automating manual financial processes.

Stax 88

Stax Payments Payment Services Payment Features 88

Clouded Judgement

MARCH 22, 2024

Subscribe now ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) vs ERR (Experimental Runrate Revenue) ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) is one of the most popular SaaS (Non-GAAP) metrics. However, it’s also one of the most loosely used metrics, and is frequently misused. Follow along to stay up to date!

AI 183

AI Revenue Cloud Technical Advisors 183

Stax

MARCH 6, 2024

For businesses offering subscriptions, memberships, retainers, and other recurring services, recurring billing is a powerful solution to streamline processes and ultimately enhance revenue generation. Consider this: Consumers are already conditioned to the subscription model. Learn More What is Recurring Billing?

Merchant Services 88

Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Methods Payment Features 88

Baremetrics

MARCH 31, 2021

SaaS and subscription companies like yours need to collect and manage recurring payments at scale. Regular payment gateways like SagePay and WorldPay won't cut it. All the data your startup needs Collecting payments is just one step of effective subscription management. It's the No.1 Try Baremetrics free.

Merchant Services 98

Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Features 98

FastSpring

APRIL 23, 2024

Depending on your needs, sellers may run into a number of potential limitations with the Paddle platform: Paddle doesn’t accept as many alternative payment methods as other MoR partners. The subscription management system doesn’t support multi-product transactions. Digital invoices. Subscription and recurring payment collection.

Payment Services 88

Payment Services Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Solutions 88

FastSpring

JANUARY 17, 2023

Most subscription billing platforms let you: Automate invoicing and payments. Customize and manage one or more subscription and trial models. Provide a self-service portal to customers so they can manage their accounts (including payment information, seats, and more). Automated invoices and customer notifications.

Payments 86

Payments Payment Features Payment Methods Payment Services 86

Subscription Flow

MARCH 1, 2024

When you have the correct payment gateway incorporated with ClickFunnels, that you can access a world of opportunities that will improve your online presence and maximize your revenue streams. These possibilities include increased security features and a wider range of payment options.

Payment Services 94

Payment Services Payments Payment Methods Merchant Services 94

Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Confused about customer churn vs. revenue churn? Churn means lost money or lost customers. These metrics help you understand two different things: Customer churn — the number of people you've lost. Revenue churn — the amount of revenue you've lost. Customer churn = customers lost.

Churn 105

Churn Payments Revenue SaaS Payments 105

FastSpring

JANUARY 10, 2023

Chargebee: Supports Complex Subscription Management. Recurly: Easily Integrates with Multiple Payment Gateways. Zoho Subscriptions: Online Subscription Billing Platform. Wave: Invoicing and Accounting Software for Small Businesses. Fully Compliant, Custom Trial and Subscription Options (Without Writing Code).

Payment Solutions 117

Payment Solutions Payment Features Payment Methods Payment Services 117

User Pilot

MAY 2, 2024

You will also learn how to build a retention strategy, what metrics to track, and 10 bulletproof retention tactics for SaaS companies. It’s crucial for SaaS businesses because it drives revenue growth, increases customer lifetime value , reduces customer acquisition costs , and fosters positive word-of-mouth marketing.

Retention 65

Retention Metrics Strategy Scale 65

FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

Last week, I canceled an annual SaaS subscription (I had three weeks left until renewal). Interestingly, even though I paid for a year-long subscription, the company didn’t let me keep the last three weeks of access to its premium features. This action will immediately downgrade your subscription. Part I: SaaS Churn Benchmarks.

Benchmarks 123

Benchmarks Churn Payments SaaS Payments 123

Subscription Flow

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Recurring revenue models, or subscription models , can be a great way for businesses to generate income while providing customers with the options they want. However, a distinct set of metrics is needed for the subscription business model in order to track and keep an eye on the company’s health.

Subscription 59

Subscription Payment Features Metrics Business 59

The Angel VC

APRIL 24, 2015

When I talk to SaaS startups and take a look at their metrics, it still happens quite often that some of the numbers aren’t quite clear to me and it takes some time to clarify things. I’m not referring to sophisticated reports or analyses but to the much more mundane question of what exactly people mean when they use a term like “revenues”.

Payments 193

Payments SaaS Payments Metrics Revenue 193

User Pilot

JULY 18, 2023

Tracking your customer churn rate will help you keep tabs on business growth. You will have data sets for analyzing your churn/retention history, which will better position you to make intelligent business decisions. Types of churn rates you should calculate: customer churn rate, revenue churn rate , and involuntary churn rate.

Churn 84

Churn Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 84

FastSpring

DECEMBER 9, 2022

SaaS billing software automates one or more of the various aspects of the recurring billing process — payment processing, fulfillment, dunning, and more. You’ll still need a separate solution for payment processing, taxes, chargebacks, and more. 3 Subscription Management Software. 3 Payment Processors.

Payment Services 128

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Methods SaaS Payments 128

SaaStr

DECEMBER 4, 2023

They wanted to quantify this trend of a longer sales cycle, so they commissioned a study of 500 revenue leaders in the U.S. The sales cycle is important because it cascades into a bunch of critical metrics for you and investors, including revenue. About a quarter of customers do churn because of a lack of these options.

SaaS Payments 216

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Features 216

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Cyvatar is a technology-enabled cyber security as a service (CSaaS) provider disrupting a $150 billion industry by introducing and delivering smarter, measurable managed security subscriptions to help you achieve compliance and security faster and more efficiently.

Banking 229

Banking Payment Features Venture Capital Subscription 229

Baremetrics

AUGUST 16, 2021

What does it mean to reactivate a subscription? There are several reasons a customer would cancel their subscription. Reactivating the subscription could mean many things, but primarily it means the customers decided to activate the subscription and make payment for another billing cycle. Table of Contents.

Subscription 87

Subscription Payment Features Metrics SaaS Payments 87

Sage Intacct

JUNE 14, 2022

If you’re a SaaS finance leader, your churn rate (the number of subscription cancellations you receive over a given period) is one of your most valuable performance SaaS metrics to track and improve.

Churn 145

Churn Retention Revenue Finance 145

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

As your business grows and your focus shifts from acquiring new customers to retaining existing ones, churn prediction becomes an invaluable tool in your toolkit. Accurate churn prediction models help you improve the customer experience and prevent voluntary customer departures. What is churn prediction? Churn is expensive.

Churn 99

Churn Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Data Analysis 99

Blulogix

MARCH 20, 2024

By BluLogix Team Mastering the Art of Complex B2B Recurring and Subscription Billing: Understanding the Renewal Process in B2B Subscriptions In the competitive landscape of B2B subscriptions, the renewal process is a critical moment of truth.

Payment Features 52

Payment Features B2B Subscription Customer Lifetime Value 52

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

In this week’s Workshop Wednesday , Salesforce Ventures Investor, Jessica Bartos, shares the 5 metrics every SaaS company should care about in any market environment, especially the one we’re currently in. Growth Is Still Number One Growth is still the number one metric, but it’s not the only one. You do that by showing momentum.

Metrics 210

Metrics Marketing SaaS SMB 210

Subscription Flow

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Subscription pricing with the help of automated billing software has transformed many industries and provided businesses with a dynamic way to generate revenue, especially in the SaaS space. SaaS companies’ success is largely dependent on their use of subscription billing.

SaaS Payments 94

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 94

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Revenue churn answers the question: how much MRR did we lose last month? Your answer says a lot about the long term health of your company as a SaaS or subscription business. The SaaS business model is built on the concept of retaining as much of your monthly recurring revenue (MRR) as possible.

Churn 118

Churn Revenue Benchmarks Pricing 118

FastSpring

JUNE 25, 2019

A challenge faced by all subscription-based businesses is figuring out a way to keep recurring payments flowing for their company. And since revenue is closely tied with business growth and wellbeing, any dip in recurring revenue is immediately felt throughout the entire organization.

Payment Methods 64

Payment Methods Payment Features Churn SaaS Payments 64

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Digital product metrics reveal how customers interact with your product. However, not all metrics are created equal. In this article, we hone in on the best metrics for product teams looking to drive product growth. We discuss 15 of the most important metrics and examine what to consider when choosing which metrics to track.

Metrics 87

Metrics Customer Lifetime Value Scale SaaS 87

Kellblog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Is it MRR (monthly recurring revenue)? I’m writing this post to help readers who (like me) grew up in an annual subscription SaaS world adapt to the new and increasingly popular world of usage-based pricing [4], including month-to-month contracts and variable fees [5]. What’s your churn rate?

Metrics 133

Metrics SaaS Payments SaaS Payment Features 133

Clouded Judgement

APRIL 11, 2024

Through these interactions, I’ve built up mental benchmarks for metrics on which I place extra emphasis. My hope is that this analysis can provide startup entrepreneurs with a framework for how to manage their businesses around SaaS metrics (e.g., The first few months of this year felt like a lot of churning in the market.

Cloud 177

Cloud Software Azure AWS 177

ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The subscription revenue model is hardly new. But in the past few years, subscriptions have seen a bit of a resurgence. In fact, you'd be hard-pressed to find an industry that hasn't seen at least one subscription success story: Cars. Even the humble houseplant doesn’t seem immune to the subscription economy.

Payment Features 74

Payment Features Payments Subscription Revenue 74

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Wondering how churn rate vs retention rate are different? Both metrics are important to track if you want to implement a successful product retention strategy. In this article, we will cover: Formulas to calculate each of these metrics. Other important metrics related to churn and retention efforts.

Churn 79

Churn Retention Benchmarks Customer Lifetime Value 79

User Pilot

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Net monthly recurring revenue (MRR) growth enables you to calculate the change in your company’s recurring revenue on a month-to-month basis. As we will see in this article, there are several key factors that affect monthly revenue. A similar concept is ARR, annual recurring revenue.

Metrics 88

Metrics Customer Lifetime Value Churn Retention 88

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 17, 2020

Revenue Modeling for a Subscription vs. Non-Subscription Businesses . Revenue modeling. It’s the most difficult aspect of financial planning, especially for startups that don’t have historical data to extrapolate future revenues. Revenue Modeling: Revenue Growth Over Time. See the following example:

Deferred Revenue 98

Deferred Revenue Subscription Payment Features Revenue 98

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Most SaaS businesses adopt a subscription-based model supported by a recurring payment system. Setting up a recurring payment system can be complicated and requires the right tools to measure, manage, and review payments regularly. What is Recurring Billing? How Does Recurring Billing Work?

Payment Services 89

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Features Payments 89

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

We are going to look at two of those principles here: the matching concept and the revenue recognition concept. Baremetrics is a business metrics tool that provides 26+ metrics about your business including: MRR, ARR, LTV, total customers, and more. Table of Contents. They are defined in U.S.

Payments 95

Payments Revenue Payment Features Payment Methods 95

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Challenge: UXPin needed a tool to consolidate their subscription data and track metrics. Right away, its toolkit replaced their in-house solution and made it easy to track metrics and segment customers. UXPin offers four subscription levels to suit the design needs of companies ranging from startups to large enterprises.

Payment Services 98

Payment Services SaaS Payments Payments Payment Solutions 98

Chart Mogul

JUNE 1, 2023

So if you are keeping a close eye on your retention metrics this year, you’re not alone. Retention is one of the most important metrics when building a successful SaaS business. So if you are keeping a close eye on your retention metrics this year, you’re not alone. faster than their peers in 2022.

Retention 90

Retention Metrics Benchmarks SaaS 90