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.

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SaaStr

JULY 26, 2022

But beyond all the other Pros and Cons of SMB vs enterprise, there’s one looming issue with SMB SaaS: Churn. Endemic churn. The type of churn you almost can’t do anything about. Net net, most true SMB SaaS products often churn on the order of 3% per month almost no matter what you do. And measuring it.

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SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2021

Churn is a paramount topic in SaaS , as we all know. If every dollar of ARR is worth $6+ in the long term, including upsells and second order revenue … then of course, by the same token, for every dollar of ARR that churns … you’re losing $6 of notional ARR. As Almost Churn. Lose a $100k customer?

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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.

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Churn Retention Benchmarks Customer Lifetime Value 102

Subscription Flow

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Maximizing recurring revenue, increasing sales, retaining customers , and achieving all such business targets is the dream of every subscription business retailer. There are certain subscription billing performance metrics that if you track will help you a lot in achieving certain specific business targets. Haven’t you found out yet?

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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.

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Revenue churn answers the question: how much MRR did we lose last month? The SaaS business model is built on the concept of retaining as much of your monthly recurring revenue (MRR) as possible. What’s negative revenue churn? Get deep insights into MRR, churn, LTV and more to grow your business.

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Churn Revenue Benchmarks Pricing 118

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2023

Learn about the most important SaaS metrics for founders in 2023 with the CEOs of the most metric-oriented company, monday.com, and the founder of SaaStr. For a quick recap on SaaS metrics: What is ARR in SaaS? ARR stands for Annualized Recurring Revenue, although its real-world definition has evolved over time.

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Metrics SaaS Sales Hiring Finance 184

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.

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Churn Retention Revenue Finance 145

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

If you’re forecasting short on your global revenue target, do you know how you’ll make up the difference? Sales KPIs versus sales metrics: Is there a difference? Some might argue that there are fine-grained distinctions to be made between KPIs and metrics. New logo revenue. Churn dollars. Gross customer churn.

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Sales Hiring Metrics Revenue Sales 188

SaaStr

MAY 21, 2020

It took me a little while to see activation rates as literally one of the 3-4 most important metrics in SaaS, but it probably is. I don’t have a perfect metric, but after working on this with a dozen+ SaaS companies recently, I have a simple heuristic: 90% or more of your customers need to activate in the shortest practical time.

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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.

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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”.

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Payments SaaS Payments Metrics Revenue 193

User Pilot

JUNE 26, 2023

Want to track the different types of product metrics to get product growth insights ? Product metrics are critical for product growth managers to develop the right product strategies and drive continuous value for customers. However, it isn’t easy to choose the right product metrics from the many SaaS metrics available.

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Metrics Customer Lifetime Value SaaS Acquisition 96

Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

AUGUST 1, 2018

Churn is bad for software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies. But knowing there’s a churn problem is one thing; fixing it is something else. To bring down churn, we need to understand what’s behind the numbers. Wrong customers Sometimes high churn happens when SaaS providers sell to the wrong customers.

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Churn Metrics Compensation Software Review 122

ChurnZero

JULY 8, 2022

Cut to 2022, and the idea that a SaaS company could secure venture funding without investors digging deep into retention metrics seems comical, if not reckless. Net revenue retention (NRR) is taking center stage as the qualifying metric for determining the health of a SaaS business. Net revenue retention defined.

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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. How to calculate MRR growth rate?

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Metrics Customer Lifetime Value Churn Retention 105

SaaStr

JUNE 11, 2020

In B2C and high-churn environments, it’s indeed a critical metric. But in SaaS, in the earlier days, we inherited a lot of our lingo and metrics from B2C web services. They were earlier to mass-scale recurring revenue services on the web than B2B was. So we used their core metrics like “Churn” and “Lifetime value”.

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Metrics Customer Lifetime Value B2C B2B 195

SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2021

Reducing churn in SaaS, along with increasing new ARR is the backbone to growing your business. In this guide, Andrea Webb, the SVP of Customer Success & Retention at Solarwinds , and Tim Willey, the SVP of Commercial Strategy & Operations at ForgeRock , share their tips for understanding and combating churn. .

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Churn Customer Success Subscription Payment Features 171

SaaStr

MARCH 11, 2021

There are 3 general options: Your VP of Sales is responsible for net new revenue only. Churn is not her responsibility, nor is there any material credit for multi-year deals. The VPS is responsible for closing $Xm in net new revenue this year, period. The post What Core Metric Should Your VP of Sales Be Responsible For?

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Sales Hiring Metrics Sales Churn 262

ChurnZero

JUNE 9, 2023

Good sales teams typically get the budget, headcount and tools they desire because the function is tied to revenue. 8 metrics to position Customer Success as a profit center with finance While sentiment-based metrics like Net Promoter Score ® (NPS) and customer satisfaction are important, they don’t frame CS work from a financial perspective.

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User Pilot

MARCH 31, 2023

Analytics vs metrics – how do they differ from each other? Though both are important, analytics and metrics have distinct meanings and purposes in your data analytics process. In this article, we will go through analytics and metrics, their examples, and how you can analyze metrics to drive growth for your SaaS business.

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Metrics Customer Lifetime Value Data Analysis Engagement 98

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

A new revenue team. Really, what you tend to see when you keep a stretch VP too long in their current role is flat metrics. Churn that stops decreasing. Churn should keep coming down, at least a bit, until it’s top quartile at least. Pretty incredible at scale. What changed? One that knew the next stage, col d.

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User Pilot

JULY 13, 2023

In this article, we’ll go through how to measure growth of a company by delving deep into the basics, relevant metrics, and each necessary company growth rate formula. Customer lifetime value (CLV) determines the total revenue a customer generates throughout the relationship.

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Metrics Customer Lifetime Value Benchmarks Churn 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.

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Retention Metrics Benchmarks SaaS 90

User Pilot

MAY 5, 2022

Churn analytics helps you detect your product friction points and understand why users stop using the tool. This is crucial if you want to know how healthy your SaaS product is and what should be improved to increase customer retention and lower the churn rate. A churn rate over 10 % indicates trouble. What is churn analytics?

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Churn Retention Subscription Payment Features 98

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.

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SaaStr

APRIL 28, 2022

We’ve talked for 10 years about the power of compounding, recurring revenue. So don’t get me wrong — NRR is a Top 3 Metric for any SaaS company. And importantly — importantly — they don’t sweat churn too much if the NRR goal is still being met. Ok this many seem like an odd post on SaaStr.

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Customer Success Metrics Scale Retention 200

Kellblog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Is it MRR (monthly recurring revenue)? Why does the phrase “recurring revenue” appear exactly zero times in Snowflake’s 10-Q ? And what’s the impact on your other SaaS metrics? What’s your churn rate? Hence, the revenue recurred. A guy walks into a bar and orders a $17 Martini.

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Metrics SaaS Payments SaaS Payment Features 133

OPEXEngine

JUNE 2, 2020

If your startup is a SaaS (or any other business with customers paying on a recurring subscription basis), churn is a critical metric – particularly net revenue churn and gross revenue churn – that will need constant measurement. What is revenue retention? Net Revenue Retention Rate.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 23, 2023

Are you effectively expanding revenue from your existing customer base? If you’re unsure, check your retention metrics. Gross revenue retention (GRR) and net revenue retention (NRR) are the key metrics to understand how well … How good is your business at retaining customers? Your NRR is 103.9%.

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Retention Metrics Revenue Scale 52

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

There might not be an industry more addicted to its metrics than SaaS, and there is good reason for it. But how many SaaS financial metrics are you really tracking? Most SaaS companies keep an eye on churn, but do you calculate both revenue churn and customer churn? What are metrics? What are metrics?

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Metrics SaaS Payments SaaS Customer Lifetime Value 95

User Pilot

JUNE 2, 2023

Product adoption metrics tell you how well your platform is performing. In this article, we dived into 13 important adoption metrics to measure. Reaching product adoption is critical for subscription-based business models where revenue comes after the initial conversion. Long TTV is one of the major causes of early churn.

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Metrics Customer Lifetime Value Churn Onboarding 98

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Some Customer Success metrics are considered standard but there’s often more than meets the eye. Sales and marketing professionals that geek out on metrics can find themselves in deep philosophical debates about the best numbers to track. There is often more than one way to calculate a given Customer Success metric; Gaming.

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Customer Success Metrics Software Review Customer Lifetime Value 94

Kellblog

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Unlike Meritech Public Comps , where you can see metrics for the best [1], public SaaS companies, this private company data is somewhat harder to come by (the only other source that springs to mind is RevOps Squared ) and, for most of us, it provides much more realistic comparables than Meritech [2]. blended, 1.8 new, and 0.6

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Metrics SaaS Benchmarks Churn 136

Chart Mogul

JULY 6, 2023

Churn, SaaS companies should avoid it like the plague. But is the term churn always bad? Say hello to negative churn, churn’s much more friendly sister metric. You won’t avoid negative churn, in fact, you should do everything in your power to achieve it. But is the term churn always bad?

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Benchmarks Churn SaaS Customer Lifetime Value 52

Baremetrics

AUGUST 3, 2021

We’re here to tell you that all revenue is good revenue. But there are nuances that you need to know when operating your SaaS business when it comes to revenue. Those nuances come into play when understanding the different types of revenue in your SaaS business. What is Revenue? Types of Revenue 1.

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Payments Revenue Payment Services SaaS Payments 98