Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

They prioritize revenue growth, market share and profit maximization differently. Maximization (Revenue Growth) - maximize revenue growth in the short term. Many mid-market software companies price with the goal of revenue maximization, negotiating for the highest possible price in each sale.

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Stax

JUNE 3, 2025

The term SaaS platform gets tossed around a lotbut what does it actually mean, and why does it matter for today’s software companies? Whether you’re building your first product or scaling an established solution, understanding the SaaS platform model is essential for long-term growth. Contact sales What is a SaaS Platform?

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2025

ServiceTitan, the operating system for the trades, continues to scale impressively, with $772M in FY25 revenue, $800m+ ARR and a clear path to $1B ARR. Theyve built a true operating system for the tradeshandling everything from CRM to payments to field service management. Moving Upmarket: $100K+ Customers Now Drive 50% of Revenue.

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Stax

APRIL 15, 2025

For subscription-based businesses achieving consistent and predictable revenue growth is the holy grail. In fact, monthly recurring revenue (MRR) is one of the most important metrics subscription businesses should be aware of. TL;DR MRR is the average revenue that a company expects to receive each month.

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SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2021

Over $500,000 revenue per employee. Monetizing ecommerce via subscriptions, but not payment processing. Billion in GMV processed, up a stunning 91% from 2019. But in contrast to Wix and Shopify, it doesn’t keep much of the revenue from merchant services itself. 30% of its revenue outside the U.S.

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Stax

MARCH 16, 2025

The average churn rate for the software industry as a whole is 14%. Thats actually one of the lowest churn rates across all industries. That said, industry experts agree that your SaaS companys goal churn should be below 2%. TL;DR The average software industry churn rate is 14%, but SaaS companies should aim for under 2%.

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Blulogix

MAY 16, 2025

By BluLogix Team Why IoT Monetization FailsAnd How to Fix It Before It Costs You Millions Lets be honest. Its a systemic monetization failure that eats into margins, frustrates customers, and scales into a monster as your device count grows. Your billing process lives in Excel. Your billing process lives in Excel.

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SaaStr

MAY 9, 2025

Getting 2-3 years of revenue upfront can give you the runway to invest in growth, hire key team members, or even just sleep better at night knowing youre not scrambling for cash. Customer Commitment : Annual and multi-year contracts do lock in customer more, reducing churn risk and keeping competitors at bay.

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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. SMBs go out of business, and quickly. In general: Be honest about your churn and report it monthly and honestly. Find out.

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 13, 2023

If you’re currently using 2Checkout or Stripe to sell digital goods or SaaS but are considering switching — to the other, or to other options such as FastSpring — you may be wondering whether there are substantial differences between the platforms and their services. Payment Gateways , Payment Processing , PSPs, MoRs — What’s the Difference?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2021

Everyone talks about hitting 120%+ NRR these days But the truth is, single-seat users & very small businesses churn at a high rate. That sort of churn hurts. Even modestly decreasing churn in Very Small Business and single seat accounts can have a big impact. Often 3% a month. More here.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

ChartMogul is an analytics platform to help you run your subscription business. You get a complete overview of your global subscriber base; MRR, ARPU, ASP, churn and LTV are presented in a beautiful and easy to use dashboard. Embedded finance has everything to do with the flow of money. appeared first on SaaStr.

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Blulogix

JANUARY 13, 2025

By Kegham Khrigian The Hidden Cost of Complexity: How MSPs Can Reclaim Revenue Managed Service Providers (MSPs) face a unique combination of challenges in todays fast-evolving business landscape. While this complexity is expected, what often goes unnoticed is the revenue leakage it creates, quietly eroding profitability over time.

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SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2021

automating the back office and payments and billing for SMBs), and doing it with 120%+ NRR. We run a lot of SaaStr on Bill.com and have for years, and won’t churn. Transaction fees (on payments) are now half of revenue and are the key to scaling. Making more and more money on each payment. Pretty impressive.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 28, 2024

Only 20% of Revenue from “SaaS”, 80% From Transactions and Float (Fintech) Bill started off 100% SaaS, and slowly and deliberately added payments. Fast forward to today, and only 20% of its revenue is from software subscriptions. But both are still at their core software platforms. At least at scale. #2.

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Subscription Flow

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Businesses may never know how much revenue might be leaking from overlooked nooks and crannies. The purpose of the revenue growth management strategy is to steer a business in an organized, and sustainable direction. After all, no business wants its success to be short lived.

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Subscription Flow

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Some of the pitfalls that come with unplanned billing migration are faulty revenue reporting, data duplication, and customer churn. Our platform, SubscriptionFlow, is a billing system migration expert. Following are some of these factors: The business’s existing billing system is outdated.

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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.

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Subscription Flow

OCTOBER 2, 2024

In simple terms, revenue leakage means that a business is unable to collect a 100% of its earned income. There is always a small percentage of income that gets ‘leaked out’, causing revenue loss. Revenue leakage is that amount of money from your customers which gets processed, but which does not end up in your account.

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Stax

MAY 20, 2024

When can revenue NOT be counted as revenue? The concept of unearned revenue can easily trip up SaaS companies that offer subscription services and products on a recurring basis. Unlike when selling ordinary products, you cannot recognize the revenue earned from a subscription all at once.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Monthly recurring revenue is one of the least exciting topics to take on in 2020. MRR stands for Monthly recurring revenue. It measures the total repeatable revenue your company generates each month. You should exclude any type of non-recurring payment from your MRR calculation. MRR stands for Monthly recurring revenue.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

The contracts are identical twelve month contracts except for the payment terms. Contract B relaxes payment terms to monthly payment, 12 monthly installments for the next year. The payback period metric doesn’t capture the difference in the quality of the revenue/cash collections.

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Stax

MARCH 15, 2025

As a result, SaaS businesses need to become more innovative in how their platform features and product offerings address their user’s unique operations and set of business needs. Enter payment monetization. But how exactly should a SaaS company monetize payments? What is Payment Monetization?

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USIO

JANUARY 15, 2024

Subscription Models: Usio will provide general insights into why subscription-based payment processing is often considered advantageous for Software as a Service (SaaS) businesses. Predictable Revenue Streams: Subscription models provide a consistent and predictable revenue stream for SaaS companies.

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Payrix

MAY 14, 2024

No one knows this better (or more intimately) than a software company Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Adam Tesan, CRO at Worldpay for Platforms, is a seasoned executive leader with decades of experience in sales, marketing, and revenue in the software space. It was an Embedded Finance play starting with payments. [It

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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. It could be price, product composition, or payment terms. This has cons.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

They want a slick site that does more, from eCommerce to payments to marketing and more. While Wix’s actual churn is a bit unclear, this is a super interesting presentation of CLTV. That’s the power of recurring revenue. eCommerce and Business Tools Are Key Drivers to Accelerating Growth. Over Next 8 Years.

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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? When presenting a business case for a customer success platform, you can expect this to be the primary objection of a CEO or CFO: can we build this in our CRM instead of buying a new tool?

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FastSpring

JANUARY 17, 2023

Most subscription billing platforms let you: Automate invoicing and payments. Provide a self-service portal to customers so they can manage their accounts (including payment information, seats, and more). Gather metrics and view reports on monthly recurring revenue. Optimize Your Checkout Process to Increase Conversions.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2023

With nine figures in revenue, Ariel and SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin talk about all things Navan, rebranding when you have brand equity, building B2B software for people, pricing and business models, and much more. Before Navan, there were different apps for managing expenses, events and meetings, payments, etc.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In sum -> Learning and understanding how to maximize the revenue per lead. OK, adding in churn, you’re going to have to add another >$1m+ ARR … quickly. No Revenues”. Drive your revenue per lead way up, and put you in place to jump on and close every practical piece of business that comes through the door.

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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.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

110% Net Revenue Retention and 8 2% Customer Retention from 81,000+ SMB Customers. Bill.com sells to very small businesses that do churn at a higher rate. But that also proves that’s no excuse to drop below 100%+ net revenue retention. Bill.com manages 110% Net Revenue Retention on 82% Customer / Logo retention.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2023

In particular: Hybrid SaaS with payments and fintech usually has far, far lower gross margins than pure software. See, e.g. Shopify, whose blended gross margins with payments even at its scale are still less than 50%. Non-Recurring Revenue Doesn’t Count, At Least Not as Much. Pass-Through Revenue Simply Doesn’t Count.

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