Software Platform Consulting

MAY 28, 2019

This is the third in my series on SaaS Metrics for Enterprise-Driven B2B Networks. I spend very little time on issues of compensation on this blog. Often, as with P2P, payments, Order to Cash, and EDI networks, there may be a significant time lag between: the bookings or cash—if any—coming from one side, and. Source: [link].

SaaS Payments 56

SaaS Payments Enterprise B2B Metrics 56

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 12, 2017

With increasing focus on grit and many claims of meritocracies in organizations across the country, why does variable pay compensation even exist? On top of that, why are sales people some of the few employees subject to variable compensation structures? What is Variable Pay Compensation Anyway? are usually not.

Compensation 79

Compensation Sales Hiring Sales Payment Services 79

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 13, 2021

The new joint solution is improved by having the OEM technology embedded into its application, providing increased value to the end customer. The licensor enjoys a new revenue stream. The key defining factor is that the OEM software is embedded into an existing application or platform, and it sells as part of that application.

Payment Solutions 74

Payment Solutions Payments Software Review Enterprise 74

Chargify

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

While the math portion may be simple, tying revenue to reps and accurately tracking revenue performance over time is anything but simple—especially in a fast-paced segment like SaaS where any given rep could be selling different price points, billing frequencies, and even billing models like fixed-price vs. metered-usage. .

Payments 61

Payments SaaS Payments Scale Compensation 61

OpenView Labs

MARCH 16, 2021

The usage-based pricing model almost feels like a cheat code —it enables SaaS companies to more efficiently acquire new customers, grow with those customers as they’re successful, and keep those customers on the platform. It more closely aligns payment with a customer’s consumption, thereby impacting cash flow and revenue recognition.

Pricing 52

Pricing Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 52

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Your SaaS company likely uses a CRM and/or payment processing software, and the data required to compute these core metrics can be all over the place. Integrating innovative software that can cull MRR values from CRM and payment processing systems is a valuable shortcut. Table of Contents.

SaaS Payments 111

SaaS Payments Engineering Payment Methods Payment Solutions 111

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

While the phrase "equity financing" is often used to refer to the funding of publicly traded businesses, the term is also applied to private company financing. Baremetrics is a business metrics tool that provides 26 metrics about your business, such as MRR, ARR, LTV, total customers, and more. Table of Contents.

Finance 98

Finance Venture Capital SaaS Payments Payments 98

Kellblog

AUGUST 7, 2019

I’ve been asked about this a few times lately, less because people value my accounting knowledge [1] but rather because people are curious about the CAC impact of such deals and how to compensate sales on them. The question on my mind is how do I look at this from a new ARR bookings, ending ARR, CAC, and sales compensation perspective?

Deferred Revenue 74

Deferred Revenue Pricing Payments SaaS Payments 74

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

And if you also look at the platform as a service category, that’s also an additional $50 billion of spend, and that’s typically with those same vendors. So the ability to do flexible payment plans, financing, retire that pre-committed spend has been a really significant a way for us to accelerate and amplify our transactions.

Scale 203

Scale Marketplace as a Service Cloud SaaS Payments 203

SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

Algolia went from zero to seven figures in revenue in 12 months, and the launch of their search as a service product, and grew pricing from $19 a month to $100,000, which sounds amazing. They built themselves into a core platform for HR 2.0 Enterprise is maybe around 60% of our revenue, it’s not the whole deal.

Sales Hiring 239

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Payment Methods 239

Baremetrics

AUGUST 11, 2021

GAAP is important to SaaS Businesses. Revenue recognition, as per GAAP, states that payment is recognized as revenue after delivering the product or service in its entirety. Of course, that’s not how SaaS revenue works. (We We wrote more about revenue recognition here!) Revenues 3. Table of Contents.

Payment Methods 59

Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Features Payment Services 59

OPEXEngine

JANUARY 11, 2022

There are many vendor benefits, too — it is easier to sell and it embodies a customer success solution orientation that drives high customer lifetime value and revenue. These contracts are very common in ‘revenue share’ models (i.e., Less predictable revenue. Pay for performance compensation plan. Four pricing models.

Pricing 52

Pricing Payment Solutions Outsourced Development Compensation 52

Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

From sales & marketing alignment to SaaS salespeople compensation. If you are satisfied with your sales model and need to learn about employee compensation model, just skip the first article. (3 SaaS Sales team compensation . And from SaaS sales models to SaaS pricing. Did we miss anything? Hopefully, no. . Really 10%?].

SaaS Payments 157

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 157

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. Product: Broaden the use cases for your product and look for ways to more seamlessly integrate into the user’s workflow. Explore Untapped Revenue Streams.

Payment Services 80

Payment Services Benchmarks SaaS Payments Merchant Services 80

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

OPEXEngine

APRIL 23, 2020

If you haven’t seen the results from the past two poll results, you can click here for the Changes to SaaS Sales Quotas, Territories, and Commission Payments results. In the next few weeks we will be delivering the updated 2020 SaaS Benchmarking in our all-new BenchmarkEngine™ platform. Please click here to take this poll.

Sales Hiring 59

Sales Hiring Benchmarks Payments Compensation 59

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

If you want to see your business metrics on an easy-to-use dashboard, sign up for the Baremetrics free trial and get started. According to this approach, to value an equity stake in a private company, an interested person looks for a similar, but publicly-traded company to compare specific financial growth metrics.

Payment Methods 81

Payment Methods SaaS Payments Compensation Payment Services 81

Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

Selling has changed since Predictable Revenue was published. In 2002, Aaron Ross's Predictable Revenue playbook from his time at Salesforce was published. It shared the repeatable process to operationalize sales, particularly sales development. Here comes the problem with the Predictable Revenue playbook.

SaaS Payments 77

SaaS Payments Technical Advisors Engineering Payment Solutions 77

SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. They process billions annually for platforms like Constant Contact, GoFundMe, Ecwid, Infusionsoft, Meetup, Freshbooks & Zoho. Want to see more content like this?

Payment Services 135

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 135

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Payment Structure: 3 payments (at close, 12 months & 18 months). Though, at this point, everyone other than me will be staying on (with their same compensation as well). What I can say is Baremetrics won’t be immediately integrated in to some other product or shut down. How we got here. Fixed outcome.

Technical Review 145

Technical Review Software Review Payment Solutions Payments 145

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Account-Based Everything / Revenue. Annual Recurring Revenue. Analytics is the active study of different types of data with the aim of discovering meaningful patterns and translating these into insight (such as historical analyses and forecasts), or action (such as those intended to improve business performance). . AB Testing.

Scale 99

Scale Payment Methods Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments 99

OpenView Labs

MARCH 18, 2020

Defer payment terms if you can. Experience in previous downturns suggests that cost-side value drivers are more compelling than revenue growth value drivers. When the economy is contracting, buyers are looking for ways to cut costs and are skeptical about claims that a product or service will help to grow revenues.

Pricing 57

Pricing Payment Solutions Payments Healthcare 57

Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

In 2016, I co-authored a book for Wiley called “ Customer Success: How Innovative Companies Are Reducing Churn and Growing Recurring Revenue ” ( Também está disponível em português! ) Sales Process Engagement. Metering / Billing / Payment Process. Your Recurring Revenue. Customer Acquisition.

Customer Success 136

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 136

Outseta

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Indie.VC (V3) Website: [link] Key Personnel: Bryce Roberts Revenue Requirement: Post revenue, but no minimum requirement. Board Seat: No Investment Docs: [link] Application Deadline: March 1, 2019 Apply Here: [link] Indie VC is the OG on this block and describes itself as “growth revenue for post-revenue companies.”

SaaS Payments 102

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments SaaS 102

Baremetrics

MAY 7, 2019

Company C was funded by pre-orders from customers, a friends and family round, and then through revenue-based financing for a period of time. Dictionaries and founders alike can’t agree on the definition of what it means to bootstrap a business. Bootstrapping purists insist on only using revenue from customers to fund the business.

Finance 111

Finance Startup SaaS Payments Payment Methods 111

SmartKarrot

JULY 17, 2020

It helps you delve into the compensation structure of the customer success managers along with the burning salary trends. CSM Compensation Structure. While there is an ongoing debate in the customer success business over the best customer success manager salary structure , most of these compensations center around this: Base Plan.

Compensation 10

Compensation Customer Success Trends Management 10

SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2019

Depending on size and stage, variable compensation can be one of a company’s highest expense items, and a thoughtful approach is key. So I like to say that if sales is like a train, then sales compensation is the driver. Get into the weeds, define that metric. Want to see more content like this? All right, we got that.

Sales Recruiting 132

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Sales 132

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Our second sponsor is Outreach , the number one sales engagement platform. And that includes things like registration and payments, messaging, communications, and how they really lead their community in sports activities and programs. That means about 10 million people have registered through our platform. Go to go.regie.io.

Leadership 63

Leadership Payments Scale Payment Methods 63

SmartKarrot

JUNE 1, 2022

Bookings, Billings, and Revenue are linked to each other. As a B2B SaaS business owner, you should be aware of the differences between these terms and understand them very clearly. Understanding Bookings, Billings, and Revenue. Billings in SaaS Business. Revenue in SaaS Business. Like what you are reading?

Payments 10

Payments SaaS Payments B2B Revenue 10

SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

So I think that is somewhat of a good news in this in that SaaS businesses are sticky. And so while the churn I don’t want to minimize it, stable base of revenue should be able to maintain that through the year. How do we make them feel part of the team and integrate them? Companies tend to stick around.

Sales Hiring 160

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 160

Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Meta Creator Compensation for AI Chatbots Meta is investing heavily in creators , with a whopping $5 million deal for a top creator’s contribution to AI chatbots. Explore Meta’s creator programs to potentially monetize your contributions. Explore these quality options to optimize video content on the platform.

Social Media 86

Social Media AI Search Payments AI 86

SaaStr

AUGUST 5, 2020

Business, the customers are getting impacted. Timelines’ longer for fundraising for closing customers and payments get delayed. And that’s probably not so much in a down market like this, where investors really care about the metrics and the unit economics. They deserve to be compensated as much as possible.

Technical Review 144

Technical Review Payment Methods Travel Development Team Review 144

OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Because the temptation is always once you start having customers and revenues are growing, things like that, is just to kind of, what we call drag the spreadsheets. So I've had product in there, I've had platform in there, but on that thing, whatever it is I'm working on. So it becomes revenue generating for me.

Payment Methods 40

Payment Methods Software Review Technical Review Payment Solutions 40

OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Because the temptation is always once you start having customers and revenues are growing, things like that, is just to kind of, what we call drag the spreadsheets. So I've had product in there, I've had platform in there, but on that thing, whatever it is I'm working on. So it becomes revenue generating for me.

Payment Methods 140

Payment Methods Software Review Technical Review Payment Solutions 140