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Subscription Finance: What is Customer Lifetime Value?

FastSpring

However, there’s one metric that doesn’t get as much attention—customer lifetime value. Since most SaaS and subscription-based businesses depend on recurring payments to sustain themselves, it can pay dividends to keep a close eye on lifetime value and customer retention rates.

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16 SaaS Account Management Best Practices

User Pilot

Managing customer accounts is a pretty tough job, but you know what’s even tougher? SaaS account management. With the emergence of software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies, the role of account managers has also evolved – and gotten harder. What is SaaS account management?

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Important Strategies for Enhancing SaaS Renewals Using SubscriptionFlow

Subscription Flow

In the fast-paced business environment of today, it is imperative to comprehend the significance of SaaS renewal management. You run the risk of losing out on important opportunities if your contracts are set to automatically renew and you do not have a strong SaaS renewal management system.

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CAC Payback Period: How to Calculate and Reduce It?

User Pilot

Reducing the CAC payback period can help SaaS companies boost their financial performance and drive growth. TL;DR The CAC payback period measures the time it takes for a company to recover the money invested in new customer acquisition. There are 3 main reasons why a SaaS company should track the CAC payback period.

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Annual vs Monthly Subscription for SaaS Businesses: Weighing the Pros and Cons

Incredo

Whether you are a startup owner, a manager of a growing business or the CEO of an established company, you might find yourself asking questions like “ Should our SaaS subscription model be monthly, annually or both ?” History of the subscription pricing model: From newspapers to the rise of SaaS subscription. Key finding?

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SaaS Financial Benchmarks by Baremetrics

Baremetrics

For SaaS companies, success depends highly on using key metrics to track financial growth and enhance visibility into all the key performance indicators. Another major interest is comparing one's growth and performance with other companies in similar SaaS niches. All the data your startup needs 1 What are SaaS financial Benchmarks?

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Understanding Subscription Revenue Management with a New Approach

Subscription Flow

Businesses are shifting from rigid, consumption-based business models to flexible ones that let users pay for the goods and services they use only as much as they use them. Therefore, reengineering the value chain and realigning teams to the new business model are necessary for this major shift.