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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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Best Invoicing Procedures: How to Handle Invoices for Small Businesses

Baremetrics

Invoicing is a sales process where a seller issues a commercial document to a buyer requesting payment. This document shows all products and services rendered, the payment owed, and the contact details of both the buyer and the seller. Invoicing can be done for both recurring and one-time payments.

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What is Recurring Billing?

Baremetrics

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?

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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.

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5 Holiday Promotion Strategies for SaaS and Software Sellers to Increase Customer Lifetime Value

FastSpring

The end of the year is the perfect time to show appreciation for your existing customers in ways that build loyalty and boost sales. We asked five SaaS and software companies what they did for existing customers around the holidays. Repeat customers also get several charges waived for our services,” CEO Gary Tailor explained.

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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 ?” or “ What are the best tips I can get in terms of annual vs monthly subscription models ?”. Boring, right?).

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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. These renewals frequently go unnoticed, and managers and their teams only become aware of them when the invoice shows up on their desks. Payments are applied, invoices are prepared, and orders are generated.