SaaStr

MARCH 14, 2024

So RevenueCat (where I was fortunate enough to be the first investor) now is the embedded mobile subscription API for 30,000 (!) So they do have interesting data. Their 2024 State of Subscription Apps Report is out , and here were my top learnings: #1. 70% of Mobile Subscription Apps Now Offer Free Trials, At Least in Part.

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Mobile Subscription Payment Features Pricing 320

Clouded Judgement

JULY 16, 2024

Our platform unifies core financial and broader operational data and processes within a single platform, with solutions that maintain the integrity of corporate reporting standards for Finance while providing operationally significant insights for business users.

Benchmarks 298

Benchmarks Data Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning 298

SaaStr

MAY 15, 2024

In this week’s Workshop Wednesday, RevenueCat CEO Jacob Eiting and Growth Advocate David Barnard share their annual State of Subscription Apps report with us. So, let’s look at the state of subscription apps and how B2B SaaS can learn from it. Churn is much higher on consumer subscriptions, but you have higher expansion revenue.

Payment Features 301

Payment Features Subscription B2B Mobile 301

SaaStr

JANUARY 8, 2025

As Checkr follows usage-based pricing, it’s a transactional business that needs to be managed differently than a typical subscription SaaS model since they only earn revenue when the customer is using the product. Lindsey found a way to track this data, then brought it into every meeting.

Revenue 293

Revenue Scale Sales Hiring Compensation 293

Clouded Judgement

AUGUST 25, 2023

Klaviyo Overview From the S1 - “Klaviyo enables businesses to drive revenue growth by making it easy to bring their first-party data together and use it to create and deliver highly personalized consumer experiences across digital channels. ” “Data Layer. ” “Data Layer.

Benchmarks 246

Benchmarks Artificial Intelligence Data Software Review 246

Clouded Judgement

MARCH 28, 2025

Data from Stripe (below) shows the speed at which AI native companies are growing compared to SaaS companies. If you wanted to scale users and growth, you needed to scale a physical data infrastructure footprint. If we look at the NetSuite S-1 (filed in 2007) they said this: “We use a single data center to deliver our services.

Cloud 302

Cloud AI Scale Scaling 302

SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2025

This is pretty common in the prosumer space and especially in mobile subscription apps. uploading data, inviting team members, completing a setup checklist) and make sure every customer hits those milestones. Dear SaaStr: We Have More Than 20% Churn Our First Month. What Should We Do? If they don’t, they’re at risk of churning.

Churn 206

Churn Onboarding Mobile B2B 206

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 1, 2025

Delivering great AI customer service depends on more than just sophisticated AI models – it relies on real-time data and access to business systems like CRMs, billing platforms, and past conversations. MCP integrations rely on two key roles: Clients (like Fin) that request and use external data.

Data 104

Data AI Business Benchmarks 104

Tom Tunguz

APRIL 1, 2024

Rubrik, a Palo Alto-based data security company, filed their S-1 yesterday. y/y, estimated sales efficiency is 0.11, & contribution margins are negative : Rubrik sells $1 of subscription software for $0.88. Half of new customers are over $100,000 in size & contract values have grown 19% from $101k to $120k in a year.

Data 219

Data Subscription Payment Features Cloud 219

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Rather than committing to single solutions, successful companies are: Testing multiple AI models continuously Using self-served platforms for rapid experimentation Empowering engineers to make model-selection decisions Avoiding long-term vendor lock-in Data Management Data quality and integration have emerged as critical factors in successful AI implementation. (..)

AI 220

AI Technical Review Artificial Intelligence Systems Review 220

Blulogix

JANUARY 3, 2025

By Inga Broerman Preparing for Regulatory Changes in Subscription Management The subscription economy is thriving, with businesses worldwide adopting models that offer flexibility, scalability, and recurring revenue streams. impose strict requirements on how businesses handle customer data.

Payment Features 52

Payment Features Subscription Management compliance 52

Blulogix

DECEMBER 5, 2024

By BluLogix Team Navigating Complex Pricing Models in the Subscription Economy Introduction In the subscription economy, Managed Service Providers (MSPs) must adapt to increasingly complex pricing models to meet the evolving needs of their customers. Gone are the days of simple, one-size-fits-all pricing.

Payment Features 59

Payment Features Subscription Pricing Technical Review 59

Buffer Resources

DECEMBER 19, 2024

This according to the decentralized social platform ’s Chief Operating Officer, Rose Wang , who shared details about the company’s plans to create a way for creators to monetize, along with a subscription model, in the coming months. “That's just not the point of the subscriptions.”

Payments 115

Payments Payment Methods Payment Features Subscription 115

Blulogix

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

By Inga Broerman How High-Performing Subscription Businesses Maximize NRR For subscription-based businesses, Net Revenue Retention (NRR) is the ultimate measure of growth and sustainability. High-performing subscription businesses use NRR as a growth engine , ensuring that renewals and expansions outpace any losses from churn.

Payment Features 59

Payment Features Subscription Payments Payment Services 59

FastSpring

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Offload the Complexities of Payments, Subscriptions, and Subscription Management to FastSpring Job to be done: You want to use WooCommerce and WordPress as a CMS, but want to leverage a Merchant of Record to manage payments, subscriptions, and subscription management. Add a Subscription to Cart PHP & Javascript <?

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Subscription Payment Features Merchant Services Payment Methods 158

Blulogix

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

By Kegham Khrigian The New Standard for Subscription Renewals: Intelligent, Automated, and Scalable For subscription businesses, renewals are the foundation of predictable revenue and long-term growth. Subscription models thrive on automation, accuracy, and data-driven decision-making and renewals should be no different.

Payment Features 59

Payment Features Subscription Payments Payment Services 59

Blulogix

DECEMBER 23, 2024

By Inga Broerman How Usage-Based Pricing is Transforming Subscription Billing The subscription economy is undergoing a transformation, driven by the rising popularity of usage-based pricing. The days of flat-rate subscriptions being the default option are gone. Your ERP cannot bill usage subscriptions.

Payment Features 52

Payment Features Subscription Pricing Artificial Intelligence 52

Subscription Flow

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Some of the pitfalls that come with unplanned billing migration are faulty revenue reporting, data duplication, and customer churn. Growing businesses need to integrate with external systems such as CRM or accounting systems, to avoid data silos. Having all your data in one place is essential to track your operations.

Payment Solutions 105

Payment Solutions Payment Services Systems Review SaaS Payments 105

Blulogix

JANUARY 2, 2025

By Inga Broerman How Industry Consolidation is Reshaping Subscription Billing The subscription economy is on a path of rapid growth and transformation, projected to reach a $3 trillion valuation in 2024. These insights empower businesses to make data-driven decisions and adapt to market changes quickly.

Payment Features 52

Payment Features Payments Subscription Payment Solutions 52

USIO

AUGUST 19, 2024

Simplify Subscription Payments with SaaS Solution Say goodbye to long, confusing, and costly payment processes. Say hello to efficiency and simplicity with advanced SaaS payment solutions for subscription services. Managing payments can be one of the most challenging aspects of running a subscription-based business.

Payment Solutions 130

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments 130

Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 24, 2025

While cutting-edge language models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities, most are primarily trained on open internet data. In AI terminology, “generalizing” refers to a model’s ability to apply learned knowledge to new tasks or unseen data. This is what I’m calling “Enterprise AI.”

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Enterprise Cloud AI Artificial Intelligence 159

SaaStr

DECEMBER 25, 2022

RevenueCat (where I was lucky enough to be the first investor) automates subscription management for mobile apps. It recently published its annual review of data from the 10,000+ mobile apps it powers subscription management for and I learned a few interesting things: Longer Trials Are Better. More on the data here.

Mobile 329

Mobile Subscription Payment Features Data 329

SaaStr

APRIL 9, 2025

Or … the established leaders, who can add AI onto their apps and not just expose vastly more functionality, but leverage all that existing customer data, to create something brand new and fresh? Subscription backlog up 19.7%, to $25 Billion (!). The hot new start-ups, rocketing to $100m ARR in record time? We’re watching.

Outsourcing Services 287

Outsourcing Services Scale Systems Review AI 287

Blulogix

JANUARY 6, 2025

By Inga Broerman The 2025 Blueprint for Scalable Growth in the Subscription Economy The subscription economy is entering a pivotal year. To succeed, subscription-based organizations must embrace smarter, more integrated approaches to billing, management, and strategy.

Payment Features 52

Payment Features Subscription AI Search compliance 52

Chart Mogul

MAY 29, 2025

Were excited to bring AI-based enrichment to every ChartMogul customer, across both CRM and Subscription Analytics. What began as an internal tool to enhance our own customer data quickly evolved into something much more impactful. Late last year, we quietly rolled out an AI-powered enrichment feature to a small group of customers.

AI 52

AI Data Headcount Subscription 52

Blulogix

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Here are some specific recommendations for UCaaS companies looking to simplify their monetization: Centralize Pricing Data in a Unified Catalog : advanced catalog management allows you to maintain all your pricing models in a single, centralized system.

Pricing 110

Pricing B2B Subscription Payment Features 110

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

You might be surprised to know that SaaS companies can learn a lot from their consumer subscription counterparts. 4: High-end sales teams Increasingly, SaaS organizations leverage inside sales teams, since selling subscriptions is easier and less of a commitment than selling enterprise software. 3: Make onboarding seamless.

Subscription 52

Subscription Payment Features SaaS Payments B2B 52

SaaStr

MAY 25, 2024

RevenueCat is the dominant solution to manage subscriptions in the mobile world. mobile apps with a subscription use their API/SDK, and they have a massive data set. But many of the largest SaaS and B2B vendors, from Notion to other leaders, use RevenueCat as well to manage mobile subscriptions. Over 30% of U.S.

B2C 305

B2C Mobile B2B Subscription 305

SaaStr

APRIL 14, 2025

Head of AI Dialpad: How to Build AI at Scale GTM/ B2B Speakers: CEO HubSpot Yamini Rangan: Going More Multiproduct, Going More AI, and Going More SMB and More Enterprise CEO Dropbox Drew Houston: DropBoxs Third Act: AI & Content Intelligence CEO Calendly, Tope Awotona Open AMA and AI in 2026 CEO Clio, Jack Newton: Reaccelerating Vertical SaaS to (..)

VP of Engineering 203

VP of Engineering CTO Coach VPCs (Virtual Private Cloud) Scale 203

Clouded Judgement

MAY 16, 2025

For those who don’t, I will take quarterly subscription revenue x 4 as a proxy for ARR. Most public companies don’t report net new ARR, so I’m taking an implied ARR metric (quarterly subscription revenue x 4). Companies that do not disclose subscription rev have been left out of the analysis and are listed as NA.

Trends 146

Trends Cloud Subscription Payment Features 146

Clouded Judgement

JUNE 19, 2024

In this post, I’ll take a data-driven approach in evaluating the overall group’s performance, and highlight individual standouts along the way. GCP data is a bit more noisy as they don’t disclose GCP itself, but rather Google Cloud which includes GSuite. Let’s get into some high level data.

Cloud 320

Cloud Software GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Azure 320

TechEmpower SaaS

JULY 24, 2023

What special data, content, APIs, etc., What’s the state of the relationships that brings you that data? eCommerce Does your startup run on a subscription model? How many kinds of subscriptions do you support? What are the rules for subscriptions? Member Profiles What data is included? Free trials?

Innovation 780

Innovation Development CTO Hire Technical Review 780

SaaStr

JUNE 12, 2021

Since the dawn of the age of the subscription, forcing people to keep paying to use some small part of a web service has been a common strategy. And making it hard to leave a subscription has probably been a strategy employed by some since the very first gym opened. Do you just give them a flat file of unstructured data?

Social Media 301

Social Media Scale Churn Subscription 301

SaaStr

AUGUST 11, 2024

RevenueCat is the market leader for managing mobile subscription apps, with over 30% of U.S.-based based mobile subscription apps using their SDK and API to manage mobile subsriptions. At SaaStr Annual in September , their CTO will present all the hard data on how it actually works. We led the U.S.

Cloud 300

Cloud AI Generative AI CTO 300

FastSpring

AUGUST 12, 2024

Throughout the year, sales and subscription management teams juggle hundreds or thousands of subscription upgrades, add-ons, and renewals across customer accounts. Create accurate proforma invoices for subscription renewals, upgrades, downgrades, and add-ons to streamline budgeting and pre-approve costs. Increase Renewal Rates.

Payment Features 147

Payment Features Payments Subscription Payment Services 147

FastSpring

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Some of the powerful capabilities you can unlock through Recipe Docs include: Capture Order Data from FastSpring Checkout : Allow for real-time access to transaction details for further processing or integration with your other systems. Encrypt the Session Object : Ensure secure, complaint handling of user data to protect user privacy.

Payment Methods 152

Payment Methods Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 152

SaaStr

DECEMBER 9, 2022

unlimited cashback up to the amount of their subscription. This means that you clearly understand your main pricing anchor and have precise data proving what your customers are willing to pay for your product or services. Customers receive 1.5% The Most Common Pitfalls of Pricing. They seldom will unless you have done your homework.

Data 245

Data Pricing Marketing Acquisition 245