Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In the case of a SaaS business, your most valuable assets are the contracts you have with your clients and the platform they use. Speaking of your users, it is important to understand how much revenue they are generating with the best possible estimates of your MRR and ARR. How are balance sheets unique for SaaS? Fixed assets 3.

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SaaS Payments Deferred Revenue Outsourcing Services Payments 93

ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Scheduled payments, aka recurring billing. Scheduled payments have become a core form of revenue collection. Of course, recurring payments vary depending on the business. As the subscription universe continues to expand, you can expect to see even more subscription payment plans. What are subscription payments?

Merchant Services 68

Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Features Payment Services 68

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Since the original version of this post from early 2017, we’ve worked with many more SaaS companies and a common theme has been moving companies from a starter template to a more robust financial model. This model allowed me to work with dozens of SaaS startups using spreadsheets, while we built our financial modeling software Flightpath.

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Deferred Revenue SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Services 111

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

You can often find yourself receiving money long before you provide agreed upon services or, conversely, providing services and then waiting for payment. But, what are the accounting ramifications of customers paying you before you render services? This puts you in the position of having “unearned revenue”.

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Payments Payment Services Deferred Revenue Revenue 97

Kellblog

MARCH 6, 2019

Enterprise SaaS has drifted to a model where many, if not most, companies do multi-year contracts on annual payment terms. Most enterprise SaaS products are high-consideration purchases. Most SaaS vendors will jump at the opportunity to lock in a longer subscription term. How did we get here?

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services Payments 73

Kellblog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

I might call this intentional MRR, much like signing up for a SaaS service on a month-to-month basis [2]. Why does the phrase “recurring revenue” appear exactly zero times in Snowflake’s 10-Q ? And what’s the impact on your other SaaS metrics? Hence, the revenue recurred.

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Metrics SaaS Payments SaaS Payment Features 131

Kellblog

AUGUST 7, 2019

In this post we’re going to look at the management accounting side of multi-year SaaS deals that grow in value over time. Say you sign a three-year deal with a customer that ramps in payment structure: year 1 costs $1M, year 2 costs $2M, and year 3 costs $3M. Let’s take an example from this KPMG data sheet on ASC 606 and SaaS.

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Deferred Revenue Pricing Payments SaaS Payments 74