SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2024

But they are ar $780,000,000+ in ARR, with an 86 NPS and strong revenue growth at 29% overall and 49% in subscriptions (yes, it’s confusing). New Customers Still Growing 22% at Scale. For me, Net New Customer Count has become the metric I obsess the most about at scale. Is this the new bar to IPO in SaaS?

Scale 187

Scale Pricing Scaling Cloud 187

SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2024

It’s still time to invest! Procore is still growing its customer count by a healthy 10% a year at scale. Just Starting to Get into Payments, Working Capital and Insurance / Fintech Procore is just starting to get into payments and fintech … at $1 Billion in ARR. growth slows more than planned). #3.

Scale 200

Scale Payment Services Payment Features Construction 200

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

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?

Payment Services 89

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Features Payments 89

Clouded Judgement

APRIL 19, 2024

There is some noise in the revenue growth figures as the company transitions from selling perpetual licenses to to recurring subscriptions, and as they convert maintenance customers to subscription customers (they do this as maintenance contracts come up for renewal, so the transition happens gradually).

Cloud 141

Cloud Scale Subscription Payment Features 141

Buffer Resources

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

But, she’s also made the intentional decision to scale back over the past couple of years, stopping her work with subcontractors, cutting down client projects to what she could manage on her own, and reducing her revenue by over $100,000.    Location: Appleton, Wisconsin Initial capital invested: Very little!

Scale 113

Scale Scaling Payment Solutions Payment Services 113

Stax

MARCH 26, 2024

Learn More Understanding Online Terminals (aka Virtual Terminals) An online terminal, often called a virtual terminal, is a web-based application that enables online payments without needing a physical credit card machine or POS (Point of Sale) system. Training the terminal’s users Invest in solid training for your staff.

Payment Methods 88

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Services Payments 88

FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Note: From global payment processing to global VAT and sales tax management, FastSpring is the easiest way to sell around the world. Schedule a demo to learn how we can help you scale across borders to go farther faster. Kurt started his career in FinTech as a PM at Envestnet (NYSE: ENV) while the company scaled through an IPO.

Pricing 118

Pricing Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments 118

Blulogix

JANUARY 24, 2024

Evaluating the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of a Robust Subscription Billing Platform By BluLogix Team When selecting a subscription billing platform , it’s important to consider more than just the upfront cost. Once you’ve gathered data on these factors, you can calculate the overall ROI of your BluIQ investment.

Subscription 52

Subscription Payment Features compliance Customer Lifetime Value 52

Blulogix

MARCH 7, 2024

By BluLogix Team Mastering the Art of Complex B2B Recurring and Subscription Billing: Conquering Metering Challenges As the subscription economy grows, B2B businesses are increasingly adopting usage-based, consumption, and SaaS metering models.

B2B 52

B2B Subscription Payment Features Systems Review 52

Blulogix

JANUARY 24, 2024

How to Evaluate the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of a Robust Subscription Billing Platform By BluLogix Team When selecting a subscription billing platform , it’s important to consider more than just the upfront cost. Once you’ve gathered data on these factors, you can calculate the overall ROI of your BluIQ investment.

Subscription 52

Subscription Payment Features Systems Review Customer Lifetime Value 52

Blulogix

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Accelerating Subscription Business Growth with Usage-Based Pricing By BluLogix Team The subscription business model has long been recognized as a steady path to recurring revenue and business growth. The Evolution of Pricing Traditionally, subscription businesses offered fixed-rate plans.

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Subscription Payment Features Pricing Business 52

FastSpring

MAY 14, 2019

However, our expectations for the quality of the software continue to grow and outpace any current investments. Here’s how your company can benefit from switching from a perpetual license to a subscription plan. Reason #1: Subscriptions support product innovation. Reason #1: Subscriptions support product innovation.

Payment Features 71

Payment Features Payment Methods Subscription Payment Services 71

SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2021

It’s just, to invest in sales and marketing now, and make those extra hires, the burn rate is growing even faster at 12% a month after $100k MRR. Is investing in marketing programs with a CAC of ~ 12 months. You need some more room to experiment and make mistakes as you scale. This sounds about right. More on that here.

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Sales Hiring Scale Payment Features Finance 308

ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The subscription revenue model is hardly new. But in the past few years, subscriptions have seen a bit of a resurgence. In fact, you'd be hard-pressed to find an industry that hasn't seen at least one subscription success story: Cars. Even the humble houseplant doesn’t seem immune to the subscription economy.

Payment Features 74

Payment Features Payments Subscription Revenue 74

Chart Mogul

MARCH 30, 2020

So you're building an awesome subscription business — great! Billing is the lifeline of your subscription business. However, if they start to cause issues, the faults will grow to a massive scale. Subscription management platform (optional). Payment gateway. First, let’s start with the billing systems.

Payment Solutions 90

Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Features SaaS Payments 90

FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Revenue refers to the total earnings a company generates through its core operations like sales of products or services, rents on a property, recurring payments , interest on borrowings, etc. Capital gains, interest earned on investments, sales of assets, or other miscellaneous earnings are not considered revenue.

Payments 88

Payments Payment Methods Payment Features Payment Services 88

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

From a Go-To-Market perspective, Zapier uses a hybrid model that involves a combination of freemium offerings, subscription plans, and partnerships. GC thinks about building out your Go-To-Market team in 3 ways: Short vs. long-term needs Product maturity Experimental vs. scale Short-term vs. long-term needs. Experimental vs. Scale.

Scale 249

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Marketing 249

OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

While we aren’t going 100% usage-based overnight, if you look at some of the mega-trends in software—things like automation, AI, and APIs—the value of a product normally doesn’t scale with more folks logging in. But growing with a usage-model is not as straightforward as traditional subscription SaaS. Land-and-expand is real.

Scale 98

Scale Pricing Scaling AWS 98

Neil Patel

APRIL 12, 2021

They offer some of the best-known subscription boxes around, reflecting an increasingly popular (and potentially lucrative) business model. Why Should You Launch a Subscription Box? According to MarketsandMarkets , the subscription and recurring billing market will grow to around $7.8 Recurring Business Revenue.

Outsourcing Services 123

Outsourcing Services Payment Methods Subscription Payment Features 123

SaaStr

DECEMBER 21, 2022

And it proves just how long a life so many B2B products have — especially if you keep investing in them. #5. Adobe is almost 100% subscription revenue based now. I actually hadn’t looked at this in a while, but Adobe is essentially 100% recurring revenue, subscription-based revenue.

Scale 254

Scale Cloud Subscription Payment Features 254

Blulogix

JANUARY 12, 2024

The Role of Data Integration in Selecting a Billing Platform By BluLogix Team Welcome to the eleventh entry in our in-depth series on choosing the ideal subscription billing platform. In this installment, we turn our focus to an often-underestimated yet vital element for success in subscription billing : data integration.

Payments 52

Payments Payment Services Payment Features Payment Solutions 52

SaaStr

OCTOBER 13, 2022

ChartMogul is an analytics platform to help you run your subscription business. Our mission is to build powerful and secure cloud software for subscription businesses of all sizes, with a strong emphasis on good design and ease of use.

GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 183

GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Azure AWS Enterprise readiness 183

Clouded Judgement

APRIL 11, 2024

As a public company with significant scale, it’s hard to grow quickly if you have to rely solely on new customers for that growth. To calculate implied ARR I take the subscription revenue in a quarter and multiply it by 4. This is for information purposes and should not be construed as an investment recommendation.

Cloud 169

Cloud Software Azure AWS 169

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

This episode is an excerpt from a session at SaaStr Scale. million subscriptions transacted and Google’s marketplace has seen 3X growth in SaaS sales. It’s definitely an investment that requires that kind of executive level visibility. Jabari Norton, VP WW Partner and Alliances, Sumo Logic. Rico Mallozzi, Sr.

Scale 191

Scale Marketplace as a Service Cloud SaaS Payments 191

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

So how can you leverage that product’s success to obtain the valuation and funding you need to scale? I’m talking about product-led growth as an investment strategy, but really my background is 10 years of operating experience in the product-led growth world. Now I’m investing in that. So, OpenView worked out for me.

Investment 100

Investment Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Software Review 100

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2023

A high-scale, modern outbound has extremely good CAC and scale. Cold Emails That Actually Work With AI, creating personalized emails at scale has gotten a lot easier than it used to be. If you can’t get someone to pay for your product, there’s no need to try and scale that. And no, not your mother’s outbound.”

Scale 195

Scale Sales Hiring AI Banking 195

Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 19, 2024

Subscribe now The Bar For Going Public There’s a lot of talk recently about “are IPO markets open” or “what scale do I need to get public.” There are very few companies that ever get to $200m, let alone can sustain 50%+ growth at >$100m ARR scale. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Cloud 177

Cloud Scale Compensation Metrics 177

Clouded Judgement

MARCH 22, 2024

Companies will often times build out early functionality with a dedicated vector database, but then when it comes time to scale it out and deploy to end customers they’ll go with MongoDB (or some other larger player) who they already have an enterprise relationship with (know it scales, already through security review, know the costs, etc).

AI 183

AI Revenue Cloud Technical Advisors 183

Clouded Judgement

APRIL 5, 2024

They’ve shown they can hit escape velocity, at scale, with profitability. My point of this post is simply to point out some of the challenges that arise from a hype round at an “at scale” valuation. They’re playing an option value game, where each investment is treated as a deep out of the money call option.

Cloud 161

Cloud Scale Pricing Revenue 161

Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The hyperscalers benefit from massive scale, distribution, trust and depth of customer relationships in ways no other software companies do. Most public companies don’t report net new ARR, so I’m taking an implied ARR metric (quarterly subscription revenue x 4). Altimeter is an investment adviser registered with the U.S.

Cost optimization & reporting 161

Cost optimization & reporting Cloud Azure AWS 161

Chart Mogul

MARCH 30, 2020

So you're building an awesome subscription business — great! Billing is the lifeline of your subscription business. However, if they start to cause issues, the faults will grow to a massive scale. Subscription management platform (optional). Payment gateway. First, let’s start with the billing systems.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Features SaaS Payments 52

Baremetrics

JULY 22, 2021

This is why PayPal users love Baremetrics, the ultimate business analytics solution that helps SaaS and subscription businesses monitor and understand subscription data. Recurring Payments Profile Report s are accessible to merchants or payment processing partners who have already integrated the Recurring Payments Product.

PayPal 98

PayPal Merchant Services Payments SaaS Payments 98

SaaSOptics

MARCH 10, 2022

Is your company taking advantage of CFO tools like automated invoicing, database management, and automatic tax-compliance updates? Spreadsheets quickly become unwieldy for a scaling SaaS company; SaaSOptics is the financial reporting tool you’ll never outgrow. Invoicing and ePay Tools. If not, read on. Finance and Billing Tools.

Payment Services 87

Payment Services SaaS Payments Payments Payment Solutions 87

SaaStr

JANUARY 15, 2021

Spending more on R&D at scale, not less. R&D) … and that ballooned to as much as 44% under SAP (re-investing in product) … and now has come down to 31% as the company marches again to being a stand-alone company. but the biggest reminder and take-away is you have to invest heavily in your product forever. #3.

Enterprise 243

Enterprise Scaling Investment Revenue 243

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Fast forward to today when most software companies use a Subscription as a service (SaaS business model , and things aren’t as simple. You have to deal with recurring payments, multiple pricing plans, annual vs monthly payments, add-ons, variable payments and the list goes on. SaaS analytics tools fill that gap.

Payment Solutions 105

Payment Solutions Merchant Services Systems Review SaaS Payments 105

Valuize Consulting

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

To scale and grow efficiently and effectively, enterprise organizations need to divide their customers into distinctive groups, based on a number of key considerations. While investment in all customers is crucial, that investment should be commensurate with the strategic nature and investment that customer is making in you.

Scale 52

Scale Scaling Outsourced Development Investment 52

Valuize Consulting

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

To scale and grow efficiently and effectively, enterprise organizations need to divide their customers into distinctive groups, based on a number of key considerations. While investment in all customers is crucial, that investment should be commensurate with the strategic nature and investment that customer is making in you.

Scale 52

Scale Scaling Outsourced Development Investment 52