Stax

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Here’s an interesting stat: 70% of businesses consider subscription and membership models indispensable for future commercial growth and expansion. They must engineer a well-rounded solution that makes handling subscriptions a breeze (and yes, it is as hard as it sounds). However, only 10% of them currently employ these models.

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FastSpring

APRIL 18, 2024

These include how to account for local pricing and preferred local payment methods, varied buyer behaviors, how to display checkouts with local languages, and much more — all of which can be different for every country you want to sell into. In this article, we focus specifically on price localization: What price localization is.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 17, 2023

Most subscription billing platforms let you: Automate invoicing and payments. Customize and manage one or more subscription and trial models. Provide a self-service portal to customers so they can manage their accounts (including payment information, seats, and more). Automated invoices and customer notifications.

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SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2024

But now a second SaaS security leader has filed to IPO, Rubrik. They’re still transitioning from onprem / appliciance model to cloud, which makes some of the metrics a touch 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.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Metrics are the key to evaluating success and setting goals, but not every SaaS business should orient itself around the same one-size-fits-all numbers. This flexible mindset creates just the right conditions for embracing evolving business models and new metrics. The Metric Monolith: The Rise and Fall.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 24, 2021

Running a SaaS or subscription business takes a lot of work, but you can save time by automating the subscription billing process with the help of the right payment system. Ultimately, subscription management requires the right payment processor, but that's just one tool in the stack. Scale your startup with ease.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

These two departments are a SaaS company’s most important; without their alignment, there is no growth or scale. was pretty simplified, mostly made up of annual or monthly subscriptions. While annual/monthly subscriptions still exist, they are more complex than ever. Governance is a critical component of how you grow and scale.

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Blulogix

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Demystifying UBP: Models and Metrics – A Deep Dive into Your Pricing Playground By BluLogix Team Welcome, B2B pioneers, to the playground of UBP models and metrics! While the idea of usage-based pricing might seem exhilarating, navigating its intricacies can feel like deciphering an ancient scroll. Subscription Billing 1.

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Blulogix

MARCH 15, 2024

By BluLogix Team Mastering the Art of Complex B2B Recurring and Subscription Billing: Achieving End-to-End Automation In the competitive arena of B2B subscription s , the quest for operational excellence is unending. Take your business further with BluIQ’s flexible, scalable, enterprise-grade intelligent billing solutions.

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Blulogix

APRIL 11, 2024

By BluLogix Team Mastering the Art of Complex B2B Recurring and Subscription Billing: Conquering Channel Business Management In the dynamic landscape of B2B subscription models, channel business management emerges as a pivotal strategy for expanding market reach and enhancing product distribution.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 24, 2023

From the messaging, positioning, and pricing models, every little detail needs to be perfect for product-led growth to take off. TL;DR Usage-based pricing is a consumption-based pricing model that charges customers based on how much they use a product (instead of at a flat monthly rate). What is usage-based pricing?

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Pricing your software correctly is a crucial part of selling software , but sometimes it’s hard to know if you’re on the right track with your pricing strategy. We’re sharing some tips for setting up a pricing model that attracts and retains long-term customers for your software company. Benchmark Growth with Measurable Metrics.

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

This is why we’re seeing more and more SaaS companies—Datadog, Twilio, AWS, Snowflake, and Stripe, to name a few—find success with product led growth paired with usage-based pricing. Usage-based pricing will be the key to successful monetization in the future.”. Usage-based pricing is in all layers of the tech stack.

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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?

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Chart Mogul

JUNE 24, 2021

Pricing localization is a strategy where you present the price of your SaaS differently depending on where the customer lives. You may also hear it referred to as multi-currency pricing or localized pricing. The answer is likely no because there’s no such thing as a universal price, even for an identical house.

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Clouded Judgement

APRIL 19, 2024

Subscribe now Rubrik IPO Update This week Rubrik launched their IPO with an initial pricing range of $28 - $31 / share. Rubrik’s subscription ARR was $784m at the end of 2023 and growing 47% YoY. NTM revenue multiple for a business growing >40% (at significant scale) that is operating at roughly breakeven.

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Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Chargebee for your online payment processing needs? Stripe supports online payments for e-commerce businesses, while Chargebee helps SaaS companies set up and manage their recurring payments. For example, you can integrate Chargebee with Stripe accept payments through the Stripe payment gateway.

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Baremetrics

JANUARY 24, 2021

This article will discuss the relationship between price change and customer retention. If I raise the price, will customers leave? The biggest challenge that leaders face is understanding how to think about price optimization and customer retention with the right framework. Does my new price make customers unsubscribe sooner?

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Clouded Judgement

APRIL 11, 2024

Through these interactions, I’ve built up mental benchmarks for metrics on which I place extra emphasis. My hope is that this analysis can provide startup entrepreneurs with a framework for how to manage their businesses around SaaS metrics (e.g., This has all resulted in the median stock price declining 5% YTD.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Pricing page best practices are particularly important since complicated pricing drives away leads that would otherwise contact sales. In this guide, we’re going to go over 13 best practices for designing a pricing page that converts! Mailchimp has a comparison table on its pricing page to help visitors compare plans.

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User Pilot

APRIL 23, 2023

Do you know which product health metrics to track to achieve long-term success for your SaaS business? The right metrics and data will offer valuable product growth insights to help you make data-driven decisions about optimizing your products’ performance. What are product health metrics? Let’s start!

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Chart Mogul

JUNE 1, 2023

So if you are keeping a close eye on your retention metrics this year, you’re not alone. Retention is one of the most important metrics when building a successful SaaS business. So if you are keeping a close eye on your retention metrics this year, you’re not alone. faster than their peers in 2022.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 30, 2021

Chargebee is a subscription billing and payment software system ideal for SaaS and subscription-based companies. Chargebee assists companies that offer subscription services in automating their billing procedures by enabling you to modify pricing, provide coupons, and conduct campaigns—all without the assistance of a developer.

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 8, 2021

While many of the most successful public and private SaaS companies were already usage-based, there wasn’t a clear playbook on the complexities of scaling a usage-based business. Yet pivoting from traditional subscriptions to usage-based can be just as big of a shift as making the leap from on-prem to SaaS.

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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.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 15, 2021

Chargebee and Chargify have several features that make invoicing workflows easier for small businesses and startups. Chargify directly handles billing and invoicing of your customers, with a focus on B2B SaaS transactions. Get your free Baremetrics trial today, and see the benefit of working with a business metrics tool!

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Clouded Judgement

APRIL 26, 2024

We continue to bring capacity online as we scale our AI investments with growing demand. Quarterly Reports Summary Top 10 EV / NTM Revenue Multiples Top 10 Weekly Share Price Movement Update on Multiples SaaS businesses are generally valued on a multiple of their revenue - in most cases the projected revenue for the next 12 months.

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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.

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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. Follow along to stay up to date!

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OPEXEngine

MAY 18, 2021

In this blog, we are looking at the business metrics that can be measured quantitatively and providing a few insights on how investors analyze them. We’ve talked to dozens of our SaaS customers, as well as investors to learn more about what is happening with these key metrics. Growth Stage – Scaling the Business, and .

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Clouded Judgement

APRIL 5, 2024

.” For startups, their valuation follows an arc from pure hype based valuations (all on potential) in the earliest days when you’re just a team and and idea, to pure fundamental based valuations in the public markets when you’re given a valuation multiple against a financial metric like revenue or free cash flow.

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User Pilot

JUNE 2, 2023

Product adoption metrics tell you how well your platform is performing. In this article, we dived into 13 important adoption metrics to measure. Reaching product adoption is critical for subscription-based business models where revenue comes after the initial conversion. Long TTV is one of the major causes of early churn.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 13, 2022

Welcome to the third edition of the Pricing Transformations series. Pricing Transformations in 2020. Pricing Transformations in 2021. Product-lead growth continues to be one of the best ways to rapidly scale a software company, and best practices are increasingly shared and understood. Take carbon pricing.

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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.

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SaaSOptics

MARCH 16, 2022

In this webinar recap, you’ll see the most significant trends in SaaS pricing, subscription management, metrics/analytics, and what they could mean for your business in 2022. Trends in Billing and Pricing . However, 64% of these participants considered expansion into new pricing models in 2022. Fixed pricing.

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Clouded Judgement

MARCH 22, 2024

Subscribe now ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) vs ERR (Experimental Runrate Revenue) ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) is one of the most popular SaaS (Non-GAAP) metrics. However, it’s also one of the most loosely used metrics, and is frequently misused. Buyers are also experimenting on vendors.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 25, 2022

Loaded with powerful team collaboration and client management tools, the Duda platform enables users to build feature-rich, responsive websites at scale. Maxio provides subscription and revenue management solutions that help growing subscription businesses offer flexible pricing and packaging—without the financial headaches.

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