Incredo

JULY 14, 2019

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 ?”.

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BetterCloud

MAY 23, 2025

This isn’t just a fleeting trend; it’s a strategic imperative for businesses aiming for efficiency, security, and a healthier bottom line. In 2025, a sprawling, ungoverned tech stack can quickly become a costly and unwieldy beast, hindering agility and draining resources.

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Keeping track of the accounting for SaaS businesses can be challenging because of the subscription model that they operate on, and that is why most companies opt for cloud-based software solutions to smoothen the processes. This is an important process as you need to send invoices to customers on time and also collect revenue effectively.

Payment Services 52

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Stax

MARCH 16, 2025

Key metrics include customer churn rate, revenue churn, and net revenue retention (NRR). Even if you believe your technology is easy to set up and use, it may not be for the average person. Your software has bugs Product bugs and software issues are bound to happen when youre using any kind of technology platform.

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SaaStr

JUNE 5, 2020

Carlota Perez argues in her book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital that in the early days of a “golden age”, financial capital is necessary to fuel new technology innovation. . Once that technology is better understood, production capital moves in to drive mainstream adoption of the technology. .

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Check out this 2018 Europa session with Guillaume Princen, Head of France and Southern Europe @ Stripe, where he talks about the metrics you need to be focused on in your startup. If you don’t have the time to watch the whole session, here are the main metrics you should be mindful of. MRR, obviously. Transcript. Hi, everybody.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

David’s successful exits as an investor at Matrix include HubSpot, JBoss, AppIQ, Tabblo, Netezza, Diligent Technologies, CloudSwitch, TribeHR, GrabCAD, OpenSpan, and Enservio. Why are metrics so important? #2: If that was not enough, Steve also sat on the Technical Advisory Board at Box for over 3 years. Episode No.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Chargebee is a robust subscription management platform. However, there are certain aspects of collecting recurring payments that you would still be responsible for when using Chargebee, such as: Connecting to payment gateways manually. Zoho Subscriptions. Remitting taxes at the end of the year.

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Stax

JANUARY 28, 2025

Seamless integration with your existing tech stack: you must ensure that the providers payment gateway will easily integrate with your existing eCommerce CMS (Content Management System), website CMS, or SaaS platform. This is to ensure customers can easily find the button when evaluating payment options on your site.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Before we get into the dynamics of alignment, let’s briefly review the evolution of SaaS. was pretty simplified, mostly made up of annual or monthly subscriptions. While annual/monthly subscriptions still exist, they are more complex than ever. The people, processes, and technology within a business must all be on the same page.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Early customers are often innovators and tech enthusiasts willing to try new solutions, even if the product is incomplete or buggy. Value Alignment: Pricing starts to align with the value customers perceive, often measured in metrics such as usage, number of seats, or specific features.

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Stax

APRIL 3, 2025

Here are the players and how they work together: Payment gateway – The customer-facing application connecting the eCommerce store to the payment processing system. The customer enters their payment details and the gateway securely transmits the data to the network. Undisclosed costs negatively affect your profits.

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Stax

JANUARY 29, 2024

As industry leaders in billing software, our mission is to help our customers work more efficiently, recover more revenue, and effortlessly collect invoices. TL;DR A billing platform is a comprehensive system facilitating subscription management, recurring billing, revenue recognition, payment gateways, analytics, and dunning processes.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 16, 2021

What does it mean to reactivate a subscription? There are several reasons a customer would cancel their subscription. It could be that the customer got no return on investment, had technical difficulties, or they may have canceled because they achieved their set goal. Table of Contents. What is reactivation MRR?

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Clouded Judgement

AUGUST 25, 2023

” Product Overview At their core, Klaviyo is a marketing automation solution that covers email, SMS, mobile push, and reviews, tying it all together in a customer data platform. Our subscription plans are tiered based on the number of active consumer profiles stored on our platform and the number of emails and SMS messages sent.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2024

Meta has leveraged incredible tech, primarily for their ad model and monetizing in a material way over the last 7-8 years, and also their feed and content model. If you’ve tried to sell to a law firm, you know it can be challenging to get through legal review. If you’re a startup, you’d have a hard time getting through legal review.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

Note: FastSpring offers advanced subscription management services that support free trials, monthly and annual paid plans, proration, discount management, and more. Use the wealth of data you have on your customers to analyze your churn metrics. How Castos upsells subscription tiers. Learn more here.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 30, 2021

These are some of the most revered apps when it comes to subscription billing platform and recurring payments management. Check out the Baremetrics free trial to get better analytics on your subscription customers. They are endowed with a load of integrations that come in handy in your subscription business.

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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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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Before we jump into the benefits of combining Baremetrics with Stripe, we’ll take a quick look at what Stripe is, and the advantages of using Stripe as your payment processor. Baremetrics monitors subscription revenue for businesses that bring in revenue through subscription-based services. Table of Contents. What is Stripe?

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Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

When it does, the outcome will be a shrinking economy due to a big drop-off in demand across the board. Let’s use an example in tech. Given most software companies are not profitable, or not generating meaningful FCF, it’s the only metric to compare the entire industry against.

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Neil Patel

JUNE 3, 2025

Read on to learn more about what SEO monitoring entails, nine metrics to track, plus a few tools and tips for making the most out of your optimization strategy. 9 SEO Metrics to Monitor As you start diving into your SEO monitoring plan, let’s cover nine key SEO metrics you should be consistently monitoring.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 21, 2025

From cloud-based SaaS solutions to on-premise enterprise software , businesses worldwide are leveraging ATS technology to build efficient, fair, and scalable hiring pipelines. This model offers easy accessibility (anywhere, anytime), automatic updates, and lower upfront costs (subscription-based pricing).

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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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Baremetrics

MARCH 30, 2021

If you are looking for the right billing and invoicing solution for your business, Zuora and Chargebee should be at the top of your list. Do they support the payment platform you desire? Do any of them have what you want in a subscription management service? Zuora These two platforms are quite useful for billing and invoicing.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

His first career steps were at Seer Technologies and Monitor Company in the 1990s. Afterward, Patrick founded several businesses in diverse sectors, including tech, healthcare, and finance. After a BA in Technology and an MBA, André Baldini made his first steps into IT, working in companies like Stefanini and Itaú Unibanco.

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User Pilot

JUNE 11, 2024

Product marketing metrics are key for understanding and optimizing the performance of your product. That said, let’s explore the most critical product marketing metrics to track, along with the latest benchmarks in 2024: Check out the 2024 Benchmark Report. Book a Userpilot demo to see how you can track all your metrics in one place.

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User Pilot

JULY 21, 2024

In this article, we’ll break down Userpilot’s pricing plans and review all the features you can find when you choose your specific pricing plan. TL;DR Userpilot is an all-in-one product growth platform that helps boost growth metrics at every stage of the user journey. Priority Support. Source: Userpilot. Source: Userpilot.

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Buffer Resources

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Refine through self- and peer-edits We run a peer-editing system where each member of the Content team reviews each other’s work. But before sending the article off to my colleagues for review, I run a perfunctory check through Grammarly, for which we have a team subscription.

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Clouded Judgement

JULY 26, 2024

Similar to the GPT 4o Mini fine tuning that was made free, I expect other model companies will follow suit due to competitive pressures. Given most software companies are not profitable, or not generating meaningful FCF, it’s the only metric to compare the entire industry against. More skepticism is a good thing!

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Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Think of this as your cheat sheet for building a powerful marketing tech stack on a budget. The good stuff: Monitor mentions of your brand, competitors, or relevant keywords across social media, review sites, and the entire web. It has built-in monetization options, including paid subscriptions and an ad network.

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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.

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 18, 2024

It’s not the first time I’ve tried out LinkedIn Premium — but it is the first time I’m approaching the platform’s paid subscription as a creator.  I went with that plan to ensure this review was as comprehensive as possible. Technically, yes! Can you get LinkedIn Premium for free?

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2024

CDPs can be technically complex pieces of software, with deep and lengthy sales cycles and cross functional implementations. The level of depth required on both sides will require dedicated experts, else your solutions team will underperform and burn out due to high volumes of context switching between pre and post sales motions.

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SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

The reason I contemplated doing it because I really want to be involved in cutting edge technology and work with smart people. And the third thing is what is it about the product or the business model that they’re basically contemplating that gives them a very defendable technology advantage? Dev Ittycheria : Yes.

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User Pilot

JULY 23, 2024

TL;DR A marketing tech stack is any combination of software tools that marketing teams use to improve their campaigns. The typical marketing technology stack is made up of tools from different categories. Search Engine Optimization Tools that help with optimizing content, keyword research , and technical aspects.

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Stax

MARCH 12, 2024

In an ideal world, all customers would pay an invoice the moment they receive it. But in reality, companies often have to spend considerable time and resources chasing down late payments that are stuck in Accounts Receivable. Promptly collecting payments from your customers is essential to run a sustainable business.

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