User Pilot

JULY 18, 2023

You will have data sets for analyzing your churn/retention history, which will better position you to make intelligent business decisions. TL;DR Customer churn is the rate at which users discontinue their subscription or stop using a particular product or service. Bad customer service. Multiply the figure by 100.

Churn 98

Churn Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 98

OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

There are many ways to classify SaaS companies, but differentiating companies based upon who their customers are presents the best approach for measuring performance and driving success for SaaS businesses. SMM SaaS Company Overview & Market Dynamics. SMM SaaS Company Overview & Market Dynamics. Enterprise.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 52

Baremetrics

JANUARY 24, 2021

Anyone managing a SaaS or subscription business is aware of customer churn. The benchmark customer churn for SaaS for SMBs is 5%. Transitioning to SaaS On January 1st 2020, we transitioned the company out of a strategic partnership (we were operating the platform under a non SaaS business model!).

Churn 71

Churn SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Solutions 71

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Krish made his way into the world of SaaS and came to found one of India’s fastest growing SaaS companies in Chargebee?

Scale 125

Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 125

SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Vikas made his way into the world of SaaS and came to be at the rocketship that is Kustomer. * Why does Vikas believe that a wave of SaaS incumbents are about to be displaced or disrupted? Why is it so crucial to invest in enablement in the early days? What is a good payback period? *

SaaS Payments 130

SaaS Payments Cloud Technical Review Scale 130

ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

Whether that’s AI-enabled analysis of customer data to help teams be proactive, in-house virtual assistants that are a resource to support teams as they work with customers or other operational applications, AI will play a larger role in this capacity next year.” – Julia Ahlfeldt, Customer Experience Advisor, Julia Ahlfeldt CX Consulting.

Customer Success 73

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 73

FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Gross Margin should take into consideration any support, installation, and servicing costs,” Skok says. Hubspot Focused On LTV to Scale Its SaaS Company. Almost a decade ago, SaaS company HubSpot focused on improving its LTV:CAC ratio in hopes of expanding. Average retention time in months or years = LTV.

Scale 146

Scale Payment Methods Payments SaaS Payments 146

Chart Mogul

AUGUST 15, 2019

New investment structures are gaining traction in the early-stage SaaS financing market. Bigfoot Capital invests in initial-scale SaaS companies using both RBF and venture debt investment structures. return on investment is returned, you have no further payment obligation and you have retained your equity ownership while growing.

Finance 85

Finance Payments Revenue Payment Solutions 85

ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

Whether that’s AI-enabled analysis of customer data to help teams be proactive, in-house virtual assistants that are a resource to support teams as they work with customers or other operational applications, AI will play a larger role in this capacity next year.” – Julia Ahlfeldt, Customer Experience Advisor, Julia Ahlfeldt CX Consulting.

Customer Success 49

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 49

Payrix

MARCH 12, 2024

Embedded Payments have become a popular initiative among vertical specific software companies looking to deliver a more seamless customer experience, introduce new revenue into the business, and stay competitive in today’s digital world. How do they think about attaching payments to those existing customers? But where to begin?

Payments 100

Payments Embedded Payments Merchant Services SaaS Payments 100

FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

Small tweaks to your SaaS billing practices can make a huge impact on the customer experience. For example, Jon Torres — a digital marketing consultant specializing in SaaS commerce — noticed that, for some of his clients, refund requests spiked around renewal time. “It 7 growth hacks from the SaaS experts. Learn more here.

Merchant Services 138

Merchant Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 138

Chart Mogul

AUGUST 15, 2019

New investment structures are gaining traction in the early-stage SaaS financing market. Bigfoot Capital invests in initial-scale SaaS companies using both RBF and venture debt investment structures. return on investment is returned, you have no further payment obligation and you have retained your equity ownership while growing.

Finance 52

Finance Payments Revenue Payment Solutions 52

Point Nine Land

JUNE 18, 2023

Everything you always wanted to know about cohort analysis (but were afraid to ask) Back in 2012, I wrote a blog post titled “Know your user cohorts” , which began like this: “One of the most important tools to better understand the usage of a web application — or a service, a game or a mobile app, it doesn’t matter — is a cohort analysis.

SaaS Payments 128

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments SaaS 128

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

I think it’s a challenge to folks that think we are in some sort of terrible downturn for SaaS and cloud. While Azure and Google Cloud grew at record rates, Shopify for example, its SaaS business only grew 10% last quarter. Colin here, CEO of a startup, B2B SaaS, and raising a seed round right now. Take the meeting.

Scale 185

Scale SaaS Payments Scaling SaaS 185

Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

They span single digit ARR businesses to publicly traded SaaS companies. We processed the data with 1000+ lines of R code to parse the insights from the data and test for statistical significance. In the SMB, month to month is more common. Aim for 90%+ Logo Retention. Target 100-140% Net Dollar Retention.

Payment Services 272

Payment Services SaaS Payments SMB Benchmarks 272

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Whether you created your SaaS product to help solve a problem you had or because you wanted some extra income, the truth is that your SaaS business is a valuable asset. Running a profitable SaaS business allows you to take control of your own schedule - some would even say your life! We’d hate for that to happen to you.

SaaS Payments 105

SaaS Payments Technical Review Development Team Review Software Review 105

SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2019

SaaS is about creating long-term value for your customer, and being compensated appropriately for that value as a business. I was on the product team and saw this opportunity for us to work more cross functionally across the company and focus heavily on retention and monetization. Want to see more content like this? Hi, everybody.

Payments 100

Payments Pricing Compensation SaaS Payments 100

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Why does Travis believe that SaaS has upended the economic model but not the engagement model? Why does Travis believe net retention must always be the guiding North Star? Travis Bryant: So I was in services at a software company and then had this pivot point to go either into product management or into sales and sales engineering.

Underperforming Technical Team 156

Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Services Technical Advisors 156

Casey Accidental

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Acquisition, retention, and monetization potential of your first product is another reason B2B tends to expand earlier. Their retention strategies were also different. This is usually a strong retention loop. Pinterest significantly evolved how its core product worked, changing both the acquisition and retention loops over time.

Payments 113

Payments Scale Payment Solutions Technical Review 113

OPEXEngine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Most SaaS and Software companies are starting to gear up for end of the year budgeting and planning exercises. Here are a few of the trends that we are hearing about from CFOs, investors and lenders: Flexible pricing models and payment terms: A couple of things are happening here. Support your team.

Payment Services 59

Payment Services SaaS Payments Trends Payment Solutions 59

SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Leveraging survey data from 66+ enterprise SaaS companies, Matt Garratt, Managing Partner of Salesforce Ventures shares the landscape of how businesses are shifting their sales & GTM strategies to react to today’s uncertain times. So I think that is somewhat of a good news in this in that SaaS businesses are sticky.

Sales Hiring 157

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 157

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

But that’s easier said than done, which is why we’ve published our new book Intercom on Sales : a deep dive into the many lessons we’ve learned about how selling works at scale, covering everything from hiring tactics to the needs of modern buyers to fundamental processes for forecasting and managing deals. We have a great sales force.

Scale 172

Scale Sales Hiring Scaling Payment Services 172

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

SMB Sales & SDRs at (Smaller) Scale [18:20]. Today’s sponsor is Outreach , the leading sales engagement platform that enables sales reps to humanize their communications at scale, from automating the soul-sucking manual work that eats up selling time to providing action-oriented tips on what communications are working best.

Payment Methods 55

Payment Methods Scale CTO Coach SMB 55

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Another collection of their customers actually turned their kitchens into service offerings. They’re facilitating virtual schooling, they’re helping governments organize. Really, cloud absorbs hardware, software and services. Because more and more hardware is becoming soft. We call that a second act.

Sales Hiring 152

Sales Hiring Scale Payments Cloud 152

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2020

Just look at subscription analytics startup ChartMogul whose brand and product are now a household name in the SaaS community. Looking around at the market, Nick saw an appetite for content about growing a SaaS business. Tomasz Tunguz and David Skok – they were publishing a lot of content around SaaS metrics and these kinds of things.

Underperforming Technical Team 183

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Payments Payment Services 183

SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

Prior to Pipe, Harry co-founded Skurt raising over $11M in the process before being acquired by Fair.com. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Harry made his way from the UK to founding one of Silicon Valley’s hottest SaaS startups with the founding of Pipe. * Harry has also angel invested in the likes of BreathePod and Try.com.

SaaS Payments 209

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Finance Payments 209

SaaStr

OCTOBER 22, 2019

As one of the most difficult markets to enter and succeed, how can new and old SaaS providers win with SMBs? So it’s a neat opportunity for them to get access to the tools and services that previously were unavailable to them. 68% of millennials say they would pay more if they could have a more personalized service.

Payment Methods 101

Payment Methods Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments Business 101