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The State of Subscription Apps with RevenueCat’s CEO Jacob Eiting and Growth Advocate David Barnard

SaaStr

In this week’s Workshop Wednesday, RevenueCat CEO Jacob Eiting and Growth Advocate David Barnard share their annual State of Subscription Apps report with us. So, let’s look at the state of subscription apps and how B2B SaaS can learn from it. Churn is much higher on consumer subscriptions, but you have higher expansion revenue.

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What is customer acquisition cost and why does it matter?

Intercom, Inc.

How to think about costs in your customer acquisition strategy. If all you care about is optimizing for customer acquisition, you might think all five ads were created equal and allocate your budget accordingly. Pure customer acquisition metrics are popular, but dangerously inexact tools for calibrating and scaling your company growth.

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Annual vs Monthly Subscription for SaaS Businesses: Weighing the Pros and Cons

Incredo

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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Subscription Billing for Businesses: Everything You Need to Know

Stax

Long before the digital age, newspaper and magazine companies have been using the subscription model to create and retain a consistent readership for their publications. The most potent benefit of the subscription-based business model is that companies are guaranteed a fixed revenue stream—if they can retain their customers or subscribers.

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The Top 5 Tips to Getting Sales Right in Any Market with Capchase’s CEO and Head of Marketing

SaaStr

So i f deals take longer to close, you’re spending more money and paying people longer, so your customer acquisition costs are increasing, payback takes longer to materialize, and your LTV to CAC goes down. Capchase found that more than three people per company work full-time on invoices, billing, and collections.

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5 Interesting Learnings From Bill at $1.4 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

Only 20% of Revenue from “SaaS”, 80% From Transactions and Float (Fintech) Bill started off 100% SaaS, and slowly and deliberately added payments. Fast forward to today, and only 20% of its revenue is from software subscriptions. But a reminder how software + payments can really work well, when it works. #3.

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Usage-Based Revenue Models: Successes and Pitfalls from Checkr COO Lindsey Scrase on CRO Confidential

SaaStr

As Checkr follows usage-based pricing, it’s a transactional business that needs to be managed differently than a typical subscription SaaS model since they only earn revenue when the customer is using the product. The SMB sales team was incentivized purely on logo acquisition rather than revenue.

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