SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

PST, Stephanie Opdam, Partner at Notion Capital, shares four business model changes that will allow SaaS companies to build resilience and staying power over time. This is where traditional SaaS methods like subscription pricing only, driving growth through headcount only, or a pure sales GTM strategy only live. Apple hasn’t done any.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 22, 2021

Subscription revenue can be defined most simply as a model which generates income from customers through recurring fees that are paid at regular intervals. These can be weekly, monthly, or annual payments. Subscription Pricing Models How to Get Subscription Pricing Right The Advantages of a Subscription Revenue Model 1.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

How to think about costs in your customer acquisition strategy. Imagine you’re coming up on the busiest season of the year, and you’ve been conducting an experiment with your ads to see which will generate the most revenue. What is Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC)? What is Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC)?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 21, 2024

Only 18% of Revenue From SaaS. Shopify and Bill both also get the majority of their revenue from financial fees and transaction fees, not software subscriptions. But Toast even more so, at 18% of revenue. They are now profitable, but it’s not easy when 80% of your revenue only has 20%-28% gross margins. #4.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 18, 2021

Invoicing is a sales process where a seller issues a commercial document to a buyer requesting payment. This document shows all products and services rendered, the payment owed, and the contact details of both the buyer and the seller. Invoicing can be done for both recurring and one-time payments.

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Payrix

JANUARY 30, 2024

Storable , the leading provider of all-in-one software for the self-storage industry, has a vision for its payments solution that is reminiscent of the industry it serves. As John Durrett, General Manager of Payments for Storable, recently explained in a sit down with Payrix, Storable wants to make payments “invisible” for its customers.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

How can a simple offering be transformed into its own platform? Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Want to see more content like this?

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FastSpring

MARCH 15, 2021

That’s the beauty of subscription models. While implementing a subscription model means ongoing revenue, it also brings up many challenges for managing those subscriptions. You have to create a subscription-friendly product, infrastructure, marketing plan, and customer retention plan. Ease of Distribution.

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FastSpring

AUGUST 11, 2020

When it comes to software and online purchases, those transactions are increasingly moving to a subscription-based model, where customers put their purchases on autopilot so they can have continuous access to SaaS products. Subscription services are what customers want. What are the advantages of using subscriptions as a revenue model?

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Stax

JANUARY 28, 2024

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. This business model has now been adapted very well in the internet age, especially in the SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) and eCommerce industries. The alternative?

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FastSpring

AUGUST 13, 2024

Various other programs and mechanisms can lower the fees, including adding support for third-party app stores, charging for qualifying auto-renew subscriptions, and being a developer in Apple’s small business program. Already using a merchant of record to monetize your game directly to consumers?

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Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

Subscription billing is a payment structure that allows service providers to charge their clients based on a fixed timeframe. This article will help you with everything you need to know about subscription billing and subscription billing solutions. 1 What Does Subscription Billing Mean? Table of Contents.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Scheduled payments, aka recurring billing. Scheduled payments have become a core form of revenue collection. Of course, recurring payments vary depending on the business. As the subscription universe continues to expand, you can expect to see even more subscription payment plans.

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Stripe is indispensable for the average online business, providing the many different tools, reports, and customizations that power online payment processing, but it isn’t without limitations. For example, the Stripe analytics dashboard is lacking the needed depth for SaaS businesses that rely on recurring revenue.

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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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SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2019

SaaS is about creating long-term value for your customer, and being compensated appropriately for that value as a business. Learn actionable monetization tips from a Product/Growth operator turned VC. This is a mobile solution for SMB’s to send an invoice and get paid. Want to see more content like this? Hi, everybody.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Tracking revenue on a spreadsheet is easy, but understanding the underlying factors influencing revenue growth rate is a different ball game. As you read on, you will learn: How to properly define revenue growth. Related metrics that impact your revenue and how to use the insights to turn your product into a growth engine.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Revenue vs. profit vs. income: The terms may seem synonymous and are sometimes even used interchangeably, but they tell different stories about a company. Revenue growth suggests an expanding business and in-demand product, but whether there is any financial gain for the business is determined by the income.

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Subscription Flow

MAY 30, 2024

Did you know the subscription economy is touted to reach $1.5 As a business that provides software as a service, you will not only need to jump on this bandwagon, but more importantly, you will need the right set of subscription management tools to stay on it to keep reaping the profits of this booming industry.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 4, 2020

And is Stripe a good choice as your billing and payment provider? When Stripe was launched in 2010, dealing with payments online wasn’t a straightforward matter. Fast forward 10 years and setting up shop and accepting payments has become a lot easier, thanks to a large extent to Stripe.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 17, 2020

Nowadays, it seems like you can buy just about anything on a recurring monthly plan: razors, clothing, knick-knacks, candles, etc. Over the past decade, ecommerce subscription companies have doubled down on the subscription model to monetize their relationships with customers. What are ecommerce subscription companies?

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Stax

AUGUST 26, 2024

The year 2024 is a special one for everyone at Stax because we’re celebrating a decade of transforming the payments industry and supporting our merchants and partners with innovative technologies and unwavering support. From multiple acquisitions to leadership changes, the company has continuously evolved.

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Casey Accidental

JULY 17, 2023

I was recently on Lenny Rachitksy’s podcast again, and one of the topics we discussed was consumer subscription business. I thought I would actually write down a lot of those thoughts and add some more depth for founders and employees working on these businesses. Why is B2B Subscription So Good?

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 1, 2021

It offers a way to bring down customer acquisition costs and has been proven to keep users in a game for far longer than the pay-to-play method. Games as a Service acts as a continuous revenue service for developers, allowing them to break their reliance on the one-time purchase. Games as a Service Payment Options.

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BrightBack

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

In this report, we've surveyed over 400 subscription businesses to better understand how the industry is approaching and prioritizing customer retention. We found subscription companies have completed a shift in focus toward retention over acquisition, but still struggle to execute and engage their customers across teams and systems.

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Subscription Flow

JUNE 7, 2024

Do you process recurring payments with Square or are you considering this payment gateway for your subscription payments? Perhaps you already use Square for one-off payments and are looking to expand your offering to subscription-based products or services.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 27, 2020

?. The subscription model has revolutionized virtually every industry. But there’s another reality that businesses now have to contend with: the brief is getting harder and harder to nail. Customer acquisition costs are rising , churn is every company’s poison pill, and the competition is relentless. Over the last 7.5

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Baremetrics

APRIL 6, 2021

ProfitWell is a cloud-based app that generates real-time financial and subscription metrics for data-driven SaaS enterprises. The recurring revenue growth platform provides users with valuable insights into subscription funnels and one-click analytics for Stripe. But ProfitWell does not benefit all SaaS companies.

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Stax

JUNE 18, 2024

Aside from providing excellent SaaS solutions to their users, Shopify, Mindbody, and Etsy are just a few examples of companies that have used payment processing to fuel (at least some of) their growth. Monthly recurring revenue was $141 million. In the third quarter, Shopify took in revenue of $1.2

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Chaotic Flow

OCTOBER 8, 2013

This is the fifth and final post in a series that explores SaaS marketing strategies that drive growth throughout the customer lifecycle using the three fundamental SaaS growth levers: customer acquisition, customer lifetime value and customer network effects. Does your SaaS product produce public pages that can be found by search engines?

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User Pilot

AUGUST 31, 2023

What is customer acquisition for SaaS, and how can you leverage it to drive sustainable growth ? The purpose of customer acquisition is to expand and make more revenue. Customer acquisition funnel stages in SaaS are Awareness, Consideration, Evaluation, Conversion. What is customer acquisition?

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Subscription model innovation: Customizable subscription models make it easier for SaaS companies to optimize their pricing and billing. Integration of PLG and sales-led business models: Supporting multiple GTM strategies has become the standard for SaaS. From pricing to payments, billing, tax management, and more.”.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 23, 2024

The opportunity is to leverage that trust factor to drive customer acquisition, and it has worked for us. Immad: I find it funny that everyone complains about the difficulty of SMB and consumer customer acquisition, but ironically, SMB and consumer companies are some of the most valuable. It’s a transaction business.

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Blulogix

JANUARY 2, 2025

By Inga Broerman How Industry Consolidation is Reshaping Subscription Billing The subscription economy is on a path of rapid growth and transformation, projected to reach a $3 trillion valuation in 2024. For smaller and mid-sized businesses, this consolidation presents both challenges and opportunities.

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Blulogix

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

By Inga Broerman How High-Performing Subscription Businesses Maximize NRR For subscription-based businesses, Net Revenue Retention (NRR) is the ultimate measure of growth and sustainability. If a business is retaining and expanding existing customer revenue , it can grow without constantly chasing new sales.

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FastSpring

MAY 25, 2023

Pricing your software as a service (SaaS) can be hard enough even during the best of times, but figuring out how to dial in the right pricing to drive more revenue in times of stagflation can be even more challenging. Optimizing your SaaS Pricing Strategy for new MRR vs. net revenue retention. Inflation isn’t flat: Vary your strategy.

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Subscription Flow

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Ever wondered how much money you would be able to save if you could automate your billing processes? Integrate NetSuite with your favorite subscription management software to minimize human intervention and let your operations run on auto-pilot! This integration can be mono- or bi-directional. How Does NetSuite Work?

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