Blulogix

DECEMBER 23, 2024

By Inga Broerman How Usage-Based Pricing is Transforming Subscription Billing The subscription economy is undergoing a transformation, driven by the rising popularity of usage-based pricing. The days of flat-rate subscriptions being the default option are gone. Your ERP cannot bill usage subscriptions.

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Blulogix

JANUARY 3, 2025

By Inga Broerman Preparing for Regulatory Changes in Subscription Management The subscription economy is thriving, with businesses worldwide adopting models that offer flexibility, scalability, and recurring revenue streams. However, as the industry grows, so does regulatory scrutiny.

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SaaStr

MAY 22, 2022

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: One Simple Trick to Make Your SDRs Perform Better. SaaStr 554: The Builders and Sellers Playbook: Proven Models that Help GTM and Product-led Teams Scale with CircleCI CEO Jim Rose. Cloud Stocks May Be Down. But the Cloud Remains on Fire.

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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. Billing integration simplifies the implementation of these models, ensuring accurate tracking and invoicing.

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Blulogix

DECEMBER 31, 2024

By Inga Broerman Scaling with Usage-Based Models: A Practical Guide to Metering The rise of usage-based pricing is revolutionizing the subscription economy. Usage-based pricing represents a seismic shift in how subscription businesses operate.

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SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2024

Bitly CEO Toby Gabriner and CPO Kelsey Stevenson share the three secret ingredients that helped them when scaling to $100M ARR and what they could have done differently. Kelsey joined them as CPO, and they started experimenting with less expensive packages downmarket where customers could go online and set up a subscription.

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Scytale

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Heres who must follow PCI DSS requirements : Any business that processes, stores, or transmits payment card data. SaaS companies offering payment solutions, subscriptions, or integrations that handle transactions. Third-party service providers supporting businesses that process payments. Heres how: 1.

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SaaStr

APRIL 14, 2025

100+ scale-ups and start-ups showing you how they do it! 800+ VCs Ready to Invest This year, were bringing together over 800 VCs and investors, making SaaStr Annual 2025 the ultimate place to pitch, connect, and secure funding. And we’ve got an AI Demo Stage running all day, every day this year, right in the heart of Annual.

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SaaStr

MAY 8, 2022

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: The Average SaaS Leader Grows 54% … At $1 Billion in ARR. SaaStr 552: 5 Lessons on Building Your Sales Organization for Scale with Than Hancock, EVP of Sales @ Podium and Carlie Adams, Head of West Coast Sales @ Podium.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2022

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: SaaS Multiples Are At a 3+ Year Low. SaaStr 554: The Builders and Sellers Playbook: Proven Models that Help GTM and Product-led Teams Scale with CircleCI CEO Jim Rose. Where It Goes From Here. When to Go Multi-Product in SaaS.

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Blulogix

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

By Kegham Khrigian The New Standard for Subscription Renewals: Intelligent, Automated, and Scalable For subscription businesses, renewals are the foundation of predictable revenue and long-term growth. Subscription models thrive on automation, accuracy, and data-driven decision-making and renewals should be no different.

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Subscription Flow

MAY 16, 2024

One other reason was also that businesses could do recurring billing with CardPointe but, alas, that is no longer the case. Payment confirmation pages were made customizable to improve the security of the merchants as well as the end consumers. If handling recurring payments with CardPointe was so good, why was it discontinued?

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SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

Jason recently opened up an AMA on Twitter Spaces to answer questions about scaling from $1M to $10M. We did a good AMA on this scaling at SaaStr Europa in Barcelona, a couple weeks back. You could watch it on YouTube or search on SaaStr on the blog about how ClickUp leveraged it. Jason Lemkin: Hey everybody. It was packed.

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Blulogix

JANUARY 6, 2025

By Inga Broerman The 2025 Blueprint for Scalable Growth in the Subscription Economy The subscription economy is entering a pivotal year. To succeed, subscription-based organizations must embrace smarter, more integrated approaches to billing, management, and strategy.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 5, 2022

There’s no denying that renewals are the most important motion in SaaS and subscription. The post Reaccelerating Growth at Scale with Box’s CRO Mark Wayland (Podcast 514 + Video) appeared first on SaaStr. Every customer-facing team is on the renewals team.

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Stax

OCTOBER 13, 2024

It is a subscription-based integrated payment platform that helps you process credit card payments. There are also free training courses and a QuickBooks blog. Learn More Stax offers the lowest cost of accepting credit cards among all merchant account providers.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Revenue growth is up 21% overall, and subscription growth is up 33% — at almost $5 Billion in ARR. So Atlassian is on a bit of a tear. Wall Street is happy. It’s driven Atlassian stock up +28% after the results: Is SaaS back? Let’s dig in. 5 Interesting Learnings: #1.

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Blulogix

DECEMBER 27, 2024

By Inga Broerman Overcoming Revenue Leakage with Smarter Billing Practices Revenue leakage is one of the most insidious challenges subscription-based businesses face. In todays competitive subscription economy, addressing revenue leakage isnt optionalits critical for sustaining profitability and building trust with customers.

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Payrix

APRIL 10, 2025

Perhaps your platform is specifically designed for HVAC businesses and does everything from route management to inventory to CRM all while processing and reconciling one-time and recurring payments. This is common when outsourcing payments.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2025

ServiceTitan, the operating system for the trades, continues to scale impressively, with $772M in FY25 revenue, $800m+ ARR and a clear path to $1B ARR. This shift has been critical to scaling beyond $500M ARR. Lesson for SaaS Founders : SMBs are a great starting point, but scaling to $1B ARR often requires moving upmarket.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Confluent’s President of Field Operations, Erica Schultz, explores different tactics businesses can employ to scale revenue and increase efficiency in the current macro environment. As you look to scale your business and make your processes more efficient, it’s essential to foster a shared understanding of who your target customer is.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2021

This is a great challenge to the thinking that high NRR can’t scale, or will oscillate. That’s a huge change and closer to the patterns we see with the average SaaS company at scale. 50% of customers pay or are invoiced monthly — and that’s up from 40% a year old. And a few bonus learnings: #6.

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SaaStr

MAY 1, 2021

In scaling the cash-flow side of SaaS, there’s almost nothing more powerful than a nnual contracts combined with prepaid cash. Nothing is a bigger headache in a Fortune 500 company that having to go back to procurement every single month to get an invoice approved. And as a result, even more chose monthly subscriptions.

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SaaStr

MAY 12, 2022

Jim Rose, CEO of CircleCI, leverages his experience marketing to software developers to discuss the merits of moving from a subscription-based to a usage-based business model. Five years in, CircleCI implemented a usage-based subscription model. In a SaaS subscription model, the platform gets the revenue immediately upon purchase.

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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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SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2019

When trying to grow a SaaS organization at scale, the idea of manually checking every single transaction in a spreadsheet is impractical. By contrast, only 12% of online purchasers in Germany stated that a debit or credit card was their preferred payment method, with customers opting for alternatives such as invoices or PayPal.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2021

Even if a lot of the revenue isn’t truly recurring SaaS revenue. “We define ARR as annualized invoiced amounts per solution sku from subscription licenses and maintenance obligations assuming no increases or reductions in their subscriptions.” ” #5.

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SaaStr

MAY 29, 2022

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: 10 Simple Ideas to Help Manage the Burn. SaaStr 554: The Builders and Sellers Playbook: Proven Models that Help GTM and Product-led Teams Scale with CircleCI CEO Jim Rose. The Power and Honesty in a L4M Model. Build One Now.

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Blulogix

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Unlike traditional subscription-based models that offer predictable, fixed charges, consumption billing charges customers based on the actual use of services. It allows them to scale their service usage up or down depending on their needs, without being locked into a rigid, fixed-cost contract.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Offering a suite of solutions dedicated to supporting multifaceted billing needs and revenue operations, I believe Metronome serves as the perfect scaling partner for innovative businesses and software companies. What’s the #1 bit of advice you’d give to SaaS founders today?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2024

She was hired because they saw a bit of softening in new business growth, and she came to help diagnose what was going on and help scale the business. While it may seem smart when you have five or fewer salespeople to sell anything and everything between $3k and $100k, that won’t scale. Attune sellers for one or the other.

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Blulogix

DECEMBER 26, 2024

By Inga Broerman Building a Competitive Edge Through Channel Partnerships In an increasingly competitive subscription economy, channel partnerships have become a beacon for businesses seeking scalable growth and sustainable revenue streams.

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SaaStr

APRIL 2, 2019

She will share her top 5 lessons learned in building and scaling SaaS businesses from $1M to $500M in ARR including expanding to serve upmarket customers, moving from product to platform, and how to hire well to drive breakthrough customer experiences and business growth. You can find that on our blog and through our books.

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Stax

JUNE 18, 2024

Subscription models offer companies large and small the opportunity to build predictable revenue and high customer lifetime value. But managing subscriptions effectively and freeing up time and resources for expansion is no picnic. In a subscription business model, customers pay a recurring fee in exchange for a product or service.

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SaaStr

JUNE 12, 2021

Since the dawn of the age of the subscription, forcing people to keep paying to use some small part of a web service has been a common strategy. And making it hard to leave a subscription has probably been a strategy employed by some since the very first gym opened. Word of mouth is the secret to scaling in SaaS. But so what?

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Blulogix

JANUARY 7, 2025

By Inga Broerman Why Billing Automation is the Foundation of Scalable Growth In the dynamic world of the subscription economy , businesses face increasing competition and mounting customer expectations. Schedule a Demo Today The Challenge of Scalability in Subscription Management Scaling a subscription business is inherently complex.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 7, 2020

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