User Pilot

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Customer expansion drives recurring revenue and long-term growth. By increasing the value provided to existing customers through different expansion tactics, companies can reduce churn and enhance customer lifetime value. Technographics, like operating system or device type. Company details, like size or industry.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

What we learned from ’08-’09 in SaaS: First, SMB churn went through the roof — as SMBs went under much more quickly and often. The first thing SMBs did was look at their credit card payments and cancel everything they could. Anyone processing a lot of SMB and credit-card deals saw churn probably double.

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SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale SMB 280

FastSpring

MAY 20, 2024

Moving some, all, or simply more of your software offerings from a one-time perpetual license model to a software as a service (SaaS) subscription model can be daunting, but it’s so powerful for building dependable, recurring revenue. Prepare for renewals with value adds to reduce churn.

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SaaS Payments Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions 158

FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

“It turned out that many refund requests happened because the company had failed to inform customers about their upcoming billing cycle,” Jon told us. And interestingly, many of those customers resubscribed later on in the year.”. How Enchant reduced churn and support requests related to account owner issues.

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Merchant Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 146

Totango

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Customer success tools extend the functionality of your CS platform, multiplying its value. By connecting data from other success tools to your CS tool, you can view and manage all your customer data from one place instead of leaving it isolated in separate information silos. CRMs: Salesforce and HubSpot. Billing: Zuora.

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Payment Solutions Payments Customer Success Payment Methods 94

Payrix

MAY 14, 2024

When it comes to software, success doesn’t hinge on innovation alone. No one knows this better (or more intimately) than a software company Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Adam Tesan, CRO at Worldpay for Platforms, is a seasoned executive leader with decades of experience in sales, marketing, and revenue in the software space.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 25, 2025

And since customer lifetime value and NRR are integral to broader revenue goals, it is time for CS to embrace the predictive, in which strong forecasting begets lower churn. Weve outlined a process for data driven customer success renewals forecasting, plus some extra tips on how ChurnZero can help. Where can you start?

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 19, 2020

Some of these customers will be insulated from the virus. Customer success and account management teams should focus on understanding customer health. This is important to project churn rates, assess timing of software payments, and estimate the impact on cash flows/burn. Others may benefit from it.

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Totango

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Customer success is the key to building strong customer relationships. When your brand helps your customers succeed at their goals, they want to continue your relationship. Customer success nurtures the positive experiences of your brand, promoting repeat business and retention.

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Valuize Consulting

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In today’s competitive SaaS landscape, Customer Success has emerged as a vital strategic asset, driving revenue growth and long-term profitability. However, to fully unlock its potential, companies must go beyond qualitative insights and bring data into the decision-making process within Customer Success ranks and investments.

Payment Services 52

Payment Services SaaS Payments Customer Success Payments 52

FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

In the language of SaaS, I churned. And the experience got me thinking: Was immediate removal of paid features the best chance to keep me from churning? When did I officially count as “churned”? Did they count me as churned on the day I canceled? In part one, we cover benchmarks and common churn formulas.

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Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

Data cited by Statista shows that the software as service is expected to hit $299 billion by the end of 2025. Join the payments-led growth movement Sign up to keep up-to-date with the latest trends in payments, vertical SaaS, and technology from industry experts. Churn rate. Customer lifetime value.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 30, 2023

They focused on building a payment platform that empowers international talent and independent contractors to get paid on time in a compliant way while also ensuring that companies can hire international talent and make payments efficiently. The path to success is filled with challenges at every milestone. Support sales early.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 26, 2024

With years of experience at managing customer success (CS), Jake Dipple knows how important it is to foster collaboration between businesses and their customers. In this episode of Growth Stage, host and CMO of FastSpring David Vogelpohl interviews Jake about his thoughts on: What Customer Success is at a high level.

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 14, 2020

At ChurnZero, we’re humble enough to admit that Customer Success software can’t do it all, and quite frankly, it shouldn’t. We stick to our circle of competence and focus on our area of expertise: Customer Success software. It’s Customer Success for us. What is customer support software?

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Payments Payment Solutions Customer Success Software Review 87

Stax

JUNE 18, 2024

In a subscription business model, customers pay a recurring fee in exchange for a product or service. This could be a subscription box, a SaaS (Software as a Service) product, or even just a streaming platform like Netflix. In fact, 70% of customers now expect websites to include a self-service function.

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Payment Features Payment Solutions Payment Services Payments 88

User Pilot

JULY 20, 2023

Wondering how to reduce customer churn rate for your business? In this article, we review different ways to identify potential churn and deal with it. Attrition is the bane of every subscription business; low retention rates will result in a duce and the customer lifetime value and revenue will plummet. Poor onboarding.

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Churn SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Strategy 98

Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Confused about customer churn vs. revenue churn? Churn means lost money or lost customers. These metrics help you understand two different things: Customer churn — the number of people you've lost. Revenue churn — the amount of revenue you've lost. Customer churn = customers lost.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In our first post about our online community , we mentioned launching the Global SaaS Leaders Slack group because we saw a need for the kind of software-and-SaaS-focused community we’d want to be a part of. The group is professionally moderated, there’s no cost, and you don’t need to be a FastSpring customer to apply.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Software Review 148

Sales Hacker

JULY 18, 2022

Which is why it’s key to strengthen customer retention processes by automating them, keeping customers engaged, and detecting any signs of churn before they happen. Automate these 5 processes to boost customer retention. One surefire road to customer churn is the customer not knowing how to use the product.

Payment Services 105

Payment Services Churn Payment Methods Payment Solutions 105

User Pilot

JANUARY 11, 2024

As with every digital product, the first few minutes on your app will determine whether the user sticks with it or abandons it. A seamless onboarding experience , thus, creates the right first impression, setting you up for success. You can make the onboarding experience less stressful by simplifying the signup and KYC processes.

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Customer success has gone from strength to strength in recent years. With that in mind, we thought we’d take a look at the best customer success tools. of customer success tools out there, and it can be hard to know which is the right one for you. Let’s jump in… What are customer success tools?

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FastSpring

JUNE 28, 2019

Keep reading to learn why your SaaS company should keep a close eye on your churn rate and see why focusing on customer retention is a viable strategy for long-term success. What is customer churn? Customer churn happens when customers discontinue their relationship with your company.

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SaaStr

MAY 16, 2019

I would argue that since now we have access to … we have lots of data points about trade shows we go to, the payment information, the sales data in CRM. We can combine all these data points and start building the machine, early on, as soon as you have fifty customers. In our case, it was installing competitor apps.

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Merchant Services Payment Methods Data Sales Hiring 209

Totango

JULY 13, 2021

Strategy for customer success growth has changed as commerce has gone digital and big data has made marketing and sales customer-centric. Tell people about your business, get them in the store, sell them things, then look for more customers. Businesses need a new strategy for customer success growth.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 11, 2014

When I started in the venture business and met software companies, I never heard the words customer success during pitches or throughout diligence or in board meetings. A few years later, customer success has become equal in importance to sales and marketing and engineering and product within SaaS companies.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 31, 2023

How to prevent churn by identifying at-risk customers? In SaaS, you can grow your revenue only if your churn rate is low, so retaining at-risk customers is crucial. In this article, we will discuss the ins and outs of at-risk customers, how to detect them, and five actionable strategies to help you prevent churn.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Perhaps the most common app onboarding design problem is trying to build your entire onboarding process from scratch. It’s much smarter to study app onboarding best practices and work with onboarding software that will massively reduce your labor time. What is app onboarding? Book a Userpilot demo today!

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Payment Solutions Onboarding Software Review Social Media 98

The Angel VC

MARCH 23, 2016

As I wrote in the original post: It's a simple plan for an early-stage SaaS startup with a low-touch sales model – a company which markets a SaaS solution via its website, offers a 30 day free trial, gets most of its trial users organically and through online marketing and converts them into paying customer with very little human interaction.

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Baremetrics

JANUARY 9, 2022

Reducing churn is the single most important thing your SaaS. By some estimates, it is up to 25 times cheaper to keep a customer happy than to onboard a new one. So how do you identify customers at risk of churn? I’ll also give you positive actions you can take to reduce and even prevent customer churn.

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Churn Payments Payment Services SaaS Payments 98

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Average Revenue per Customer. Customer Lifetime Value (LTV). Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). & One is your churn. SaaS businesses have churn. Two is the growth of your existing customers. Three is your new customers that’s kind of how we’re gonna structure the rest of the discussion today.

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SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 246

User Pilot

JANUARY 10, 2022

How important is customer success KPIs to your SaaS business? Customer success metrics help you analyze how effectively you help customers gain value from your SaaS product. When measuring customer success metrics, it’s never only about the results. What is customer success in SaaS?

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Customer Success SaaS Payments Customer Lifetime Value SaaS 105

SaaStr

JUNE 18, 2023

It decreases churn, at least in terms of timing (even if they churn, it takes a year to ‘happen’). And it’s sometimes easier to administer — automated monthly credit card payments are easy nowadays, but any invoicing process more than an annual one can be a big administrative headache. Done right, they do help.

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Payment Features Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payment Services 186

FastSpring

JANUARY 19, 2023

When NitroPack was first getting started, they used PayPal to accept and process payments. “It This solution lasted less than a month. Using PayPal, software companies can send U.S.-style style receipts and invoices, but the payment platform doesn’t create the type of invoices that the EU requires for most B2B transactions.

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Merchant Services Payment Services Payments Payment Features 147

User Pilot

JANUARY 31, 2022

If you’re a SaaS owner with a multi-platform product, you may be wondering what the difference between in-app notifications and push notifications is. Today we’re going to compare the two so you know which one to use for your in-app marketing goals! What are in-app notifications? Push vs In-app notifications.

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Customer Lifetime Value Payment Methods 98

Totango

MAY 19, 2020

The continuing COVID-19 health crisis may well produce a recession that has a significant impact on the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) industry. No one is certain how this will change the long and short-term behaviors of customers, lenders, and enterprises in a SaaS world. Marketing department: Create educational content for customers.

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SaaS Payments Churn Payment Solutions Payment Methods 77

Totango

JUNE 3, 2022

Customer success email templates form a foundation for effective CS automation. While customer success management can result in a rewarding payoff, it can also be very time-consuming if you don’t use the right strategies. Customer check-ins. Sales to Customer Success Handoff Email Template.

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