ChurnZero

APRIL 25, 2025

Customer teams have more data at their fingertips than ever before. And the shift to better integrate CS and sales is well underway. What do our CS leaders and teams do with mountains of historical, behavioral, and customer journey data? Onboarding and retention strategies are standard practice. Where can you start?

Forecasting 52

Forecasting Customer Success Payments Data 52

SaaStr

MAY 8, 2021

bills, “payment terms”, and often, repeated follow-up. But getting paid in a simple ACH or credit card payment each month can be magical. Annual deals can create unnecessary customer friction. Big customers will want to pay annually. Annual deals mask churn. Annual contracts require P.O.,

SaaS Payments 317

SaaS Payments Payment Services Scale Payments 317

SaaStr

MAY 4, 2022

These days, as the business lead for invoicing at Stripe, Xie has earned her own stripes in navigating the unique challenges of building and thriving in the SaaS marketplace. What makes a SaaS business so hard? As your business grows in complexity, these drags on your infrastructure can impact your product development.

Payment Features 262

Payment Features Payment Services Outsourcing Services Payment Solutions 262

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. And even before they did, panic set in in businesses with no cash reserves. The first thing SMBs did was look at their credit card payments and cancel everything they could.

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SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale SMB 280

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. This insight led Deel to focus on solving payments and compliance.

Sales Hiring 279

Sales Hiring Payment Services SaaS Payments Scale 279

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. Billing: Zuora.

Payment Solutions 117

Payment Solutions Payments Customer Success Payment Methods 117

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. What is Customer Churn?

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Churn Payments Revenue SaaS Payments 105

Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Monthly recurring revenue is one of the least exciting topics to take on in 2020. While I was researching this topic, I reached out to our Customer Success and Sales teams to see if many customers were coming to them with questions about MRR. MRR stands for Monthly recurring revenue. It is simple (to calculate).

Payments 145

Payments Revenue Payment Features SaaS Payments 145

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

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

What if you could boost revenue without having to invest a small fortune in new customer acquisition? While it may sound too good to be true, the reality is that you can achieve this by implementing an effective customer expansion strategy. How to calculate customer expansion revenue?

Strategy 105

Strategy Payment Solutions Payments Customer Lifetime Value 105

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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Customer Success VP of Engineering Payments Payment Methods 158

Stax

APRIL 17, 2025

Instead of pouring resources solely into acquiring new customers, smart SaaS businesses focus on increasing revenue from existing customers by guiding them to higher tiers, unlocking premium features, and expanding their usage. The key is to make the upgrade feel like a natural next step, not a hard sell.

Payments 88

Payments Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Services 88

SaaStr

JUNE 17, 2022

The exact % can vary based on types of payments and customer size. Whatever it is, that extra bit is the cheapest financing of your business you’ll ever get. So if you haven’t hired a dedicated Customer Success Manager well ahead of your first renewals — make sure you do. We aimed for 120%.

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SaaS Payments Sales Hiring SaaS Payment Services 313

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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Customer Success Payments Payment Methods Payment Solutions 117

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.

Churn 98

Churn Payments Payment Services SaaS Payments 98

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. Yet, many companies still rely on outdated, manual processes that create inefficiencies, revenue leakage, and higher churn rates.

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Payment Features Subscription Payments Payment Services 59

CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 7, 2022

It’s undeniable that the SaaS model works differently and attracts revenue on a monthly or annual basis, unlike the on-premise software that deals with one-time payments. So, it’s legit to have a customer success team in hand. Stay tuned and read on to incur extra SaaS revenue. Didn’t this get you curious already?

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Customer Success Payments SaaS Payments Revenue 98

Totango

AUGUST 16, 2022

Customer Retention Software Cuts Down Client Churn. Customer retention software has become essential for effective SaaS customer success strategies. A winning SaaS business model must prioritize retaining customers, which is far more cost-efficient than acquiring new clients to offset churn.

Payment Solutions 106

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Retention Customer Success 106

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. Billing: Zuora.

Payment Solutions 94

Payment Solutions Payments Customer Success Payment Methods 94

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Average Revenue per Customer. Customer Lifetime Value (LTV). Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). & The last kind of constituent here is investors and business owners. And basically SaaS revenue models is just magical for investors and for businesses. One is your churn. MRR, obviously.

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SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 246

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. Built out a bunch of the orb across product, data, analytics to do much of the same work, to drive retention and monetization.

Payments 113

Payments Pricing Compensation Scale 113

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. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Software.

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Payments Payment Solutions Customer Success Software Review 87

FastSpring

JANUARY 19, 2023

NitroPack , a website performance optimization platform, has become one of the fastest-growing startups in CEE. Since it joined FastSpring in early 2020, the company has increased its revenue by 628% and is still growing fast. When NitroPack was first getting started, they used PayPal to accept and process payments. “It

Merchant Services 147

Merchant Services Payment Services Payments Payment Features 147

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. In the old days, growing your business was easy. Tell people about your business, get them in the store, sell them things, then look for more customers.

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Customer Success Payment Methods Payments Payment Services 107

The Angel VC

MARCH 23, 2016

Therefore the key drivers of my imaginary startup are organic growth rate, marketing budget and customer acquisition costs, conversion rate, ARPU and churn rate. If you have a SaaS startup with a higher-touch sales model where revenue growth is largely driven by sales headcount, the plan needs to be modified accordingly.

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SaaS Payments Headcount SaaS Payment Methods 217

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.

Churn 98

Churn SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Strategy 98

ChurnZero

MAY 20, 2021

When you build a Customer Success organization from the ground up, it’s easy to get caught in the trap of doing the wrong things well. To figure out where you should begin on your growth and scaling journey, it’s helpful to first orient yourself with where you stand using a Customer Success maturity model. Build Phase.

Customer Success 90

Customer Success Payments Payment Services Scale 90

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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Customer Success Payments SaaS Payments Payment Methods 115

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.

Merchant Services 146

Merchant Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 146

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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SaaS Payments Pricing Payments Merchant Services 148

User Pilot

JANUARY 10, 2022

How important is customer success KPIs to your SaaS business? The corporate world is becoming increasingly dependent on data and analytics to make informed business decisions. Customer success metrics help you analyze how effectively you help customers gain value from your SaaS product.

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Customer Success SaaS Payments Customer Lifetime Value SaaS 105

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?

Customer Success 95

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Scale 95

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.

Churn 100

Churn Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Features 100

SaaStr

MAY 16, 2019

I’m Romain, I’m the founder of Gorgias, and so today we’re going to talk about how to get a thousand customers using data. We are a customer service platform for e-commerce websites, and one of the things we try to do is to automate customer support. Simple answer. You buy it.

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Merchant Services Payment Methods Data Sales Hiring 211

ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

As ChurnZero recently secured a Series B investment bringing our total funding that has been raised to date to $35 million, we thought we’d take a look back and see the role that Customer Success plays at each respective stage of funding for SaaS companies. Early-Stage Funding & Customer Success.

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Scale Customer Success Payments Underperforming Technical Team 98

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.

Churn 98

Churn Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 98

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. They’ll stop using the product, stop engaging with your brand, and, eventually, churn.

Payment Services 105

Payment Services Churn Payment Methods Payment Solutions 105