Stax

MARCH 16, 2025

As a SaaS business leader, reducing software user churn is an important part of maintaining your customer base and increasing revenue. Key metrics include customer churn rate, revenue churn, and net revenue retention (NRR). Happy customers bring referrals, fueling organic growth. Looking to measure churn?

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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?

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Neil Patel

AUGUST 6, 2021

That’s why customer retention is crucial to growing your Ecommerce business. What is customer retention? Customer retention is the ability to encourage customers to keep coming back to make purchases. We’ll also look at foundational principles like attracting and converting customers. How do you do that?

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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. SaaS Product Secret #1 | Optimize Public Pages.

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Incredo

JULY 14, 2019

The subscription pricing model is a business model in which a customer pays a recurring fee on a regular basis (weekly, monthly, quarterly or annually) to use a service or product. That means a company generates revenue on a regular basis based on how many customers it has and what subscription plan they choose. Boring, right?).

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FastSpring

JULY 16, 2019

You’re constantly racing against the clock to get your product off the ground and generating revenue as quickly as possible. Since SaaS-friendly billing, also known as recurring billing , is designed specifically for companies who sell online services with a subscription model, it offers many advantages over a typical payment system.

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USIO

JANUARY 15, 2024

Subscription Models: Usio will provide general insights into why subscription-based payment processing is often considered advantageous for Software as a Service (SaaS) businesses. Predictable Revenue Streams: Subscription models provide a consistent and predictable revenue stream for SaaS companies.

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 31, 2019

When you hear the word “haunted,” odds are the first thing that comes to mind is not ecommerce. But in keeping with the Halloween theme, I’m going to discuss five key factors in ecommerce that you don’t want to come back to haunt your software company. Goblins, Ghouls, and Global Regulations | GDPR & PSD2. The root of the cause?

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

BNPL allows consumers to split large purchases into several monthly payments, interest-free. Customers don’t just like BNPL; it also encourages them to manage their budget in a way that helps them pay for higher-priced items. PayPal’s offering integrates with the PayPal wallet, allowing users to easily manage payments.

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

We are excited to share the release of three new groundbreaking features designed to turbocharge your subscription revenue! 1ClickPay, Trial Hopping Prevention, and Offers API are designed to boost your conversion rates and increase customer lifetime value. Check out our 1ClickPay product announcement.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Average Revenue per Customer. Customer Lifetime Value (LTV). Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). & So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey. Or annual recurring revenue for some types of companies.

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Subscription Flow

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Operating a business entails a number of processes like managing products and payments, invoices, customer engagement, revenue, unpaid invoices and much more. It streamlines your entire billing process from invoice generation to payment collection. To preserve that balance, you need to be extremely cautious and proactive.

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Stax

MARCH 18, 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. Part of this can be attributed to the SaaS model’s unique aspect of relying primarily on future revenue. Take a traditional business, like a furniture store.

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FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

“It’s likely that a finance or sales tools will be less susceptible to churn than a marketing tool, simply because it’s perceived to be more directly responsible for revenue.”. Ryan points out that many of the largest SaaS companies target enterprise customers that use longer contract lengths, so their churn rate will be lower.

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Subscription Flow

MAY 22, 2024

First impressions are rarely the last impressions, but they can prove to be just that for your company if you do not strategize a high customer lifetime value (LTV) for SaaS businesses. When customers consistently return to make purchases, it is usually a positive indication that your company is doing well.

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SaaStr

JULY 30, 2024

The realized value grows as users derive value from the product, increasing engagement, retention, and stickiness. By scaling your PLG motion, you can achieve higher revenue per employee because you aren’t investing as many dollars in messaging, marketing, and building the big sales teams. How do I learn about this product?

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Most SaaS businesses adopt a subscription-based model supported by a recurring payment system. Setting up a recurring payment system can be complicated and requires the right tools to measure, manage, and review payments regularly. Monthly and Annual Recurring Revenue ii. Customer Lifetime Value iii.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Before we look at the promised SaaS revenue models, let’s get a couple definitions out of the way. We need to differentiate among three similar sounding but very different concepts: revenue stream, revenue model, and business model. Revenue stream: This is a single source of revenue for a company.

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 20, 2024

So let us first understand the unique factors that affect SaaS accounting: Revenue Recognition: SaaS revenue depends on the subscription model, and the recurring nature of the income stream can create complexities in revenue recognition compared to traditional businesses.

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Totango

AUGUST 23, 2022

By charting the points in your SaaS customers’ journeys, you can plan how to deliver clients’ desired outcomes and satisfying experiences that promote subscription renewals and higher revenue. In this way, customer journey B2B touchpoints serve as a powerful tool for increasing the effectiveness of your customer success strategy.

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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. You have three ads in circulation and each ad produced ten customers. Why does it matter?

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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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Stax

JUNE 18, 2024

Subscription models offer companies large and small the opportunity to build predictable revenue and high customer lifetime value. In a subscription business model, customers pay a recurring fee in exchange for a product or service. In fact, 70% of customers now expect websites to include a self-service function.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 18, 2021

Any online firm or business must deal with a large volume of complex data. Overview Baremetrics Application of Baremetrics on Net Revenue and Operating Income Dashboards and metrics Forecasts Benefits of using Baremetrics Why Do You Need Baremetrics? Overview In general conversation, the terms revenue and income are interchangeable.

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FastSpring

APRIL 11, 2019

FastSpring’s automated email delivery for files, license keys, and software makes the post-checkout fulfillment process a breeze by delivering products straight to your customer’s inbox! Maximized Revenue Potential. If your company is operating on a “one-time sales” model, you understand how unpredictable your revenue streams can be.

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Baremetrics

APRIL 27, 2021

Customer segmentation is the process of dividing customers into different groups based on common characteristics, such as demographics, behaviors, and affinity. This practice is particularly vital for businesses that rely on customer loyalty or repeat purchases, such as SaaS companies and eCommerce businesses.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Revenue Performance Management (RPM) is when a company monitors its revenue performance, tracks how revenue is affected by strategic decisions, figures out revenue drivers, and then optimizes operations to drive revenue growth. Without the systemized focus on pushing revenue up, companies can falter.

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Following in the footsteps of Amazon, Shopify first began its journey as a simple online shop, selling snowboards. Shopify Partner Apps are third party companies that sell their services or Apps to Shopify store owners. For example, a Shopify Partner App might enable a shopify store owner to email all of their customers.

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 9, 2021

While Stripe is indispensable for the average online business, providing many different tools, reports, and customizations that power online payment processing , when it comes to finding the billing history for Stripe customers, things are needlessly complicated. What is Stripe? It can also send payouts globally.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 31, 2023

The purpose of customer acquisition is to expand and make more revenue. Customer acquisition marketing refers to the subset of strategies and activities within customer acquisition that focus on marketing techniques to attract and convert potential customers. What is customer acquisition?

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User Pilot

APRIL 24, 2024

In this article, we’ll share everything you need to know for increasing customer renewals. TL;DR SaaS renewals includes the process of renewing a subscription to an online-hosted software service. Tracking SaaS renewal rates enables predictable revenue, aiding financial planning and resource management for future growth.

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Baremetrics

JANUARY 18, 2022

Companies that operate over multiple regions or countries are increasingly turning to price localization as a way of bringing in more customers and growing their revenue. Price localization can be done on its own or as part of an ecommerce personalization strategy. Table of Contents. What Is Price Localization?

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Most online businesses use a customer relationship management ( CRM ) software package and/or payment processor to manage their billings because handling many customers across regions by hand is difficult, and in a competitive market there is no room for errors. An LTV to CAC ratio of 3 (i.e.,

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Customer lifetime value. The total revenue a company can expect from a single customer over the course of their relationship. Customer activation rate. Monthly and annual recurring revenue. Website traffic. For the MRR, you sum up the recurring revenue from all your customers in a given month.

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FastSpring

MAY 30, 2019

Perhaps one of the biggest benefits of implementing a subscription model is that it allows software companies to avoid the unpredictability of one-time sales by guaranteeing a steady stream of revenue. In this second post of our subscription finance series, we’ll break down what you need to know about Annual Recurring Revenue.

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Subscription Flow

MAY 30, 2024

Some of the other software that these tools integrate with can be: 1. Payment gateways : to help process all payments made by your consumer efficiently and securely. 3. SubscriptionFlow also places a great deal of importance on customer retention and churn management which helps businesses grow.

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ProfitWell

JUNE 15, 2020

How are churn and new revenue trending over time? MRR gain is new revenue from either acquired customers or upgrades in a given month. MRR loss is churn, or lost revenue from cancellations or downgrades. Here are the main takeaways: Customers expect highly-personalized experiences and contextualized customer journeys.

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