SaaStr

APRIL 15, 2025

I’ll dig in, but a really great deep dive with MongoDB’s head of sales ops here: Four Sales Compensation Tactics for Consumption-Based GTM with MongoDB’s SVP of Sales MongoDB us a blended commission model for their consumption-based GTM. using 20 out of 25 features). 10k/month in usage).

Scale 144

Scale Compensation Retention Churn 144

FastSpring

MARCH 8, 2024

After adopting FastSpring as their merchant of record, SocialBee even saw 2x year-over-year growth in monthly recurring revenue (MRR) after their first year with FastSpring. Our continued focus on developing and improving a great product , especially features and tools for subscription management to support SaaS businesses.

Merchant Services 158

Merchant Services Payments Payment Features Subscription 158

SaaStr

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Folks churn out of their Verizon plan, their Netflix subscription, etc. In a low-end subscription model for a tool, not a solution (e.g., But you, your VP of Sales, and your VP of Customer Success should know which Big Customers are at risk almost immediately upon signing. the dynamics are similar.

Churn 362

Churn Sales Hiring Systems Review B2C 362

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

More than 10 million people use Expensify’s free features, which include corporate cards, expense tracking, next-day reimbursement, invoicing, bill pay, and travel booking in one app. Avoma is an AI Meeting Assistant, Collaboration and Intelligence platform for Sales, Implementation, and Customer Success teams.

Payments 273

Payments Payment Services AI Search Payment Solutions 273

SaaStr

JULY 20, 2024

Dedicated Slack Channel For Every Metric From the early days at Secureframe, they have had a dedicated Slack channel for every metric: every net new sale, every expansion, every churn, and every expense. Work with Great Executive Recruiters ”The first time I saw an invoice for an executive search, I think I had a heart attack,” Shrav joked.

Sales Recruiting 299

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Engineering 299

SaaStr

MAY 8, 2021

Close say a $125k contract, even after a healthy sales commission, that’s $100k+ in the bank right now! Forcing your sales team to do collections is OK in the early days, but doesn’t work perfectly either, and doesn’t scale. Monthly invoices can make things even worse, of course. Is it worth it?

SaaS Payments 312

SaaS Payments Payment Services Scale Payments 312

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. The most potent benefit of the subscription-based business model is that companies are guaranteed a fixed revenue stream—if they can retain their customers or subscribers.

Payment Features 88

Payment Features Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 88

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Everything from hiring on the GTM side to layering in a sales-led motion into PLG. From a Go-To-Market perspective, Zapier uses a hybrid model that involves a combination of freemium offerings, subscription plans, and partnerships. Let’s dive into what’s making that hybrid model successful: PLG and Sales Led?

Scale 317

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Marketing 317

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2021

Q: Dear SaaStr: How Do I Convince My Customers with Monthly plans to Upgrade to Annual Plans? Large customers only pay via invoices, especially for any deal of any material size (>$10k a year). Invoices have their own annoying set of characteristics (they can be Net 60+, you have to deal with procurement, etc.).

Payment Features 246

Payment Features Outsourced Development Scale Payment Services 246

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

An open discussion with Sam Blond, CSO at Brex, and Kristen Habacht, VPS at Atlassian, about adjusting their sales process during Covid-19. Kristen Habacht runs EDR sales at Atlassian, which I got a check today, $40 billion-$50 billion company. Four, people in the sale? Kristen Habacht: Well, there’s none in sales.

Merchant Services 259

Merchant Services Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 259

SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2020

Predictable Revenue outlined the four pillars of outbound sales development and talked about how they’re helping companies investigate markets before building out sales teams, and also explained how the company helps customers create a link between targeting and messaging. Go to Hired’s website to learn more about their news.

Sales Hiring 233

Sales Hiring Scale Payment Features Marketplace as a Service 233

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

You might be surprised to know that SaaS companies can learn a lot from their consumer subscription counterparts. So even though you do need to continually win your subscriber on an ongoing basis, by the time it comes up for that first renewal, the sales rep may be long gone. 1: Balance acquisition, engagement, and retention.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payment Features Subscription B2B 52

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. Letting FastSpring handle the subscription infrastructure.

SaaS Payments 158

SaaS Payments Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions 158

SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2024

Chief Customer Officer Summit at SaaStr Annual This special collaboration between the SF Customer Success Meetup and SaaStr Annual. The Chief Customer Officer Meetup at SaaStr Annual will feature a day of invite-only content and networking for leaders and executives in Customer Success on Thursday, Sept 12th.

Benchmarks 293

Benchmarks Finance Business Model Forecasting 293

SaaStr

JANUARY 11, 2024

A magic cure for sales costs that are just too high. Sometimes in great ways — forcing B2C subscription businesses to relentlessly provide a great end-user experience. Every month, the meal kit, the clothing, the game subscription, the video subscription almost has to be better than the month before. But in SaaS?

Retention 317

Retention B2C B2B Churn 317

FastSpring

JANUARY 19, 2023

And they immediately began to see issues using PayPal as the foundation of their payment stack: “The moment we realized that our SaaS was going to be making more money in the next months, we realized that we had a payment issue, and we needed to be able to scale.” Using PayPal, software companies can send U.S.-style

Merchant Services 147

Merchant Services Payment Services Payments Payment Features 147

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

And the same month their renewal came up sales was … a bit soft. So we sent them an invoice for $60k, and our champion went … ballistic. He told me he had taken a big risk on us, and just getting an invoice out of the blue with a 600% price increase “was just not OK” He was right.

Pricing 273

Pricing Payment Features B2C Churn 273

SaaStr

AUGUST 21, 2024

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CTO 283

CTO Scale Travel AI 283

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Its customer base spans over 14,000 customers in over 100 countries. Hear from Duo Security’s VP of Inside Sales America on how to build a $2.3B sales team. Jennifer Lawrence | VP, Inside Sales @ Duo Security. We created and served up apps via the cloud on a subscription basis.

Scale 294

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales 294

Blulogix

MARCH 24, 2024

By BluLogix Team Mastering the Art of Complex B2B Recurring and Subscription Billing: Overcoming Customer Success Complexities Take your business further with BluIQ’s flexible, scalable, enterprise-grade intelligent billing solutions. Recurring & Usage Billing Navigating the Maze of Customer Success: 1.

Payment Features 97

Payment Features Subscription B2B Customer Success 97

FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

In this piece, we offer seven case studies from SaaS companies — small tweaks they made to reduce churn and increase customer LTV. Note: FastSpring offers advanced subscription management services that support free trials, monthly and annual paid plans, proration, discount management, and more. How Castos upsells subscription tiers.

Merchant Services 146

Merchant Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 146

ChurnZero

APRIL 25, 2025

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? Renewals forecasting was historically a sales game, but increasingly, CS teams are responsible for expansion revenue. Non-recurring revenue.

Forecasting 52

Forecasting Customer Success Payments Data 52

SaaStr

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Atlassian and AWS, two of the greats, may hold a clue: Atlassian and AWS Say: “Maybe Worry a Little Bit” 4. “A Framework For Your First SaaS Sales Comp Plan” A SaaStr Classic, still going strong in 2020. A Framework For Your First SaaS Sales Comp Plan. What Makes a Great VP of Sales and How to Hire One.

Venture Capital 335

Venture Capital Sales Hiring AWS Cloud 335

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. Workflows: Zapier, Segment.

Payment Solutions 117

Payment Solutions Payments Customer Success Payment Methods 117

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Was $8 billion in secondary sale in November. Last April, the company slashed half its workforce as restaurant sales dropped 80% [link]. That’s a little more than a $65k revenue per customer on average. But again, payments is the vast majority of this revenue. Toast valued at $32.5 billion at opening price.

Payment Methods 325

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments Cloud 325

User Pilot

OCTOBER 19, 2024

As such, you must tailor your strategies to meet your target customers’ specific needs and expectations. What does customer satisfaction look like for SaaS businesses? Unlike traditional businesses, most SaaS businesses operate the subscription pricing model. As a result, satisfying customers is key to any success in SaaS.

Business 111

Business Underperforming Technical Team Customer Lifetime Value Systems Review 111

Totango

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Recent years have seen an astonishing rise in the popularity of subscription-based products and services. And of course, customers can easily cancel the very second they become dissatisfied, lose interest, or feel they aren’t getting the value they expected. . Leading the charge. We can see this development in our recent survey.

Customer Success 115

Customer Success Churn Enterprise Software Development 115

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.

Customer Success 115

Customer Success Payments SaaS Payments Payment Methods 115

Sixteen Ventures

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

It’s critical to understand why your customers churn, but if you’re relying solely on the reason the customer gives you for that churn, you’re definitely missing the actual reason. It’s easy to just ask a customer why they’re cancelling or not renewing and to leave it at that. So… is it worth “saving” customers? .

Churn 132

Churn Customer Success Systems Review Outsourced Development 132

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 26, 2021

That’s how my friend Stacey describes the way sales compensation plans have changed over the last 15 years of her SaaS career. Why do sales compensation plans have to be so complex? Sales compensation was set up to ensure that reps are suitably rewarded for their performance. Bookings vs. invoices.

Software Review 122

Software Review Compensation Payment Features Underperforming Technical Team 122

User Pilot

JULY 29, 2024

Looking for the best customer success management software to power up your product growth strategy, but you are overwhelmed with so many options in the market? TL;DR Customer success software refers to tools that help manage customer experiences and drive customers toward their desired outcomes.

Customer Success 105

Customer Success Software Management SaaS 105

ChurnZero

JANUARY 24, 2022

Building a business from the ground up always has its challenges, but maintaining a subscription-based business can be particularly difficult due to its ongoing nature. One of the most effective ways to run a subscription-based business is through a customer-centric strategy. You might be wondering, what is customer centricity

Payment Features 98

Payment Features Subscription SaaS Payments Sales Hiring 98

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.

Customer Success 107

Customer Success Payment Methods Payments Payment Services 107

Totango

AUGUST 16, 2022

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. What Is Customer Retention Software?

Payment Solutions 106

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Retention Customer Success 106

SaaStr

JANUARY 5, 2022

Every customer-facing team is on the renewals team. There’s no denying that renewals are the most important motion in SaaS and subscription. At Box, there was a culture and mindset shift early on that customer-facing teams shouldn’t live in silos. Improvements for a sales team and process are a ‘no finish line’ business.

Scale 301

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Software Review 301

Incredo

JANUARY 14, 2020

What just happened is that you entered another SaaS company’s sales funnel. Let’s jump on a free call How to setup your SaaS sales funnel? image source Some SaaS companies tend to overcomplicate their SaaS buyer journey. Funnel ends not when the sale is closed but when your customer refers you.

Sales Funnel 239

Sales Funnel SaaS Sales Social Media 239

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Jonathan Moss (EVP at Experity) showcased an Account Plan GPT that streamlines sales and marketing account research for outbound efforts. Examples of automating workflows to solve ongoing challenges: Everyone shared use cases they’re trying for sales account research and lead generation workflows. Link to GPT. Link to GPT.

Sales Recruiting 109

Sales Recruiting Software Review Scale AI 109