Tom Tunguz

APRIL 1, 2024

Rubrik, a Palo Alto-based data security company, filed their S-1 yesterday. y/y, estimated sales efficiency is 0.11, & contribution margins are negative : Rubrik sells $1 of subscription software for $0.88. Half of new customers are over $100,000 in size & contract values have grown 19% from $101k to $120k in a year.

Data 213

Data Subscription Payment Features Cloud 213

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Rather than committing to single solutions, successful companies are: Testing multiple AI models continuously Using self-served platforms for rapid experimentation Empowering engineers to make model-selection decisions Avoiding long-term vendor lock-in Data Management Data quality and integration have emerged as critical factors in successful AI implementation. (..)

AI 222

AI Technical Review Artificial Intelligence Systems Review 222

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. impose strict requirements on how businesses handle customer data.

Payment Features 52

Payment Features Subscription Management compliance 52

Blulogix

DECEMBER 5, 2024

By BluLogix Team Navigating Complex Pricing Models in the Subscription Economy Introduction In the subscription economy, Managed Service Providers (MSPs) must adapt to increasingly complex pricing models to meet the evolving needs of their customers. Gone are the days of simple, one-size-fits-all pricing.

Payment Features 59

Payment Features Subscription Pricing Technical Review 59

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 3, 2022

Intercom Dynamic Content leverages your existing customer data to allow you to create highly targeted rules, so you can be sure you’re sending the right message to the right audience at the right time. . Juggle multiple email lists with granular subscription management. Maximize your team’s time by linking Custom Bots.

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Payment Features Subscription Communication Engagement 203

Blulogix

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

By Inga Broerman How High-Performing Subscription Businesses Maximize NRR For subscription-based businesses, Net Revenue Retention (NRR) is the ultimate measure of growth and sustainability. High-performing subscription businesses use NRR as a growth engine , ensuring that renewals and expansions outpace any losses from churn.

Payment Features 59

Payment Features Subscription Payments Payment Services 59

FastSpring

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Offload the Complexities of Payments, Subscriptions, and Subscription Management to FastSpring Job to be done: You want to use WooCommerce and WordPress as a CMS, but want to leverage a Merchant of Record to manage payments, subscriptions, and subscription management. Add a Subscription to Cart PHP & Javascript <?

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Payment Features Subscription Merchant Services Payment Methods 158

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.

Payment Features 59

Payment Features Subscription Payments Payment Services 59

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.

Payment Features 52

Payment Features Subscription Pricing Artificial Intelligence 52

Subscription Flow

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Some of the pitfalls that come with unplanned billing migration are faulty revenue reporting, data duplication, and customer churn. Growing businesses need to integrate with external systems such as CRM or accounting systems, to avoid data silos. Having all your data in one place is essential to track your operations.

Payment Solutions 105

Payment Solutions Payment Services Systems Review SaaS Payments 105

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. These insights empower businesses to make data-driven decisions and adapt to market changes quickly.

Payment Features 52

Payment Features Payments Subscription Payment Solutions 52

SaaStr

MAY 25, 2024

RevenueCat is the dominant solution to manage subscriptions in the mobile world. mobile apps with a subscription use their API/SDK, and they have a massive data set. But many of the largest SaaS and B2B vendors, from Notion to other leaders, use RevenueCat as well to manage mobile subscriptions. Over 30% of U.S.

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B2C Mobile B2B Subscription 305

USIO

AUGUST 19, 2024

Simplify Subscription Payments with SaaS Solution Say goodbye to long, confusing, and costly payment processes. Say hello to efficiency and simplicity with advanced SaaS payment solutions for subscription services. Managing payments can be one of the most challenging aspects of running a subscription-based business.

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Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments 130

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 13, 2022

Last month we turned our attention to data – unleashing new features that help you improve how you collect, access, and use first-party data to influence your product and scale your business. New data localization with Australian Data Hosting. Learn more about our data hosting program here.

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Data Software Review Systems Review Mobile 197

SaaStr

DECEMBER 25, 2022

RevenueCat (where I was lucky enough to be the first investor) automates subscription management for mobile apps. It recently published its annual review of data from the 10,000+ mobile apps it powers subscription management for and I learned a few interesting things: Longer Trials Are Better. More on the data here.

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Mobile Subscription Payment Features Data 329

Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 24, 2025

While cutting-edge language models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities, most are primarily trained on open internet data. In AI terminology, “generalizing” refers to a model’s ability to apply learned knowledge to new tasks or unseen data. This is what I’m calling “Enterprise AI.”

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Enterprise AI Cloud Artificial Intelligence 157

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.

Payment Features 52

Payment Features Subscription AI Search compliance 52

Blulogix

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Here are some specific recommendations for UCaaS companies looking to simplify their monetization: Centralize Pricing Data in a Unified Catalog : advanced catalog management allows you to maintain all your pricing models in a single, centralized system.

Pricing 110

Pricing B2B Subscription Payment Features 110

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

You might be surprised to know that SaaS companies can learn a lot from their consumer subscription counterparts. 4: High-end sales teams Increasingly, SaaS organizations leverage inside sales teams, since selling subscriptions is easier and less of a commitment than selling enterprise software. 3: Make onboarding seamless.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payment Features Subscription B2B 52

Clouded Judgement

JUNE 19, 2024

In this post, I’ll take a data-driven approach in evaluating the overall group’s performance, and highlight individual standouts along the way. GCP data is a bit more noisy as they don’t disclose GCP itself, but rather Google Cloud which includes GSuite. Let’s get into some high level data.

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Cloud GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Software Azure 318

TechEmpower SaaS

JULY 24, 2023

What special data, content, APIs, etc., What’s the state of the relationships that brings you that data? eCommerce Does your startup run on a subscription model? How many kinds of subscriptions do you support? What are the rules for subscriptions? Member Profiles What data is included? Free trials?

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Innovation Development CTO Hire Technical Review 780

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. Do you just give them a flat file of unstructured data?

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Social Media Scale Churn Subscription 301

Chart Mogul

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

To generate accurate metrics, you need clean data—here’s how our improved data cleaning features make that easier. In ChartMogul, data imported from your subscription billing system(s) serves as the foundation for calculating your SaaS metrics. There are four other ways you can correct data in ChartMogul.

Payment Features 52

Payment Features Data Subscription Metrics 52

SaaStr

AUGUST 11, 2024

RevenueCat is the market leader for managing mobile subscription apps, with over 30% of U.S.-based based mobile subscription apps using their SDK and API to manage mobile subsriptions. At SaaStr Annual in September , their CTO will present all the hard data on how it actually works. We led the U.S.

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Cloud AI Generative AI CTO 300

SaaStr

DECEMBER 9, 2022

unlimited cashback up to the amount of their subscription. This means that you clearly understand your main pricing anchor and have precise data proving what your customers are willing to pay for your product or services. Customers receive 1.5% The Most Common Pitfalls of Pricing. They seldom will unless you have done your homework.

Data 245

Data Pricing Marketing Acquisition 245

FastSpring

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Some of the powerful capabilities you can unlock through Recipe Docs include: Capture Order Data from FastSpring Checkout : Allow for real-time access to transaction details for further processing or integration with your other systems. Encrypt the Session Object : Ensure secure, complaint handling of user data to protect user privacy.

Payment Methods 152

Payment Methods Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 152

FastSpring

AUGUST 12, 2024

Throughout the year, sales and subscription management teams juggle hundreds or thousands of subscription upgrades, add-ons, and renewals across customer accounts. Create accurate proforma invoices for subscription renewals, upgrades, downgrades, and add-ons to streamline budgeting and pre-approve costs. Increase Renewal Rates.

Payment Features 147

Payment Features Payments Subscription Payment Services 147

SaaStr

APRIL 8, 2020

Click here for ChartMogul’s free-forever launch plan that will give SaaS businesses access to the world’s first subscription data platform so they can analyze and improve key metrics like MRR, churn and LTV. What are they all about? What are they all about? Hiver’s Free Shared Inboxes for SMB.

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Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning SaaS Consulting 304

Blulogix

DECEMBER 19, 2024

By BluLogix Team Thriving in the Subscription Economy of 2025 and Beyond Introduction The subscription economy is not just a trendits a transformative shift in how businesses operate and generate value. Leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) AI is set to play a significant role in the future of the subscription economy.

Payment Features 52

Payment Features Subscription AI Search Artificial Intelligence 52

Clouded Judgement

APRIL 4, 2024

Rubrik Overview From the S1 - “We are on a mission to secure the world’s data. Realizing that cyberattacks ultimately target data, we created Zero Trust Data Security to deliver cyber resilience so that organizations can secure their data across the cloud and recover from cyberattacks.

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Benchmarks Data Cybersecurity Cloud 120

SaaStr

MAY 8, 2021

Squarespace is at $700m ARR and has 3.7m “unique subscriptions” although it’s unclear how many unique customers that is. Wix is at $1B ARR, worth $15B and added 1 million new subscriptions in 2020. Both it and Wix are a bit murky on customer count vs “subscriptions”, but those are the data we have. More here.

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SMB SaaS Subscription Payment Features 290

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

For a more effective outcome, a CSP works alongside your CRM, enhancing insights and giving CS teams the actionable data they need. How to combine CSP and CRM data to fight churn more effectively. Customer success teams have a comprehensive overview of each customer’s journey when CRM data is paired with a CSP’s insights.

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Churn Data Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence 59

Clouded Judgement

JUNE 14, 2024

Or Snowflake who charges based on compute used or data stored. But if an AI agent is solving tickets, the UI becomes a whole lot less important… What becomes more important is the underlying data structure of the application. The best end user experience will come from a better underlying data architecture, not an easy to use UI.

Cloud 343

Cloud Pricing AI Software 343

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This is where traditional SaaS methods like subscription pricing only, driving growth through headcount only, or a pure sales GTM strategy only live. PLG is about investing in product and data instead of sales and marketing. An overview of data found that nearly 61% of companies used only usage-based pricing.

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Business Model SaaS Payments Payments Headcount 300

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Cyvatar is a technology-enabled cyber security as a service (CSaaS) provider disrupting a $150 billion industry by introducing and delivering smarter, measurable managed security subscriptions to help you achieve compliance and security faster and more efficiently.

Banking 261

Banking Payment Features Venture Capital Subscription 261

Blulogix

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

By Inga Broerman The Renewal Blind Spot: Where Subscription Businesses Lose the Most Revenue Renewals should be a source of predictable, recurring revenue yet for many subscription businesses, they are a pain point filled with inefficiencies, missed opportunities, and revenue leakage. The result?

Payment Features 59

Payment Features Payments Subscription Revenue 59

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

You have two options to ensure compliance: 1) Go through the eight-step process of sales tax compliance , including gathering the sales tax data, reconciling the data, filing the tax return, and paying wh at you owe. Considering that SaaS companies typically charge a monthly subscription amount, one customer can create 12 transactions.

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Payment Services compliance SaaS Payments Scale 335