Payrix

JANUARY 10, 2025

Ian Hillis welcomes David Blair, Senior Director of Product Management at Worldpay for Platforms, on PayFAQ: The Embedded Payments podcast to explore the critical roles of merchant underwriting and onboarding for software providers. Real-time feedback loops and data-driven optimizations are also transforming the onboarding experience.

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SaaStr

MARCH 16, 2025

Instrument Everything Before running campaigns, ensure you have rock-solid data collection: Define clear metrics tied to business outcomes Create instrumentation that accurately tracks performance Focus on data that’s “directionally correct” – perfect precision isn’t required 4.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Dan, a Stanford-trained engineer with experience guiding companies like Intuit, understands how to optimize your product metrics for growth by focusing on retention and building a product users truly value. Understanding the product metrics Let’s have two products – A and B. The key is to go beyond surface-level metrics.

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SaaStr

MARCH 9, 2025

Previously, he led design teams at LinkedIn where he built recommendation products for product onboarding and developed AI chatbots. The 86% loyalty factor : Companies that provide strong onboarding and continuous educational experiences see 86% higher customer loyalty rates – making AI-powered personalization a critical retention tool.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Everything has to do more and be more automated, from onboarding to email. In the SMB space, the biggest problem is onboarding for complex products. If they aren’t onboarded that day, customers often disappear. Now with automation, people want to be onboarded. If that’s you, how can you eliminate onboarding in your app?

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 8, 2020

This is where metrics can be invaluable, giving clarity on performance, and circumventing potential issues. But with so much data to consider, how can you define the help desk metrics that matter for your team? What are help desk metrics? Help desk metrics vs. KPIs. Ticket volume or total conversations.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 23, 2025

Focus on: Building robust security and compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001) Automating customer onboarding/offboarding Creating enterprise-grade support processes Developing procurement relationship expertise Having clear data handling procedures 5. Master Enterprise-Grade Operations The operational bar is much higher in enterprise.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Once they brought it to market, they knew they needed better user admin features, onboarding capabilities, SSO integration, etc. Other places this feedback loop worked well were: Adoption loop metrics. Customers crave metrics about how teams are using all AI products. Deciding where you don’t want to spend your time.

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SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2025

Heres what Id look at: Pipeline Growth : Have they increased your pipeline metrics? Team Building : Have they started hiring and onboarding new reps that you think are at least good ? All Your VPs Really Need to Do is Tilt the Curve A great VP of Sales should show meaningful progress within one sales cycle.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Sessions typically focus on real metrics, strategies, and lessons learned, not theoretical concepts. Benchmark Data and Performance Metrics SaaStr sessions typically feature transparent sharing of key metrics and benchmarks that are otherwise difficult to access. Get out of the home office.

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SaaStr

JULY 20, 2024

Metrics, Metrics, Metrics The first thing Secureframe thinks about is metrics. If you don’t know your key company or North Star metrics, talk to your investors or other experts to figure out what they should be. So they can take action on the metrics in real time if they’re going in a direction they don’t like.

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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2025

This realization led to a fundamental shift in strategy, allocating resources to hiring and onboarding rather than lead generation. This practical, observable metric drove more decision-making than sophisticated dashboards or forecasting models.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Tracking the right user metrics helps you precisely identify issues in the product experience rather than feeling lost in a sea of data. In this article, Ill cover 10 crucial user metrics every product manager should track to turn data into decisions that increase product adoption. Emphasis is on the word right.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

” And that’s also why AARRR metrics are called pirate metrics. Short for acquisition, activation, retention, referral, and revenue, these metrics help you measure and drive product growth. In this article, we’ll dig deeper into the AARRR framework and the relevant metrics associated with each stage.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Userpilot’s SaaS Product Metrics Benchmark Report has found that compared to other industries, healthcare SaaS companies perform lower across most of the 6 metrics we studied. You will also learn how healthcare companies can improve their product metrics. The onboarding checklist completion rate was one of the highest (20.5%).

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User Pilot

JULY 21, 2024

Which SaaS industry has the highest customer onboarding checklist completion rate? These are the key questions we explore in the article based on our recent Product Metrics Benchmark Report 2024 which investigates company performance in 6 different metrics across 7+ industries. Average onboarding checklist completion rate.

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User Pilot

JULY 18, 2024

MarTech companies had the lowest onboarding c completion rates of all the industries we studied for our SaaS Product Metrics Benchmark Report. Does it have any impact on new user activation, time-to-value, or other metrics? We also show you how you can improve the key success metrics for your MarTech SaaS. Time to Value.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2024

In many ways, they have to do better with UI/UX, onboarding, and conversions. In B2B, the classic metric for this is 2% now and was 2% in 2006. To maximize this fact, you need to have the right onboarding processes in place to recapture those people. Often, people just aren’t using it enough, or need better onboarding.

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Payment Features Subscription B2B Mobile 306

Stax

MARCH 16, 2025

Key metrics include customer churn rate, revenue churn, and net revenue retention (NRR). A lack of onboarding Onboarding is critical when it comes to successful user adoption of a new product. By streamlining the onboarding process to make it quick and easy, users will be able to recognize the value upfront.

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Payment Solutions Software Review Churn SaaS Payments 88

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Funnels simplify metrics. I’ve been preparing my session for the NY Enterprise Tech Meetup later this week on the Essential Guide to SaaS Metrics. Attract a customer, engage them, sell them a contract, onboard them, ensure they achieve their objective. Attract a talented candidate, engage them, hire them, onboard them.

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SaaStr

JULY 25, 2024

You’ll find that, though statistics and metrics matter, they don’t tell the bigger picture and can be misleading or even wrong. If I could choose just one, I’d dump all the metrics and just talk to customers and probably make better decisions,” Jake says. NPS, net promoter score, is sometimes the metric people use.

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User Pilot

JULY 31, 2024

The onboarding checklist completion rate measures the percentage of new users who finish all tasks on the onboarding checklist. 14 product management KPIs & metrics for product managers to track In this section, you’ll discover 14 essential KPIs and metrics that all product managers should monitor. Average TTV.

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Metrics Customer Lifetime Value Onboarding Acquisition 104

User Pilot

MAY 2, 2024

You will also learn how to build a retention strategy, what metrics to track, and 10 bulletproof retention tactics for SaaS companies. Key metrics to measure customer retention include customer retention rate , customer churn rate , customer acquisition cost, and customer effort score. Customer retention metrics: Retention rate.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

The company realized their current onboarding solutions weren’t adequate, so they decided to give Userpilot a go. TL;DR Challenge : Talana faced difficulties providing effective onboarding and in-app communication for their product. So they looked for a self-serve solution that would enable them to onboard new customers at scale.

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User Pilot

JULY 4, 2024

But how can you effectively measure product metrics that can help you reach your goals and increase revenue growth? In this article, we’ll explore some key metrics, analysis techniques, as well as actionable strategies to track and enhance your product performance. What metrics you track will heavily depend on your goals.

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Metrics Systems Review Retention Customer Lifetime Value 111

User Pilot

AUGUST 22, 2024

According to Userpilot’s SaaS Product Success Metrics Benchmark report , Fintech and Insurance companies had the second-lowest activation and adoption rates of all industries. This is because the client onboarding process in financial services faces unique challenges. What are they? Let’s get started.

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Payment Services SaaS Payments Onboarding Payment Solutions 111

User Pilot

JUNE 10, 2024

Researching customer onboarding strategies for your SaaS product? The article shares 17 tried-and-tested customer onboarding tactics that will help you build delightful user experiences and drive product growth. Create a welcome series of in-app and email messages to greet users and kick off onboarding. Ready to dive in?

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User Pilot

JUNE 11, 2024

Product marketing metrics are key for understanding and optimizing the performance of your product. That said, let’s explore the most critical product marketing metrics to track, along with the latest benchmarks in 2024: Check out the 2024 Benchmark Report. Book a Userpilot demo to see how you can track all your metrics in one place.

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Benchmarks Product Marketing Metrics Marketing 102

User Pilot

JULY 19, 2024

Not sure what metrics you should use? Here are metrics you can use, along with their averages for Martech companies from Userpilot’s SaaS Product Success Metrics Report 2024 : Average customer activation rate : 24%. Onboarding checklist completion rate: 12.5% Onboarding checklist completion rate: 12.5%

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Benchmarks Metrics Scale Customer Lifetime Value 105

User Pilot

AUGUST 23, 2024

How does customer onboarding in banking work? You will also learn the main challenges involved in the onboarding process in banking, best practices and explore the best onboarding software tools for the job. Use analytics to identify and improve areas of friction in the onboarding process. Let’s dive right in!

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User Pilot

JULY 22, 2024

Wondering which customer engagement metrics to track? In this article, we discuss 12 key metrics you should cover – and why. TL;DR Customer engagement metrics measure how often customers interact with the product, how deep their involvement is, how satisfied they are with the product, and how valuable they find it.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Do we own the metrics and the people? One thing that has positively changed for customer success, especially for the SMB-focused, is far larger onboarding teams. This is great news because onboarding is one of the best ways to bring down churn for SMBs. But if there’s stress, usage and other metrics are better, like GRR.

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 31, 2024

A quick look into Userpilot In a nutshell, Userpilot is an all-in-one product growth platform that enables businesses to increase product metrics at every stage of the user journey. Custom dashboards to track key metrics at a glance. Appcues Appcues is a user onboarding tool designed with simplicity in mind. Pendo vs. Userpilot.

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Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Onboarding 105

TechEmpower SaaS

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

As part of the onboarding process, the app asks both job seekers and employers what they’re looking for - in a text box - while providing a few suggestions in a pop-up. This isn’t just our opinion - our startup metrics prove it! Even with the pop-up suggestions, we saw significant drop-off during user onboarding.

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SaaStr

JULY 31, 2020

There is an increased urgency in business – more risk, more potential, more importance on onboarding and customer success,” said Benton. . Here are just some of the metrics: Cold calls have dropped 20% overall. Chorus’s AI has reveled some interesting insights from the data.

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Scale Artificial Intelligence Payments Payment Services 359

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

Appeal to every board member Recognize that non-founder board members often focus on surface-level metrics like logos and visually appealing pipeline presentations, while operators on boards tend to be more interested in concrete commit numbers and confidence in the sales funnel.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 17, 2024

‘How to optimize your product metrics for growth’ by Dan Olsen is one of the talks in this year’s Product Drive hosted by Userpilot. In his presentation, ‘How to Optimize Your Product Metrics for Growth’ , he will share tips on how to fix leaky funnels. Prioritize acquisition , conversion, and retention metrics.

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