Stax

MAY 20, 2024

The concept of unearned revenue can easily trip up SaaS companies that offer subscription services and products on a recurring basis. Unlike when selling ordinary products, you cannot recognize the revenue earned from a subscription all at once. In the case of SaaS subscriptions, this could take several months—or even years.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2024

In this week’s Workshop Wednesday, RevenueCat CEO Jacob Eiting and Growth Advocate David Barnard share their annual State of Subscription Apps report with us. So, let’s look at the state of subscription apps and how B2B SaaS can learn from it. Churn is much higher on consumer subscriptions, but you have higher expansion revenue.

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USIO

MAY 30, 2024

Convenience and Accessibility ACH payments are easy to set up and use with Usio. For recurring payments, such as subscriptions or bills, ACH can automate the process, saving time and reducing the risk of missed payments. Choose the Right Provider : Selecting a reliable ACH payment processor is crucial.

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Subscription Flow

MAY 16, 2024

In this blog, while understanding more about CardPointe and why it still works for so many businesses, we will take you through a guide on managing Cardpointe recurring billing with SubscriptionFlow to ensure that you do not miss out on collecting recurring payments just because CardPointe has dropped it. What is CardPointe?

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SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2024

With everything in AI moving so rapidly, what’s the best way to price Artificial Intelligence products or SaaS tools with custom AI features and integrations? Should it be subscriptions, usage, solutions, or something entirely different? Why is pricing so tricky? Snowflake is a symbol of usage-based pricing.

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SaaStr

MAY 1, 2021

But … to go to annual pricing or not … . Nothing is a bigger headache in a Fortune 500 company that having to go back to procurement every single month to get an invoice approved. And as a result, even more chose monthly subscriptions. Cash you can use especially to make those accretive hires (more on that here ).

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SaaStr

JULY 14, 2020

With SaaS sales, annual price or monthly price that’s billed annually? No hiding the monthly option, no pricing confusion: In fact, 26% of Zoom’s customers still pay monthly, even at $1b+ in ARR: More here: 5 Interesting Learnings From Zoom. Then maybe pricing games are worth it. Let’s take a look at Zoom.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 28, 2022

One invoice. I would pay each product provider in their own token: one for storage, compute, caching/CDN, email subscription management, etc. Paying five decentralized providers in five different tokens means managing several wallets and monitoring token prices to hedge expenses. I paid for them each in US dollars every month.

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Here are the questions we sought to answer by analyzing anonymized subscription data for transactions across various Asian countries (excluding broader “APAC” regions like Australia, New Zealand, and Indonesia): How do customers in Asia’s growing markets prefer to manage their SaaS subscriptions? but they’re growing.

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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.

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Subscription Flow

JUNE 27, 2024

Moreover, Quickbooks integrates easily with SubscriptionFlow , a billing management platform, to simplify payment processing, invoice generation, and optimization of recurring payments across various gateways. This helps businesses manage their finances more easily as all their payments can be tracked in one place.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Nothing is a bigger headache in a Fortune 500 company that having to go back to procurement every single month to get an invoice approved. And that includes pricing. One caveat: if your product requires significant onboarding and business process change, monthly pricing sometimes just doesn’t work.

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Subscription Flow

OCTOBER 2, 2024

For subscription-based businesses, revenue leakage means the waste of potential capital which has been rightfully earned. The causes behind this gap range from errors in subscription handling to recurring billing inefficiencies. Boasting revenue is the central goal for subscription-based businesses.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 4, 2023

It could be price, product composition, or payment terms. If you want to cut the sales cycle, always do an exchange of urgency, i.e., “I’ll accept flexible payment terms, but we need to close this week.” #2: 2: Offer Flexible Payment Terms This is another debate going on in SaaS. Know what your buyer really cares about.

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SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2021

You pay a subscription for websites to help you sell stuff. But as Shopify scaled, its revenue as a percent of commerce on its sites — “Merchant Solutions” — began to eclipse its recurring SaaS revenues. Fast forward to day, Merchant Solutions is a much larger share of revenue than software subscriptions.

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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. Schedule a Demo Today The Shift to Usage-Based Pricing Its an inevitable now. It doesnt matter if its B2B or B2C.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2022

He probably lost several millions in his purchasing price because of it. Let’s say you receive a contract from a customer that outlines they will pay you $100 for the monthly subscription with an invoice of terms Net 30. Too many startups that invoice customers get far, far behind on actually getting the cash.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Metronome’s sophisticated billing and subscription management platform enables companies to easily manage and automate complex billing and invoicing processes. Founders, Kevin Liu and Scott Woody learned from their own early career experiences that companies need an easier way to deliver flexible pricing and packaging to the market. #2.

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Blulogix

OCTOBER 22, 2024

By BluLogix Team Complex Pricing Models: How BluLogix Simplifies UCaaS Monetization Summary: Managing complex pricing models is a major pain point for UCaaS companies. From seat-based pricing to consumption-based and hybrid models, keeping track of various offerings and ensuring transparency for customers can be challenging.

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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.

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Greater access to local payment methods. Predictable flat rate pricing model with no cross border fees. Our platform accommodates one-time purchases or recurring payments , subscription downloads and cloud-based offerings, trials with and without payments, and more. 24/7 buyer transaction support.

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FastSpring

MAY 25, 2023

FastSpring previously presented on SaaS fees pricing and packaging to combat stagflation in 2022, but this article is based on an updated presentation delivered in March 2023 by David Vogelpohl. This article offers tips for optimizing pricing and packaging of your SaaS products in a less-than-stellar economy: What is stagflation?

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Buffer Resources

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

And you don’t get “business” status without understanding pricing. So, together with creator sponsorships expert Justin Moore , who helps creators negotiate partnerships through Creator Wizard , we put together this resource on how to figure out your pricing as a creator.

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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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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey. We look at annual churn, given the nature of those businesses that have annual or multi annual contracts with much bigger price items and tickets. Pricing is so sticky inside companies.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Some of the changes we’ve seen in the last year or two include: CAC reduction Headcount optimization Price complexity Quality of revenue A different environment means a different strategy, and Notion Capital lays out four business model changes that could be helpful based on what peers are doing. Then, usage-based pricing took off.

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SaaStr

MARCH 21, 2022

Nothing is a bigger headache in a Fortune 500 company than having to go back to procurement every single month to get an invoice approved. This is probably the most important thing on pricing terms. It’s how big company procurement and budgeting processes work. Think about yourself as a consumer. How often do you prepay annually?

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Clouded Judgement

JUNE 19, 2024

This matters a lot more when stock prices are going down, and management teams often grant additional shares to make employees whole (thus increasing dilution even more) The quarterly median FCF margin has continued to rise as we exited the ZIRP period and companies focused on efficient growth.

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SaaStr

MAY 23, 2022

But public stock prices are way down, and venture capital is much tighter than it was just a few months ago. No matter what the contract says, get the renewal invoice out at least 60 days prior to expiration and ask for payment no later than the contract end date. So for many of us in SaaS, these are still the best of times.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 22, 2024

We’re in the very early days of genAI and until adoption curves and costs stabilize, there won’t be any tried-and-true pricing or packaging frameworks. We’ve also seen some companies use their genAI feature as an upsell lever to increase conversion to a higher pricing tier or cover part of the cost of serving genAI.

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SaaStr

MAY 12, 2022

Jim Rose, CEO of CircleCI, leverages his experience marketing to software developers to discuss the merits of moving from a subscription-based to a usage-based business model. Their specific and single pricing and packaging model was no longer supportable or sustainable. changes the key processes of your business.”.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 15, 2020

For example, Sage Intacct is compatible with Salesforce1, allowing Sage to automate the SaaS subscription billing life cycle through features such as subscription changes, automatic billing, flexible pricing, and accurate revenue recognition. #3 5 Purchasing. Save them the time and hassle by automating the purchasing process.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Revenue growth is up 21% overall, and subscription growth is up 33% — at almost $5 Billion in ARR. Seat Expansion Driving Growth, Along with Cross-Sell of New Products Long live per-seat models and pricing! So Atlassian is on a bit of a tear. Wall Street is happy. Let’s dig in. 5 Interesting Learnings: #1.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JUNE 10, 2024

Over the past decade, usage-based pricing has soared in popularity because it better aligns cost with value and allows customers to pay only for what they use. What are the benefits of this model over traditional subscription-based SaaS? How will generative AI change the way the pricing model is implemented?

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Stax

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Set rate processing Subscription rate processing TL;DR Interchange fees are not collected by your payment processor or bank; they go directly to the card-issuing banks. Through OptBlue, your payment technology provider will determine how much you pay for AmEx and bundle it in with the ability to accept more popular card types.

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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. Profitwell’s Free Pricing and Retention Audits. What are they all about? Where can I find the deal?

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