Subscription Flow

MAY 27, 2024

Apple Pay recurring payments, one of the evolving features of this payment method, simplifies subscription billing for customers by storing all their payment information and passwords in one place. Apple Pay is a secure and private payment option for all Apple users. What is Apple Pay?

Payment Features 105

Payment Features Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Solutions 105

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

SaaS pricing isn’t static – it’s a living strategy that grows with your company. In this article we dive into a playbook for pricing across different stages of company growth, inspired by Geoffrey Moore’s Crossing the Chasm. Tiered pricing models emerge to address these differences.

Pricing 112

Pricing Scale SaaS Technical Review 112

SaaStr

JANUARY 11, 2024

But with everyone discussing PLG, there just isn’t enough discussion in B2B of Product-Led Retention. But our B2C friends obsess about Product-Led Retention. Sometimes in great ways — forcing B2C subscription businesses to relentlessly provide a great end-user experience. And obsess about GRR and logo retention.

Retention 319

Retention B2C B2B Churn 319

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.

Payment Features 304

Payment Features Subscription B2B Mobile 304

USIO

MAY 16, 2024

Integrating payments offers numerous benefits, including: Enhanced User Experience: Users can complete transactions without leaving your application. Increased Revenue: Offering seamless payment solutions can boost conversion rates and customer retention. Can integrated payments support subscription billing?

Payment Services 263

Payment Services Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions 263

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

A retention campaign that paints a commercial relationship as a personal one will always be awkward at best and at worst will create ill will. Here’s three better ways to create retention campaigns that feel genuine and actually work: Focus on how your product helps. Identify and solve the problems that caused churn.

Retention 282

Retention Sales Hiring Churn Onboarding 282

USIO

MARCH 7, 2025

By embedding payment capabilities directly into existing business systems, companies can eliminate redundancies, improve cash flow, and create a smoother experience for customers and partners alike. Manual invoicing, reconciliation, and transaction approvals require time and personnel, leading to higher operational costs.

Payments 130

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 130

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.

Payment Features 167

Payment Features Payments Payment Services SaaS Payments 167

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. That is why most modern SaaS and subscription-based businesses have transitioned to using a good billing software, reducing their workload by a great deal.

Payment Services 59

Payment Services Payment Solutions Payment Features SaaS Payments 59

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

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

MARCH 3, 2023

Most billing and subscription management solutions let you: Build various trial and subscription models (e.g., free or paid trial and usage-based or fixed price subscriptions). Manage active subscriptions (e.g., Send invoices and/or payment notifications. You can also: Create trials of any length.

Payment Services 142

Payment Services Payment Features Merchant Services Payments 142

Clouded Judgement

MARCH 28, 2025

Quarterly Reports Summary Top 10 EV / NTM Revenue Multiples Top 10 Weekly Share Price Movement Update on Multiples SaaS businesses are generally valued on a multiple of their revenue - in most cases the projected revenue for the next 12 months. The opportunity set seems as attractive as it’s ever been, but the risk also seems higher.

Cloud 299

Cloud AI Scale Scaling 299

Clouded Judgement

MARCH 21, 2025

Price undisclosed but sounds like >$300m DataStax acquired by IBM. Price undisclosed but sounds like >$1B M&A has followed an interesting arc over the last ~20 years. Most public companies don’t report net new ARR, so I’m taking an implied ARR metric (quarterly subscription revenue x 4).

Cloud 188

Cloud Pricing Payment Features Subscription 188

Blulogix

MARCH 17, 2025

By BluLogix Team Why Consumption-Based Pricing Drives Higher Customer Retention Introduction One of the biggest challenges in subscription-based businesses is churn. Many customers cancel subscriptions because they dont see the value. Many customers cancel subscriptions because they dont see the value.

Retention 59

Retention Pricing AI Search B2B 59

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?

Machine Learning 306

Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence SaaS Consulting 306

SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2021

Doesn’t ARR stand for Annual Recurring Revenue? ARR now really means revenue with 100%+ Net Revenue Retention. 50% revenue from software (recurring), 50% from payments (not-recurring). . You pay a subscription for websites to help you sell stuff. Well of course it does. 220m in ARR, $13B market cap.

Merchant Services 360

Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 360

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?

Payment Features 105

Payment Features Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 105

FastSpring

DECEMBER 9, 2022

SaaS billing software automates one or more of the various aspects of the recurring billing process — payment processing, fulfillment, dunning, and more. You’ll still need a separate solution for payment processing, taxes, chargebacks, and more. 3 Subscription Management Software. 3 Payment Processors.

Payment Services 147

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Methods SaaS Payments 147

Clouded Judgement

JUNE 19, 2024

net retention and CAC payback). 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.

Cloud 318

Cloud GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Software Azure 318

SaaStr

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Of course, it’s still important to track the big ARR picture, but GRR (Gross Revenue Retention) and NRR (Net Revenue Retention) are just as important to monitor. Pricing & Packaging . There’s no way around it –– pricing is tough to determine, especially for SaaS. Price (Top Layer): This is how much you charge.

Strategy 273

Strategy B2C Scale Payment Features 273

Clouded Judgement

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Most public companies don’t report net new ARR, so I’m taking an implied ARR metric (quarterly subscription revenue x 4). Companies that do not disclose subscription rev have been left out of the analysis and are listed as NA. Revenue multiples are a shorthand valuation framework.

Cloud 144

Cloud Banking Payment Features Subscription 144

SaaStr

MAY 22, 2024

And … 92% of its revenue is from subscriptions. And its stock price is up +35% the last year, and +192% the past 5 years: 5 Interesting Learnings: #1. A lot of “pseudo SaaS” doesn’t see this type of revenue retention. Its research and reports in enterprise software are critical. And its very profitable.

Revenue 295

Revenue Enterprise Cloud Pricing 295

Subscription Flow

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Small businesses require automated billing software because while getting paid is great, sending out invoices is frequently a laborious process. It comprises outlining costs, accounting for taxes, monitoring payments, and contacting unpaid clients. Another short step away is sending the invoice straight to the customer’s email.

Payment Solutions 105

Payment Solutions Payment Features Payment Services SaaS Payments 105

SaaStr

MAY 10, 2024

CEO Yamini Rangan noted: December seemed to show a bit stronger macro demand, but that evaporated in Q1 Budget scrutiny remains higher More decision-markers in deals, even with an $11k price point at HubSpot More demos and proof-of-concepts before buying. mobile subscriptions. More proof-of-concepts than ever.

B2C 285

B2C Mobile B2B Payment Features 285

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.

Payments 105

Payments Payment Features Payment Services Payment Solutions 105

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. Delayed payments and unpredictable revenue.

Payment Features 59

Payment Features Payments Subscription Revenue 59

SaaStr

JULY 20, 2024

Let’s use net dollar or net revenue retention as an example. Secureframe has everyone on their customer success team calculate their book of business by hand to see their net revenue retention, so that they truly understand what goes into the calculation, what impacts it, and how they can better take action on it. What does this mean?

Sales Recruiting 302

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Engineering 302

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?

SaaS Payments 148

SaaS Payments Pricing Payments Merchant Services 148

SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2020

Bandwidth’s nationwide network is built to support scale, provide deeper insights to help prevent user dissatisfaction, and by removing the middleman, SaaS companies enjoy direct-to-carrier pricing. CustomerSuccessBox announced “Sheldon,” a new AI-engine to help customer success teams improve MRR Retention. SaaSOptics . ProfitWell.

Sales Hiring 235

Sales Hiring Scale Payment Features Marketplace as a Service 235

Blulogix

MARCH 12, 2025

By BluLogix Team The Future of Monetization: Why Usage-Based Billing is the Key to Scalable Growth Introduction Introduction Subscription models have dominated the digital economy for years, but in 2025, usage-based billing is emerging as the smarter, more scalable approach. Automate Billing & Invoicing to prevent revenue loss.

Payment Features 59

Payment Features AI Search B2B AI 59

Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 24, 2025

Top 10 EV / NTM Revenue Multiples Top 10 Weekly Share Price Movement Update on Multiples SaaS businesses are generally valued on a multiple of their revenue - in most cases the projected revenue for the next 12 months. Companies that do not disclose subscription rev have been left out of the analysis and are listed as NA.

Enterprise 157

Enterprise AI Cloud Artificial Intelligence 157

User Pilot

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Pricing : Userpilot offers flexible plans tailored to startups and mid-sized SaaS businesses, with pricing starting at $249 per month for the basic plan. Pricing : Qualaroo offers a free forever plan with all features included for startups and small businesses for up to 50 monthly responses.

Software Review 105

Software Review Technical Review Software B2C 105

SaaStr

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Moving From Per-Seat Pricing to Consumption-Based Pricing, and See a Revenue Lift from It The analytics space has mixed models here, but Domo is moving to consumption-based pricing in part to ensure every employee at a customer that can use Domo, does use it. So far, it seems to be working. So far, it seems to be working.

Entrepreneurship 303

Entrepreneurship Enterprise Pricing Churn 303

SaaStr

DECEMBER 27, 2020

New Relic’s net negative churn / net dollar retention has dropped to 98% in the last quarter, despite a record 77% of revenue being from the enterprise. New consumption pricing model has increased revenue 15% where rolled out. Done right, this sort of anti-SaaS pricing model can lead to significantly more revenue.

Scale 342

Scale Outsourced Development SMB Cloud 342

Clouded Judgement

MARCH 7, 2025

Quarterly Reports Summary Top 10 EV / NTM Revenue Multiples Top 10 Weekly Share Price Movement Update on Multiples SaaS businesses are generally valued on a multiple of their revenue - in most cases the projected revenue for the next 12 months. Revenue multiples are a shorthand valuation framework.

Cloud 157

Cloud Forecasting Payment Features Subscription 157

Payrix

APRIL 10, 2025

Perhaps your platform is specifically designed for HVAC businesses and does everything from route management to inventory to CRM all while processing and reconciling one-time and recurring payments. This is common when outsourcing payments. As you can see, embedding payments can transform a platforms potential.

Payments 100

Payments Payment Services Outsourcing Services Payment Solutions 100