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? The costs are dynamic. Usage is volatile.

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SaaStr

APRIL 14, 2025

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Incredo

JULY 14, 2019

Whether you are a startup owner, a manager of a growing business or the CEO of an established company, you might find yourself asking questions like “ Should our SaaS subscription model be monthly, annually or both ?” or “ What are the best tips I can get in terms of annual vs monthly subscription models ?”.

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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. Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 10, 2023

In broad strokes, recurring billing consists of four steps: Setting up trials, recurring billing intervals, and pricing models. Checkout (including payment processing and gathering sales tax, GST, and VAT). Handling failed payments and customer notifications. Chargebee: Supports Complex Subscription Management.

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SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2021

A lot of our SaaS older times don’t quite know what to make with a lot of B2B startups these days, let alone some public SaaS companies. So many startups these days are claiming they have “ARR” from revenue that … doesn’t recur. Doesn’t ARR stand for Annual Recurring Revenue?

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Blulogix

DECEMBER 17, 2024

By BluLogix Team Creating a Flexible Pricing Engine for Future Success Introduction In the subscription economy, customer expectations are evolving, and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) must adapt to meet these dynamic demands.

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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).

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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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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The classic example sees a company move from niche startup to mainstream scale-up, but it can also see companies hone their product-market fit by focusing on a more specialized, and yet more lucrative, user base. Do you have a pricing page on your site or do you make it up on the fly?

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Merchant of record and payment services provider platforms may each offer varying levels of additional features, such as integrations and API connections, subscription management functionality, customer support, and more. Pricing starts low per transaction, but it will add up quickly if you’re looking for a more robust service.

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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. Too many startups are better at closing deals than collecting the cash. Related to collections above, but too many startups make renewals too hard and wait too long for renewals checks. More on that here. More here.

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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.

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SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2020

Pendo announced a new offering aimed to help startup companies accelerate product-market fit, and prove that product traction to early stage investors. Learn how Pendo can help companies go from startup to scale-up here. For major launches across Zendesk’s product offerings, check out www.zendesk.com/startups. Blissfully .

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FastSpring

JANUARY 31, 2023

Paddle vs. FastSpring, this guide compares: What areas of the payment lifecycle each one provides a solution for (e.g., payment processing, gathering and remitting taxes, and subscription management) and what additional software you’ll need to add to your tech stack. Flexible subscription management and recurring billing tools.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Chargebee is a robust subscription management platform. However, there are certain aspects of collecting recurring payments that you would still be responsible for when using Chargebee, such as: Connecting to payment gateways manually. Zoho Subscriptions. Remitting taxes at the end of the year.

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Subscription Flow

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Changing customer expectations, digital advancement, and transforming market trends call for a price discipline. Fair and competitive pricing, especially in the SaaS arena has emerged as a strong requirement for businesses looking for operational stability. What is Dynamic Pricing SaaS? 7 Types of Dynamic SaaS Pricing 1.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 9, 2023

FastSpring: International Payment Solution for SaaS. Paddle: Payment Infrastructure Platform. Square: Popular Payment Platform for Startups. Amazon: Payment Service and Order Fulfillment. More often than not, SaaS companies end up with a payment tech stack of over a dozen tools for: Calculating international taxes.

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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.

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Stax

JUNE 18, 2024

Subscription models offer companies large and small the opportunity to build predictable revenue and high customer lifetime value. But managing subscriptions effectively and freeing up time and resources for expansion is no picnic. In a subscription business model, customers pay a recurring fee in exchange for a product or service.

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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

JULY 20, 2024

That’s a lot of time in startup land and doesn’t work, so you want to think about how to compress these onboarding times so employees hit their stride much quicker. 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. Why does that matter?

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Clouded Judgement

AUGUST 30, 2024

In a world without venture capital (or other sources of external financing for startups), each company would have to grow solely based on the merits of their product and sales. ” Competitors could be legacy incumbents or modern startups. These companies then competed with each other, leading to intense pricing battles.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 27, 2020

CEO Lew Cirne, after regretting selling his first startup in the space to CA for $375m, tries again with New Relic. 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. New Relic is one of my favorite Cloud stories.

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FastSpring

APRIL 11, 2022

What’s the ideal number of subscription tiers for a SaaS company? That’s not what we found when we studied the pricing plans of 50 best-in-class SaaS companies for our 2022 pricing pages report. From Zero to 23 Plans, Best-in-Class SaaS Companies Customize Their Subscription Options.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 14, 2022

Usage-based billing - the practice of charging customers by consumption rather than subscription - has become top of mind for many startups seeking to align their success with customer needs. We’ll explore: lessons on usage-based pricing throughout Twilio’s evolution. best practices around lengthening runway.

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Chart Mogul

JANUARY 9, 2025

Whether to offer a self-service model or not depends on a few factors: the products starting price, the level of customization involved, and how much support new users need to unlock its full potential. Source: Softrs pricing page. The majority of SaaS startups grow from $1M to $10M ARR by growing their subscriber base.

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Clouded Judgement

OCTOBER 11, 2024

For software companies, this phenomenon can be a tailwind, as it drives accelerated deal closures and increased sales velocity, sometimes with less price sensitivity from buyers looking to quickly deplete their budgets. Companies that do not disclose subscription rev have been left out of the analysis and are listed as NA.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 11, 2024

If it doesn’t magically change the trajectory of your startup. 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.

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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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SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

Its focus is on helping companies handle financial routine and streamlining processes related to accounting, banks, stock, and electronic invoicing, among others. from 500 Startups, Redpoint eventures, and others. Vindi is a PCI-certified online payment platform for recurring billing. CEO : Vinicius Roveda Goncalves.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

Pricing is a SaaS company’s most efficient profit lever, but it’s also one of the easiest things to screw up. Nailing your SaaS pricing strategy requires more than just picking the optimal price and forgetting about it. It includes the latest and greatest SaaS pricing resources, as well as some timeless staples.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2024

TJ Nahigian, co-founder and Managing Partner of Base10 Partners, and Luci Fonseca, Partner, deep dive into the current GenAI landscape, incumbents vs. startups, and the six questions founders should ask themselves to drive value from GenAI. Startup platforms are OpenAI, Hugging Face, and Cohere. How are they doing this?

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Flat-rate processing is a simple solution for small businesses, but interchange pricing is generally more affordable. You want to look at what the payment processor offers in addition to credit card processing. Do they offer free POS systems, hardware, mobile payments, integrations, etc? The Different Types of Merchant Services.

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Clouded Judgement

JUNE 19, 2024

My hope is that this analysis can provide startup entrepreneurs with a framework for how to manage their businesses around SaaS metrics (e.g., To calculate implied ARR I take the subscription revenue in a quarter and multiply it by 4. What I’ve shown below is the market-adjusted stock price reaction.

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Stax

APRIL 3, 2025

Integration capabilities Since you probably have other tools in your tech stack, you dont want to keep switching tabs or windows to reconcile invoices or transfer data. Look for an eCommerce payment system that offers plug-and-play integrations with your existing tech stack to minimize development costs.

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Kellblog

JULY 8, 2020

I was talking with my old friend, Mark Tice , the other day and he referred to a startup mistake as, “on his top ten list.” ” Mark’s been a startup CEO twice, selling two companies in strategic acquisitions, and he’s run worldwide sales and channels a few times. Make it work. (DK:

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