SaaStr

JULY 14, 2020

With SaaS sales, annual price or monthly price that’s billed annually? This removes friction from the sales process, leading to a higher and faster close rate. It may be the most successful SMB-focused app of our current generation. Bigger customers, though, find most monthly payments a huge accounting headache.

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SaaStr

JUNE 27, 2019

This removes friction from the sales process, leading to a higher and faster close rate. It may be the most successful SMB-focused app of our current generation. Bigger customers though find most monthly payments a huge accounting headache. Let’s take a look at Zoom. Zoom does not play games. But that’s an illusion.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Note: From global payment processing to global VAT and sales tax management, FastSpring is the easiest way to sell around the world. This includes internal data we pulled from 271 global SaaS and software sellers using FastSpring to process transactions last year. Stream both interviews below and see highlights from each.

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Payrix

MAY 14, 2024

Before joining Worldpay for Platforms, he was CRO at Chargebee, a subscription revenue management platform that manages billing subscriptions and payments for companies throughout the world. During his tenure, Chargebee experienced high growth, scaling from processing about $3 billion in revenue to $13-14 billion.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

What you’ll see in that cloud spend box is actually Gartner’s 2020 estimate for infrastructure as a service spending for companies, which was $50 billion. And if you also look at the platform as a service category, that’s also an additional $50 billion of spend, and that’s typically with those same vendors.

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Aaron Beashel

MARCH 9, 2018

I’ve been fortunate to work in a number of SaaS businesses in my career. In the case of a B2B SaaS company, your Go To Market model outlines the way in which you acquire customers. On the other hand, if your target market is the Fortune 500 then your market size is much smaller, and an inside sales process may make more sense.

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OPEXEngine

MAY 18, 2021

We’ve talked to dozens of our SaaS customers, as well as investors to learn more about what is happening with these key metrics. SaaS metrics are viewed differently at different stages of growth and for different sales models, primarily whether a company is selling into an SMB or enterprise marketplace.

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Payrix

MARCH 12, 2024

Embedded Payments have become a popular initiative among vertical specific software companies looking to deliver a more seamless customer experience, introduce new revenue into the business, and stay competitive in today’s digital world. How do they think about attaching payments to those existing customers? But where to begin?

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Point Nine Land

JUNE 18, 2023

Everything you always wanted to know about cohort analysis (but were afraid to ask) Back in 2012, I wrote a blog post titled “Know your user cohorts” , which began like this: “One of the most important tools to better understand the usage of a web application — or a service, a game or a mobile app, it doesn’t matter — is a cohort analysis.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

But that’s easier said than done, which is why we’ve published our new book Intercom on Sales : a deep dive into the many lessons we’ve learned about how selling works at scale, covering everything from hiring tactics to the needs of modern buyers to fundamental processes for forecasting and managing deals. We have a great sales force.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Gross Margin should take into consideration any support, installation, and servicing costs,” Skok says. Hubspot Focused On LTV to Scale Its SaaS Company. Almost a decade ago, SaaS company HubSpot focused on improving its LTV:CAC ratio in hopes of expanding. In doing so, their LTV tripled.

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Whether you created your SaaS product to help solve a problem you had or because you wanted some extra income, the truth is that your SaaS business is a valuable asset. Running a profitable SaaS business allows you to take control of your own schedule - some would even say your life! We’d hate for that to happen to you.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Account refers to a record of primary and background information about an individual or corporate customer, including contact data, preferred services, and transactions with your company. . Accounts Receivable refers to the amount of money yet to be collected from your customers who purchased a product or subscribed to a service.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2019

SaaS is about creating long-term value for your customer, and being compensated appropriately for that value as a business. This is a mobile solution for SMB’s to send an invoice and get paid. What I love about SaaS as a product person is that it’s a longterm value exchange. Want to see more content like this?

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FastSpring

JUNE 11, 2024

Are you looking for a merchant of record that will help you grow your subscription software business? FastSpring provides an all-in-one payment platform for SaaS, software, video game, and other digital goods businesses, including software management, VAT and sales tax management, global payments, and consumer support.

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User Pilot

JULY 18, 2023

TL;DR Customer churn is the rate at which users discontinue their subscription or stop using a particular product or service. For established SaaS companies, the average churn is between 5% to 7% per year, early-stage startups should expect an average annual churn of 10% to 15%. Bad customer service. Poor onboarding.

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Baremetrics

JANUARY 24, 2021

Anyone managing a SaaS or subscription business is aware of customer churn. The benchmark customer churn for SaaS for SMBs is 5%. Transitioning to SaaS On January 1st 2020, we transitioned the company out of a strategic partnership (we were operating the platform under a non SaaS business model!).

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Highlights from Our Conversation Where Should SaaS Companies Localize [2 min clip] David walked through a step-by-step process to assess where SaaS and software companies should consider localizing. Start with your existing sales and see where there’s interest from existing buyers. Watch the two minute clip for more details.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

Whether that’s AI-enabled analysis of customer data to help teams be proactive, in-house virtual assistants that are a resource to support teams as they work with customers or other operational applications, AI will play a larger role in this capacity next year.” – Julia Ahlfeldt, Customer Experience Advisor, Julia Ahlfeldt CX Consulting.

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OPEXEngine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Most SaaS and Software companies are starting to gear up for end of the year budgeting and planning exercises. Here are a few of the trends that we are hearing about from CFOs, investors and lenders: Flexible pricing models and payment terms: A couple of things are happening here.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

There are many ways to classify SaaS companies, but differentiating companies based upon who their customers are presents the best approach for measuring performance and driving success for SaaS businesses. SMM SaaS Company Overview & Market Dynamics. SMM SaaS Company Overview & Market Dynamics. Enterprise.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 19, 2020

It is no secret that customer churn hits recurring revenue businesses hard, but what’s its real impact on their long-term health and valuation? To answer that and more, we invited SaaS Capital’s Managing Director, Rob Belcher, and Software Equity Group’s Managing Director, Allen Cinzori, to join us for a webinar. Q&A Recap.

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FastSpring

APRIL 4, 2024

As an experienced sales and GTM leader, John Eitel has more than witnessed how product-led growth (PLG) has affected the tech and SaaS space in the last few years — he and his teams have been up close and personal with how PLG increased in popularity as a sales strategy. “I Set up a demo or try it out for yourself. Jump to video.

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Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Welcome Graneet Since Pawel and Christoph’s investment in Clio (which provides legal firms best in class software to run their business and was Point Nine’s #1 investment (!!)), our vertical SaaS portfolio has only grown further. Most of these companies are SMEs that are responsible for the lion's share of the value produced.

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CustomerSuccessBox

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The net revenue retention rate which you may also state as the net retention rate in SaaS businesses is an indicator that depicts the profits and the revenue earned by the business. Best practices: Consumption vs subscription. Know more: How can VP of Customer Success get to 125% Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR ).

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Casey Accidental

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Disappearing photos however was not a good fit for either of those models, and likely best lent itself to subscriptions and virtual goods, both largely unproven at consumer internet scale. Let’s look at an example in SaaS. Canva was more of a single player and SMB tool. They needed those new products to work, and they did.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

Whether that’s AI-enabled analysis of customer data to help teams be proactive, in-house virtual assistants that are a resource to support teams as they work with customers or other operational applications, AI will play a larger role in this capacity next year.” – Julia Ahlfeldt, Customer Experience Advisor, Julia Ahlfeldt CX Consulting.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Krish made his way into the world of SaaS and came to found one of India’s fastest growing SaaS companies in Chargebee?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Vikas made his way into the world of SaaS and came to be at the rocketship that is Kustomer. * Why does Vikas believe that a wave of SaaS incumbents are about to be displaced or disrupted? Why is it so crucial to invest in enablement in the early days? What is a good payback period? *

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Why does Travis believe that SaaS has upended the economic model but not the engagement model? 285: Hear about Adyen’s journey from a Dutch payments startup to a global public company with more than 15 offices around the world working with large global companies like Facebook, Spotify, Uber, and Microsoft. What questions must you ask?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Offline Revenue Up +33%, B2B Growth up 140% While many think of Shopify as mainly an SMB online solution, it’s biggest growth now is in its largest customers, in its offline/ in-store business, and in B2B commerce. Relatively speaking, SMB online is softer. #4. Shopify is an ecommerce fintech that is powered by a SaaS solution.

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SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

315: Harry Hurst is the Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ Pipe, the startup that gives you control of your cash flow by giving you access to the full annual value of your monthly subscriptions, upfront. Prior to Pipe, Harry co-founded Skurt raising over $11M in the process before being acquired by Fair.com. for the fantastic intro.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2020

Just look at subscription analytics startup ChartMogul whose brand and product are now a household name in the SaaS community. Barely over five years old, the company has analyzed over 200 million subscriptions and over a billion customer transactions. But, still, it’s not impossible. Today they boast more than 20 integrations.

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