SaaStr

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Revenue growth is up 21% overall, and subscription growth is up 33% — at almost $5 Billion in ARR. So Atlassian is on a bit of a tear. Wall Street is happy. It’s driven Atlassian stock up +28% after the results: Is SaaS back? Let’s dig in. 5 Interesting Learnings: #1.

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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. The days of flat-rate subscriptions being the default option are gone. Your ERP cannot bill usage subscriptions.

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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.

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Blulogix

JANUARY 2, 2025

By Inga Broerman How Industry Consolidation is Reshaping Subscription Billing The subscription economy is on a path of rapid growth and transformation, projected to reach a $3 trillion valuation in 2024. Billing integration simplifies the implementation of these models, ensuring accurate tracking and invoicing.

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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.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 11, 2020

By doing so effectively, you can unlock a path to scaling profits. To assist you with this all-important self-assessment, CloudBlue is introducing our Channel Maturity Scale. ——— Blog post brought to you by: The post The Channel Maturity Scale: How Do You Measure Up? Three distinct stages of channel maturity.

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Blulogix

JANUARY 6, 2025

By Inga Broerman The 2025 Blueprint for Scalable Growth in the Subscription Economy The subscription economy is entering a pivotal year. To succeed, subscription-based organizations must embrace smarter, more integrated approaches to billing, management, and strategy.

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USIO

AUGUST 19, 2024

Simplify Subscription Payments with SaaS Solution Say goodbye to long, confusing, and costly payment processes. Say hello to efficiency and simplicity with advanced SaaS payment solutions for subscription services. Ready to transform your subscription payment processes?

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SaaStr

APRIL 14, 2025

100+ scale-ups and start-ups showing you how they do it! 800+ VCs Ready to Invest This year, were bringing together over 800 VCs and investors, making SaaStr Annual 2025 the ultimate place to pitch, connect, and secure funding. And we’ve got an AI Demo Stage running all day, every day this year, right in the heart of Annual.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 3, 2022

Targeted, personalized conversations at scale with Dynamic Content. Juggle multiple email lists with granular subscription management. Granular subscription allows customers to easily opt out of non-essential communications without missing what’s important to them – putting them in charge of their own personalized experience.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2025

ServiceTitan, the operating system for the trades, continues to scale impressively, with $772M in FY25 revenue, $800m+ ARR and a clear path to $1B ARR. This shift has been critical to scaling beyond $500M ARR. Lesson for SaaS Founders : SMBs are a great starting point, but scaling to $1B ARR often requires moving upmarket.

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SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2024

Bitly CEO Toby Gabriner and CPO Kelsey Stevenson share the three secret ingredients that helped them when scaling to $100M ARR and what they could have done differently. Kelsey joined them as CPO, and they started experimenting with less expensive packages downmarket where customers could go online and set up a subscription.

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Blulogix

DECEMBER 31, 2024

By Inga Broerman Scaling with Usage-Based Models: A Practical Guide to Metering The rise of usage-based pricing is revolutionizing the subscription economy. Usage-based pricing represents a seismic shift in how subscription businesses operate.

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Scytale

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Heres who must follow PCI DSS requirements : Any business that processes, stores, or transmits payment card data. SaaS companies offering payment solutions, subscriptions, or integrations that handle transactions. Third-party service providers supporting businesses that process payments. Heres how: 1.

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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. Five years in, CircleCI implemented a usage-based subscription model. In a SaaS subscription model, the platform gets the revenue immediately upon purchase.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 10, 2023

Chargebee: Supports Complex Subscription Management. Recurly: Easily Integrates with Multiple Payment Gateways. Zoho Subscriptions: Online Subscription Billing Platform. Wave: Invoicing and Accounting Software for Small Businesses. Fully Compliant, Custom Trial and Subscription Options (Without Writing Code).

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2021

Even if a lot of the revenue isn’t truly recurring SaaS revenue. “We define ARR as annualized invoiced amounts per solution sku from subscription licenses and maintenance obligations assuming no increases or reductions in their subscriptions.” ” #5.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Confluent’s President of Field Operations, Erica Schultz, explores different tactics businesses can employ to scale revenue and increase efficiency in the current macro environment. As you look to scale your business and make your processes more efficient, it’s essential to foster a shared understanding of who your target customer is.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

You might be surprised to know that SaaS companies can learn a lot from their consumer subscription counterparts. 4: High-end sales teams Increasingly, SaaS organizations leverage inside sales teams, since selling subscriptions is easier and less of a commitment than selling enterprise software. 3: Make onboarding seamless.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 5, 2022

There’s no denying that renewals are the most important motion in SaaS and subscription. The post Reaccelerating Growth at Scale with Box’s CRO Mark Wayland (Podcast 514 + Video) appeared first on SaaStr. Every customer-facing team is on the renewals team.

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Stax

OCTOBER 13, 2024

It is a subscription-based integrated payment platform that helps you process credit card payments. Quicken vs QuickBooks: Pricing If Quicken has one major advantage over QuickBooks, it is that its pricing is less expensive than QuickBooks’ subscription plans.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

These two departments are a SaaS company’s most important; without their alignment, there is no growth or scale. was pretty simplified, mostly made up of annual or monthly subscriptions. While annual/monthly subscriptions still exist, they are more complex than ever. Governance is a critical component of how you grow and scale.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 30, 2021

But even with SMBs, it’s the bigger ones that are driving growth at scale — 50% of ARR is now from customers with more than 250 employees. Going a smidge upmarket is key to Freshworks’ putting up the big numbers at scale. #2. 62% of revenue from annual subscriptions. NRR of 118%.

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SaaStr

MAY 1, 2021

In scaling the cash-flow side of SaaS, there’s almost nothing more powerful than a nnual contracts combined with prepaid cash. 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.

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SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2021

Monetizing ecommerce via subscriptions, but not payment processing. Rather, it charges for software subscriptions to take payments on its websites. 70% annual, 30% monthly subscriptions. So seasonality is real here at scale. You have to add a second product to really scale beyond $1B in ARR. #7.

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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

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 27, 2024

By Inga Broerman Overcoming Revenue Leakage with Smarter Billing Practices Revenue leakage is one of the most insidious challenges subscription-based businesses face. In todays competitive subscription economy, addressing revenue leakage isnt optionalits critical for sustaining profitability and building trust with customers.

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SaaStr

APRIL 1, 2022

Multi-product is the key to growth at scale. As we’ve seen so many times in this series, it’s hard to scale past $100m ARR or so with a single product line. Wall Street seems OK with low margins as you scale, so long as you see software-like Gross Margins (60%-80%) as you IPO. #5. 600m in Free-Cash Flow on $1.7B

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Blulogix

JULY 26, 2024

By BluLogix Team Navigating Subscription Billing Account Complexity in Modern Enterprises In the era of digital transformation, enterprises face unprecedented challenges in managing account complexities. Read More » June 20, 2024 The post Navigating Subscription Billing Account Complexity in Modern Enterprises appeared first on BluLogix.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2024

4,900,000 Paid Subscriptions, and Still Growing Paid Subscribers 15% Want to make a self-serve model work at scale? ARPU up 7%, A Significant Drive of Growth at Scale The more growth slows, the bigger the impact of price increases — assuming they are tolerated by the base. #3 5 Interesting Learnings: #1.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Offering a suite of solutions dedicated to supporting multifaceted billing needs and revenue operations, I believe Metronome serves as the perfect scaling partner for innovative businesses and software companies. What’s the #1 bit of advice you’d give to SaaS founders today?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 18, 2022

Finally a SaaS company (at least sort of) with almost 50% of its revenue from subscriptions. But after year of working at it, Getty Images now gets almost half of its revenue from subscriptions. #2. It’s no Zoom or ZoomInfo, but this is a lucrative business now at scale. 105% NRR from its subscription customers.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2024

She was hired because they saw a bit of softening in new business growth, and she came to help diagnose what was going on and help scale the business. While it may seem smart when you have five or fewer salespeople to sell anything and everything between $3k and $100k, that won’t scale. Attune sellers for one or the other.

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